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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In our February 16, 2021, Client Alert (“Holders Beware”), we noted recent California caselaw expanding consumer plaintiffs’ rights to seek attorneys’ fees and court costs from creditors pursuant to the Federal Trade Commission’s “Holder Rule,” 16 C.F.R. § 433.2.  Since then, the California Supreme Court has agreed to consider the fee and cost issue.  Additionally, the FTC recently issued new guidance rejecting transa...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Los Angeles County Supervisor, Holly J. Mitchell, representing the Second District,  is partnering with the County of Los Angeles Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, and the Culver City Recreation & Community Services Department to host a Veterans Food Drive-Thru Distribution on Saturday May 8, 2021 from 10am to 12pm. Food will be donated by SEE-LA. Following safety guidelines, volunteers will be on-site to guide and place groceries dir...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Whether Amazon can be held strictly liable for products sold by third parties through its website is a question courts often face. In Loomis v. Amazon.com, LLC, No. 297995, 2021 Cal. App. LEXIS 347 (Apr. 26, 2021), the Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District (Second District), held that, under the circumstances, Amazon could be held strictly liable. In this case, Kisha Loomis (Loomis), purchased a hoverboard on Amazo...

LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A California condominium complex that failed to provide enough parking spaces for visitors isn’t liable for the injuries of a woman who was hit by a car after she parked offsite and attempted to cross a busy five-lane thoroughfare, an appeals court ruled. While landowners in some cases can be liable for accidents that occur off their property, the Second Appellate District held in an April 30 decision, plaintiff Anaeis Issakhani bears responsibility for jaywalki...

Legislator Bridget Fleming announces candidacy for Congress County Legislator Bridget Fleming announces her candidacy for Congress Monday in Patchogue. (Credit: Joe Werkmeister) County Legislator Bridget Fleming announced she will run for Congress, formally kicking off a campaign Monday to win the Democratic nod for the 1st Congressional District after falling short in the 2020 primary. Ms. Fleming becomes the first candidate for either party here to announ...

As public health departments across the state including Washington County have begun declining weekly COVID-19 vaccine allocations due to decreased demand, U.S. Representative for Iowa’s Second District and former Iowa Department of Public Health Director Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R) is encouraging all Iowans 16 years and older to get vaccinated. Iowa’s vaccine dashboard showed Friday that 2,222,768 total doses have been administered to Iowa residents, and 1,041,462 vaccine series have bee...

Kern political leaders blast Newsom Taft Midway Driller Gov. Gavin Newsoms announcement last week that he would end fracking in California by 2024 and get the oil industry out of the state by 2045 drew immediate and harsh criticism from Kern Countys political leaders. Assemblyman Vince Fong called it "irresponsible" and a direct attack on the Central Valley" just minutes after the announcement came from Newsoms office “This is out-of-touch behavior at its finest," Fong said. "These irresponsi...

LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – Two is a trend, for people injured by products they bought on Amazon who want to sue the retailer. Filed April 26, a ruling by California’s Second Appellate District follows a previous one by the Fourth, holding that even though an allegedly defective product was made and sold by another company, Amazon can still be sued for providing the marketplace. The Fourth District found Amazon to be “an integral part of the overall producing and marketing enterprise....

Michael Kikuchi Jr., 33 The New Orleans Police Department arrested a suspect in a killing inside a Broadmoor home on April 22. Michael Kikuchi Jr., 33, was arrested the next day and remained jailed Wednesday (April 28) on a $500,000 bond. He faces a second-degree murder charge in the shooting death of John Robichaux, 59. Robichaux was found by Second District officers inside his home in the 5500 block of McKenna Street. He had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was not breathing, police said...

Redistricting abuses occur at all levels of government STRATFORD — The gerrymandering and political manipulation of this town’s voting lines was so brazen 20 years ago that it attracted national attention. A New York Times story on June 8, 2003 quoted local officials as saying the Republican-led redistricting in Stratford after the 2000 U.S. Census, was “silly,” “a sham,” and “absurd.” James Simon The Oronoque Village condo complex for 1,500 active seniors was cut in half and pl...