News
Business
- [07/29] UAE official: Japanese tanker was in a collision
- [07/29] Southwest reports $112 million 2Q profit
- [07/29] Microsoft hosts annual financial analyst meeting
- [07/29] Chemicals maker BASF sees Q2 earnings triple
Personal Injury
- [07/29] Cargo plane crashes at Alaska base; 4 on board
- [07/29] Victim settles with NYC utility in steampipe blast
- [07/29] APNewsBreak: Pa. diocese sued in accuser's suicide
- [07/29] Bear attack in Montana leaves 1 dead, 2 injured
Real Estate
- [07/28] Mortgage applications fall 4.4 percent last week
- [07/28] PMI Foundation Awards $50,000 Grant to Consumer Credit Counseling Service of San Francisco
- [07/28] M/I Homes Reports Second Quarter Results
- [07/27] For the Past Year Home Prices Have Generally Moved Sideways According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
Case Summaries
Family Law
[06/24]
Doe v. Reed
In a First Amendment case arising out of a state law extending certain benefits to same-sex couples, involving a challenge to the Washington Public Records Act based on its provision permitting the disclosure of referendum petition signers' names and addresses, the Ninth Circuit's reversal of the district court's preliminary injunction in favor of plaintiffs is affirmed where disclosure of referendum petitions does not as a general matter violate the First Amendment.
[06/23]
In re Marriage of Hartman
Trial court's denial of wife's motion to vacate an order restraining her from interfering with ex-husband's child custody time is affirmed as the restraining order is neither ambiguous nor overbroad.
Probate Trusts
[06/25]
Greenspan v. LADT, LLC
In a trust's suit for breach of contract and other claims against two affiliated companies and individuals, trial court's confirmation of an arbitrator's award against defendants in the amount of $6.34 million is affirmed where: 1) per the JAMS rules, the arbitrator, not a court, determines what issues are arbitrable, and here, the arbitrator determined that the issue of joint and several liability was arbitrable; 2) arbitrator's finding of joint and several liability was rationally related to the parties' contract; 3) as to the timeliness of the final award under JAMS rules, the arbitrator's interpretation and application of the rules cannot be judicially reviewed on the merits; and 4) the suit against the arbitrator was barred by arbitral immunity and would not have caused a reasonable person to doubt the arbitrator's impartiality.
[06/22]
Jay E. Hayden Found. v. First Neighbor Bank, NA
In a RICO suit against a bank, two law firms, and affiliated individuals, grant of defendants' motion to dismiss on the ground that the complaint itself showed that plaintiffs had missed the four-year deadline governing RICO suits is affirmed as, by the summer of 2003 at the latest, the plaintiffs knew that a lawyer had looted the estate and that bank's employees were trying to prevent further investigation of the lawyer.
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