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Torts/Personal Injury


The company has secured three defense verdicts, but its biggest loss in California courts came in the 2019 Pilliod trial, wher...


Thomas Willhite Jr. leverages his judicial experience as arbitrator, mediator, referee.


Technology, Criminal


Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco compared the effort to sentence enhancements for use of a firearm during the commission...


Constitutional Law


“Californians are owed a neutral title and summary of that initiative as part of their core political speech,” said attorney ...


Intellectual Property, Administrative/Regulatory


Auto dealership specialist joins Hogan Lovells

Feb. 15, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

“I am well familiar with the firm’s excellent reputation in the automotive litigation space and am thrilled to be joining such...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The panel heard two different appeals from the same case, which ended in a district court with a plaintiffs’ win for New York ...


Labor/Employment


The negotiations occurred during appeal of a San Mateo County judge’s decertification of the class and dismissal of the plaint...


Intellectual Property


“The subject matter of the prior representations and this representation substantially overlap because they involve the same l...


Civil Litigation


Despite the facts being compelling, “counsel knows that there is also a pleading requirement that supports the motion for summ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Attorneys for the city argued that the defendants provide video services throughout the state by using broadband wireline faci...


Civil Litigation


Some, but not all, of the baby food makers who won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming their products caused autism, told a judge ...


Real Estate/Development


Judge Susan Bryant-Deason told defense attorney Rick Richmond not to say anything that would force the jurors “to look up onli...


Insurance


Elizabeth Tosaris brings expertise in advising insurers and litigating matters.


Intellectual Property


Masimo Corp.’s lawyers have accused Apple Inc. of using a delay tactic to oppose a motion to lift a nearly four-year stay on M...


Torts/Personal Injury


Anesthesia error leads to $28.7M verdict for LA County man

Feb. 14, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Sean O'Neill, a partner at The Stalwart Law Group, and William Collins, a partner at the Law Offices of Marshall Silberberg, r...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The parties requested that the courts hold the lawsuits in abeyance because they are engaged in discussions regarding the rule...


Securities


The policy “clearly contemplates the advancement of defense costs for potentially covered claims, subject to recoupment by the...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Judge to rule on Scientology's anti-SLAPP motion

Feb. 14, 2024
By Skyler Romero

The motion claims that the plaintiffs improperly seek liability for the protected speech of non-parties in the case, including...


Insurance


Getaround’s attorneys claim that Broadspire’s “utter failure to provide Getaround with competent third party administration se...


Criminal


GOP lawmakers propose tougher penalties for retail theft

Feb. 14, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Two Republican lawmakers in California have introduced bills to increase penalties for retail theft, including AB 2391, which ...


Contracts, Civil Litigation


"For example, where's the partnership agreement that there is a partnership?" Rick Richmond of Larson LLP asked jurors in clos...


Intellectual Property


Makers of Squishmallows stuffed toy trade lawsuits

Feb. 13, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Squishmallows maker accused Build-A-Bear of stealing the idea for its own toy, Skoosherz. Build-A-Bear says similarities are p...


Securities


After the Tesla founder purchased Twitter in April 2022, the SEC opened a probe as to whether Musk buying the social media com...


Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


"There is nothing in Adolph that is inconsistent with the federal law articulated in Viking River," Senior 9th Circuit Judge W...


Civil Litigation


Former Secret Service head Lorenzo Robert Savage III is asking a federal judge to dismiss an $18.2 million lawsuit involving f...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


“Any stay would be of an indefinite duration,” U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer wrote in his order.


Real Estate/Development


Judge: New housing not OK in Redondo Beach coastal zone

Feb. 13, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

“Nothing in the Coastal Act authorizes the city to issue a [Coastal Development Permit] that is non-compliant with the [Land U...


Data Privacy


The Court of Appeal ruling comes as state lawmakers are evaluating several news bills to regulate the technology industry.


Criminal


Supporters of the recall effort want DA Pamela Price removed from office because they believe she is too lenient and is not ke...


Tax


A small business’ long fight for tobacco tax refund

Feb. 12, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Starbuzz International Inc. has been trying to recoup $2.8 million in tobacco taxes for over eight years. Anti-tax groups see ...