Ethics/Professional Responsibility
County renews bid to share abuse settlement records with State Bar
By Devon Belcher
Los Angeles County renewed its bid to share confidential settlement records with the State Bar while abuse plaintiffs sought d...
Construction
LAX people mover contractor blames city for delays in $115M lawsuit
By Laurinda Keys
The consortium building LAX's delayed Automated People Mover claims airport officials deliberately prolonged construction to a...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Epic, Google abandon bid to rewrite Google Play injunction
By Daniel Schrager
U.S. District Judge James Donato repeatedly questioned whether the proposed changes would undermine competition.
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
California Supreme Court upholds restitution requirement for attorney's reinstatement
By Alicia Alvarez
The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the State Bar may require attorney Thomas John Spielbauer to satisfy a civ...
Influential business litigator founded major Bay Area law firm
Constitutional Law
California gun restrictions face renewed constitutional challenges
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Two federal cases could reshape California's firearms laws as a judge revives a challenge to the state's expansive concealed-c...
After a judicial career that included making history as the first Mexican American woman elected to the East Los Angeles Munic...
The ruling clears one hurdle for the deal, but the companies face a more significant challenge Friday when 12 state attorneys ...
Constitutional Law
VanDyke urges Supreme Court to 'benchslap' 9th Circuit
By Craig Anderson
A recent flurry of activity on Second Amendment issues has been promoted by the Trump administration, indicating that the Supr...
A Los Angeles judge allowed Palisades Fire plaintiffs to amend claims against SoCalGas and Los Angeles County while taking und...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Oversight chair accuses LA deputies' union of trying to intimidate commission
By Skyler Romero
The chair of the Los Angeles County Civilian Oversight Commission has asked Attorney General Rob Bonta to reject a deputy sher...
Criminal
Parole Board previously rejected objections now raised in new lawsuit
By Laurinda Keys
In its responses to public comments released with the final regulations on May 19, the Board of Parole Hearings rejected argum...
Torts/Personal Injury
Appeals court shields addiction treatment center from liability in patient's fatal home invasion
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
A California appeals court ruled that an Orange County addiction treatment center had no legal duty to protect neighboring hom...
Technology
Meta sued over alleged AI-driven layoffs targeting protected workers
By Alicia Alvarez
Twenty-six Meta employees have sued the company, alleging it used artificial intelligence to help select workers for layoffs i...
Criminal
Attorney general urges appeals court to uphold Ferguson murder conviction
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Attorney General Rob Bonta's office argued disgraced Orange County Judge Jeffrey M. Ferguson's claims of judicial bias, ineffe...
Criminal
Victims' advocates, police group challenge new parole review process for lifers
By Laurinda Keys
A coalition led by the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation sued California corrections officials, alleging new regulations unlaw...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Federal judge relates challenges to Paramount-Warner Bros merger
By Craig Anderson
A federal judge has related three antitrust lawsuits challenging Paramount Skydance Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Warner Bro...
State Bar & Bar Associations
California will replace its current bar exam with the NextGen Uniform Bar Exam in July 2028, with a California-specific test c...
Civil Rights
Visa must face trafficking conspiracy claims over Pornhub payments
By Skyler Romero
A federal judge found that plaintiffs had strengthened allegations that the payment processor went beyond a routine commercial...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Writers Guild follows states in bid to block Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
By Douglas Saunders Sr., Craig Anderson
The Writers Guild of America filed an antitrust lawsuit seeking to block Paramount Skydance Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Wa...
Criminal
DOJ drops economic espionage case against Chinese steel company after 15 years
By Daniel Schrager
The Justice Department voluntarily dismissed its economic espionage case against China's Pangang Group and three affiliates ju...
Intellectual Property
9th Circuit orders new trial in $40M Comet trade secrets case
By Craig Anderson
A divided 9th Circuit panel ordered a new trial in Comet Technologies USA Inc.'s trade secrets lawsuit against XP Power LLC, r...
Intellectual Property
OpenAI seeks $1M in fees, accuses xAI of bad-faith trade secrets suit
By Daniel Schrager
OpenAI argues Elon Musk's company filed the case in bad faith to discourage employees from joining its rival rather than to pr...
Consumer Protection Law
Towing company to pay $160,000 over sale of servicemembers' vehicles
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The San Clemente towing company failed to obtain a court orders required under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.
Torts/Personal Injury
Judge narrows expert testimony ahead of second social media bellwether trial
By Devon Belcher
A Los Angeles judge barred part of Snap's late expert analysis but allowed newly produced user-account data, narrowing expert ...
Criminal
New law lets prosecutors combine sex crime cases across county lines
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Supporters say the measure will spare victims from repeated testimony, while legislative analysts note potential due process c...
Government
Judicial Council weighs budget strategy, technology investments
By Laurinda Keys
The Judicial Council on Friday will consider $3.2 billion in trial court funding, a new budget strategy that drops priority ra...
Class Action
Consumers sue Driscoll's over alleged 'forever chemicals' in berries
By Alicia Alvarez
A proposed class action filed in Santa Cruz County alleges Driscoll's Inc. falsely marketed its conventional strawberries as s...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Judge disqualifies Quinn Emanuel from representing CREXi in CoStar copyright fight
By Skyler Romero
U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall found that the firm violated its duty of loyalty by simultaneously representing CoSta...
Torts/Personal Injury
Warehouse fire litigation grows slowly as attorneys sort out complex liability
By Skyler Romero
Nearly a month after a fire at a Boyle Heights cold-storage warehouse forced thousands of residents indoors, only three propos...