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May 22, 2006
From Burned Boy to Burned Investor (Allegedly)
KNBC/Channel 4 reports that 28-year-old Dave Dave--who when he was age 6 and known as David Rothenberg had 90 percent of his body burned after his father Charles Rothenberg doused him with kerosene in a Buena Park motel--is suing for fraud a man he met at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. In his la ... More >>
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September 17, 2007
OC Diocese Paid Admitted Child Molester $100,000
Back in 2004, the Catholic Diocese of Orange quietly settled a lawsuit filed against former Mater Dei boys' basketball coach Jeff Andrade. To quote from my 2006 story regarding a current molestation lawsuit against Andrade: "In 2003, Mater Dei officials admitted to Orange County Register reporter ... More >>
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September 18, 2007
OC Conservatives Have Something to Cheer!
On Monday, Orange County conservative activists lost the fight to block liberal law scholar Erwin Chemerinsky from becoming the first UC Irvine law school dean. But this morning must feel better. The United States Attorney's Office based in Los Angeles announced that it has won a guilty plea from Wi ... More >>
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October 26, 2007
Chapman lawsuit dismissed, Attorney vows to appeal
A lawsuit filed three years ago by three former Chapman University professors on behalf of the government [see "Litigating it Old School" Aug, 3] was dismissed by United States District Court for the Central District of California Oct. 22. The case was scheduled to begin a civil jury trial in two w ... More >>
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July 17, 2008
Lawsuit Alleges OC Hospital Framed Doctor on Gun Charges
A lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court two days ago includes stunning allegations about a bizarre incident first reported by the Weekly two years ago. On June 28, 2006, Santa Ana police arrested Dr. Michael Fitzgibbons, an infectious diseases specialist at Western Medical Center, when they ... More >>
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June 26, 2003
Dirty Marky
New lawsuits surround Surf Citys most expensive cop
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November 24, 2008
Orange County Register Settles Suit Brought By Carriers for $42M
UPDATED WITH REGISTER'S TAKE ON THE SETTLEMENT:The Orange County Register agreed today to shell out $42 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by newspaper carriers that was hailed as "the first of its kind in the United States" by the delivery workers' Santa Ana-based law firm. Daniel J. Callaha ... More >>
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December 16, 2008
Is Orange County Injecting Itself Into a "Judicial Hellhole"?
Our stuck-up neighbor to the north, Los Angeles County, is among America's leading "Judicial Hellholes," which is what the American Tort Reform Association calls finalists on its annual list of the nation's most unfair civil court jurisdictions. But don't gloat too hard, Orange Countians, because we ... More >>
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February 11, 2009
Bishop Brown Breaks His Covenant with the Faithful for the Trillionth Time
IUpdated, with new info on the bottom...Both the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register revealed today that Jon Kirrer of Fountain Valley filed a lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Orange and its pedo-priest Denis Lyons alleging sexual abuse during the mid-1990s, and isn't it refreshing t ... More >>
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November 27, 2008
DA Drops Charges Against Frank Santos, Who Was Accused of Pushing a Garden Grove Cop
IUpdated, with new info on the bottom...Both the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register revealed today that Jon Kirrer of Fountain Valley filed a lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Orange and its pedo-priest Denis Lyons alleging sexual abuse during the mid-1990s, and isn't it refreshing t ... More >>
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July 31, 2008
Just How Did Those Gloves and That Gun End Up in Whistleblower Dr. Michael Fitzgibbons' Car?
IUpdated, with new info on the bottom...Both the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register revealed today that Jon Kirrer of Fountain Valley filed a lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Orange and its pedo-priest Denis Lyons alleging sexual abuse during the mid-1990s, and isn't it refreshing t ... More >>
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June 26, 2008
Is Irvine Industrial Launderer Prudential Overall Supply Cheating Workers Out of a Living Wage?
IUpdated, with new info on the bottom...Both the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register revealed today that Jon Kirrer of Fountain Valley filed a lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Orange and its pedo-priest Denis Lyons alleging sexual abuse during the mid-1990s, and isn't it refreshing t ... More >>
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October 11, 2007
Jane C.R. Doe Speaks
An Exclusive Interview with Jeff Andrade’s victim
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August 2, 2007
Litigating It Old-School
Former Chapman instructors invoke a Civil War-era law in their multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the university
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February 22, 2007
Eight Is Enough
One man has four girlfriends and eight children, all of whom live in separate houses within four miles of each other. In Utah? No, Irvine
Music
January 12, 2006
Mozart an Idiot!
