Legal Help Live offers free legal advice each Wednesday at 4 PM. During the show the Hosts take calls from viewers with legal situations from parking tickets to personal injury. Viewers can catch the show on LA cable channel 36 or 16 in Santa Monica. Online the show can be viewed on LA36.org.
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SHOW TOPICS 4-14-2010
-The party's over for tailgaters at Dodger Stadium-LAPD and security officers crack down on the traditional opening day party in the ballpark's parking lots before the game. Regular participants deplore the action.
-TOYOTA HALTS SALES OF LEXUS SUV-ROLL OVER
-Most expensive divorce -Murdock 1.7 billion to wife
-Ruling Looms for Cases Handled By Tainted Evidence Lab-SAN FRANCISCO-CRIME LAB TECH-STOLE DRUGS AND LAB IS DISARRAY
-TWO escaped convicts have dodged a huge manhunt - by disguising themselves as SHEEP.The pair dressed in full sheepskin fleeces, complete with heads, to lie low among farm flocks. Robbers Maximiliano Pereyra, 25, and Ariel Diaz, 28, stole the sheep hides from a ranch after breaking out of an Argentinian maximum security prison a week ago.
-Justice stevens retires
-Toyota cases consolidated to federal court orange county
-Lawyer-forges federal judge signature to order –SANTA ANA - A lawyer who forged a Los Angeles federal judge's signature on a court order must spend six months in jail and six months in home confinement.
-Timothy D. Thurman pleaded guilty in December to forging the signature of U.S. District Judge Gary A. Feess on a fake civil minute order meant to stop the immediate eviction of clients whose home had been foreclosed upon
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Legal Help Live Show Notes
Legal Help Live offers free legal advice each Wednesday at 4 PM. During the show the Hosts take calls from viewers with legal situations from parking tickets to personal injury. Viewers can catch the show on LA cable channel 36 or 16 in Santa Monica. Online the show can be viewed on LA36.org.
If you'd like to ask the Hosts a question call 1(800)405-4222
SHOW TOPICS 3-24-2010
-Keanu Reeves Sends Well Wishes to Sandra Bullock -Us Magazine - Sandra Bullock's longtime pal Keanu Reeves -- who costarred with her in 1994's Speed and 2006's The Lake House -- wishes the best for the Oscar-winning actress, 45, whose husband Jesse James allegedly had an 11-month affair with a tattoo model.
-Condo law-DAVIS STERLING ACT BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING ARE OPEN-EXCEPT FOR LITIGATION AND OTHER EXCEPTIONS - Raise dues-Assessment increases and voting requirements are set by statute. Regardless of anything to the contrary in the governing documents, boards may increase regular assessments up to 20% and levy special assessments up to 5% without membership approval. Anything more requires owner approval, which is defined as approval by a majority of votes at a meeting with more than 50% of the owners in attendance. Civil Code 1366(b).
-Toyota shareholders sue over fallen stock price -MIAMI (AP) - Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker's stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and the public about the depth of accelerator problems in millions of its vehicles.
-Whale Wars news: Sushi restaurant serving Whale meat in Southern California closes for good - When a California Highway Patrol officer is sitting on the other side of the freeway in the complete dark with no parking lights or anything indicating his presence and uses his radar gun for speed control and nabs you, is that entrapment? And how can it possibly be legal?
-First Comes Fire, Then Comes Rain- is there insurance coverage?
GOING GREEN AND DAYLIGHT SAVINGS EXTRA HOURS USES –PEOPLE DON’T PUT LIGHTS OR HEAT ON AND ITS QUITE A SAVINGS OF ELECTRICIY-Reduction in crime, reduction in traffic accidents,reduction is use of energy, more recreation time - The federal law that established "daylight time" in the United States does not require any area to observe daylight saving time. But if a state chooses to observe DST, it must follow the starting and ending dates set by the law. From 1986 to 2006 this was the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October, but starting in 2007, it is observed from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, adding about a month to daylight saving time.
-Mandatory helmet law for motor cycles-bill pending in ca mandatory helmet law for snow boarding and skiing
-NYC: Taxi drivers overcharged riders by $8.3M-plus -EW YORK (AP) — Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used for trips to the suburbs, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said Friday
At least 1.8 million trips were wrongly charged at the suburban rate, which is double the rate within city limits, the commission said. The city has about 48,300 licensed cabbies, and data shows that 35,558 have illegally charged a rider at least once, the city said. A smaller group of drivers is responsible for the majority
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SHOW TOPICS 3-24-2010
-Keanu Reeves Sends Well Wishes to Sandra Bullock -Us Magazine - Sandra Bullock's longtime pal Keanu Reeves -- who costarred with her in 1994's Speed and 2006's The Lake House -- wishes the best for the Oscar-winning actress, 45, whose husband Jesse James allegedly had an 11-month affair with a tattoo model.
