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Trial Results / Case Highlights

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• Chong v. LACMTA Plaintiff settled at the beginning of trial for $40,000, after claiming 120K in medical expenses and demanding $500,000 at mediation.
  Thomas J. Griffin
• Leone v. Williams, et al. Result: Motion for Summary Judgment/Adjudication granted Facts: The plaintiff in this Nevada case, who was a Las Vegas blackjack dealer, bought two houses hoping to “flip” them. The housing market crashed soon after his purchases, and he subsequently sued the persons and entities involved in the transactions, including real estate agents and brokers, mortgage brokers, […]
  Larry R. Nelson
• Lee v. Greenridge LCF Association Plaintiffs claimed that a leak in the homeowners’ association’s pressurized irrigation line leaked in November 2005, and that the leak continued for several days. As a result, they claimed that the masonry pool deck, garage, and interior of their upscale home in La Cañada-Flintridge were all damaged from the leak. Plaintiffs contended that the irrigation […]
• Jacobsen v. Overley This was a defamation case where we provided a defense for the CEO of an advertising agency. Plaintiff had alleged that a defamatory email had been forwarded by our client to his sales reps and this had caused her damages including the inability to work in the advertising business in the future. Our client had […]
  Larry R. Nelson & Frederic. T. Tanner
• Mathias-Patterson v. Mantra Films We provided a defense for the CEO of the entertainment company responsible for the highly successful and popular Girls Gone Wild videos, who is a frequent target of lawsuits in most cases due to his notoriety and nature of his business. In this lawsuit, a party planner/location scout for parties filed a lawsuit against the […]
  Larry R. Nelson & Frederic. T. Tanner
• Coffey v. Paul In this matter, Plaintiff, a very successful executive producer behind children’s TV shows: “Rugrats,” “Ren & Stimpy” and “Doug” was claiming extraordinary damages resulting from water leaks to her Marina del Rey, CA home following an extensive remodeling from 1999-2001. In addition to damage to the home, plaintiff alleged loss of income and health problems […]
  Larry R. Nelson & Frederic. T. Tanner
• (Elderly woman) vs. LACMTA Plaintiff, an elderly woman, sideswiped a bus which she claimed pulled from a bus stop into traffic without warning. The bus operator claimed that the bus was sitting still in its lane of travel on a busy San Fernando Valley street, next to the parking lane, at the time of the collision. There were no […]
• (Plaintiff) v. LACMTA Plaintiff, a 78 year-old woman, sideswiped the left rear bumper of a bus on a busy Los Angeles street. She claimed that the bus operator pulled out from the curb into her path. She produced a witness, a paralegal who worked in the neighborhood who was walking to lunch, who supported her account of the […]