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California prison receiver asks court to order $8b for prison health facilities

[JURIST] California's court-appointed prison medical overseer J. Clark Kelso [official profile] has asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] to force the state to pay $8 billion over the next five years to improve prison hospitals, according to court papers filed Wednesday. Kelso has previously said that California prisons [JURIST news archive] need
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The Playing Field For Working Mother Lawyers Is Becoming More Level

The playing field may not yet be level, but some law firms are getting more women into the game, according to the second annual "Best Law Firms for Women" list published Tuesday by Working Mother magazine. Check out the LawFuel Jobs Network at http://www.lawfuel.com/law-jobs.asp
[in LawFuel - The Law News Network - Events News Feed]

Court Refuses to Halt Bratz Trial

A federal appeals court denied a motion Tuesday by MGA Entertainment to temporarily halt the hotly contested Bratz trial over alleged racist remarks made by a juror.
[in Los Angeles Business Journal Online: Law & Courts]

Lawyers Get Creative With Firm in Century City

Entertainment attorneys John Mason and Darrell Miller are tuning up a new firm; both are professional musicians turned lawyers.
[in Los Angeles Business Journal Online: Law & Courts]

REGIONAL REPORT

Drink maker Hall of Fame Beverages Inc. has made a distribution deal with New York-based Spencer�?s Gifts, a retailer of humorous and novelty merchandise.
[in Los Angeles Business Journal Online: Law & Courts]

Newsmakers

Lisa Gilford has been appointed president of the National Association of Women Lawyers. Gilford is a partner with Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava and MacCuish LLP, a Los Angeles-based law firm.
[in Los Angeles Business Journal Online: Law & Courts]

Big Movers

The Los Angeles Business Journal�?s index of the 200 largest local public companies finished strong for the week ended Aug. 8 along with the larger markets, which were buoyed by a surge in the dollar and another plunge in oil prices.
[in Los Angeles Business Journal Online: Law & Courts]

Podcast: Preview the Business Journal

Easy access to the Los Angeles Business Journal podcast is available from a link at the upper right corner of the home page. Click the standing link there, or here, to hear Editor Charles Crumpley provide highlights from the August 11 edition.
[in Los Angeles Business Journal Online: Law & Courts]

Court a Costly Resort in Protection of Patents

The only sure thing about defending a patent in court is the hefty legal bill.
[in Los Angeles Business Journal Online: Law & Courts]

MGA Seeks Mistrial Ruling

MGA Entertainment Inc. filed a request in Riverside federal court Tuesday, asking a judge to grant its request for a mistrial in the company�?s legal battle with Mattel Inc. over the popular Bratz dolls.
[in Los Angeles Business Journal Online: Law & Courts]