March 6, 2013 By Lawdragon News LOS ANGELES– Ajendra Singh, a former Patron Tequila executive, won in the Court of Appeal last week and will now proceed to trial on his $45 million breach of contract and fraud claim against Patron Tequila and its owner, John Paul DeJoria. As alleged in the complaint, following the death of Patron’s...Read More
By Matthew Heller Law360, Los Angeles (December 14, 2012, 4:57 PM ET) — A California judge on Friday threw out a contractual interference suit accusing television show producer Byron Allen of killing another movie project about Hollywood icon Sammy Davis Jr., agreeing with Allen that a rival producer does not own the rights to Davis...Read More
We recently obtained summary judgment in favor of the County of Los Angeles and the individual Board of Supervisors in a high-profile taxpayer lawsuit that received extensive media coverage. The lawsuit alleged that the County’s top elected officials wasted millions of taxpayer dollars and violated the Brown Act in connection with the County’s budgeting process. The plaintiff’s...Read More
By Alfred Lee, Los Angeles Business Journal – July 2, 2012 Open, Shut Aggressive attorney Louis R. ‘Skip’ Miller says forget trying to make a case for his sensitive side. To tell old war stories, you have to have lived through a few firefights. Attorney Louis “Skip” Miller has had his share. In the ’90s,...Read More
-New York Post Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is facing further headaches in her legal battle with licensing company SRG Ventures over an e-mail sent by her dad describing her as “the hottest thing on the market.” The pregnant power gnome partnered with SRG to launch a litany of Snooki-related merchandise in 2010, but she filed a suit...Read More
Skip Miller Miller Barondess Miller has a track record as enviable as his sports car collection, which includes a racing Porsche GT3 and a Ferrari 360 Spider. (He sold his Lamborghini because, he says, “It’s not nearly as good a car as the other two. And how many toys can you have?”) This year, he’s...Read More
Britney Spears Sued for $10M Over Fragrance Line 12:04 AM 3/31/2011 by Dean Goodman (Reuters) Licensing firm Brand Sense, which helped the pop singer launch her fragrance line, alleges that Spears balked at paying commission. Britney Spears is being sued for more than $10 million by a licensing firm that helped the pop singer launch...Read More
Alameda Point Developer Files New Complaint Based on New Evidence of Destruction of Documents, Demonstrates Breach of Contract and Fraud Seeks $100 million in damages from City of Alameda Published: Tuesday, 30 Nov 2010 | 2:04 PM ET OAKLAND, Calif., Nov 30, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The developer of the former Alameda Naval Air Station...Read More
Axl Rose Sues Activision Over ‘Guitar Hero’ November 23, 2010 By Antony Bruno Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose is suing Activision Blizzard for $20 million over the use of the band’s classic “Welcome to the Jungle,” in the 2007 videogame Guitar Hero III. According to the lawsuit (see the full filing here), Rose wanted...Read More
Judge Orders Lehman, SunCal To Mediation Over CA Real Estate Jacqueline Palank 04 November 2010 A California bankruptcy judge has put the brakes on Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s bid to take control of 20 real-estate projects it backed with developer SunCal Cos. and ordered the two sides into mediation.Judge Erithe A. Smith of the U.S....Read More
