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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...


Litigation & Arbitration


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


Securities, Data Privacy


A report by the Federal Trade Commission found a rise in companies’ use of “dark patterns.” These methods, which include hard-...


"We want to make sure the bench really reflects our community," said Ibiere N. Seck.


Government, Constitutional Law


Chemerinsky tells law students Constitution is in peril

Jan. 26, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

“I never imagined I would fear for the future of American Democracy,” Chemerinsky told an audience at McGeorge School of Law i...


Data Privacy


A breach in January was the second time in as many years loanDepot’s database was successfully hacked.


Real Estate/Development


Hilton & Hilton said in court documents that they would not have signed the sublease had they known that an exterior sign ...


“Given the abundance of evidence produced, in this case and in related litigation, indicating that the actual intent of the Ze...


Judges and Judiciary


Kirk E. Sherriff has led the Fresno and Bakersfield offices of the U.S. attorney’s office since 2015.


Constitutional Law


Compared to other Second Amendment cases involving California laws, this one has flown under the radar, but it’s another lawsu...


Insurance


“We were able to tell a very bulletproof story, and we trusted the jurors to set aside all emotions and knee-jerk reactions, f...


Michael Ludwig applies a genuinely neutral approach to dispute resolution, lawyers say.