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Texas oil giants Valero Energy Inc. and Tesoro Corp. won approval Tuesday for a ballot initiative that would overturn California’s 2006 groundbreaking global warming law to limit greenhouse emissions from cars, refineries and other contributors.

In times like these, when job applications come in by the reams for single openings, forcing new hires to forgo legal rights for the sake of a paycheck is just plain coercive. And wrong.

Sam Zell is scheduled to be deposed Monday, June 28, in New York City.

County elections officials are still tabulating, but as of early this morning Assembly Mike Villines of Clovis, who had been trailing, overtook political unknown Brian FitzGerald. But the margin remained sliver-thin at 2,746 votes and could still change.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal in the case of a Canadian man who was told he can’t sue after being detained on American soil on erroneous suspicions of terrorism ties, then spirited away to Syria, where he was tortured.

In his Oval Office speech to the nation tonight, President Obama is expected to lay out his plan to demand BP establish an escrow account for people and businesses harmed by the devastating Gulf Oil disaster.

This is will be interesting to watch. The Los Angeles Business Journal this morning looks at a spate of class-action lawsuits accusing LegalZoom, the online form-supplier to do-it-yourselfers, of offering legal services without a license.