Paul Elias

March 31, 2009 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - California has furloughed workers and slashed programs to close a $41 billion budget gap, but it still has more than 400 judges in Los Angeles County who each make more than the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.Judges in Tulare County still get free health club memberships. Those in Kern County can count on a $600-a-month car allowance.

By PAUL ELIAS

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September 10, 2010 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - A federal appeals court struck down a city ban on tattoo parlors Thursday, ruling the artistic expression is entitled to free speech protection under the U.S. Constitution.The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Southern California city of Hermosa Beach to allow tattoo parlors to operate.

By PAUL ELIAS

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August 19, 2009 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - A federal appeals court has tossed out the criminal conviction of the first Silicon Valley executive to go to trial in a stock options scandal that triggered investigations at hundreds of companies and charges against at least a dozen executives.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new trial Tuesday for Gregory Reyes, former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems Inc.

By PAUL ELIAS

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November 11, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP-A federal jury on Monday ordered the NFL Players Association to pay $28.1 million to retired players after finding the union failed to properly market their images.The jury said the union owed the retirees $7.1 million in actual damages for failing to include them in lucrative marketing deals with Electronic Arts Inc.

By PAUL ELIAS

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April 25, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - A federal appealscourt agreed Tuesday to reconsider an earlier ruling that UPS Inc. discriminated against deaf employees by automatically barring them from driving parcel delivery trucks.A 15-judge panel of the 9th U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals will take up the case after a three-judge panel last year upheld a ruling that the Atlanta-based company's practices violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.

By Paul Elias

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July 02, 2007 | Daily Report Online

By Paul Elias

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November 02, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By PAUL ELIAS

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October 18, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - A federal judge has sharply rebuked lawyers suing Chevron Corp. for allegedly causing cancer after polluting areas of Ecuador and ordered the lead attorney to pay a $45,000 fine after wrongly claiming that some of the purported victims were sick.The judge also found that the three purported victims didn't even know that the lawyers were filing a federal lawsuit here in their names.

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January 24, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Readers of Lance Armstrong's two books detailing his cycling accomplishments are suing the disgraced athlete and his publishers because of his denials of drug use.

By Paul Elias

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November 14, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - Angry online subscribers who had their Web surfing habits tracked in detail are suing a Silicon Valley startup that created the technology and six Internet service providers that briefly used it.The 15 customers who filed the lawsuit in federal court here Monday demand more than $5 million in damages and are asking a judge to turn the case into a class action representing tens of thousands of Internet subscribers.

By PAUL ELIAS

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