OC lawsuit says two-year-old wrote Michael Jackson hits
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September 8, 2005
Dr. Chaudhuri
OC lawsuit says two-year-old wrote Michael Jackson hits
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June 2, 2005
Cox by the Numbers
OC lawsuit says two-year-old wrote Michael Jackson hits
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February 24, 2005
Slapp-Happy
Anti-tower activists claim developer and friends are suing them into silence
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October 7, 2004
Six Degrees of Schwarzenegger
Quadriplegics lawsuit claims botched bounty hunt was no coincidence
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September 18, 2003
Retail Madness
Fingerprints Records joins CD-pricing suit against Best Buy
Features
March 7, 2002
Made in Newport Beach
How Chris Cox helped produce the Enron scandal
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December 9, 1999
Alien Toxins
Area 51's sci-fi folklore masks a truly spooks reality
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September 11, 1997
Body Snatchers
Area 51's sci-fi folklore masks a truly spooks reality
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June 25, 2009
Pedo-Priest Gus Krumm Fighting to Keep His Personnel Files Personal
If you want to fight for the side of truth and justice, join members of SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests) this Sunday around 8:30 in the morn as they distribute fliers outside Sts. Simon and Jude Catholic Church in Huntington Beach. They'll alert parishioners about what Diocese of ... More >>
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June 25, 2009
Laguna Beach Settles Lawsuit Over Homeless Ordinance
Laguna Beach agreed today to settle a lawsuit over the city's treatment of disabled homeless people, according to the ACLU of Southern California. "Under the agreement, the city's police officers will not cite, arrest or harass people under state law simply for sleeping in public places, ... More >>
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July 14, 2009
OC Cities Fail to Crack 10 Meanest List, Must Try Harder
Photo by HulagwayBoxed in.No Orange County cities cracked the top 10 Meanest Cities list included in a report released today by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless. But Laguna Beach, Santa Ana (by way of Dana Point) and just-beyond-our-re ... More >>
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September 24, 2009
Anti-Obama 'Eligibility' Movement Members Breaking Ties With Laguna Niguel Birther Orly Taitz
Photo by HulagwayBoxed in.No Orange County cities cracked the top 10 Meanest Cities list included in a report released today by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless. But Laguna Beach, Santa Ana (by way of Dana Point) and just-beyond-our-re ... More >>
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November 12, 2009
Western Medical Center's Owners Sued Their Doctors to Muzzle Them, But One Wouldn't Shut Up
Photo by HulagwayBoxed in.No Orange County cities cracked the top 10 Meanest Cities list included in a report released today by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless. But Laguna Beach, Santa Ana (by way of Dana Point) and just-beyond-our-re ... More >>
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March 15, 2010
[UPDATED:] DA Sues Toyota
UPDATE: The Orange County District Attorney's Office this morning stepped up pressure on Toyota, unveiling a consumer complaint hotline, an online complaint form and access to its first civil complaint against the automaker (details after the jump) . . . Courtesy of Elizabeth JamesThis is where Eliz ... More >>
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March 23, 2010
Orly Taitz Gets In On the Suing Healthcare Reform Game
Taitz photo by John Gilhooley / OC WeeklyThe two most powerful women in America.The cluster of attorneys general filing suit against the federal government to stop the just-passed health-care reform bill aren't alone in their battle.We'll give you one guess on who else has taken up their cause.
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April 9, 2010
Judge Denies Restraining Order to Keep Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Open
A federal judge has denied a restraining order aimed at keeping medical marijuana dispensaries open in Costa Mesa and Lake Forest while the court considers a lawsuit filed on behalf of four MedMar Patient Care Collective patients and based on the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).
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August 19, 2010
Local School Districts Caught Up in New Study Showing Millions Blown on Litigation
The Peabody-winning educational program South Park aired an episode the other night that took lawsuits against public school districts to despicably hilarious new heights.The real-life cartoon plays out publicly--and locally--in the Capistrano, Santa Ana and Long Beach unified school districts.
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September 13, 2010
Santa Ana is Ground Zero for Toyota Legal War
Santa Ana will be ground zero for sudden-acceleration lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. after a panel of judges last week consolidated the cases to the federal court there. The world's largest automaker faces at least 177 consumer and shareholder lawsuits seeking class-action status and at le ... More >>
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November 15, 2010
ACLU Accuses Feds of Retaliatory Deportation of Whistleblower Who Sued Fullerton Company
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is "deeply concerned" over federal immigration agents detaining and initiating deportation proceedings against an immigrant worker who filed a federal class action lawsuit against a Fullerton-based firm in August for labor and civil rights violations. ... More >>
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December 7, 2010
YouPorn Shared More Than Sex Videos Claims Lawsuit Filed by Newport Beach Pair
Two Newport Beach men have filed a lawsuit accusing operators of the YouPorn adult video sharing website of "sniffing," which is not an exotic new sex act (well, at least not in this particular context) but the improper monitoring of other sites users have visited.
