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California to Lock Down Super Pollutants with New Legislation
Businesses rarely cheer when the gov’t feels the need to regulate. Case in point: the latest greenhouse gases bill, which targets not only black carbon and other super pollutants, but also the methane emissions from cows and their manure. Yes, friends, your state gov’t now regulates the flatulence of farm animals. Take a moment and […]
Will the Feds Give a Ship About Hanjin Bankruptcy?
Been to the ports lately? Well, everyone there is talking about South Korean shipping company Hanjin who recently filed for bankruptcy protection in South Korea and the U.S. Hanjin Shipping is one of the largest ocean shippers in the world, with a large terminal in Long Beach. A group of California’s congressional delegation led a […]
New California Bill Changes How Debt Collectors Handle Identity Theft Disputes
But it wasn’t me! — probably the oldest line in the “I’m not responsible for that money” playbook. Usually, it’s less than true, but in some case, particularly involving identity theft, the state of California is coming to the rescue of debtors who may not have incurred the debt in the first place. A new […]
Have You Checked Your Indemnity Lease Language?
Indemnity. A word that few people actually understand and sounds kinda made-up like it was trying to be a big important sounding word, but something happened. The word which means “security or protection against a loss or other financial burden,” is actually pretty important as is the specific language about it in most commercial leases. […]
When a Law Firm Goes Bankrupt, Who Gets the Hourly Billings on Unresolved Matters?
Sometimes businesses (including law firms) go bankrupt and sometimes…this unfortunately happens during pending litigation. This raises an interesting question — Under California law, does a dissolved law firm have a property interest in legal matters that are in progress but not completed at the time the law firm is dissolved, when the dissolved law firm […]
Harry Potter and the Unlawful Detainer
Deep in the mystical land of owls, giant spiders, spells and magic, Harry wrestles with perhaps his toughest challenge yet — how can he, as a landlord, take some property back from a tenant? Ok, that never actually happened to Harry, but it happens all the time in the wizarding world of commercial real estate […]
Client Questions Vol 3: Getting From Point A to B
We’ve been spoiled by the recent coming of age of the GPS. It allows us to go around traffic and pretty much forget how to get anywhere because all we need to do is type in the address and the GPS will get us from point A to point B quickly, efficiently and will even […]
Water Tunnel Plan Opens New Disputes
In life, we all make assumptions. Some are necessary such as, “I assume the rest of the cars will stop at the red light and we won’t go smashing into each other.” But sometimes you see stories about assumptions that just boggle the mind with their lunacy. Here’s one of those and the writer (San […]
The Dog Contract
Dog people do some strange things. Without a doubt, the decision to get a family dog comes with a lot of responsibility. And kids, usually the parties who want said canine companion, promise the world to get what they desire—only to come up short when it’s time for the actual chores. So when these kids […]
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