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[03/09] Los Angeles World Airports Receives Award of Excellence for Use of Environmentally Friendly Concrete
[03/09] Habitat for Humanity of Tennessee Hits 3,000 House Milestone
[03/09] CRIC Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results

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Corporate Finance

[03/10] Psychiatric Solutions shares rise on buyout report
[03/10] CVS Caremark declares quarterly dividend
[03/10] Qwest tenders $959.5M of notes by early deadline

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[03/10] Barker donates $2.5 million to create PETA offices
[03/09] Habitat for Humanity of Tennessee Hits 3,000 House Milestone
[03/09] University of Illinois Private Residence Hall Locks in Housing Cost for Four Years

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Probate Trusts

Probate Trusts

[02/25] Conservatorship of John L.
In a petition to establish a conservatorship of a person pursuant to the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, the judgment of the court of appeal is affirmed where: 1) the superior court did not violate the LPS Act when it excused the individual's production and proceeded without him in attendance at a hearing to establish a conservatorship of his person; and 2) the superior court did not violate his due process rights.

[02/25] Donahue v. Donahue
Trial court's order, charging a trust with some $5 million in past and ongoing attorney fees incurred on behalf of a former trustee in defending against the beneficiary's allegations of self-dealing and conflict of interest is reversed as it cannot be determined from the trial court's order whether the fee awards are consistent with applicable legal principles. Long-established principles of trust law impose a double-barreled reasonableness requirement where: 1) the fee award must be reasonable in amount and reasonably necessary to the conduct of litigation; and 2) it also must be reasonable and appropriate for the benefit of the trust.

[02/11] Estate of Tolman
Denial of a granddaughter's petition to determine persons entitled to distribution from her grandmother's estate is affirmed as the exclusion of unmentioned heirs or relatives from the will's dispositions, or an intent to disinherit those who contest those dispositions, does not sufficiently express or manifest an intent to arrest the operation of the anti-lapse law following a legatee's death.

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