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The defense argued that the novel technology that underpinned DAI and the MakerDAO platform always came with inherent risks an...


Mediator Susan Lopez-Giss tells feuding families she must know their issues to be effective.



Efficiency is crucial to running an effective courtroom, LA Judge Javier Perez says.


As recent prosecutions led by the SEC and DOJ have shown, enforcement agencies are expanding their definition of corporate cri...



If attorneys want to be taken seriously by clients, principals, and witnesses, and want to exude the type of credibility that ...


Cohn’s disgraceful legal career is well chronicled in both documentaries. He was a master manipulator of the press and scorned...



If in writing we kept the interests of our judicial audience in mind we would never submit the briefs and motions lawyers are ...


Groups want state to regulate pesticide coated seeds

Feb. 24, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

In the complaint, the Natural Resources Defense Council contends that the state’s failure to regulate treated crop seeds that ...



Signature Resolution is expanding to Oakland

Feb. 24, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The new office in the Oakland City Center will open this fall.


The litigation stems from allegations made by shareholders that Hewlett-Packard and Computer Sciences Corp. Inc. merged in Apr...



Retired San Bernardino County judge joins Judicate West

Feb. 24, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Judge Bryan F. Foster said the new role “gives me an opportunity to work on a lot of different cases in a lot of different ven...


“Strategic Partners Inc. and FIGS Inc. … have settled all litigation brought by SPI against FIGS,” read a statement from the d...



The SEC demands Covington & Burling LLP disclose the names of 296 corporate clients affected by a cyberattack by the Peopl...


All of the defendants contended that plaintiffs have yet to offer evidence to substantiate such claims nor evidence showing th...



Oil companies say these laws prevent them from handing over the information that would be necessary to show whether they’re co...


San Diego family law Judge Euketa Oliver says understanding is not always agreeing



Merced County courthouse honors Harvard law professor

Feb. 23, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Charles Ogletree Jr. grew up working on farms and became a leading figure in many civil rights initiatives.


Each sex abuse claim analysis will be on a case-by-case basis, but it is important to know when or if the statute of limitatio...



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Feb. 23, 2023

The unique insurance option protecting college players off the field.


Fox maintains it is protected by fair reporting principles and that the statements of opinion are not legally defamatory.



While BlackBerry claims that the defendant, Sentinel Labs, purposely poached cybersecurity employees to help access trade secr...


“The complaint alleges that the Roman Catholic Bishop of San Diego … fraudulently transferred 291 properties, having an assess...



Air Resources Board accused of misusing rule to end suit

Feb. 23, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The federal rule is more often used in civil rights cases and should not be invoked to seek a more lenient resolution to a law...


The question is whether the social media companies can be sued under the Antiterrorism Act, as amended by the Justice Against ...



LA jury clears neurosurgeon in $120M malpractice lawsuit

Feb. 23, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The surgeon’s attorney, Louis “Duke” H. DeHaas, said that it was one of the toughest cases he has taken on in the last 15 year...


“This litigation disregards those efforts and threatens to move the city backward. It will force the city to invest more in sh...



Tribe and Havasu Water ordered to settlement talks

Feb. 23, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

A 1976 agreement between the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, the water company and the federal government granted the water agency an...


U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney twice dismissed the charges against a doctor accused of illegally prescribing oxycodone, ...



In Wednesday’s memo, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco wrote that the policy will be applied uniformly across all U.S. at...


The cross complaint filed in Los Angeles on behalf of Dennis Chernov contends that Stefanie Pollack’s lawsuit is a “shakedown,...