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December 22, 2010
[UPDATED:] Fate of the OC Fairgrounds Stalled Until January 2011
Update, December 22, 2:15 p.m.: The non-money grubbing side won in the matter of the OC Fairgrounds. Sort of. Yesterday the Fourth District Appellate Court agreed to hear the case, which will prevent the sale of the property until at least Jan. 10, 2011.Why is this a victory? By that time the new ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
More on Blood, Hurst & O'Reardon, One of the Law Firms Behind the Taco Bell Fake-Beef Lawsuit
Of course, it was going to be a big story, the $5 million class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. federal court alleging Taco Bell doesn't sell real beef in its tacos. And most stories focus on the Alabama-based law firm representing plaintiff Amanda Obney: Beasley, Allen, Crow, Mehvin, Portis & Mile ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
[UPDATED with Promotion for Liar:] Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick Wins Supreme Court Ruling Against County Taking Her Daughters
UPDATE, APRIL 26, 11:52 A.M.: You might assume--wrongly, it turns out--that lying to a juvenile court commissioner so a woman's two daughters would be taken away from her for years would cost two County of Orange social workers their jobs. Even if you didn't believe those workers lied after the f ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
Lake Forest Cannabis Crackdown Continues
Protesting Lake Forest's Cannabis CrackdownIf you're a medical marijuana user who lives in south Orange County, you may want to consider moving somewhere else. Yesterday, the Orange County Register reported, the city of Lake Forest won a temporary restraining order allowing it to shutter seven st ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Lawsuit: Massage Envy Trip Turned Into Sexual Assault in Laguna Beach
Massage only, please...For one California woman, Mother's Day 2011 will always been remembered as a horrific nightmare after her massage therapist yanked down her underwear as well as his own and tried to mount her at Massage Envy in Laguna Beach.That's the sensational accusation contained in a l ... More >>
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June 20, 2011
Federal Judge in Santa Ana Sets Trial For First of Hundreds of Lawsuits Against Toyota In February 2013
A Santa Ana-based federal judge has picked the bellwether case in the slew of freak-acceleration lawsuits lodged against Toyota. The trial, which will undoubtedly influence the litigation of the other cases, is set to start on Feb. 19, 2013, according to a timetable housed on the court' ... More >>
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July 1, 2011
Kobe Bryant Sued by Ohio Woman for Breaching Marriage Proposal
BryantAn Ohio woman is accusing Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant of breaching a marriage proposal to her and now wants the wealthy Newport Coast resident to pay up.In a bizarre June 24 lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court, Selina Miller--who lists addresses in both Santa Ana and Colum ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
[UPDATED with New $$$ Details:] Settlement of Anthem Blue Cross Suit Over Web Files on 600,000 Left Unprotected Gets Early OK
UPDATE, JULY 21, 4:13 P.M.: A representative of a Newport Beach law firm just provided the Weekly with more details on what members of a class-action lawsuit would receive under a proposed settlement with Anthem Blue Cross and related insurance and healthcare companies over personal information ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
[UPDATED with Pre-Trial Bickering:] Federal Judge in Santa Ana Sets Trial For First of Hundreds of Lawsuits Against Toyota
UPDATE, SEPT. 9, 2:10 P.M: Earlier this week, Toyota and the lawyers representing the people suing Toyota in several unexpected-acceleration cases, presented court papers showing their disagreements on specifics of the trial. The two parties disagree on how many of the then Toyota-drive ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
[UPDATED with Pre-Trial Bickering:] Federal Judge in Santa Ana Sets Trial For First of Hundreds of Lawsuits Against Toyota
UPDATE, SEPT. 9, 2:10 P.M: Earlier this week, Toyota and the lawyers representing the people suing Toyota in several unexpected-acceleration cases, presented court papers showing their disagreements on specifics of the trial. The two parties disagree on how many of the then Toyota-drive ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
Newport Beach Chevron Station Owner Who Cooked the Books Must Pay Oil Giant's Attorney Fees
Trouble began for Newport Beach Chevron gas station owner Mansoor Ghaneeian when his bookkeeper told a Chevron USA auditor that the company's designated dealer of record kept a second set of accounting books.That eventually led to a suit against Ghaneeian by Chevron, a counterclaim that a feder ... More >>
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September 29, 2011
Barkworks Sells Puppy Mill Pets: Lawsuit
A pet store chain with two Orange County shops sold puppies supplied by a puppy mill, alleges a class-action lawsuit filed by a Los Angeles law firm.The complaint alleges puppy breeds prone to illness and other health woes are being sold by Barkworks, which has stores in Brea and Mission Viejo.
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October 14, 2011
Atallah "Alibaba" Abdallah, Produce Market Owner, Accused of Raping Sales Rep in Her Costa Mesa Office
A sales rep says a major produce market client brutally raped her in her Costa Mesa office and then tossed a $100 bill at her and told her to "Buy some pills" to terminate any pregnancy that might result from his having ejaculated inside her. The bombshell allegations against Atallah "Alibaba" ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
Fullerton Gym Sued For Erect Dick & Anal Snake Incident
Fullerton gym snake?A female custodian has sued a Fullerton gym for wrongful termination after protesting against a supervisor who allegedly begged for sex, plopped his erect penis on a table and told her a graphic story about a snake invading a woman's anus and exiting through her mouth.Accordin ... More >>
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