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Litigation & Arbitration


The lawsuit will accuse the owners of three hotels of endangering the health of tenants and neighbors, City Attorney David Ch...


Judges and Judiciary


Retired OC judge becomes Judicate West's newest mediator

Oct. 10, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

"I ultimately joined Judicate West's panel for a brief time before my judicial appointment. Over the last 20 years, Judicate ...


Government, Criminal


Deputy AG defends state’s early prison release policies

Oct. 10, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Deputy Attorney General Gregory J. Marcot said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s “broad authority”...


Government, Civil Rights


Gov. Gavin Newsom acted on roughly 470 bills over the weekend. Among the hundreds he signed was SB 75, creating 26 new superio...


Litigation & Arbitration


Judge OK's record $336M false advertising claim award

Oct. 10, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

“The judge’s additional award of $43 million, to include attorneys’ fees and all expenses, represents a complete victory for M...


Class Action, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen of the Northern District of California scheduled a hearing for Jan. 18 to consider approval...


Law Practice, Civil Rights


Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo say in their lawsuits that the comments heard in the recordings were taken out of context or “im...


U.S. Supreme Court


Joshi A. Valentine of Alameda County Public Defenders argued in her brief that California poses a cautionary tale of the abuse...


Labor/Employment


The aerospace manufacturer and Tesla, both run by Elon Musk, face several bias claims.


State Bar & Bar Associations, Litigation & Arbitration


“‘Let’s assume that the vice president has authority to decide these things – what would happen if he just decided that there ...


Technology, Litigation & Arbitration


The original lawsuit, filed in May, claims Yu was fired as head engineer for ByteDance’s U.S. operations for whistleblowing ab...


Health Care & Hospital Law


“For years, defendants have advertised and marketed the phenylephrine products to unsuspecting consumers despite knowing that ...


Judge Holly J. Fujie tentatively ruled on Friday that Regency Outdoor Advertising, Inc. failed to address a court of appeal ru...


“To accept PayPal, e-commerce merchants in the U.S. enter form contracts with PayPal that (since no later than 2010) strictly ...


Labor/Employment


With vetoes, Newsom cools some labor giddiness

Oct. 9, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Seven bills labeled as “Job Killers” by the California Chamber sit on the governor’s desk unsigned.


U.S. Supreme Court


Perkins Coie removed from its website language about fellowships being offered to “historically underrepresented groups in the...


Insurance


Insurance broker sued again over non-compete covenants

Oct. 9, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

“At issue is the legality of a contractual scheme intended to evade California public policy and law involving restrictive cov...


This brings to 1,415 the number of lawyers whose license were placed on inactive status for failure to comply with the new rul...


Intellectual Property


Quinn says doctored evidence was mistake

Oct. 9, 2023
By Jonathan Lo

“We were dealing with language barriers and operating very quickly to prepare our defense,” Quinn Emanuel attorneys told Senio...


Technology


Tesla’s counsel, led by Michael R. Carey of Dykema Gossett PLLC, argues there isn’t enough evidence to prove the car was drivi...


Eric M. George, who represents members of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s family, said “Judge Ryan’s ruling… protects actual history ...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


Butte, Kern, Kings, Monterey, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Sonoma and Stanislaus counties each got ...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Promosome sued Pfizer and BioNTech in June, claiming that its scientists showed the defendants proprietary information related...


“The court finds this amount to be a reasonable result in light of the quality of the result obtained, the work performed by c...


San Francisco’s argument invites the Supreme Court to use the very mechanism that liberal legal observers have criticized the ...


Real Estate/Development


The case, which has taken 20 years to get to trial, involves the plaintiff’s alleged oral agreement with his four brothers to ...


Civil Litigation


California’s members of Congress have introduced at least two bills this year that would increase the number of federal judges...


“Two days before his scheduled testimony, Musk abruptly notified the SEC staff that he would not appear,” the SEC wrote. “Musk...



Eternal Optimist

Oct. 6, 2023

Independent mediator David Sarnoff believes any dispute can be resolved with extra effort.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Judges on the 9th Circuit panel did not appear eager Wednesday to embrace the argument that Adolph v. Uber Technologies Inc. i...