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Law Practice


“I don’t agree that employees should be able to opt out … but they should absolutely know that it is going on,” said Board mem...


Government


“In facing budget problems of similar magnitudes, the state in the past has made reductions to employee compensation and lower...


Environmental & Energy


The plaintiffs say Merced County and the Department of Fish and Wildlife failed to properly maintain infrastructure that would...


Judges and Judiciary


A federal court in Oakland will handle discovery in a state court suit claiming social media platforms harm children.


Government


Apartment owners claimed a rent freeze imposed in 2020 violated their due process rights.


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


Gov. Gavin Newsom, the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as other California and western jurisdictions filed am...


Civil Rights


A San Francisco judge rejected the argument of Zendesk INc. that it should not provide to plaintiffs contact information of 81...


Entertainment & Sports


Former Grammys chief sued for sexual assault, battery

Dec. 8, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Michael Greene was free to roam and use his power at will for years and years and when he had Terri McIntyre under his control...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Monique S. Langhorne Wilson of the Napa County Superior Court and Munger Tolles & Olson LLP of counsel Aimee A. Fein...


Mediator Lori Dobrin says positivity helps her disarm angry people.


A sole practitioner representing the founder of Frontier Records says he risks ignoring the stay pursuant to the Bankruptcy Co...


Civil Litigation


Two teachers say their freedom of speech and religion were violated by a school policy that requires them to deceive parents a...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


FTC attorney Imad D. Abyad argued that the 9th Circuit appellate panel should reverse the decision by U.S. District Judge Jacq...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Constitutional Law


Prosecutors argued that the State Bar could not protect the public from serious harm if in every case where an attorney faces ...


Government


A U.S. district judge found that California’s rules for disclosure for nonbank lenders and other financial institutions are no...


Civil Litigation


Damian M. Moos of Best Best & Krieger LLP argued for Anaheim that the plaintiffs’ petition challenges a legislative or qua...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar has sovereign immunity, panel says

Dec. 7, 2023
By Craig Anderson

9th Circuit Judge John B. Owens wrote that the court’s old standard had been supplanted by several other circuit rulings follo...


Environmental & Energy


“PG&E respectfully submits that the court should permit the ADR protocol to settle as many cases as possible. Preparing fo...


Technology


Many of the case’s arguments and disputes center around MOVA’s use in Disney’s live action “Beauty and the Beast” movie.


Civil Litigation


“Realizing that he had doomed the company, [Adam] Bold has secretly negotiated to sell A3’s most profitable divisions and its ...


Government


DA escalates pressure on Sacramento over encampments

Dec. 6, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

“The city has misinterpreted and misused the Boise decision,” DA Thien Ho said. “Specifically, the Boise decision allows you t...


Trustee Elissa D. Miller told the court she currently has $19.5 million on hand that will be used to pay back other unsecured ...


Legal Education, Bankruptcy


Bankruptcy threat was mistake, Southwestern says

Dec. 6, 2023
By Laurinda Keys

“The fact of the matter is that Southwestern’s attorneys concluded that it was necessary and appropriate to file a pleading wh...


Criminal


Edgar Sargsyan, whose law license is now suspended, told prosecutors that he paid another attorney to assume his identity and ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The case reached the Supreme Court, which ruled in June that lawsuits implicating the Federal Arbitration Act must be stayed w...


Class Action, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Michael Rubin, a partner with Altshuler Berzon LLP who represents the objectors, hailed the panel’s rejection of a settlement ...


Litigation & Arbitration


“San Francisco and California have done a good job of enforcing against brick-and-mortar tobacco retailers, but online retaile...


Securities, Class Action


A consolidated complaint against Rivian, which counts Amazon among its investors, was filed last July, alleging that the elect...


Law Practice


Marine colonel joins Singleton Schreiber in San Diego

Dec. 6, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

“My experiences leading these teams and various legal teams throughout my time in the Marine Corps have shaped my leadership p...


Criminal


Presiding Judge Anne-Christine Massullo said, “Judges have held more defendants to answer to criminal charges in preliminary h...