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New Los Angeles County Policy: Keep Lawsuit Settlements Confidential

Loaded on April 15, 2008 published in Prison Legal News April, 2008, page 44
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Settlements, Disclosure of Records. Location: California.
Lawyers for Los Angeles (L.A.) County have ceased making public their internal memos recommending settlements on major lawsuits against the county because they fear that this information is only encouraging attorneys in other lawsuits to arbitrarily increase their settlement demands. Attorneys have been bootstrapping their demands for new settlements onto ...

 

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