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Let loose the hounds of legal justice, the class-action attorneys who will take on the corporate cheats, the ones who have been lying to investors depending on their investments for their retirement. Many Wall Street companies have been trying to bury – to keep out of sight of their investors – their home loan failures. […]

Under the modern view expressed by a majority of jurisdictions, including California, the effect of anticipated inflation is a proper factor to be considered by the jury in arriving at an award for damages for future losses. As early as 1948, California law approved consideration of inflation as a matter of economic reality. In Kircher […]

When you stop your employer from stealing from the U.S.Government, the False Claims Acts of both the United States and California recognize your significant contribution to honest, decent conduct by providing major rewards – incentives for you to do what is right and to encourage citizens to come forward to protect the government from cheats […]

First published in 1978 10 Southwestern University Law Review 13-33 [1978] I. INTRODUCTION Recent Supreme Court decisions in United States v. Bisceglia,[1] California Bankers Association v. Schultz,[2] and United States v. Miller [3] create concern about the intrusion of government into areas of personal and financial affairs in which citizens have had some expectation of […]

INTRODUCTION In Singh v. ERA (Santa Clara County) two pedestrians were struck by a vehicle operated by a real estate agent in the course of business. The agent’s broker was a franchisee of a nationwide real estate firm. The broker had insufficient coverage to satisfy the plaintiffs’ damages and absent a recovery against the nationally […]