-Condo law-DAVIS STERLING ACT BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING ARE OPEN-EXCEPT FOR LITIGATION AND OTHER EXCEPTIONS - Raise dues-Assessment increases and voting requirements are set by statute. Regardless of anything to the contrary in the governing documents, boards may increase regular assessments up to 20% and levy special assessments up to 5% without membership approval. Anything more requires owner approval, which is defined as approval by a majority of votes at a meeting with more than 50% of the owners in attendance. Civil Code 1366(b).
-Toyota shareholders sue over fallen stock price -MIAMI (AP) - Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker's stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and the public about the depth of accelerator problems in millions of its vehicles.
-Whale Wars news: Sushi restaurant serving Whale meat in Southern California closes for good - When a California Highway Patrol officer is sitting on the other side of the freeway in the complete dark with no parking lights or anything indicating his presence and uses his radar gun for speed control and nabs you, is that entrapment? And how can it possibly be legal?
-First Comes Fire, Then Comes Rain- is there insurance coverage?
GOING GREEN AND DAYLIGHT SAVINGS EXTRA HOURS USES –PEOPLE DON’T PUT LIGHTS OR HEAT ON AND ITS QUITE A SAVINGS OF ELECTRICIY-Reduction in crime, reduction in traffic accidents,reduction is use of energy, more recreation time - The federal law that established "daylight time" in the United States does not require any area to observe daylight saving time. But if a state chooses to observe DST, it must follow the starting and ending dates set by the law. From 1986 to 2006 this was the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October, but starting in 2007, it is observed from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, adding about a month to daylight saving time.
-Mandatory helmet law for motor cycles-bill pending in ca mandatory helmet law for snow boarding and skiing
-NYC: Taxi drivers overcharged riders by $8.3M-plus -EW YORK (AP) — Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used for trips to the suburbs, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said Friday
At least 1.8 million trips were wrongly charged at the suburban rate, which is double the rate within city limits, the commission said. The city has about 48,300 licensed cabbies, and data shows that 35,558 have illegally charged a rider at least once, the city said. A smaller group of drivers is responsible for the majority
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Legal Help Live Show Notes
Legal Help Live offers free legal advice each Wednesday at 4 PM. During the show the Hosts take calls from viewers with legal situations from parking tickets to personal injury. Viewers can catch the show on LA cable channel 36 or 16 in Santa Monica. Online the show can be viewed on LA36.org.
If you'd like to ask the Hosts a question call 1(800)405-4222
SHOW TOPICS 3-10-2010
-L.A. City Council considers shutting down ambulances-10 RESCUE AMBULANCES
-Man charged in sweeping student visa fraud case -went to school for foreign students on student vias…Eamonn Daniel Higgins spent seven years attending college.
Between 2002 and 2009, he attended 10 different schools in Southern California,
including Cal State Los Angeles, Irvine Valley College and Santa Monica College,
according to federal prosecutors. During that time, he studied sociology, marketing,
English, business and math
-RUN AWAY TOYOTA PRYIS ON FREE WAS LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD 2010 MEG WITMAN
-David Letterman Thanks Authorities in Blackmail Case-People Magazine - Stephen M. Silverman -David Letterman spoke briefly on his CBS Late Show Tuesday to thank authorities who handled the $2 million extortion attempt against him, which earlier in the day had resulted in Robert "Joe" Halderman's guilty plea and sentence
-Under new federal guidelines that take effect next month, airlines can be fined up to $27,500 per passenger if a plane is stuck on the tarmac for longer
than three hours. “How can they say there is nothing wrong with having someone sit on a seat and run out of water and everything and sit on there for three, four, five hours? That's ridiculous,” Kelly said.With the new fines, a delayed MD-80 could cost American Airlines close to $4 million, and a fine for a full 757 could cost more than $5 million.
-Toyota attacks claim of defect in vehicles' electronics Wash. man electrocuted by urinating on power line-MONTESANO, Wash. (AP) - Authorities believe a Washington man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a car crash.
-Grays Harbor County sheriff's Deputy Dave Pimentel (PIM'-en-tel) said Monday 50-year-old Roy Messenger was not seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday and called a relative to pull his car from a ditch. However, family members found Messenger electrocuted when they arrived. Pimentel says Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside ditch but didn't see the live wire. The urine stream likely served as a conductor, allowing the electricity to reach his body. Pimentel says there will be an autopsy but burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through Messenger's body.
