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Fuming Foes Do Little to Halt 17200 Package
Corporate lawyers and tort reformers Tuesday continued to deride plaintiffs bar-backed bills to tweak the state's unfair competition law, but their arguments did little to derail the legislation. A pair of committees appeared ready late Tuesday to pass the two-bill package that would retool portions of the Business and Professions Code § 17200. The package is supported by the Consumer Attorneys of California.Boutique's Merger With Larger Firm Wasn't What Lawyers Bargained For
Berg & Parker attorneys merged with Preston Gates & Ellis seeking stability and growth for their 13-lawyer firm. But when Preston Gates was snapped up by Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham a couple of years later, some former Berg lawyers say they found their practice unsupported and felt pressure to hike billing rates. David Franklin says his Berg rate of $350 remained unchanged for existing clients but went "north of $400" for new clients. So Franklin and several other lawyers sought out new homes.Judge Peels Off DEHP Cancer Warning Label
A California Superior Court judge has ruled that DEHP -- a chemical used to keep medical plastic flexible -- no longer needs to bear a warning that it may cause cancer. Proposition 65 requires a warning on any potential human carcinogen, and this ruling marks the first time in the proposition's 16-year history that a manufacturer's affirmative legal action has resulted in an exemption to a mandated warning.In a price-fixing case that Mississippi's attorney general brought against a slew of LCD makers, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether parens patriae lawsuits are class actions in disguise that don't belong in the hands of state court judges.
Only a relatively small chunk of the direct purchaser market for LCD panels is included in Tuesday's price-fixing settlement, which doesn't exactly bode well for the defendants' remaining civil liabilities.
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