Paul Elias

February 24, 1999 | Law.com

U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk took it on the chin Tuesday when the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed or vacated three of four judgments the Los Angeles judge entered in cases brought by famed boxing promoter Don King

By Paul Elias

4 minute read

October 13, 2004 | Law.com

A federal grand jury is investigating Chiron Corp.'s failure to supply the nation with half the needed flu vaccine this year, the company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday. Following a congressional hearing on the vaccine shortage, the U.S. attorney in New York subpoenaed information related to British regulators prohibiting Chiron from shipping about 48 million Fluvirin vaccine shots from its Liverpool plant due to contamination concerns.

By Paul Elias

3 minute read

February 09, 1999 | Law.com

Led by a Latino student with a perfect academic record in high school and a rejection notice from UC-Berkeley, a coalition of civil rights groups on Tuesday sued the university in federal court over its admission policies

By Paul Elias

3 minute read

February 28, 2000 | Law.com

By Paul Elias

2 minute read

September 09, 2010 | Law.com

California nursing home operator Skilled Healthcare Group will pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit that threatened to bankrupt the company after a jury ordered it to pay $677 million for failing to provide enough nurses and staff. The money will go to the roughly 32,000 patients covered by the class action lawsuit as well as cover attorney fees. Once a judge approves the settlement, lawyers representing the patients have agreed to dismiss the verdict, thought to be the largest damages award in the country this year.

By Paul Elias

2 minute read

August 30, 2004 | Law.com

Nineteen California pharmacies filed a state lawsuit Thursday accusing the world's largest pharmaceutical companies of conspiring to inflate U.S. drug prices. The pharmacies accuse the 15 drug makers of illegally charging higher prices in the United States while barring pharmacies from buying the makers' drugs at lower prices outside the country. The drug industry in the past has defended its U.S. prices as a way to recoup hefty research and development costs.

By Paul Elias

2 minute read

September 28, 2010 | Law.com

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday delayed by nearly two days the state's first execution since 2006 to allow more time for courts to consider the condemned inmate's appeals. Albert Greenwood Brown is now scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday. Brown's attorneys have filed simultaneous appeals to federal and state courts, arguing that the state improperly adopted new lethal injection procedures that result in cruel and unusual punishment.

By Paul Elias

2 minute read

July 11, 2008 | Law.com

Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay $21 million to settle a suit filed by California customers upset with the company's early termination fees, a lawyer in the case said Wednesday. It will ultimately be up to a judge to decide how many people will be eligible to share in the settlement, according to Alan Plutzik, an attorney for the customers. Wireless companies have said they must charge the fees to recover the cost of cell phones, which they subsidize when customers sign long-term service contracts.

By Paul Elias

2 minute read

August 19, 1999 | Law.com

Elizabeth Price, an administrative law judge with the Social Security Administration charged with lying in order to obtain Social Security benefits for her daughter, will have to pitch her defense to a jury in order to clear her name, a judge said Wednesday. Her defense: She did not know she was divorced. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer did not definitively deny Price's motion to dismiss the indictment for perjury. But he indicated there's a good chance he would do that by Friday.

By Paul Elias

3 minute read

March 22, 2010 | Law.com

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Anna Nicole Smith's estate will get none of the more than $300 million the late Playboy model claimed a Texas billionaire to whom she was briefly married meant to leave her after he died. The ruling came in a 15-year legal battle that started in a sleepy Houston probate court and stretched all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. It initially pitted Smith against the son of J. Howard Marshall over the $1.6 billion estate the oil tycoon left after his 1995 death.

By Paul Elias

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