Government,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
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Dec. 9, 2021
Attorney’s unheeded warnings on LA water bill case now vindicated
“In some sense, it’s nice to hear that I was right all along, but I remain very troubled by the broken process and the fact that all of this happened when it was completely unnecessary,” said Timothy G. Blood of Blood Hurst & O’Reardon LLP
For years San Diego attorney Timothy G. Blood called, wrote to and pleaded with judges and officials to investigate a settlement in an overbilling class action filed against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, but he was ignored and ridiculed.
The settlement he questioned is now at the center of a litigation scandal that in the last two weeks has led to one lawyer and a former utility head pleading guilty to federal bribery char...
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