-Tsunami swept away fleeing bus full of retirees-By MICHAEL WARREN and EVA VERGARA
PELLUHUE, Chile (AP) - The 40 retirees enjoying summer vacation at a seaside campground nestled under pine trees knew they had to move fast after Chile's
powerful earthquake struck. They didn't make it. The tsunami came in
three waves, surging 200 meters (yards)into this Pacific Ocean resort town and
dragging away the bus they'd piled into, hoping to get to high ground. Most of those
inside were tourists, and only five of their bodies had been found by Monday,
firefighters and witnesses said.
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SHOW TOPICS 3-10-2010
-L.A. City Council considers shutting down ambulances-10 RESCUE AMBULANCES
-Man charged in sweeping student visa fraud case -went to school for foreign students on student vias…Eamonn Daniel Higgins spent seven years attending college.
Between 2002 and 2009, he attended 10 different schools in Southern California,
including Cal State Los Angeles, Irvine Valley College and Santa Monica College,
according to federal prosecutors. During that time, he studied sociology, marketing,
English, business and math
-RUN AWAY TOYOTA PRYIS ON FREE WAS LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD 2010 MEG WITMAN
-David Letterman Thanks Authorities in Blackmail Case-People Magazine - Stephen M. Silverman -David Letterman spoke briefly on his CBS Late Show Tuesday to thank authorities who handled the $2 million extortion attempt against him, which earlier in the day had resulted in Robert "Joe" Halderman's guilty plea and sentence
-Under new federal guidelines that take effect next month, airlines can be fined up to $27,500 per passenger if a plane is stuck on the tarmac for longer
than three hours. “How can they say there is nothing wrong with having someone sit on a seat and run out of water and everything and sit on there for three, four, five hours? That's ridiculous,” Kelly said.With the new fines, a delayed MD-80 could cost American Airlines close to $4 million, and a fine for a full 757 could cost more than $5 million.
-Toyota attacks claim of defect in vehicles' electronics Wash. man electrocuted by urinating on power line-MONTESANO, Wash. (AP) - Authorities believe a Washington man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a car crash.
-Grays Harbor County sheriff's Deputy Dave Pimentel (PIM'-en-tel) said Monday 50-year-old Roy Messenger was not seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday and called a relative to pull his car from a ditch. However, family members found Messenger electrocuted when they arrived. Pimentel says Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside ditch but didn't see the live wire. The urine stream likely served as a conductor, allowing the electricity to reach his body. Pimentel says there will be an autopsy but burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through Messenger's body.
-Tsunami swept away fleeing bus full of retirees-By MICHAEL WARREN and EVA VERGARA
PELLUHUE, Chile (AP) - The 40 retirees enjoying summer vacation at a seaside campground nestled under pine trees knew they had to move fast after Chile's
powerful earthquake struck. They didn't make it. The tsunami came in
three waves, surging 200 meters (yards)into this Pacific Ocean resort town and
dragging away the bus they'd piled into, hoping to get to high ground. Most of those
inside were tourists, and only five of their bodies had been found by Monday,
firefighters and witnesses said.
Legal Help Live Show Notes
Legal Help Live offers free legal advice each Wednesday at 4 PM. During the show the Hosts take calls from viewers with legal situations from parking tickets to personal injury. Viewers can catch the show on LA cable channel 36 or 16 in Santa Monica. Online the show can be viewed on LA36.org.
If you'd like to ask the Hosts a question call 1(800)405-4222
SHOW TOPICS 3-3-2010
-WHAT IS DAMAGE FOR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS?
-Wrong body in casket at funeral?
-Stranded at 124 floor in elevator?
-Spending 20 years on death row for murder you did not commit
-Find out unmarried teenager is pregnant
-Bogus rape charges against college sports persons
Terrified passengers were left stranded between floors in the world’s tallest building after a lift broke as they were descending in the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai. Visitors queueing to descend from the observation deck on the 124th floor of the recently opened 828-metre (2,717ft) tower heard a crash and the sound of breaking glass from the lift shaft. Dust then billowed back into the room through the small gaps in the lift shaft doors.
-TOYOTA DEBACAL-Pryis-Camary-mat-acelerator petal-electronics
-Credit destroyed for not paying lease or bank payment
-If sell or get out on lease $9000 cash out of pocket
-Honda expands airbag inflation recall to expand airbag inflation recall, says devices can deploy with too much pressure-DETROIT (AP) -- Honda Motor Co. is adding more than 378,000 cars to an existing safety recall for air bag inflation problems, the company said Tuesday. The company will replace the driver's side air bag inflator on the cars because they can deploy with too much pressure, causing the inflator to rupture and injure or kill the driver. The recall now affects more than 822,000 vehicles, including certain 2001 and 2002 Accord sedans, Civic compacts, Odyssey minivans, CR-V small sport utility vehicles and some 2002 Acura TL sedans.
