California

The American Riviera S anta Barbara, for me, is like a beautiful woman: I didn't realize just how beautiful she was until I done left her. I grew up in Santa Barbara, but it wasn't until leaving and traveling the world that I came to realize how spoiled I had been living in one of the world's most beautiful cities. Santa Barbara takes it's name from the Spanish mission church--called "the Queen of the Missions" for its elegant beauty--built by the Franciscans in the 18th century. Its...Read Full Story

Amid allegations of breached ethics rules and conflicts of interest, Los Angeles Superior Court Hon. William F. Highberger was recently asked to consider additional matters relating to the approval of the settlement in the case of Benjamin Fogel v Farmers Group. As a service to the community, we shall publish* the communication, below: Hon. William F. Highberger, who presides over the case of Benjamin Fogel v Farmers Group.  Judge Highberger is part of the Los Angeles Superior Court Complex...Read Full Story

Sacramento-based  Pacific Legal Foundation President Robin Rivett, as well as staff-attorneys Meriem Hubbard and James Burling have been publicly asked by TLR to opine on events relating to CAUSE's Ming Chin and Judy Johnson's CCPF (Image:courtesy PLF) California Supreme Court Associate-Justice Ming W. Chin and CAUSE   As was previously reported, Supreme Court of California Associate Justice Ming W. Chin has abruptly quit his position recently with the Center for Asian Americans United for...Read Full Story

Contending that Howard Rice's Jerome Falk, acting as Special Prosecutor on behalf of the State Bar of California, repeatedly sought to subvert justice by failing to disclose that those he was suppose to prosecute (Thomas Girardi of Girardi & Keese and Walter Lack of Engstrom Lipscomb & Lack) were actually his and his firm's clients, sources familiar with the situation claim plans are underway to seek the disbarment of Girardi, Lack and Falk. In a letter to Jerome Falk and the Board of...Read Full Story

Linnea Lomax, age 19 has been missing since June 26, 2012!The father of a 19-year-old UC Davis student from Placerville says he hopes that the transfer of her missing persons case from authorities in Sacramento County to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday will bring new energy to the search."It's always a worry, will my daughter get left out because she falls between jurisdictional cracks," said Craig Lomax.His daughter, Linnea Lomax, went missing on June 26 when she left a...Read Full Story