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9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The panel rejected the argument that the new law, Abolish Trafficking Reauthorization Act of 2022, clarified a 2003 anti-traff...


Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez did not issue a ruling during the hearing, but he did not seem persuaded by the plaint...


Land Use, Government


Newsom takes aim at California's building codes

Aug. 1, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The order directs the California Department of Housing and Community Development to work with other state agencies to lower th...


Civil Litigation


Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer gave the plaintiffs, who want to keep the law school open until 2025, a chance to file a...


Officers zip-tied plaintiffs' hands after they were arrested at a Black Lives Matter protest. When an officer removed the zip ...


Monday's order from San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Ethan P. Schulman came despite the outcome of two appeal decisio...


Law Practice, Civil Litigation


The ruling is the latest development in an ongoing dispute between the Cochran Firm and their former employee Ibiere Seck over...


Land Use


"The City has allowed a vagrancy problem to persist in the neighborhood," wrote the company's lawyer, David A. Diepenbrock.


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


The case revolved around a Labor Department announcement in a 2021 letter that it would deny federal mass transit funds to age...


Civil Litigation


The department has "virtually eliminated accountability for force incidents where the instrumentality causing the injury was a...


Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


In a motion to toss the case brought by UK lawyer Fiona Harvey, who claims she inspired the character "Martha," Netflix's coun...


Aileen McGrath, who recently argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, joins from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.


Technology, Government


Tech leaders have criticized EU interventions into the sector overseas. Its regulatory reach may be closer to home than they r...


Labor/Employment, DEI


The lawsuit claims that the bank systematically conducted sham interviews and reassured investors about the success of the Div...


Constitutional Law, Civil Rights


Scientology bankrolled elder abuse case

Jul. 30, 2024
By Skyler Romero

It emerged during the five-day bench trial that the plaintiff's elder abuse case was being bankrolled by the Church of Sciento...


Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


A group of Jewish students are seeking a preliminary injunction against a University of California policy against preemptively...


U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Constitutional Law


"Historically, advocating for amendments helped shift national conversations that eventually led to incremental change over t...


Tax, Consumer Law, Civil Litigation


Intuit alleges that H&R Block's marketing tactics deceive customers and affect public trust, while H&R Block denies an...


Government


The lawsuit seeks an injunction invalidating Measure A, which the Board of Supervisors approved last year.


Labor/Employment


The PAGA complaint claims remote employees of Foundation Partners Group are not compensated for the time it takes them to boot...


Labor/Employment


U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim found that the plaintiff had only included three instances related to her hostile work enviro...


Entertainment & Sports


The settlement will also allow college athletes to receive direct benefits from schools, including up to 22% of the Power Five...


While the "appearance of impropriety is a concern," Judge William Claster said plaintiffs lack standing to remove the firm fro...


Counsel for the disbarred attorney had to grapple with several of their motions - including a bid to delay his wire fraud tria...


The drop in the clearance rate coincides with an increased number of case filings, according to the court.


The complaint states that the company submitted both redacted and unredacted versions of the information the state demanded, b...


Government, California Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The 9th Circuit ruling concluded that section 4019.3 of the California Penal Code, which permits counties to compensate prison...



Short seller charged with fraud by SEC, DOJ

Jul. 29, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Andrew Left allegedly used Citron Research's website and social media channels to mislead investors and manipulate target stoc...


The boutique's rich history in Silicon Valley intellectual property litigation has made it a go-to firm for the top players in...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


Superior Court Judge Theodore C. Zayner expressed concerns about the adequacy of Rivian's investigation into two former Tesla ...