The Life of a "Puppy Bowl" Referee
Animal Planet's most popular shows, working as the referee for "Puppy Bowl," two hours of alternative programming before the Super Bowl and featuring 43 playing puppies. He gets a break for kitten halftime. Mr. Schecter says being an animal referee takes patience and a sense of humor. He spoke with writer Dawn Fallik about his career. Edited excerpts follow.
-U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE 9TH CIRCUIT -Female Wrestlers' Title IX Suit Can Proceed-By Laura Ernde -Daily Journal Staff Writer- A federal appellate panel Monday revived a class-action lawsuit brought by female students who were excluded from the UC Davis wrestling team.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the women can pursue damages even though they didn't give the school a chance to fix the alleged discrimination first.
-Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Ninth Circuit Upholds Strip Searches For All Prisoners
Breaking with its previous rulings, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of routine strip searches at jails
-Weight loss issues and how to keep it off-Diet, exercise(biggest loser)-Pill and medicine-Surgery-gastric bands-gastric bypass
-Baby and Infant Crib Recall: 2010 Update February 2010, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of more than 500,000 drop-side cribs sold at Buy Buy Baby, Kmart, Wal-Mart and other stores after the death of three infants
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SHOW TOPICS 3-3-2010
-WHAT IS DAMAGE FOR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS?
-Wrong body in casket at funeral?
-Stranded at 124 floor in elevator?
-Spending 20 years on death row for murder you did not commit
-Find out unmarried teenager is pregnant
-Bogus rape charges against college sports persons
Terrified passengers were left stranded between floors in the world’s tallest building after a lift broke as they were descending in the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai. Visitors queueing to descend from the observation deck on the 124th floor of the recently opened 828-metre (2,717ft) tower heard a crash and the sound of breaking glass from the lift shaft. Dust then billowed back into the room through the small gaps in the lift shaft doors.
-TOYOTA DEBACAL-Pryis-Camary-mat-acelerator petal-electronics
-Credit destroyed for not paying lease or bank payment
-If sell or get out on lease $9000 cash out of pocket
-Honda expands airbag inflation recall to expand airbag inflation recall, says devices can deploy with too much pressure-DETROIT (AP) -- Honda Motor Co. is adding more than 378,000 cars to an existing safety recall for air bag inflation problems, the company said Tuesday. The company will replace the driver's side air bag inflator on the cars because they can deploy with too much pressure, causing the inflator to rupture and injure or kill the driver. The recall now affects more than 822,000 vehicles, including certain 2001 and 2002 Accord sedans, Civic compacts, Odyssey minivans, CR-V small sport utility vehicles and some 2002 Acura TL sedans.
The Life of a "Puppy Bowl" Referee
Animal Planet's most popular shows, working as the referee for "Puppy Bowl," two hours of alternative programming before the Super Bowl and featuring 43 playing puppies. He gets a break for kitten halftime. Mr. Schecter says being an animal referee takes patience and a sense of humor. He spoke with writer Dawn Fallik about his career. Edited excerpts follow.
-U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE 9TH CIRCUIT -Female Wrestlers' Title IX Suit Can Proceed-By Laura Ernde -Daily Journal Staff Writer- A federal appellate panel Monday revived a class-action lawsuit brought by female students who were excluded from the UC Davis wrestling team.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the women can pursue damages even though they didn't give the school a chance to fix the alleged discrimination first.
-Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Ninth Circuit Upholds Strip Searches For All Prisoners
Breaking with its previous rulings, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of routine strip searches at jails
-Weight loss issues and how to keep it off-Diet, exercise(biggest loser)-Pill and medicine-Surgery-gastric bands-gastric bypass
-Baby and Infant Crib Recall: 2010 Update February 2010, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of more than 500,000 drop-side cribs sold at Buy Buy Baby, Kmart, Wal-Mart and other stores after the death of three infants
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Legal Help Live Show Notes
Legal Help Live offers free legal advice each Wednesday at 4 PM. During the show the Hosts take calls from viewers with legal situations from parking tickets to personal injury. Viewers can catch the show on LA cable channel 36 or 16 in Santa Monica. Online the show can be viewed on LA36.org.
If you'd like to ask the Hosts a question call 1(800)405-4222
SHOW TOPICS -3-2010
-Air passengers who refuse a full body scan to be barred from their flight - Air passengers who refuse to submit to controversial full body scans will be barred from boarding their
flights. The technology - which has been strongly condemned by civil liberties campaigners - began operating at Heathrow and Manchester airports yesterday. Birmingham will follow suit later this month before the anti-terror devices are rolled out nationally.
