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Attorney fees that are taken from the amount of the settlement are limited. The plaintiff's attorneys cannot receive more than 40% of the first $50,000 recovered; 33-1/3% of the next $50,000 recovered; 25% of the next $500,000 recovered; and 15% of any amount recovered in excess of $600,000.
The U.S. Constitution takes priority over the California constitution so courts may still be obliged to exclude evidence under the federal Bill of Rights. In practice the law prevented the California courts from interpreting the state constitution so as to impose an exclusionary rule more strict than that required by the federal constitution. [3]
The policy is designed to get private insurers to take back much of the coverage now handled by California FAIR. The rules will require that insurers need to write policies in fire-prone areas ...
Proposition 28 is a California ballot measure that was approved by California voters at the statewide election on June 5, 2012. It was an initiative constitutional amendment to change California state legislature term limits from a limit of 8 years for the Senate and 6 years for the Assembly , to a limit of 12 years on combined service.
Starting in the 1970s, California began to slowly phase out the use of justice courts (in which non-lawyers were authorized by statute to preside as judges) after a landmark 1974 decision in which the Supreme Court of California unanimously held that it was a violation of due process to allow a non-lawyer to preside over a criminal trial which ...
If finalized, the rule can help protect consumers from harmful exposure to asbestos, leading to fewer illnesses such as lung and ovarian cancers, the health regulator said. CONTEXT
31.3 percent are continuing distributions in keeping with their normal spending rule; 26.8 percent are suspending distributions from funds at or below HDV; 15.6 percent are making distributions from underwater funds at some rate less than their normal spending rule by yielding more than interest and dividends
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump criticized Ukraine's use of U.S.-supplied missiles for attacks deep into Russian territory in a Time magazine interview published on Thursday, comments that ...