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11 Citation Federal Court of Appeals Determines That A Broader Relevant Market Study, Not Just Past LHWCA Awards, Is In Order. The Ninth Circuit recently decided two decisions that will likely result in higher hourly rates in the lodestar analysis for practitioners submitting fee recovery requests in LHWCA cases, a result that follows from a past decision that seems to countenance a boost in hourly rates for FDCPA practitioners. In the companion cases of Christensen v. Stevedoring Services of Ameri, technorati.com
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Winner of Collaboration Prize Announced: It's a Tie! 1 Citation Somehow it seems appropriate that the nation's first nonprofit collaboration prize would result in a tie with the two finalists sharing the $250,000 cash prize. The Lodestar Foundation and the AIM Alliance announced yesterday that they had chosen both the..., technorati.com
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FEHA: 25% Of Requested Fees Awarded Based On Apportionment 1 Citation Second District, Division 3 Sustains Application of Negative Multiplier Based on Plaintiff Prevailing On Only One of Four Claims. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act, Government Code section 12900 et seq. (FEHA), has a mandatory fee-shifting provision for prevailing plaintiffs. (Gov. Code, sec. 12965(b).) Nonetheless, it is tempered by mandating only awards of reasonable fees and costs in the discretion of the trial court. This means that the lower court can either enhance or redu, technorati.com
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Shakespeare on Risk: Anything New Under the Sun? 1 Citation "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. "William Shakespeare From Julius Caesar And you thought this economic crises was personal? Since Shakespeare spoke about similar challenges as those we face today 500 years ago, no less grand and world changing than today, technorati.com
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1 Citation Happy Valentine's Day! Our month long contest of love has concluded and a random drawing of all the posts (and there were 264!) was completed and Ronnie Tucker of Biddy Brain Workshop has won the gift basket! Congratulations to Ronnie and thank you to all who entered. We thoroughly enjoyed showing you our Valentine themed products and explaining a little about them. We hope you enjoyed reading about them and we invite you to come visit us again. We have lots of cool things planned for our blog, technorati.com
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1 Citation First District, Division 4 Rejects Plaintiff?s Bid To Capture Full $272,581.10 in Fees That Were Incurred, Applying a Negative Multipler Instead. Plaintiff Tanzel won a facial constitutional attack and preemption challenge to a Richmond ordinance authorizing the city to seize and forfeit vehicles used to solicit prostitution or to buy drugs. In a prior appellate opinion sustaining the win, the panel did acknowledge it was ?not writing on a tabula rasa, as all of the important legal iss, technorati.com
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Paul Brest, Pres., William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Advocates Good Nonprofit Mergers 1 Citation Another foundation leader was recently quoted as advocating for nonprofit mergers during these tough financial times. In an interview with Philanthropy News Digest, Paul Brest, president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation was asked, "What is your view of..., technorati.com
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New Year?s Eve here tops the Big Apple 1 Citation New Year?s Eve at Guymon?s Hitch Arena rodeo building: Theirs is some six feet in diameter; Guymon?s is more than 10. Theirs comes with no heat, Guymon?s comes with real fire barrels and even a building. Theirs is only an outdoor event, Guymon?s is both indoors and outdoors, so you can come and go in and out as you please. After several years of brutal weather, this year?s New Year?s Eve ball drop offers a building to house the band and serve as a warming hut. Free foods come with your ticket, technorati.com
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And the Semi-Finalists Are...Lodestar Foundation Announces 8 Finalists for Collaboration Prize 1 Citation This is an update to an earlier entry I wrote about The Collaboration Prize, being offered jointly by the Lodestar Foundation and the Arizona-Indiana-Michigan Alliance (AIM). This unique competition will award a cash prize of $250,000 to the best nonprofit..., technorati.com
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1 Citation Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development On Wednesday, March 11th, Ear Candy visited Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development and donated the essential pieces of a music program (drums, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, and trumpet). Their downtown drop-in center services over 200 homeless youth in a year!!!! We are building incentives to help these youth get off the street, build a foundation, and get back into action. The music program will provide inspiration, bui, technorati.com
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