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Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary


Judge Kendall J. Newman said he has found everyone at Judicate West to be supportive, similar to the courthouse environment.


Litigation & Arbitration, Civil Procedure


Judge Michael P. Vicencia's 12-page minute order also detailed with extensive case citations how the plaintiffs' other jurisdi...


Litigation & Arbitration


Innova and some of its executives sought a court order compelling compliance with an arbitration clause in a subdistribution a...


Judges and Judiciary


Months after hints from the prosecution that Judge Tony Mallery might retire, oral argument has been scheduled in his discipli...


Judges and Judiciary, Appellate Practice


New appellate justices confirmed to 1st and 3rd districts

Jan. 31, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Judge Monique Langhorne Wilson, who served as a Napa County Superior Court judge since 2018, was appointed as an associate jus...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Several firms, including Kiesel Law LLP and Simmons Hanly Conroy LLC, have filed lawsuits on behalf of plaintiffs who claim tr...


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


Homeless case must pause, San Francisco argues

Jan. 31, 2024
By Craig Anderson

The Supreme Court agreed to review a 9th Circuit decision involving ordinances in Grants Pass, Oregon, setting up a battle ove...


Law Practice


Twenty-one attorneys from Sullivan Hill will join the firm in San Diego.


Environmental & Energy


Business groups challenge state's climate disclosure laws

Jan. 31, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Both laws would impose massive costs on businesses, seek "to regulate an area that is outside California's jurisdiction and su...


Judges and Judiciary


Newsom appoints 16 new judges to superior courts

Jan. 30, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Among them are the former chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission and the former U.S. attorney in San Fra...


Class Action


As a matter of company policy Comcast and rounds off the time worked, "always to the benefit of defendant," Blumenthal Nordeh...


The City Attorney's Office said consumers eligible for a free tax filing program were steered to H&R Block's paid commerci...


Litigation & Arbitration, Law Practice, Class Action


Litigator joins Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Los Angeles

Jan. 30, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Michael Shortnacy defends clients in complex litigation, class actions and mass tort litigation.


Torts/Personal Injury, Litigation & Arbitration


“The issue became, was pleading no-contest equivalent to conviction? We pled it was and won,” said plaintiff’s attorney Ricard...


Intellectual Property


“Plaintiff’s purported copyright was not validly registered before the alleged infringement occurred,” Davis Wright Tremaine L...


Technology, Constitutional Law


“We expect challenges based on the First Amendment or Section 230. That’s part of the common playbook used by the tech industr...


Civil Procedure


The gravamen of the complaint was fraud, bringing it out from under the statute of limitation, wrote 2nd District Court of App...


Litigation & Arbitration


The carrier’s decision to terminate the plaintiffs’ accounts entirely was unlawful, the plaintiffs’ lawyer said.


Civil Rights


The complaint, filed by Judicial Watch on behalf of three San Francisco citizens, argues that the GIFT program’s prioritizatio...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The dispute revolves around whether the 9th Circuit limited en banc panel that granted the state’s motion for a stay of Senior...


Court officials said they did not know when it would reopen.


Alternative Dispute Resolution


“What I didn’t expect to find in any neutral setting was the genuine friendliness of ADR Service’s leadership and the professi...


Insurance


Broker failed to insure Lahaina Theater, Regency claims

Jan. 29, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

“ARA’s lack of diligence and care left Regency wholly uninsured for its Lahaina Theater when in August 2023, the devastating M...


Labor/Employment


UNITE HERE claims it has been trying to get the Wilton Rancheria and Boyd Gaming Corp. to honor a 2017 agreement that calls fo...


Intellectual Property


“This case should never have been brought. It was an outrageous money grab that the jury saw through immediately,” said Allen ...


Intellectual Property


“This case is not just about AI, it’s about the humans that use AI to violate the law, infringe on intellectual property right...


Litigation & Arbitration


The lead plaintiff claims to have suffered a “severe allergy attack” after consuming a gluten free item from one of the compan...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A lawyer for Pangang Group Co. Ltd. told the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals that the company is immune from prosecution.


Labor/Employment


The proposed class action was brought on behalf of the company’s former chief of people, who was based in Washington state.


Data Privacy


Edelson PC managing partner Rafey S. Balabanian wrote in the complaint that the hacker compiled and leaked lists of data belon...