Litigation & Arbitration
San Francisco City Attorney plans to sue more SRO hotels
By Wisdom Howell
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
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
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Deputy Attorney General Gregory J. Marcot said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s “broad authority”...
Government, Civil Rights
Governor vetoes bill that would have banned caste discrimination
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
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.
Gilead agrees to pay $247M to end antitrust suit over HIV drugs
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
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
Current and former LA councilmen sue over secret recording
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
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
Public defenders side with gun rights groups in Supreme Court case
By Craig Anderson
Joshi A. Valentine of Alameda County Public Defenders argued in her brief that California poses a cautionary tale of the abuse...
Labor/Employment
Former SpaceX engineer claims women and minorities are paid less
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The aerospace manufacturer and Tesla, both run by Elon Musk, face several bias claims.
State Bar & Bar Associations, Litigation & Arbitration
Trump team wanted ‘aggressive scenario’, Eastman testifies
By Skyler Romero
“‘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
Fired TikTok executive drops request to pause lawsuit
By Wisdom Howell
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
Another lawsuit filed after FDA questions efficacy of oral decongestants
By Jonathan Lo
“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 ...
Seven bills labeled as “Job Killers” by the California Chamber sit on the governor’s desk unsigned.
U.S. Supreme Court
Lawsuit is dropped after MoFo changes diversity fellowship
By Craig Anderson
Perkins Coie removed from its website language about fellowships being offered to “historically underrepresented groups in the...
“At issue is the legality of a contractual scheme intended to evade California public policy and law involving restrictive cov...
Law Practice
More lawyers suspended for failing to comply with trust account rules
By Devon Belcher
This brings to 1,415 the number of lawyers whose license were placed on inactive status for failure to comply with the new rul...
“We were dealing with language barriers and operating very quickly to prepare our defense,” Quinn Emanuel attorneys told Senio...
Technology
Tearful plaintiff says Tesla made unusual moves before crashing
By Devon Belcher
Tesla’s counsel, led by Michael R. Carey of Dykema Gossett PLLC, argues there isn’t enough evidence to prove the car was drivi...
Sirhan Sirhan loses habeas challenge to parole denial, attorneys plan appeal
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Eric M. George, who represents members of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s family, said “Judge Ryan’s ruling… protects actual history ...
Butte, Kern, Kings, Monterey, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Sonoma and Stanislaus counties each got ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
San Diego biotech firm ends COVID vaccine patent dispute
By Sunidhi Sridhar
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...
Government
San Francisco seeks reversal of homeless cases with ‘shadow docket’
By Craig Anderson
San Francisco’s argument invites the Supreme Court to use the very mechanism that liberal legal observers have criticized the ...
Real Estate/Development
Los Angeles jury must decide brothers’ sprawling real estate dispute
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
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
Study: California federal courts among fastest in the nation
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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...
Independent mediator David Sarnoff believes any dispute can be resolved with extra effort.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit considers if arbitration clause bars PAGA participation
By Craig Anderson
Judges on the 9th Circuit panel did not appear eager Wednesday to embrace the argument that Adolph v. Uber Technologies Inc. i...