Game maker sues Netflix over soured ‘Rebel Moon’ deal
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“Weeks after the work was finalized and turned over, Netflix did a complete about-face and accused the plaintiff of breaching ...
EEOC sues Tesla, claims racial abuse at Fremont plant
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The EEOC says that Black employees were casually and frequently addressed with the n-word and subjected to racial stereotyping...
San Francisco archdiocese meets angry abuse victims
By Jonathan Lo
“At this time, the archdiocese has determined that it has neither the financial means nor the practical ability to litigate th...
Neutral Ben Davidian uses life experience to show disputing parties he cares.
Foreign national clients are often confused about their visa options and durations for staying in the U.S., with some cases su...
From the start, the PPP loan program was destined for problems. Speed was prioritized over security, and conscious choices wer...
100s of women sue over sexual assault in state prisons
By Malcolm Maclachlan
New York attorney Adam P. Slater said his firm represents more than 500 women who were sexually abused at four prisons in Cali...
New SEC rules create industry chaos
While the industry watches and waits for the outcome of the lawsuit filed by six trade associations against the SEC, private f...
As California lawyers, we are actually assisted by our status as the last holdout state to adopt some version of ABA rule 8.3 ...
Civility should not be the exception
How the annual civility oath will be taken and documented is not entirely clear, but the simple recitation of words once a yea...
H&R Block, Google and Meta conspired to monetize taxpayer data, lawsuit alleges
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
A congressional report published in July found that tax preparation companies shared millions of customers’ personal and finan...
Sex assault victims sue over Zalkin Law Firm breach
By Devon Belcher
“There are gradations in the sensitivity of data breached in incidents like this,” the plaintiffs’ attorney, Scott E. Cole of ...
ExxonMobile can’t truck crude from offshore platforms
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee refused to reverse a Santa Barbara County decision.
“While the goods are not identical, they are certainly very closely related — both being beer, which share the same aisle and ...
McKinsey agrees to pay $230M to settle 2 opioid suits
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The plaintiffs accused the company of knowingly contributing to the opioid crisis by advising pharmaceutical companies on how ...
Summary judgment for Qualcomm in antitrust consumer class action
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“We are pleased that the court has resolved these baseless consumer class actions, which were brought on the heels of the FTC’...
Bonta rushes to get 9th Circuit to halt gun magazine ruling
By Craig Anderson
Without a stay, Deputy Attorney General John D. Echeverria warned, more than a million high capacity magazines could be sold i...
Law professor witness for Eastman disagrees on election validity
By Skyler Romero
“I think the research I’ve done on this question provided support for the idea that … you could read the Constitution’s text a...
Two qui tam plaintiffs claimed three hospitals and an executive paid kickbacks to doctors to steer spinal tap patients to the ...
Roblox will repay mostly minor players $10M in virtual cash
By Jonathan Lo
The company, which denied any wrongdoing, was accused of profiting from minors by encouraging them to buy in-game content with...
What practitioners need to know about the Google trial
The Google case is historically significant as the first major antitrust challenge against a tech company in over two decades,...
Oppressive examples of college athletes signing away lifetime rights for deals now may not provide the long-term benefits they...
Airport noise is back in the news
One of the classic things that courts have used to restart any limitations period has been the level of noise produced. That i...
Employee retention credits prompt IRS audits
Though there are plenty of legitimate ERC claims, there have been fraudulent ones too. As a result, businesses that legitimate...
It simply does not make sense or constitute sound public policy that anticompetitive agreements and conduct involving “combina...
State Bar wants to suspend license of Girardi’s son-in-law
By Devon Belcher
Bar prosecutors argue there is a “reasonable probability” the agency will find enough cause to disbar David Lira, though he ha...
OC Superior Court judge confirmed to 4th District Court of Appeal
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“I could not have imagined in my wildest dreams when I started law school 45 years ago across the Bay that I would be standing...
UC College of Law union seeks compelled arbitration
By Wisdom Howell
The university says neither the demanded 2% annual raise nor arbitration are mandated by the collective bargaining agreement.
Gavin Newsom has also been critical of federal judges over rulings that limit municipalities’ ability to enforce anti-camping ...
On the Superior Court, Judge David A. Rosen presided over a wide range of civil and commercial cases, including personal injur...