-California’s hand-held cellphone ban hasn’t reduced crashes, study says –LATimes -
The accident rate before and after the law took effect has not significantly changed,
according to the Highway Loss Data Institute.
-Cat Predicts 50 deaths in RI nursing home – A cat with an uncanny ability to detect when nursing home patients are about to die has proven itself in around 50 cases by curling up with them in their final hours, according to a new book.
-Use of Twitter, Facebook rising among gang member –The Associated Press
-Revenue from red-light cameras is also on the rise, doubling L.A. from $200,000 a month in 2007 to $400,000 a month at the end of 2009, according to estimates prepared by the Los Angeles Superior Court, which processes ticket payments. The city more than doubled the amount charged for motorists who make rolling right turns against red lights from $156 to $381 in 2008, bringing it in line with other cities. Additional costs, including traffic school fees, often add to the price drivers pay. Last year, the state increased the fines for traffic tickets and used the proceeds to help renovate courthouses. The changes included a $35 surcharge on traffic tickets. With California mired in recession and residents unwilling to pay more taxes, focusing on parking and traffic fines is one of relatively few politically palatable ways to raise revenue. But the tactics anger some drivers -- as well as tax groups and driving organizations.
-California Supreme Court upholds state enforcement of sex offender ban – Contra Costa Times -
Voter-approved limits on where sex offenders can live may be enforced on parolees who committed their
sex crimes long before Jessica's Law passed, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday.
But the court did not clarify what happens once they leave parole, or if the law applies to county
probationers, frustrating law enforcement officials who had hoped the court would settle vexing questions
over the most controversial provision of a 2006 ballot measure backed by 70 percent of voters.
The ruling means state parole agents can continue their strict enforcement of a ban on sex offenders living
within 2,000 feet of a school or park where kids "regularly gather."
"It matters not ... whether the registered sex offender is being released on his current parole for a sex or
nonsex offense," Justice Marvin Baxter wrote in the majority opinion. To rule otherwise, he wrote, would
grant parolees with earlier sex convictions "a free lifetime pass" from the ban.
-Herbal Remedies may be risky with heart drugs-Researchers say some supplements should be avoided by patients taking heart drugs – WebMD Health News - Patients taking heart drugs are at risk for potentially dangerous interactions when they also take herbal supplements such as ginkgo biloba, St. John's wort, and garlic, an analysis shows. Investigators with the Mayo Clinic identified herbal and alternative products that they say should be avoided by patients with heart disease. They claim the products could cause problems when taken with drugs commonly prescribed to lower blood pressure, control cholesterol, stabilize heart rhythms, or prevent blood clots.
-Request for restraining order against Paris Hilton Denied – A man from Long Beach, California is afraid of Paris Hilton. A guy named Ramiro Benitez filed for a restraining order against the hotel heiress, claiming she has threatened him "sexually, physically and financially." Unfortunately for him, a judge has denied the request.
-Official says Jackson doctor to be charged – Associated Press - A law-enforcement official says prosecutors plan to charge Michael Jackson's doctor with manslaughter rather than take the case to a grand jury. The official told the Associated Press on Tuesday that prosecutors will file a criminal complaint against Dr. Conrad Murray in court. The complaint would be the prelude to a hearing in which a judge would weigh testimony from witnesses to decide if there is probable cause to try him on an involuntary manslaughter charge. Mr. Jackson died June 25 from an anesthetic overdose. Dr. Murray maintains nothing he gave Mr. Jackson should have killed him.
-Pill that will help you live to 100 - A PILL to help people live to 100 free from debilitating health problems is set to "revolutionise" ageing, experts said yesterday. The breakthrough has come after scientists identified three “super-genes”. People born with the genes are 20 times more likely to reach a century – and 80 per cent less likely to develop the senility disease Alzheimer’s.
-Tenants win $1 Million Settlement – Daily Journal -More than 100 current and former tenants, including 59 children, of a Palmdale apartment complex will receive nearly $1 million from the settlement of a habitability suit lodged against the former manager and owner of the building. The settlement was reached through mediation and approved by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert O'Brien in January, but the settlement funds from the defendants' insurers came through last week. After attorney fees, the 59 children will receive $3,200 each and the 56 adults will receive $7,000, under the terms of the agreement.
-The suit, Blaire et al vs. HLBP, Inc. et al, filed in July 2009, alleged living conditions at the 52-unit Sonterra Apartments on 12th Street East – including fleas, cockroach feces, mold and leaks – caused residents to suffer respiratory problems and rashes. It named the Westminster-based company that owns the building, HLBP Inc., its president Lindsie Kim Pham.
