Pep Boys Dumped Oil For Decades, Calif. Landowner Says

Posted by:

Pep Boys Dumped Oil For Decades, Calif. Landowner Says – By Kali Hays

Law360, New York (February 16, 2016, 4:00 PM ET) — The owner of a California strip mall on Thursday smacked Pep Boys and certain small businesses that formerly operated on the property with a federal suit to hold them responsible for $1 million in cleanup costs resulting from hazardous waste allegedly dumped at and around the site for decades.

Poltis Family LLC, which now owns a set of properties operated as a shopping center in ...

Continue Reading →
0

Otten Law, PC Files Appeal on Behalf Of The Calguns Foundation, Seven Californians Against Attorney General Kamala Harris, DOJ Over Gun Delays

Posted by:

September 12, 2014

Torrance, CA: Today Otten Law, PC filed it’s opening brief in the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fifth Appellate District in the matter of Daniel Schoepf, et al. vs. Kamala Harris, et. al. The case was filed last year to compel the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to follow the law regarding the amount of time that it has to conduct a background check for the purchaser of a firearm. Because the lawsuit forced the DOJ ...

Continue Reading →
1

Federal Court Decides 10-day Waiting Period Laws Violate Second Amendment Rights

Posted by:

ROSEVILLE, CA (August 25, 2014)

California’s 10-day waiting period for gun purchases was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge this morning in a significant victory for Second Amendment rights. The laws were challenged by California gun owners Jeffrey Silvester and Brandon Combs, as well as two gun rights groups, The Calguns Foundation and Second Amendment Foundation. Attorneys Victor Otten of Torrance, Jason Davis of Mission Viejo, and Don Kilmer of San Jose represented the Plaintiffs.

In the ...

Continue Reading →
0

Federal District Court Denies California Attorney General Kamala Harris’s Motion For Summary Adjudication; Paving The Way For A Constitutional Challenge To Certain Aspects Of California’s Waiting Period Laws

Posted by:

On December 23, 2011, The Calguns Foundation, The Second Amendment Foundation and several individual plaintiffs filed suit against the California Attorney General Kamala Harris challenging the mandatory 10-day waiting period for a firearm as an infringement of the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, as it applies to individuals who have been found qualified to, and have, purchased firearms in the past. The lawsuit does not challenge the 10-day waiting period for those individuals that have not purchased ...

Continue Reading →
4

California Supreme Court Rules Local Governments To Turn Over Mapping Data

Posted by:

On July 8, 2013, the Supreme Court of California decided local government must turn over computer mapping data without charging excessive fees.

The decision involved an appeal by the Sierra Club, which was charged $375,000 by Orange County for a mapping database of 640,000 land parcels that were in geographic information system (“GIS”) format and can be read by most mapping software.

The case, which took six years to make its way through the courts, included an Amicus Brief submitted by Otten ...

Continue Reading →
0

Otten & Joyce, LLP Files Suit On Behalf Of The Calguns Foundation, 7 Californians Against Attorney General Kamala Harris, DOJ Over Gun Delays

Posted by:

SAN CARLOS, CA – The Calguns Foundation filed a lawsuit on behalf of seven California residents today against Attorney General Kamala Harris, the California Department of Justice, and DOJ Bureau of Firearms Chief Stephen Lindley. The case challenges the DOJ’s policy of requiring some firearm purchasers to prove their legal standing to take possession of acquired firearms and forcing them to wait beyond the statutory 10-day waiting period.

One plaintiff in the case, Daniel Schoepf of Long Beach, California, was denied ...

Continue Reading →
0

Victor Otten to Speak on C.E.Q.A. and Public Records Act – Loyola Law School – March 30th 2013

Posted by:

Victor J Otten, Senior Partner at Otten and Joyce, LLP  in Torrance, CA will be speaking on the panel of the Environmental Law Series – CEQA, NEPA & Open Government – at Loyola Law School on Saturday March 30th, 2013

Part six of the series is titled “Workshop VI:  CEQA, NEPA & Open Government”. Mr. Otten will be speaking on The California Environmental Quality Act and Public Records Act.. 

There is no charge to attend but reservations are recommended.

RSVP to: Dean Walraff at dw@aenv.org

WHAT: Environmental ...

Continue Reading →
0
Page 2 of 3 123