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Yakima police captain's demotion overturned after arbitrator's ruling
A Yakima police captain who was demoted to sergeant last year while pursuing a lawsuit against the city has been reinstated with back pay by an arbitrator. Teamsters Local 760, which represents YPD lieutenants and captains, filed a grievance after Capt
Updated: 05/25/2011 02:12A
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP > JMBM Development Rights Newsletter
Sunnyvale should be considered as a logical extension of case law regarding the proper baseline for CEQA analysis and the end of the future baseline scenario as the only basis of a traffic impact analysis. Prior to Sunnyvale, an accepted practice of
Updated: 05/25/2011 02:12A
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice > Jim Lennon Quoted In National Broadcasting
Womble Carlyle attorney Jim Lennon is quoted in a current news article in Radio Business Report/TV Business Report about a patent infringement lawsuit against hundreds of US radio stations. Mission Abstract Data, LLC is suing the stations,
Updated: 05/25/2011 02:12A
Husband of man killed by bus files wrongful-death lawsuit
The husband of a man killed by a Muni bus on Mission Street last year has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the transit agency. Scott Whitsett, a 49-year-old San Francisco resident, was killed on April 21, 2010, after being struck by a 14-Mission
Updated: 05/25/2011 02:12A
Infineon to Appeal Trial Court Decision in Patent Litigation against Volterra
However, Infineon has been working diligently toward appealing the ruling ever since the trial court's overbroad interpretation of the patents' scope last year. The appeal will be to the United States Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit,
Updated: 05/25/2011 02:12A
Iannes sue DA for lack of action
Attorney Randy Jorgensen filed the lawsuit on behalf of Russell and Arlene Ianne, parents of Anthony "Tony" Ianne. It accuses the district attorney of acting in an arbitrary, capricious and unjustified fashion for declining to prosecute Tony Panariso
Updated: 05/25/2011 02:11A
MPs debate Tees Valley Rail Transport
It was no accident that the Tees Valley local enterprise partnership was quickly established, as a similar body already existed. Despite the substantial population, the area has a slight identity crisis. It is often referred to as a city region by
Updated: 05/25/2011 02:11A
Khodorkovsky derides Russian reforms
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed Russian oil tycoon, has derided efforts by the president, Dmitry Medvedev, to improve the rule of law in the country, saying reform is futile as long as his controversial guilty verdict remains in
Updated: 05/25/2011 02:11A
Troubled market creates generation of renters
Many of the new renters are former owners who lost homes to foreclosure or bankruptcy. For others who could afford one, a home now feels too costly, too risky or unlikely to appreciate enough to make it a worthwhile investment.
Updated: 05/25/2011 02:11A
Mubarak to face trial for deaths of protesters
The charge sheet against Mubarak said he “conspired with the former security chief and other senior police officers – already on trial in a criminal court – to commit premeditated murder, along with attempted murder of those who participated in the
Updated: 05/25/2011 02:11A