"If we did one thing in this case, it was to stop this landlord from managing the property and affecting the
lives of people who live there," said attorney Robb Strom of Strom & Associates in Los Angeles, who
represented the 115 plaintiffs. "We accomplished a little bit of a change in the lives of each of the tenants
who now have an opportunity to move and have a little bit of money where they can improve their lives in
a little way." The defendants were represented by Kere Tickner of Bremer, Whyte, Brown & O'Meara in Newport Beach. Tickner did not immediately return a call seeking comment. In 2009, Los Angeles County and Palmdale health and safety officials cited the building for more than 400 health and safety code violations, including broken heating, air conditioning and fans, leaky toilets and showers, water damage and missing flooring.
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SHOW TOPICS -3-2010
-Air passengers who refuse a full body scan to be barred from their flight - Air passengers who refuse to submit to controversial full body scans will be barred from boarding their
flights. The technology - which has been strongly condemned by civil liberties campaigners - began operating at Heathrow and Manchester airports yesterday. Birmingham will follow suit later this month before the anti-terror devices are rolled out nationally.
-California’s hand-held cellphone ban hasn’t reduced crashes, study says –LATimes -
The accident rate before and after the law took effect has not significantly changed,
according to the Highway Loss Data Institute.
-Cat Predicts 50 deaths in RI nursing home – A cat with an uncanny ability to detect when nursing home patients are about to die has proven itself in around 50 cases by curling up with them in their final hours, according to a new book.
-Use of Twitter, Facebook rising among gang member –The Associated Press
-Revenue from red-light cameras is also on the rise, doubling L.A. from $200,000 a month in 2007 to $400,000 a month at the end of 2009, according to estimates prepared by the Los Angeles Superior Court, which processes ticket payments. The city more than doubled the amount charged for motorists who make rolling right turns against red lights from $156 to $381 in 2008, bringing it in line with other cities. Additional costs, including traffic school fees, often add to the price drivers pay. Last year, the state increased the fines for traffic tickets and used the proceeds to help renovate courthouses. The changes included a $35 surcharge on traffic tickets. With California mired in recession and residents unwilling to pay more taxes, focusing on parking and traffic fines is one of relatively few politically palatable ways to raise revenue. But the tactics anger some drivers -- as well as tax groups and driving organizations.
-California Supreme Court upholds state enforcement of sex offender ban – Contra Costa Times -
Voter-approved limits on where sex offenders can live may be enforced on parolees who committed their
sex crimes long before Jessica's Law passed, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday.
But the court did not clarify what happens once they leave parole, or if the law applies to county
probationers, frustrating law enforcement officials who had hoped the court would settle vexing questions
over the most controversial provision of a 2006 ballot measure backed by 70 percent of voters.
The ruling means state parole agents can continue their strict enforcement of a ban on sex offenders living
within 2,000 feet of a school or park where kids "regularly gather."
"It matters not ... whether the registered sex offender is being released on his current parole for a sex or
nonsex offense," Justice Marvin Baxter wrote in the majority opinion. To rule otherwise, he wrote, would
grant parolees with earlier sex convictions "a free lifetime pass" from the ban.
-Herbal Remedies may be risky with heart drugs-Researchers say some supplements should be avoided by patients taking heart drugs – WebMD Health News - Patients taking heart drugs are at risk for potentially dangerous interactions when they also take herbal supplements such as ginkgo biloba, St. John's wort, and garlic, an analysis shows. Investigators with the Mayo Clinic identified herbal and alternative products that they say should be avoided by patients with heart disease. They claim the products could cause problems when taken with drugs commonly prescribed to lower blood pressure, control cholesterol, stabilize heart rhythms, or prevent blood clots.
-Request for restraining order against Paris Hilton Denied – A man from Long Beach, California is afraid of Paris Hilton. A guy named Ramiro Benitez filed for a restraining order against the hotel heiress, claiming she has threatened him "sexually, physically and financially." Unfortunately for him, a judge has denied the request.
-Official says Jackson doctor to be charged – Associated Press - A law-enforcement official says prosecutors plan to charge Michael Jackson's doctor with manslaughter rather than take the case to a grand jury. The official told the Associated Press on Tuesday that prosecutors will file a criminal complaint against Dr. Conrad Murray in court. The complaint would be the prelude to a hearing in which a judge would weigh testimony from witnesses to decide if there is probable cause to try him on an involuntary manslaughter charge. Mr. Jackson died June 25 from an anesthetic overdose. Dr. Murray maintains nothing he gave Mr. Jackson should have killed him.
