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SoCalGas agrees to pay up to $1.8 billion in settlement for 2015 Aliso Canyon gas leak
The PARRIS Law Firm, together with Panish, Shea & Boyle and plaintiffs’ counsel, announced a $1.8 billion settlement with Sempra Energy and SoCalGas over the Aliso Canyon gas well blow-out in Porter Ranch which released nearly 100,000 tons of methane and other toxins into the atmosphere over the span of almost 4 months. The… Read More »
Los Angeles jury awarded $7.619 million to the family of a man who died from the injuries
A Los Angeles jury awarded $7.619 million to the family of a man who died from the injuries he sustained after a collision between his pickup truck and a tractor trailer that had stopped in the middle of a state highway in Washington while attempting to making an unsafe left turn. On December 22,… Read More »
Man Sentenced In 2016 Ghost Ship Warehouse Fire In Oakland, Calif., That Killed 36
Mary Alexander has announced that 3 ½ years after the Ghost Ship fires occurred, costing the lives of 36 people and injuring several others, the first portion of the case has settled for $32.7 million for dozens of families and one of the injured parties. Thirty-two (32) families along with Samuel Maxell (who suffered… Read More »
Settlement of a civil lawsuit against the County of Los Angeles for $450,000
Mike Arias and Jamie Goldstein of Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos announced a settlement of a civil lawsuit against the County of Los Angeles for $450,000. The public defender who was accused of sexually assaulting his own client in a Los Angeles County Courthouse in September of 2015. The settlement was agreed upon in… Read More »
Tesla is ordered to pay former worker $137 million for racism at plant
Lawrence Organ of the California Civil Rights Law Group represented Owen Diaz, a black man and former contract worker at Tesla. Daaz was racially taunted and had to experience offensive graffiti at the electric-car maker’s Northern California plant. Tesla was ordered to pay Diaz a total of $137 million, a federal jury in San… Read More »
Los Angeles jury in Van Nuys handed down a $10.6 million verdict
A Los Angeles jury in Van Nuys handed down a $10.6 million verdict to the parents of two brothers who were killed by a wrong-way driver. In the early morning hours of January 21, 2017, Rodney Deshone Wright drove his Ford F-150 the wrong way on the 405 North and collided head-on with Aidan… Read More »
Jury awards family of Black man nearly $2.3 million after death in Anaheim police custody
Eric Dubin, of the Dubin Law Firm represented the parents of Christopher Eisenger a black man who died in an encounter with police March 12, 2018. Officers responding to reports of a person trying to break into cars at a mobile home park just after midnight spotted the man, who had a history of… Read More »
Alameda County agrees to $5 million settlement in Fremont man’s jail hanging
Elise Sanguinetti of Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos obtained the largest settlement in a prisoner suicide case against Alameda County in history. The $2.375 million settlement is for the family who filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county on behalf of man who hung himself while under suicide watch at Santa Rita Jail… Read More »
Ricardo Echeverria obtained a six-figure verdict in an “in-person” trial in Orange County Superior Court
Ricardo Echeverria obtained a six-figure verdict in an “in-person” trial in Orange County Superior Court in a personal injury case involving a man who was injured while attending a party. The verdict came down on Tuesday, November 10, 2020. Thomas Ryan was attending a social function at defendant Daniel Haspert’s home in Laguna Beach… Read More »
Intel is told to pay $2.18 billion after losing a patent trial
Morgan Chu of the Irell & Manella firm, won a trial in which Intel Corp. was told to pay VLSI Technology $2.18 billion .This is one of the largest patent-damages awards in the U.S. The jury awarded $1.5 billion for infringement of one patent and $675 million for infringement of the second. Intel’s contention… Read More »
