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Bellevue gym in Chapter 11
Club Ventures has filed a motion asking the court to allow it to operate its business with minimal interuption. JEANNE LANG JONES covers commercial real estate for the Puget Sound Business Journal. Phone: 206-876-5426 | Email: jlj@bizjournals.com.
Updated: 03/09/2011 05:02P
Online commentary: Hispanic leaders must step up against attacks on immigrants
And yet in communities around the United States, Hispanics find themselves targeted by the bigotry and xenophobia that swirl around the issues of immigration and the treatment of undocumented individuals and families. In Michigan, state Rep.
Updated: 03/09/2011 05:00P
Clerk-recorder legal expenses reach $350K
Supervisors agreed to spend another $100000 Tuesday to defend a lawsuit from Auburn software firm AtPac, drawing the ire of local Tea Party members. Clad in crimson TPP apparel, more than 15 group members showed up to protest the supervisors' decision
Updated: 03/09/2011 05:00P
AtPac lawsuit: The story so far
When the county hired Aptitude Solutions, it signed an indemnity agreement with the firm, agreeing to pay the cost of defending the software provider in the event of a lawsuit. To save money, the county also agreed that Cypress would represent it in
Updated: 03/09/2011 05:00P
Remembering Notorious BIG
Fourteen years ago in Los Angeles, Smalls was fatally shot while he was riding in car near the Peterson Automotive Museum. At one point his mother Voletta Wallace (pictured above) filed a lawsuit accusing the LAPD of covering up police involvement in
Updated: 03/09/2011 05:00P
Woman's Suit Over MTV's 'Real World' Videos Survives Legal Hurdle
Her suit [.pdf] in Washington's federal trial court claims invasion of privacy and emotional distress. She is seeking more than $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Lawyers for Viacom allege Amirmotazedi was not intoxicated when she signed
Updated: 03/09/2011 04:59P
Rowan to be sentenced Tuesday
Rowanis currently being held in the Sherburne County Jail for violating court orders not to spending or transferring money that belonged to the bankruptcy estate. Prosecutors say she spent more than $9000 in gift cards that Hecker had been ordered to
Updated: 03/09/2011 04:58P
Rowan to be sentenced Tuesday
Rowanis currently being held in the Sherburne County Jail for violating court orders not to spending or transferring money that belonged to the bankruptcy estate. Prosecutors say she spent more than $9000 in gift cards that Hecker had been ordered to
Updated: 03/09/2011 04:58P
Father of US student awaits Spain autopsy results; authorities say may take weeks
Larry Bice said it has been frustrating because Spanish police have not been forthcoming with their information, but he trusted they were being "diligent" in their investigation. In Spanish cases in which investigations determine that no one else had a
Updated: 03/09/2011 04:58P
American Apparel CEO held teen as sex slave - lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Apparel Inc founder and chief executive Dov Charney is being sued for $250 million by a woman who said he treated her as a sex slave when she was a teenage sales employee at the clothing chain.
Updated: 03/09/2011 04:57P