A Riverside jury awarded $16.5 M to a couple for the malpractice of a Palm Springs neurosurgeon. The male plaintiff was injured while off-roading and was airlifted to a hospital where the defendant neurosurgeon was on call. Despite having a fractured spine,
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Peanut Industry Welcoming Regulation?
By Dave Babcock
An article from the Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California explains that members of the peanut industry are recognizing that new legislation is necessary in light of two massive Salmonella outbreaks in the past three years.
A lobbyist for the Western Peanut…
CEQA Practioners Beware: Your Petition Challenging Approval Of A Subdivision Under CEQA May Be Summarily Dismissed If You Don’t Comply With The Subdivision Map Act
By Glen Hansen
In Friends of Riverside’s Hills v. City of Riverside (2008) 168 Cal.App.4th 743, the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District addressed some of procedural traps that can befall unwary litigants who seek to bring CEQA challenges to…
SEC Charges Three with Scam Targeting Military Families
The SEC charged three promoters who targeted military families in a multi-million dollar investment scheme that forced victims into personal bankruptcy and their homes into foreclosure. The scam also targeted other affinity groups, including the Southern California Filipino community and…
Trial Court Rules CEQA Did Not Require Global Warming Analysis
By Leslie Z. Walker
On January 29, 2008, Judge Thomas Cahraman of the Riverside Superior Court ruled that CEQA did not require the Banning City Council to consider the Global Warming impacts of a project approved prior to the enactment…
Local News: From Simi Valley, CA to Riverside, NJ
Remember Simi Valley, California? That is where a jury in 1992 acquited four Los Angeles Police Officers in the brutal (and videotaped) beating of African American Rodney King. Well, the city made the news on the immigration front yesterday. AP…
Benefist of Local Cooperation in Immigration Enforcement?
In a story by Sharon McNary, the Press-Enterprise (Riverside) reports that, even though Inland county jailers specially trained to enforce federal immigration laws have sent more than 2,000 inmates into deportation proceedings in the past year, the program has not…
Lawsuits filed Challenging Municipal Anti-Immigrant Laws
lawsuits have been filed against the cities of Riverside, California and hazleton, Pennsylvania, claiming that their anti-immigrant ordinances are unconstitutional. Since July, when the Pennsylvania city of Hazleton passed an ordinance aimed at making it "one of the most difficult…
Protests of Sensenbrenner Bill
Alliance launches ‘war’ on HR 4437 By JUAN ESPARZA LOERA / Vida en el Valle (Published Wednesday, February 15th, 2006 10:35AM) RIVERSIDE — Elvira Arellano, a 31-year-old single mother from Chicago who faces deportation in August, wants the world to…