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Environmental & Energy


“The best science that we have fortunately, or unfortunately, is Mr. White going out on his own time, at his own expense. He ...


Litigation & Arbitration


Conduent, which won the bid for the L.A. County transit proposal, requested disclosure of TransCore’s rejected proposal pursua...


Litigation & Arbitration, Health Care & Hospital Law


Santa Ana lawyer gets 6 years for pharmaceutical scheme

Oct. 17, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Prosecutors said David J. Miller and his company lied to their customers about the nature and sources of the prescription drug...


Labor/Employment


Prosecutors told U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi that the companies engaged in retaliation tactics and possibly did busines...


Litigation & Arbitration


Jury awards daughter $13.5M in LAPD wrongful death case

Oct. 17, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Jacobo Juarez Cedillo died in April 2019 after being restrained by officers pinning him to the ground with their own body weig...


Litigation & Arbitration


Norton Rose wins $5.2M for surgeon sued by partners

Oct. 17, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The complaint filed in Ventura County Superior Court says the doctor who founded West Coast Vascular invested significant amou...


Judges and Judiciary


Chief Judge Kimberly J. Mueller testified in Congress about the shortage of judges on the court, where the caseload two-thirds...


Labor/Employment


“We are pleased that the NLRB recognized the labor violation here,” Shannon Liss-Riordan, the employee’s attorney, said.


Class Action


“This settlement is not about monetary compensation,” said Lee Gelernt, ACLU’s lead attorney in the lawsuit. He added that cas...


Litigation & Arbitration


Chao and Lopez P.A. and lead attorney Peter Chao accused Oracle of forcing their former client, Jay Wang, to sign a binding ar...


The general counsel of the California Federation of Labor talks about automation, universal basic income and why she thinks Am...


Litigation & Arbitration


After expressing skepticism in his tentative order about Morgan Creek Productions’ argument that a debt acknowledgment form is...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge to seal photos he hasn’t seen but are on YouTube

Oct. 16, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Baker Commodities said a government agency inspector’s photos of its animal parts processing plant reveal trade secrets. The a...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary


Retired Contra Costa County judge joins ADR Services

Oct. 16, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Judge Leslie G. Landau held several assignments throughout her judicial career, eventually serving as the supervising judge of...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Strange bedfellows unite to oppose homeless plan

Oct. 16, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

“I think everybody can acknowledge the problem with have with housing, homelessness and mental health issues. But additional d...


Technology


Twitter’s attorneys also argued it is shielded from liability because of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and pla...


Civil Rights, California Courts of Appeal


In his dissent, 2nd district Court of Appeal Justice Kenneth R. Yegan wrote, “I am aware of no instance in the history of Cali...


Environmental & Energy


Environmental groups say the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is not following the law by allowing routes for off-highway vehicl...


Litigation & Arbitration


The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art says the mural’s presence and the college’s inaction on removing under contract terms i...


Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube are accused of intentionally including features designed to get minors addi...


The Kent Pincin Law duo learned about court strategy as children.


Jason G. Sheasby, an Irell & Manella partner based in Los Angeles, said the verdict is a win for small business innovation.


Obituaries


Harry L. Hathaway, 1937 — 2023

Oct. 13, 2023
By Laurinda Keys

ABA, LA bar leader managed two LA law firms and worked to enhance the profession.


Government


Newsom turns to higher power to ease housing crunch

Oct. 13, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The “Yes in God’s Back Yard” law gives “use by right” status to new affordable housing on land owned by churches and higher ed...


Litigation & Arbitration


Users claimed Google violated the Stored Communications Act for divulging their information.


Law Practice


Aliso Viejo law firm expands to San Diego

Oct. 13, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

LS Carlson Law handles business litigation, real estate disputes, estate planning, contractor disputes, employee retention cre...


Data Privacy


“This case is about the defendants’ unauthorized use of non-TikTok users’ highly personal data whenever the non-TikTok users v...


Litigation & Arbitration


Sonoma County jury awards $33M in elder abuse case

Oct. 13, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Mary Joann Cooley fell between 20 and 25 times between June 2019 and September 2020, when she lived at Arbol Residences.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A previous precedent “about the appropriate procedures for those bond hearings — which also arose under different statutory pr...


Litigation & Arbitration


The plaintiffs’ attorneys said they extrapolated “a case theory involving unpaid commissions that had previously only been app...