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Civil Litigation

Trial dates set in clergy abuse cases

Apr. 19, 2024
By Skyler Romero

The proceedings cover lawsuits filed against the Catholic Church in California since the 2019 approval of AB 218, which extend...


Civil Rights

Proponents of the measure claim Attorney General Rob Bonta’s title for the measure is prejudicing prospective signatories agai...



U.S. Supreme Court, Litigation & Arbitration, Administrative/Regulatory

Judge shopping battle rages in SpaceX's NLRB case

Apr. 19, 2024
By Craig Anderson

The case has been the subject of an increasingly common struggle over venue and is not done even after Wednesday's 5th Circuit...


Civil Litigation

Lawyers representing consumer plaintiffs in the case accusing the manufacturers of selling cars with substandard anti-theft fe...



The company allegedly withheld some orders to extract a higher price from customers.


Consumer Protection Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Litigation

The first trial of dozens of lawsuits is scheduled for October 2025. The companies argue that the plaintiffs' claims are barre...



Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation

Casting website accused of exploiting actors

Apr. 19, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Casting Networks' fee model is in breach of state law and exploits actors, according to a new class complaint.


Civil Litigation

Lawsuit over 'Yesterday' trailer dismissed with prejudice

Apr. 19, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The suit was filed in relation to a scene appearing in a trailer for the 2019 film which did not ultimately make it into the f...



Superior Court Judge Stephen P. Acquisto wrote that AG Rob Bonta's title of "Restricts Rights of Transgender Youth" was "accur...


Health Care & Hospital Law

IVF firm faces multiple suits over lab accident

Apr. 19, 2024
By Skyler Romero

The accident is alleged to have killed embryos which were then transferred to patients who didn’t become pregnant.



Career Advice

Apr. 19, 2024


Contracts

Complaint against Jacob Emrani set to expand

Apr. 19, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Emrani’s attorney, Michael W. Feenberg, told Judge David S. Cunningham III that there is an “ironclad” arbitration provision i...



Construction, Civil Litigation

Trial remains set for June in Golden Gate dispute

Apr. 18, 2024
By Wisdom Howell

The case, which relates to an alleged $13 million still owed to a steel producer, has been mired in cross complaints since it ...


Criminal

Backers of the initiative said they had collected nearly 1 million signatures, far more than the 546,651 valid signatures they...



Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court

Amici pour in for challenge to gig worker measure

Apr. 18, 2024
By Craig Anderson

The state Supreme Court has not scheduled oral arguments for the challenge to Prop. 22, which voters overwhelmingly approved t...


Labor/Employment

According to the complaint, a vice president at Zurich American Insurance Company sent out an email that accused the employees...



Litigation & Arbitration

The judge ruled that a 2017 California Supreme Court decision that found pre-dispute arbitration agreements that bar individua...


Intellectual Property

City Attorney David Chiu argued that changing the name to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport would damage the ent...



Law Practice, Class Action

New partners Steven B. Weisburd and Jan E. Dodd will be based in Los Angeles while Ryan S. Cobbs will work in Miami and Ashley...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Discipline trial of former State Bar director ends

Apr. 18, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Both sides agreed Thursday to forgo closing arguments. Dunn is accused of misusing State Bar funds.



Government

Campaigners behind an effort to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price say they’ve amassed enough signatures to ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Testy exchanges erupt in discipline trial of Joe Dunn

Apr. 18, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The trial has been ongoing, with the sides discussing wrapping up by Thursday.



Education Law

The district will be prevented from using the facility other than to lease it to a charter school.


Constitutional Law

First Amendment scholars warned that similar disputes over speech are likely to rage this year as Israel battles Hamas terrori...



Data Privacy

A tentative order from judge Kenneth R. Freeman’s tentative order sustained, in part, and overruled, in part, Regal Medical Gr...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Amazon is currently litigating two separate antitrust lawsuits, accusing it of using its agreements with third-party retailers...



Criminal

Approximately 1,400 pages of search warrants, affidavits, docket sheets and judicial records related to the FBI’s investigatio...


Torts/Personal Injury

Surviving family members of the driver want to exclude “any reference, evidence, opinion, or argument that Mr. Huang was playi...



Litigation & Arbitration

Amazon is currently litigating two separate antitrust lawsuits, accusing it of using its agreements with third-party retailers...