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 ...
Litigation & Arbitration
2023 saw biggest drop in patent cases in a decade, study finds
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The recent decrease in filings is likely caused, at least in part, by the drop in cases filed by high-volume plaintiffs, accor...
Civil Litigation
Civil appeals mediation program debuts in 4th District
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“People should have free access to mediating their case rather than going into a high-conflict situation. Instead of litigatio...
U.S. Supreme Court
Coinbase’s fight over arbitration returns to Supreme Court
By Craig Anderson
The dispute involves two different contracts, and Coinbase argues that it is covered by the same user agreement under the Fede...
Wills, Estates & Trusts, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
2 top firms accused of helping lawyer steal from 28 trusts
By Skyler Romero
The lawsuit says attorneys from the firms knew their client was misappropriating money from the trusts he was responsible for ...
“We saw that the Privette doctrine could be a possible defense. It’s a really positive policy for defendants and the Supreme C...
Real Estate/Development, Contracts
Trial in longrunning dispute between brothers nears close
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
It may be the oldest running lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court and billions of dollars are at stake.
"Consumers have been misled, induced, and defrauded into spending money and thus harmed by defendants' fraudulent misrepresent...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Judge asked to reconsider sanctions motion against USF lawyer
By Wisdom Howell
Community Initiatives accused the University of San Francisco’s attorney, Allen Gomes of Anderies & Gomes LLP, of “abusing...
Criminal
Newsom sends state attorneys to Oakland to aid in prosecutions of emergency CHP operations
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
A preliminary annual report shows violent crime in Oakland rose 21%, robbery increased 38%, and vehicle theft increased 45% in...
Attorney Herman Franck said the four plaintiffs are involved in a political movement whose goal is to create a “Hmong homeland...
Environmental & Energy
Inverse condemnation action to proceed against utility
By Skyler Romero
“In a bizarre reversal of the California Takings Clause’s command that ‘private property may be taken or damaged for a public ...
Real Estate/Development, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge to decide on pausing housing suit
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Accused of enacting unconstitutional ordinances restricting homeless camps, the San Francisco city attorney’s office insisted ...
Criminal
Democratic mayors support DAs’ initiative to reverse part of Prop 47
By Craig Anderson
The endorsements for a reversal of some of the provisions — by San Francisco Mayor London Breed and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan ...
Civil Litigation
Judge: Attorney 'recklessly' raised settlement talks before jury
By Devon Belcher
“As an experienced attorney, Mr. Forman should have known better than to make reference to settlement when the opposing party ...