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Property disclosure ranks high among real estate legal disputesLos Angeles TimesIf the latest edition of "Legal Scan" tells us anything, it is that a handful of agents and brokers and their clients either don't know the law or don't care to follow it. "Legal Scan" is a biennial research report by the National Assn. of [...]

Los Angeles Times South Korea security law is used to silence dissent, critics sayLos Angeles TimesAfter five interrogation sessions, Park, a member of the local Socialist Party branch, was arrested last month on suspicion of "praising and supporting an enemy of the state" in violation ofSouth Korea'sstrict National Security Law.and more » View full post on [...]

Decades-Old Law, Even Older Technology Led to Mark Berndt ArrestNBC Los AngelesBy Jonathan Lloyd The portion of the law that led to the arrest of an ex-teacher charged with felony child molestation involving 23 students at Miramonte Elementary School was adopted at a time when film cameras were the norm and digital cameras were …and [...]

BROOKLYN, NY – In an opinion made available on Jan. 30, a federal judge in New York overseeing a securities class action lawsuit against a health care provider and certain of its executive officers named the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System (LACERS) as lead plaintiff, ruling that the shareholder meets all statutory requirements for [...]

Los Angeles Times Health law delivers $2.1 billion in savings on drugs for seniorsLos Angeles TimesBy Noam N. Levey In the first full year of the new healthcare law, 3.6 million people in the government Medicare program saved $2.1 billion on prescription drugs in 2011, the Obama administration announced Thursday. The savings are one of [...]

Los Angeles Times New health law delivers $2.1 billion in Medicare savings on drugsLos Angeles TimesBy Noam N. Levey In the first full year of the new healthcare law, 3.6 million people in the government Medicare program saved $2.1 billion on prescription drugs in 2011, the Obama administration announced Thursday. The savings are one of [...]

Los Angeles Times Indiana enacts 'right to work' lawLos Angeles TimesMitch Daniels signs legislation making Indiana the 23rd state with a 'right to work' law, which allows workers to avoid paying union dues. Opponents say they will try to repeal it. Steelworker Rob Parson joins others in singing the national anthem …Indiana governor signs right-to-work [...]

CBS Local Indiana will become first Rust Belt state with right-to-work lawLos Angeles TimesMitch Daniels on Wednesday is set to make his state the first in the Rust Belt — once the home of powerful unions — to have a right-to-work law. The measure received final legislative passage Wednesday morning, and Daniels was expected to [...]

CBC.ca Copyrights: Legal hurdles to retrieving files from MegauploadLos Angeles TimesBut there are a host of legal and technical issues that remain to be addressed. For starters, if a Megaupload file is copyrighted, how can the company make sure that the person who claims it has the right to download a copy? The answer may [...]

LA County supervisors violated open meeting laws, DA saysLos Angeles TimesBy Jason Song and Garrett Therolf, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles County supervisors violated the law last fall when they held a closed-door meeting with Gov. Jerry Brown to discuss a controversial plan to give local governments responsibility for …and more » View full post on [...]