-Pill that will help you live to 100 - A PILL to help people live to 100 free from debilitating health problems is set to "revolutionise" ageing, experts said yesterday. The breakthrough has come after scientists identified three “super-genes”. People born with the genes are 20 times more likely to reach a century – and 80 per cent less likely to develop the senility disease Alzheimer’s.
-Tenants win $1 Million Settlement – Daily Journal -More than 100 current and former tenants, including 59 children, of a Palmdale apartment complex will receive nearly $1 million from the settlement of a habitability suit lodged against the former manager and owner of the building. The settlement was reached through mediation and approved by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert O'Brien in January, but the settlement funds from the defendants' insurers came through last week. After attorney fees, the 59 children will receive $3,200 each and the 56 adults will receive $7,000, under the terms of the agreement.
-The suit, Blaire et al vs. HLBP, Inc. et al, filed in July 2009, alleged living conditions at the 52-unit Sonterra Apartments on 12th Street East – including fleas, cockroach feces, mold and leaks – caused residents to suffer respiratory problems and rashes. It named the Westminster-based company that owns the building, HLBP Inc., its president Lindsie Kim Pham.
"If we did one thing in this case, it was to stop this landlord from managing the property and affecting the
lives of people who live there," said attorney Robb Strom of Strom & Associates in Los Angeles, who
represented the 115 plaintiffs. "We accomplished a little bit of a change in the lives of each of the tenants
who now have an opportunity to move and have a little bit of money where they can improve their lives in
a little way." The defendants were represented by Kere Tickner of Bremer, Whyte, Brown & O'Meara in Newport Beach. Tickner did not immediately return a call seeking comment. In 2009, Los Angeles County and Palmdale health and safety officials cited the building for more than 400 health and safety code violations, including broken heating, air conditioning and fans, leaky toilets and showers, water damage and missing flooring.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Got a Radar Speeding Ticket?
GOT A RADAR SPEEDING TICKET?
There you are, alone in traffic court thinking, “Am I wasting my time trying to get out of this speeding ticket even though I know I wasn’t going as fast as the radar reported?”
Why Hire An Attorney?
Without legal representation, a defendant can easily be intimidated by the prosecutor, the statistics involving the radar’s reading and the police officer’s testimony. Case closed, the defendant has lost and now faces a traffic fine, points against his/her DMV record and higher vehicle insurance.
With experienced legal representation or even if you choose to represent yourself, here’s what should happen.
A Discovery Request
Before going to trial, you request copies of documents about the radar issued speeding ticket, including - a list of witnesses for the prosecution; all records regarding the maintenance and calibration of the radar equipment; each radar training certification issued to the officer and all of his notes, along with the speeding ticket.
Radar Not A Perfect Science
Those familiar with the process know that 10-20% of all radar-backed speeding tickets are issued in error. If the radar is operated from a moving police vehicle, the number of inaccurate tickets may be as high as 30%. Several years ago, a Miami television station showed a radar gun clocking a palm tree at 86mph and a house at 28mph.
Objecting To Foundation
Before the results of radar can be used in court, its calibration and maintenance must be established. The officer’s testimony alone is insufficient. If you object as to hearsay and foundation and those foundational facts can’t be established, maybe you walk out of the court room not guilty.
Cross-examination
Was the officer trained in the use of the radar device? Was it operated under manufacturer’s requirements? Did the officer test the radar before and after the arrest? Did outside interference cause the wrongful reading or was it the defendant’s car that actually caused the speed reading?
You Decide
You can always pay the ticket. But you can choose to contest, and you just may win if you or your attorneys are prepared.
Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson represent clients in Personal Injury trials
There you are, alone in traffic court thinking, “Am I wasting my time trying to get out of this speeding ticket even though I know I wasn’t going as fast as the radar reported?”
Why Hire An Attorney?
Without legal representation, a defendant can easily be intimidated by the prosecutor, the statistics involving the radar’s reading and the police officer’s testimony. Case closed, the defendant has lost and now faces a traffic fine, points against his/her DMV record and higher vehicle insurance.
With experienced legal representation or even if you choose to represent yourself, here’s what should happen.
A Discovery Request
Before going to trial, you request copies of documents about the radar issued speeding ticket, including - a list of witnesses for the prosecution; all records regarding the maintenance and calibration of the radar equipment; each radar training certification issued to the officer and all of his notes, along with the speeding ticket.
Radar Not A Perfect Science
Those familiar with the process know that 10-20% of all radar-backed speeding tickets are issued in error. If the radar is operated from a moving police vehicle, the number of inaccurate tickets may be as high as 30%. Several years ago, a Miami television station showed a radar gun clocking a palm tree at 86mph and a house at 28mph.
