June 13, 2011 Santa Barbara Independent - By Tyler Hayden Attorney Says Deputy at Fault for 2009 Accident Involving DUI Driver Judge James Brown decided earlier this month to let a wrongful-death lawsuit against Santa Barbara County and the Sheriff's Department proceed to trial. The complaint, in short, accuses a deputy dispatched to chase a DUI motorist speeding down the [ More... ]
May 14, 2011 8:09 AM Leila Noēl, a partner in the Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noēl LLP, was named by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals as one of top 75 women lawyers in California. Ms. Noēl, who works in lender liability, complex business litigation and catastrophic personal injury cases, is the only attorney from [ More... ]
Leila J. Noël, partner with the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP, was named one of the "Top 75 Women Lawyers" in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals. Noël was the only attorney selected from Santa Barbara County or surrounding counties (Ventura and San Luis Obispo). The list of top attorneys was released [ More... ]
May 12, 2011 LOS ANGELES, CALIF.--MGA Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based toymaker best known for its Bratz product line, filed a lawsuit against several large European banks over their alleged concealment of accounting fraud at French toymaker Smoby prior to MGA's purchase of the company. Because the banks manipulated Smoby's internal finances, the lawsuit says MGA now stands to lose as [ More... ]
Posted By JON PRIOR On March 24, 2011 A Los Angeles Superior Court jury ruled against Wells Fargo (WFC [1]: 32.02 +1.52%) Thursday in a mortgage discrimination case, awarding borrowers $3.5 million. The class-action lawsuit alleged the bank knowingly discriminated against borrowers in minority neighborhoods. As a result, borrowers were charged more for their loans than those in predominately white [ More... ]
Amanda Bronstad March 24, 2011 A jury has awarded $3.52 million in damages to a class of Los Angeles homeowners who sued Wells Fargo & Co. for lending discrimination. Leila Noël The class members had alleged that Wells Fargo discriminated in its lending practices so that borrowers in predominantly minority neighborhoods were forced to pay more. On March [ More... ]
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.--After a three-month trial, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury returned a $3,520,000 lending discrimination verdict today against Wells Fargo Bank. (Opal Jones, et. al v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, et. al Los Angeles Superior Court, Case No. BC337821) The class action lawsuit alleged the bank consistently and knowingly discriminated against borrowers in minority [ More... ]
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (Nov. 15, 2010)--Jury selection begins this week in Los Angeles Superior Court in a lending discrimination class action against Wells Fargo Bank. Class members are loan customers in minority communities in Los Angeles. Plaintiffs' counsel will be arguing that Wells Fargo consistently and knowingly discriminated against borrowers in minority neighborhoods, resulting in these borrowers paying more for [ More... ]
IRVINE, CALIF. (Oct. 11, 2010)--United Studios of Self Defense (USSD) filed a cross-complaint (October 7, 2010) against six former USSD executives and others, as well as their new company, Z-Ultimate Self Defense Studios, charging them with breach of fiduciary duty, constructive fraud, conspiracy, misappropriation of trade secrets, trademark infringement and breach of written contract related to their attempt to take [ More... ]
A class action is a lawsuit that one or more individuals bring on behalf of themselves and all other individuals who may have the same legal claim against a corporation or other entity.
