Who really owns the beach? We know people can own land around a beach but the beach itself? Did you know that the state Constitution guarantees public access to all beaches below the high tide line? Well, in the latest chapter of a decade-long fight, California officials sued billionaire landowner Vinod Khosla on Monday in a bid […]
The largest property and casualty insurance penalty and interest payment in the California’s history has been levied and Mercury Insurance’s 20-year-long battle with California is now over. Under the terms, Mercury will pay the state more than $41 million. The decades-long legal dispute was over extra fees that Mercury charged to its customers. The settlement […]
Well, it’s no secret that many people just have a hard time trusting their trusted legal advisors out there. When asked if the law has a PR problem, our own resident legal eagle, Dean Sperling, had a few comments on the subject: “I don’t believe ‘law’ has a PR problem, but lawyers certainly do. Lawyer […]
Discrimination against people with disabilities is wrong and shouldn’t happen at any time, anywhere. That’s the basic premise of the American Disabilities Act (ADA) passed in 1990. But as we’ve covered in this blog on multiple occasions, some attorneys and their clients want to use the ADA as a source of income rather than a […]