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Data Privacy


Roblox accused again of not protecting children

Feb. 21, 2024
By Sunidhi Sridhar

A statement from Roblox said: "Roblox is committed to providing a positive and safe experience for people of all ages."


U.S. Supreme Court


UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said the court “is not ready to consider race-neutral programs that have the ...


Labor/Employment, Civil Rights


The focus of discovery should be on Zoya Kovalenko’s performance at Kirkland & Ellis, “including whether she was treated d...


Real Estate/Development


Murphy Rosen LLP and Lysaght Law Group LLP represented a real estate investor who said he was tricked by a Canadian developer ...


Litigation & Arbitration


The dispute stems from the plaintiff's September 2022 termination as LegalMatch's chief operating officer.


Securities


Dileep Kumar Reddy Kamujula acknowledged that he used information provided by a cousin who worked at a cloud communications co...


Judges and Judiciary, Civil Rights


Attorney Rick Richmond's filing says Judge Susan Bryant-Deason attacked prospective jurors of East Asian descent: She berated ...


Law Practice, Criminal


Lauren Johnson-Norris said she has been looking for a way to specialize in this gray area of the law.


Constitutional Law


A man who wanted to campaign for Sen. Elizabeth Warren was charged $5 to enter the park. A jury sided with him following a thr...


Data Privacy


The company’s stock value has plummeted in recent months following a data breach that allegedly exposed the personal informati...


U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment


“Uber’s gripe is that the decision does not relieve Uber of the obligation to defend against those claims altogether,” Nicolas...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The State Bar said the case was one of a growing number in which attorneys are accused of charging nonrefundable fees.


Civil Litigation


The suggested changes would also clarify the courts’ ability to issue subpoenas compelling a witness to testify via live trans...


Community News



Litigation & Arbitration


The ABA has rejected a “teach-out” plan to allow the students to complete their current coursework as the institution winds do...


Consumer Protection Law


According to the complaint, Tinder and other Match Group-owned apps have “game-like design features” undisclosed to users that...


Data Privacy


The law “creates a regime of proxy censorship that coerces services to suppress protected speech; is massively overbroad; is r...


Litigation & Arbitration


The plaintiffs argue that the automakers’ failure to clearly and conspicuously disclose the absence of industry-standard anti-...


Civil Litigation


Do-over granted for premises liability claim over heist

Feb. 16, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The plaintiffs claimed that Pilot Travel Centers LLC had a duty to maintain reasonably safe conditions for trucks and their “v...


Labor/Employment


The airline did not include incentive compensation as part of the employees’ regular rate of pay” when calculating overtime an...


Intellectual Property


U.S. District Judge William H. Alsup in San Francisco erred in granting summary judgment to the social media giant by misinter...


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...