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Judicial Profile

Judge Edward Moreton, a swimmer, finds rhythm, fairness lap after lap

Edward B. Moreton Jr.
Los Angeles County Superior Court

ADR Profile

Breaking bread breaks the ice

Harris E. Weinberg
ADR Services, Inc.

2025-09-15

MCLE

Accentuate the objective: Rethinking bias in California's courtrooms

Sep. 12, 2025

California's CCP §231.7 and the Racial Justice Act adopt ...

By Brian M. Hoffstadt

Uber's assault on civil justice: a play out of the corporate intimidation playbook

Sep. 10, 2025

Uber is weaponizing federal RICO lawsuits against persona...

By P. Christopher Ardalan

Differences between collaborative courts and diversion for veterans

Sep. 9, 2025

In California, veterans facing criminal charges may recei...

By Eileen C. Moore




Today's News

LA Fires, Civil Litigation


Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Samantha P. Jessner has authorized plaintiffs in the Palisades Fire litigation to file a master complaint on behalf o...


Labor/Employment, Administrative/Regulatory


Senior U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully in ordering the mass firing of probationary fe...


Immigration


AB 495, allowing parents facing deportation to designate emergency caregivers for children, passed the California Legislature despite fierce opposition from ...


Entertainment & Sports


A federal judge in Sacramento signaled approval of a settlement resolving claims by former Division I baseball coaches who said the NCAA's decades-long ban o...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Refugee admissions halt reinstated by 9th Circuit

Sep. 16, 2025
By Craig Anderson

While the panel majority said the government is likely to prevail, it required agencies to continue services for refugees already admitted.


Real Estate/Development


After more than 20 years of legal battles, developer Shahram Ghalili has agreed to demolish five unpermitted hillside homes in Laurel Canyon under a plea dea...


Columns

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Bilingual mediation: More than words

Sep. 16, 2025
By Patricia Garcia, Dalila Corral Lyons

Bilingual mediators who speak both the language and culture of non-English-speaking parties can build trust, reduce misunderst...


Immigration

President Trump's latest travel ban halts visas from 19 countries and curtails them for 32 more, upending business operations ...


Technology

Can AI forecast California Supreme Court rulings?

Sep. 16, 2025
By Kirk C. Jenkins

Early this summer, I ran an experiment in which I gave ChatGPT-4 and ChatGPT-5 only the oral argument transcripts from the cou...



Verdicts & Settlements

Unfair Competition Djeneba Sidibe, Jerry Janko... $228,500,000
Malpractice Leon Rojas through his guar... $8,500,000
Consumers Legal Remedies Act Amanda Davis v. Natera Inc. $8,250,000
Prisoners' Rights Gariel Brownlee, an individ... $7,000,000
Premises Liability Henrietta Castrellon v. Hom... $6,626,603
Wage and Hour Tammy Tenny v. Dignity Heal... $5,750,000
Wage and Hour Priscilla Aguilar, Julian H... $3,700,000
Wage and Hour Suleyda Farias v. Shasta Be... $2,884,887
Unfair Business Practices Elizabeth Anderson, et al. ... $2,875,000
Premises Liability Chip Brown v. ICO Developme... $2,336,000

On the Move

Mayer Brown

Sep. 12, 2025


Mayer Brown welcomes Davina Pujari as a partner in San Francisco.

Pujari's practice focuses on environmental and white-collar defense, class and mass actions, False Claims Act litigation, and crisis management. She has acted as lead counsel in high-profile matters under the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, the Superfund law, and other federal and state environmental statutes. Her representative work includes defending a global remediation contractor in parallel False Claims Act and mass tort actions, representing a Class I railroad in derailment-related litigation, and resolving numerous criminal environmental investigations with no charges filed.


Mayer Brown Chris Rheinheimer as a partner in San Francisco.

Rheinheimer represents clients in complex environmental, energy and real-estate litigation, class and mass actions, False Claims Act matters and state and federal enforcement defense. He regularly advises clients on land-use and NEPA/CEQA disputes. His recent matters include defending an environmental remediation contractor in multiple governmental enforcement actions and class actions arising from a Superfund site, representing a railroad in a class action and civil enforcement proceedings following a derailment, securing dismissal of charges for an individual in an Endangered Species Act/Lacey Act prosecution, and successfully challenging voter initiatives that sought to restrict large-scale energy and development projects.




Details

Mayer Brown has 1766 attorneys in 22 offices including Los Angeles, Palo Alto, and San Francisco. Among the law firm’s key practice areas are litigation, capital markets, real estate, fund formation, finance. The firm’s website is https://www.mayerbrown.com/en

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Community News

At its annual Installation and Awards Gala in Pasadena, the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles installed Farah Tabibkhoei as president, welcomed new foundation leadership, and honored attorneys and judges whose advocacy, service, and trailblazing work continue to open doors of opportunity in the legal profession.



Daily Appellate Report

REPLACEMENT COPY OF TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2025

Attorneys

Noland v. Land of the Free, L.P.

Counsel's use of AI-fabricated (i.e., "hallucinated") legal authority violated California Rules of Court, rendered plaintiff's appeal frivolous, and warranted monetary sanctions.


Bankruptcy

Fantasia v. Diodato

Bankruptcy court's order reimposing automatic stay was a final order subject to immediate appeal, so notice of appeal filed a year later was untimely, depriving courts of jurisdiction.


Criminal Law and Procedure

U.S. v. Patrick

Federal penalty statute allowed district court to simultaneously enter a total fine amount "due immediately" while establishing an installment schedule for payment due to defendant's indi...