Environmental & Energy
Protest period for Soledad Canyon mining project reopened after 20 years, petition says
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
CEMEX says it has all the requisite environmental permits and approvals and has prevailed in all lawsuits brought by the city ...
Technology, Litigation & Arbitration
Doctor details spine damage in Tesla Autopilot crash trial
By Devon Belcher
The case involves a fatal 2019 Tesla crash which killed the driver and severely injured his girlfriend and her son.
E. Martin Estrada said task forces are not intended to be performative or short-term fixtures.
State Bar & Bar Associations
Attorney’s tweets during 2020 riots not misconduct, judge rules
By Skyler Romero
The State Bar does not have “the unfettered authority to regulate attorneys in their daily lives to censor unfavorable speech,...
Musk’s attorneys — Adrian Sawyer of Sawyer & Labar LLP plus Marc Dworsky and William T. Reid IV of Reid Collins & Tsai...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Quest Diagnostics violated disabilities act, US judge rules
By Sunidhi Sridhar
In her order on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee ordered Quest Diagnostics to pay $4,000 in damages.
Attorneys for Second Amendment proponents argued the law should be enjoined now, while the state says the arguments don’t addr...
Technology
Cloud computing company’s $71M settlement with investors gets OK
By Jonathan Lo
“There’s only one opt-out, there are no objections, these are good results and I will enter a final order that finds that it’s...
Technology
X Corp. claims former executive leaked proprietary information
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The complaint says some of the information allegedly taken and leaked was used in a New York Times article that said Twitter’s...
Civil Litigation
Autopilot was on, but driver's input is unknown, expert says in Tesla crash trial
By Devon Belcher
An expert in the nation’s first wrongful death trial involving Tesla’s Autopilot said the data was not enough to conclude whet...
Education Law
Stanford agrees to $1.9 million for failure to disclose foreign support
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The investigation revealed that Stanford had failed to disclose foreign funding for 16 grant proposals submitted to five feder...
Judges and Judiciary
Edith Matthai, counselor to judges and lawyers, joins JAMS
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Matthai has handled many disputes between law firms and departing partners, disputes over the division of fees between success...
The event in Los Angeles raised more than $40,000 for Public Counsel, according to ACC-SoCal President Victoria Harvey.
Law Practice
Womble Bond Dickinson continues to grow its California practice
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“We have long been interested in expanding our mass torts practice in California,” said the Irvine and Los Angeles office mana...
While autopilot features give some people a false sense of security, “In a case like this, where I think the driver’s behavior...
U.S. Supreme Court
US Supreme Court shows no appetite for deleting CFPB
By Craig Anderson
Supreme Court justices — including swing votes such as Justices Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, both appointed by Pr...
Environmental & Energy
Home Energy Rating System company sues only competitor
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Because the plaintiff and defendant are the only two approved providers of the certification, it’s easy to target each other’s...
Florida company e-Vision LLC is a global leader in developing and advancing patented vision enhancement technologies, with ove...
Technology, Civil Rights
Employee says Apple fired him because of age, heterosexuality
By Wisdom Howell
The company claims the plaintiff’s actions toward other employees led to his termination and were outside the scope of his emp...
Litigation & Arbitration
Tyson & Mendes defends caregivers against $9.5M death claim
By Skyler Romero
In defending the case, said Tyson & Mendes partner Harry W. Harrison, his team worked to personalize its corporate defenda...
Judges and Judiciary
Crypto crash defendant asks judge to toss investors’ claims
By Jonathan Lo
"We're glad they have decided not to continue tilting at windmills, and we fully expect to continue to see meritless legal cl...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge backs off sanctions after checking the record
By Skyler Romero
"I'm getting a little tired of hearing, 'The dog ate my homework,' but technically he's right," Judge Stephen I. Goorvitch sa...
Under the misdemeanor bail schedule, all violations of the business and professions code, fish and game code, and the Los Ange...
Litigation & Arbitration
State doesn't have to arbitrate claims against Uber, Lyft
By Jonathan Lo
This order from the 1st District Court of Appeal on Thursday is the latest development in the ongoing legal battle between the...
Labor/Employment
Bill to give unemployment pay to striking workers is nixed
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Gov. Gavin Newsom didn't mention the main argument business groups and their attorneys had made against the bill: that it woul...
Judges and Judiciary
Senator appointment doesn't answer Judiciary questions
By Craig Anderson
Democrats and their allies have worried that Senate Republicans would take advantage of Senate rules to try to prevent Senate ...
Legendary litigator filed the first successful consumer class action in California.
Justice Clarence Thomas, whose wife Eastman communicated with in the weeks following the election, did not participate in the ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
CARE Court begins with a whisper, not a bang
By Wisdom Howell
"We didn't know what to expect the first day, but we knew it wasn't going to be this sort of wild fanfare that some people had...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court won't revisit federal cannabis cultivation law
By Craig Anderson
Attorneys for a Mendocino County couple argued that county officials' denial of a cannabis cultivation permit violated due pro...