Judge Lawrence W. Stirling (ret.) of counsel to Adams Kessler PLC and co-author of the Davis-Stirling Act will be a keynote speaker of an educational program Tuesday, September 7, 2010 hosted by the Orange County chapter of The Community Associations Institute. The topic will be "State of the Industry…Past, Present & Future." Judge Stirling will be speaking on the origin, history and purpose of the Davis-Stirling Act.

While serving in the California Legislature, then Assembly Member Larry Stirling co-authored the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, a bill sponsored by Professor Katherine Rosenberry. The Act created the body of law that now governs all community associations in California.

In addition to co-authoring the Act which bears his name and 200 other pieces of legislation, Larry Stirling has authored two books: Leading at a Higher Level, a book on public administration reform, and Asked and Answered, a book on practical courtroom evidence.

He served four terms as Assemblyman for the 77th District and then as a State Senator.  He was appointed to the Municipal Court and then elevated to the Superior Court.  Mr. Stirling received his Bachelors degree in Political Science from San Diego State University and graduated from Western States University School of Law.

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John David Hart of the Law Offices of John David Hart in Fort Worth, Texas today announced the launch of the firm's new website that has been designed to provide visitors with greater information and more interactive features.  The new site can still be reached at www.hartlaw.com.

"This new website will allow us to reach more people with more information," John David Hart said in announcing the new site's launch.  "With the use of video and blogging, we'll be able to speak directly to people about issues in the law.  Of course, there will still be plenty of information about our practice and our services.  So the new site is not only informative, it's interactive, too.  It will empower people with information they need that could help them should they ever be victimized by wrongdoing or neglect."

The new site provides visitors with detailed information on the firm and its various practice areas, ranging from personal injury to truck crashes to oil and gas litigation. But it also provides a blog where John will comment frequently on important topics in the law and in the news.  And it will feature periodic video messages from John about the law.  

The Law Offices of John David Hart is a group of experienced and dedicated legal professionals working to protect the rights of people injured by the acts of others.  Across the country, the firm represents people in cases of catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, dangerous drugs, automobile and truck accidents, workplace injuries, oil and gas litigation and other matters.

For more information, please contact the Law Offices of John David Hart at 817-870-2102 or 800-961-4278 or johnhart@hartlaw.com.

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Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. (NYSE: SKH) announced today that further court proceedings in the case entitled VINNIE LAVENDER, by and through her Conservator, WANDA BAKER; WALTER SIMON; JACQUELYN VILCHINSKY vs. SKILLED HEALTHCARE GROUP, INC., et al (and 22 individually-named California nursing facilities receiving administrative services from Skilled Healthcare, LLC) have been postponed one additional day and are now scheduled to begin on September 3, 2010. Settlement discussions in the case are ongoing.

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About Skilled Healthcare Group

Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc., based in Foothill Ranch, California, is a holding company with subsidiary healthcare services companies, which in the aggregate had trailing twelve month revenue of approximately $768 million and approximately 14,500 employees as of June 30, 2010. Skilled Healthcare Group and its wholly-owned companies, collectively referred to as the "Company", operate long-term care facilities and provide a wide range of post-acute care services, with a strategic emphasis on sub-acute specialty health care. The Company operates long-term care facilities in California, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas, including 79 skilled nursing facilities that offer sub-acute care and rehabilitative and specialty health skilled nursing care, and 22 assisted living facilities that provide room and board and social services. In addition, the Company provides physical, occupational and speech therapy in Company-operated facilities and unaffiliated facilities. Furthermore, the Company provides hospice and home health care in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Montana and New Mexico. References made in this release to "Skilled Healthcare", "the Company", "we", "us" and "our" refer to Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. and each of its wholly-owned companies. More information about Skilled Healthcare is available at its Web site -- www.skilledhealthcaregroup.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release includes "forward-looking statements". You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. These statements contain words such as "may," "will," "project," "might," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "could," "would," "estimate," "continue" or "pursue," or the negative or other variations thereof or comparable terminology. In particular, they include the forward looking statements regarding court proceedings and settlement discussions relating to the Lavender case. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and projections about future events, including the assumptions stated in this release.

Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve risks and uncertainties that cannot be predicted or quantified and, consequently, the actual performance of Skilled Healthcare may differ materially from that expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risk that the parties in the Lavender case do not reach a settlement before the plaintiffs seek to convert the jury verdict to a judgment and the factors described in Skilled Healthcare's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (including the sections entitled "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" contained therein) and in our subsequent reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K.

Any forward-looking statements are made only as of the date of this release. Skilled Healthcare disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.

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Thursday's announcement by a Kent, WA attorney that he has ended his federal lawsuit against the City of Seattle's parks gun ban does not affect the on-going state-court case filed jointly by the Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association.

SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb noted Friday morning that there has been some confusion about the two cases. SAF and NRA were joined by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the Washington Arms Collectors and five individual plaintiffs in their lawsuit, which found the city's parks gun ban to be in violation of state law. That case has been appealed by the city.

"The federal case, as plaintiff Bob Warden noted in his statement, has never been connected to our case," Gottlieb clarified. "The SAF/NRA case, which was filed first and has already won in King County Superior Court, remains very much alive and we are confident that we will prevail in the state court of appeals.

"We respect Mr. Warden's decision to end his challenge of the gun law," he added, "and wish him well."

The two cases had been occasionally confused by local reporters because both challenged the city's illegal city parks gun ban. The SAF/NRA case prevailed because it correctly held the ban violates the state's preemption statute regarding firearms regulation. Warden challenged the ban on state and federal constitutional grounds.

"The state preemption statute is clear," Gottlieb said. "At the end of the day, I anticipate that SAF and NRA, and our fellow plaintiffs, will share a significant victory, one we can all be proud of. Ultimately, of course, our case isn't about declaring victory or taking credit, but about protecting the firearm civil rights of all Washington gun owners."

SAF is currently involved in major legal actions against gun laws in North Carolina, New York, Maryland, Illinois, California, and Washington, D.C. as well as a challenge to a portion of the 1968 federal gun control act. Information about these cases is available at www.saf.org.

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation's oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms.  Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.  

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The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) condemns the Florida Supreme Court's decision yesterday to strike Amendment 9 from the November ballot.  The amendment, modeled after ALEC's Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act, would position the state to wage additional challenges against the federal requirement to purchase health insurance, and would prohibit the state from enacting a state-level, Massachusetts-style mandate if the current federal law is ruled unconstitutional.

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The Florida Supreme Court's ruling supports a lower circuit court decision to remove Amendment 9 from the state's November ballot due to "misleading" language in the ballot's summary. The state appealed this ruling, arguing to simply allow the original language of the entire amendment to be printed instead of the summary text.

"Unfortunately, this judge has taken a technicality and used it to throw out what was a fair and constitutional amendment," said State Representative Nancy Barto from Arizona. "Floridians will not be able to protect their freedom of choice in health care."

ALEC's Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act has been proposed in 42 states, and has already been enacted in statute form by Virginia, Idaho, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, and Missouri. Constitutional amendments will appear on the November ballot in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Arizona, and an active citizen initiative is underway in Mississippi.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is the nation's largest nonpartisan, individual membership organization of state legislators. www.alec.org

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