Torts/Personal Injury
Monsanto’s 7th California trial over Roundup starts in Sonoma County
By Wisdom Howell
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
Federal prosecutors to seek tougher penalties for AI-enabled crimes
By David Houston
Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco compared the effort to sentence enhancements for use of a firearm during the commission...
Constitutional Law
Proponents of ballot measure on transgender minors sue state AG
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“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
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
9th Circuit hears appeals of drug's deceptive advertising verdict
By Craig Anderson
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
Oracle to pay $25M to settle suit by 4,000 women workers
By Wisdom Howell
The negotiations occurred during appeal of a San Mateo County judge’s decertification of the class and dismissal of the plaint...
Intellectual Property
Alston & Bird disqualified from case, represented opposing party
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“The subject matter of the prior representations and this representation substantially overlap because they involve the same l...
Civil Litigation
Judge questions new theories in auto finance dispute
By Devon Belcher
Despite the facts being compelling, “counsel knows that there is also a pleading requirement that supports the motion for summ...
Administrative/Regulatory
City appeals dismissal of suit seeking fees from streamers
By Wisdom Howell
Attorneys for the city argued that the defendants provide video services throughout the state by using broadband wireline faci...
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
Attorneys, judge disagree on Indian history reference in brothers’ dispute
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Judge Susan Bryant-Deason told defense attorney Rick Richmond not to say anything that would force the jurors “to look up onli...
Insurance
Insurance regulatory attorney joins Michelman & Robinson in San Francisco
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Elizabeth Tosaris brings expertise in advising insurers and litigating matters.
Intellectual Property
Masimo accuses Apple of delay tactics in patent infringement case
By Devon Belcher
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
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
ACLU and DOJ discuss possible deal in asylum rule lawsuit
By Craig Anderson
The parties requested that the courts hold the lawsuits in abeyance because they are engaged in discussions regarding the rule...
Securities
Company insurance must cover executives facing SEC subpoenas
By Sunidhi Sridhar
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
By Skyler Romero
The motion claims that the plaintiffs improperly seek liability for the protected speech of non-parties in the case, including...
Insurance
Car rental app company sues over management of insurance claims
By Wisdom Howell
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
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Two Republican lawmakers in California have introduced bills to increase penalties for retail theft, including AB 2391, which ...
Contracts, Civil Litigation
Defense casts doubt on brothers’ ‘billion-dollar oral deals’
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
"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
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...
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
Nonrepresentative PAGA claims can proceed, circuit finds
By Craig Anderson
"There is nothing in Adolph that is inconsistent with the federal law articulated in Viking River," Senior 9th Circuit Judge W...
Civil Litigation
Ex-Secret Service chief seeks exit from Girardi bribery suit
By Devon Belcher
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
Uber cannot pause sexual assault lawsuits, US judge rules
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“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
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
California’s online privacy protections can go into effect
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The Court of Appeal ruling comes as state lawmakers are evaluating several news bills to regulate the technology industry.
Supporters of the recall effort want DA Pamela Price removed from office because they believe she is too lenient and is not ke...
Starbuzz International Inc. has been trying to recoup $2.8 million in tobacco taxes for over eight years. Anti-tax groups see ...