The settlement between Major League Baseball and Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt didn’t resolve all their differences. Baseball Commissioner Allan “Bud” Selig now wants the league’s $7.6 million in legal bills and costs paid for by the team before it emerges from bankruptcy.
Jamie McCourt, ex-wife of Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, is fighting to ensure that she is one of the first people in line to get paid following the $2 billion sale of the baseball team to a group of investors led by former Los Angeles Lakers star Magic Johnson and Chicago’s Guggenheim Partners.
A Los Angeles company that ships fine art for Christie’s auction house has filed a malicious prosecution claim against former attorneys for Georges Marciano, co-founder of Guess, alleging “meritless, corrupt and false allegations” that the shipping company stole millions of dollars of Marciano’s artwork.
A divided 9th Circuit has junked the 22-year sentence imposed on the “millennium bomber” and sent the decade-old case back for a presumably harsher sentence. The sentence for Algerian national Ahmed Ressam, who was convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport, was “substantively” unreasonable, the court said.
The former managing partner of The Cochran Firm’s Los Angeles office has sued two colleagues, accusing them of ousting him from the office and claiming that he has suffered thousands of dollars in damages.