Objecting To Foundation
Before the results of radar can be used in court, its calibration and maintenance must be established. The officer’s testimony alone is insufficient. If you object as to hearsay and foundation and those foundational facts can’t be established, maybe you walk out of the court room not guilty.
Cross-examination
Was the officer trained in the use of the radar device? Was it operated under manufacturer’s requirements? Did the officer test the radar before and after the arrest? Did outside interference cause the wrongful reading or was it the defendant’s car that actually caused the speed reading?
You Decide
You can always pay the ticket. But you can choose to contest, and you just may win if you or your attorneys are prepared.
Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson represent clients in Personal Injury trials
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Legal Help Live Show Notes
Legal Help Live offers free legal advice each Wednesday at 4 PM. During the show the Hosts take calls from viewers with legal situations from parking tickets to personal injury. Viewers can catch the show on LA cable channel 36 or 16 in Santa Monica. Online the show can be viewed on LA36.org.
If you'd like to ask the Hosts a question call 1(800)405-4222
SHOW TOPICS 1-27-2010
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-Toyota recalls 2.3 million cars to accelerator problems
-California girl Abby Sunderland, 16, starts solo sail around globe, from ESPN.comA 16-year-old has set out to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone.
-Campaign finance rules declared invalid by US Supreme court 5 to 4
-State limit on medical pot rejected by Supreme Court -The California Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down state limits — and, most likely, local limits, too — on how much marijuana a patient or caregiver can possess or grow for medical purposes. But the state's highest court revived another part of state law that a lower court had ordered voided, protecting the state's voluntary identification-card program for patients and caregiver
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-Apple tablet seen nearing $3 billion business in first year, By Neil Hughes - Selling an estimated 5 million units in its first year as a "base case" scenario, Apple's tablet would earn the company $2.8 billion in additional revenue and solidify it as more than a niche product, a prominent investment baking firm said Friday.
-Fla. woman fights ruling that kept her in hospital - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Samantha Burton wanted to leave the hospital. Her doctor strongly disagreed, enough to go to court to keep her there. She smoked cigarettes during the first six months of her pregnancy and was admitted on a false alarm of premature labor. Her doctor argued she was risking a miscarriage if she didn't quit smoking immediately and stay on bed rest in the hospital, and a judge agreed. Three days after the judge ordered her not to leave the hospital, Burton delivered a stillborn fetus by cesarian-section. And six months after the pregnancy ended, the dispute over the legal move to keep her in the hospital continues, raising questions about where a mother's right to decide her own medical treatment ends and where the priority of protecting a fetus begins.
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If you'd like to ask the Hosts a question call 1(800)405-4222
SHOW TOPICS 1-27-2010
-cross examination of experts laboratory technicians - 6th amendment right supreme court
-Pension Board Dodges Felony Charges-San Diego no conflict of interest-state Supreme Court
-Lawyer Arrested for Homeowner Scams - The first lawyer to be arrested for scamming desperate homeowners seeking mortgage modifications was taken into custody early Friday morning for allegedly defrauding more than 400 victims.
-Toyota recalls 2.3 million cars to accelerator problems
-California girl Abby Sunderland, 16, starts solo sail around globe, from ESPN.comA 16-year-old has set out to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone.
-Campaign finance rules declared invalid by US Supreme court 5 to 4
-State limit on medical pot rejected by Supreme Court -The California Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down state limits — and, most likely, local limits, too — on how much marijuana a patient or caregiver can possess or grow for medical purposes. But the state's highest court revived another part of state law that a lower court had ordered voided, protecting the state's voluntary identification-card program for patients and caregiver
-NTSB blames engineer for crash – opens door for more liability –metro link
-Apple tablet seen nearing $3 billion business in first year, By Neil Hughes - Selling an estimated 5 million units in its first year as a "base case" scenario, Apple's tablet would earn the company $2.8 billion in additional revenue and solidify it as more than a niche product, a prominent investment baking firm said Friday.
-Fla. woman fights ruling that kept her in hospital - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Samantha Burton wanted to leave the hospital. Her doctor strongly disagreed, enough to go to court to keep her there. She smoked cigarettes during the first six months of her pregnancy and was admitted on a false alarm of premature labor. Her doctor argued she was risking a miscarriage if she didn't quit smoking immediately and stay on bed rest in the hospital, and a judge agreed. Three days after the judge ordered her not to leave the hospital, Burton delivered a stillborn fetus by cesarian-section. And six months after the pregnancy ended, the dispute over the legal move to keep her in the hospital continues, raising questions about where a mother's right to decide her own medical treatment ends and where the priority of protecting a fetus begins.
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