From the Los Angeles Times:
SkyTag, which says that it produces images "so large they can be seen from space," filed court documents last week saying the city should not try to remove the company's supergraphics from high-rises in West Los Angeles, Koreatown and other neighborhoods until the ban litigation is resolved.
If you've ever driven down the west side of Los Angeles you will in no doubt have seen these monstrosities, huge graphic ads on large buildings.
I for one do not like them, and find them very distracting when I am driving down the road. I would not be surprised if there haven't been any serious accidents caused by these things. I'm pretty sure there are enough people that have been injured because these things are there, that they could file a class action lawsuit against the company(ies) that put them up.
I hope the get taken down.
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
All for One and One for All
From the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the right of a local public employees' union to force government workers who are not union members to pay a share of legal fees.
So the court decided in this case that everyone who was going to benefit from collective bargaining must pitch in to help with the legal fees. This sounds pretty logical, but it's kinda hard to believe that this had to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the right of a local public employees' union to force government workers who are not union members to pay a share of legal fees.
So the court decided in this case that everyone who was going to benefit from collective bargaining must pitch in to help with the legal fees. This sounds pretty logical, but it's kinda hard to believe that this had to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Guitmo Legal Proceedings Halted - Class Action Lawsuit to Come?
Yesterday, the United States made history, the first African-American man to be elected President was Inaugurated. Shortly then after Barack Obama sent a notice to all prosecutors in Guantanamo Bay Prison to halt all legal proceedings for the next 120 days.
This no doubt will come with protests from those on the right that feel that the people being held there are too dangerous to be released. But as recent news reports show many of the men there are already being released because of the lack of evidence to show that they actually did something wrong or committed some violent act against the United States.
The 120-day delay is meant to give the new Obama administration some time to review the legal cases.
During the campaign, Barack Obama, said a number of times that he would close Guantanamo Bay if he became President, this is clearly the first step to that.
As many of you know the Constitution of the United States guarantees you (and anyone in the US) certain rights to a fair trial.
One of the things that I am wondering about is that because of all the people that have been released or might be released at a later date without prosecution, will these people file some sort of class action lawsuit against the government? I doubt many lawyers would want to take such a complicated case. Though there are a few class actions lawyers like LA Based Ringler, Kearney, Alvarez LLP, that might be willing and able to take the cases of those men.
Another question I have is that will some of the guards, translators and/or civilians at Gitmo be given Whitleblower status for testifying against the Military. In cases like those Whisle Blower Lawyer, Mike Khouri might come in handy.
This no doubt will come with protests from those on the right that feel that the people being held there are too dangerous to be released. But as recent news reports show many of the men there are already being released because of the lack of evidence to show that they actually did something wrong or committed some violent act against the United States.
The 120-day delay is meant to give the new Obama administration some time to review the legal cases.
During the campaign, Barack Obama, said a number of times that he would close Guantanamo Bay if he became President, this is clearly the first step to that.
As many of you know the Constitution of the United States guarantees you (and anyone in the US) certain rights to a fair trial.
One of the things that I am wondering about is that because of all the people that have been released or might be released at a later date without prosecution, will these people file some sort of class action lawsuit against the government? I doubt many lawyers would want to take such a complicated case. Though there are a few class actions lawyers like LA Based Ringler, Kearney, Alvarez LLP, that might be willing and able to take the cases of those men.
Another question I have is that will some of the guards, translators and/or civilians at Gitmo be given Whitleblower status for testifying against the Military. In cases like those Whisle Blower Lawyer, Mike Khouri might come in handy.
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