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ARBITRATORS RULE FOR PAPER’S OWNER
LOS ANGELES – The owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press doesn’t owe her former fiance any additional money, under an arbitration ruling made public Friday.Wendy McCaw defended against claims from her former lover and lawyer Gregory J. Parker that she owed him nearly $20 million for interest earned on stock transfers that occurred while Parker was managing her finances. McCaw previously paid Parker $3.3 million in severance and $100,000 in punitive damages for damaging stories McCaw ran in her newspaper, said Parker’s lawyer, Thomas G. Foley of Foley, Bezek, Behle & Curtis in Santa Barbara. Read the rest of this entry »
September 26, 2008
WOMEN CLAIM GUIDE GROPED THEM ON ‘HAUNTED’ TOUR
By Noah BarronDaily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES – Five women who signed on for a spooky tour of Hollywood claim they got treatment far scarier from their tour guide, including sexual groping, use of racial and sexual slurs and imprisonment in a locked vehicle.
Plaintiffs Tiffany Pierce, Dana Kaplan, Sara Peglow, Maricela Godina and Amber Olsen filed suit against driver Brian Sapir and the tour company he allegedly works for, Starline Tours of Hollywood, saying he sexually battered them during the course of the Haunted Hollywood Tour on Sept. 22, 2007. Read the rest of this entry »
JURY AWARDS MAN $11 MILLION IN SAN DIEGO NEGLIGENCE CASE
By Noah Barron
Daily Journal Staff Writer
San Diego County Superior Court jurors have found the city of San Diego negligent for a police altercation that left a man with brain injuries and awarded him what is likely the largest police misconduct verdict in the city’s history.
The jury granted Pablo Gomez $11 million for the skull fractures and brain damage he received when he was tackled by Officer Joseph De Veaux in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter after leaving a bar in 2006, where he had been watching a football game. Read the rest of this entry »
September 18, 2008
BOSNIAN REFUGEE ENDOWS LAW CLINIC
LOS ANGELES – A Bosnian refugee, who is married to Britain’s wealthiest banker, has donated $4 million to the UCLA School of Law to create a legal clinic seeking to bring war criminals to justice.
The benefactor is Sanela Diana Jenkins, 36, wife of Barclay’s Bank CEO Roger Jenkins, 52, who is believed to earn $70 million per year. Read the rest of this entry »
August 29, 2008
BROTHERS’ JOYRIDE ENDS WITH ONLINE-MARKETING SETTLEMENT
By Noah Barron
Daily Journal Staff Writer
This article appears on Page 1 of Verdicts and Settlements
Daily Journal Staff Writer
This article appears on Page 1 of Verdicts and Settlements
RIVERSIDE – Two brothers in their mid 20s will have to relinquish a Lamborghini and Ferrari that they bought with profits from online businesses that the Federal Trade Commission said bilked 50,000 people out of nearly $5 million.
They settled with the FTC for $4.9 million, payment of which will be suspended if they sell the cars, turn over $350,000 of their remaining profits, and never do online work-at-home marketing again.
The FTC said in its suit that Eric G. Louie of Corona and Calvin G. Louie of Lake Elsinore, both in their early 20s when they started their online get-rich-quick Web sites in 2003, made unsubstantiated claims such as, “Earn $1000’s Weekly!” and “Fun and EASY! Start making Incredible money without ever leaving your house!” Read the rest of this entry »
