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Home Page Lawsuits Filed A former employee of the San Francisco NikeTown Store has filed a wages and overtime class action complaint against Nike alleging that the sporting goods manufacturer failed to compensate him for overtime, meals and rest breaks as well as any additions shifts he worked. The employment lawsuit was filed by Webster Proctor, on behalf of himself and behalf of others similarly situated. According to the complaint Proctor was employed by Nike from approximately April 2010 until approximately May 2011. Read full article…

Lawyers for convicted cop killer Marco Antonio Topete have produced a statement from a Yolo County juror challenging assertions that a juror dismissed from death-penalty deliberations in the case for her limited understanding of English had any problems with the language.

Instead, Juror No. 6 whose name is redacted in court files said in his statement to defense investigators that the dismissed Juror No. 11 is an educated woman who worked on crossword puzzles during breaks and held numerous conversations with him in English, without problem.

Her difficulty, he said, was that she disagreed with other jurors about whether Topete deserved the death penalty for gunning down Yolo County Sheriff’s Deputy Jose Antonio Diaz after a car chase in June 2008.

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The city of San Jose is offering an olive branch to the Occupiers.

If members of the group agree not to set up tents on the City Hall plaza for the next two years, the city will drop all civil charges against them.

That’s the essence of the “civil compromise” sent Monday by Senior Deputy City Attorney Shannon Smyth-Mendoza to Occupiers who were cited for city code violations during the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in early October and ended late last month. The city violations include trespassing, setting up a chair or structure on city plaza property and staying at the plaza after 11 p.m.

City Attorney Rick Doyle said there are about a dozen people eligible for this compromise.

“It’s a fair result,” he said.

Daniel Mayfield, an attorney who has offered to help the loose-knit group, said that he knows of three Occupiers who have already signed the compromise.

“This is the best deal in the world,” Mayfield said.

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Andrew Breitbart, the right wing extremist posing as a media mogul, actually got someone fired who deserved it Instead of Shirley Sherrod or hundreds of thousands of ACORN workers losing their jobs, Chris Barron is about to “step down” as Chairman of GOProud, after they outed a Rick Perry operative

Jewelry from the late Elizabeth Taylor sells for $115 million “Part of the proceeds will go to The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, which she established in 1991 to help people living with AIDS”

Time Magazine names “The Protester” as “Person of Year” What do you think? Good choice?

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Five years after a controversial indoor smoking ban went into effect, nearly $2 million remains unpaid in the state from businesses fined for violating the law.

Despite enforcement efforts of the Smoke-Free Workplace Act — being challenged in Ohio Supreme Court by a Columbus bar saying it’s unconstitutional — less than half of fines have been collected from businesses that allowed smoking after the ban went into place on Dec. 7, 2006.

In Butler County, more than $100,000 from fines have not been collected by the state health department.

Businesses statewide have been fined more than $2.74 million since enforcement began in early 2007, but more than $1.82 million is still owed as of Dec. 5, ac

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