Join podcast host Sunidhi Sridhar and Dykema associate attorney Jasmina Aragon as they delve into California's meal and rest b...
In this episode, attorney David Schnider from Nolan Heimann chats with podcast host Sunidhi Sridhar about the intricacies of d...
DLA Piper employment law partner, Holly Lake, lends her expert insights into how the affirmative action ban shapes diversity i...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit must again consider homeless initiatives
By Craig Anderson
The case brings the homelessness crisis playing out in cities across the nation, particularly in the West, to the appellate co...
When the attorneys first broke away from Lewis Brisbois in May, they were known as Barber Ranen. However, that almost immediat...
Litigation & Arbitration
Sacramento residents sue to close homeless shelter, citing ballot initiative
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Voters passed Measure O in November with 52% of the vote. According to the law’s ballot title, it requires the city to build m...
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary
Retired Los Angeles County judge joins Signature Resolution
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“I loved being a lawyer. I love working with lawyers. I love being a judge, and I did that for 31 years, but at some point, as...
The appointees have a mix of backgrounds: two from private practice, two prosecutors, two public defenders and two from other ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Supreme Court appoints new State Bar board leaders
By Devon Belcher
Effective Sept. 22, Brandon Stallings, a Kern County deputy district attorney, will chair the bar’s board of trustees and José...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Biomedical companies go to trial over trade secret claims
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Skye Orthobiologics LLC, based in El Segundo, claims that Bryan Banman, the CEO of CTM Biomedical LLC in Florida, stole confid...
Superior Court Judge Joseph M. Lipner recused himself from the lawsuit challenging Measure ULA 10 days after getting assigned ...
The plaintiffs say that Meta misled investors about harmful effects of social media use, as well as its commitment and attempt...
Class Action
X seeks dismissal of age bias class action based on Musk quotes
By Wisdom Howell
"Plaintiff provides no nexus between Musk's human-longevity comments and the reduction in force selections that plaintiff chal...
Daugherty Lordan, the firm created by a mass exodus from Lewis Brisbois, has shuttered
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
When the attorneys first broke away from Lewis Brisbois in May, they were known as Barber Ranen. However, that almost immediat...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar says discipline trial of former director should proceed
By Devon Belcher
“Respondent makes repeated factual assertions about what he claims the Review Department decided and what he says the State Ba...
Judges and Judiciary
Tearful Lassen County judge describes stressful intra-court disputes
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Judge Tony Mallery is facing Commission on Judicial Performance charges that he made co-workers feel unsafe, but he testified ...
Constitutional Law
State wants pause in free speech suit pending injunction appeal
By Sunidhi Sridhar
A judge granted the AIDS Healthcare Foundation a preliminary injunction in November, saying it was likely to succeed on its cl...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Idaho can’t ban transgender athletes in women’s sports
By Craig Anderson
Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw wrote that the U.S. Department of Education has proposed policies, not before the court, that “attemp...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Medical privacy case against Meta to proceed, judge says
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Senior U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick denied Meta’s motion to dismiss claims of extraterritoriality and wiretap act, Ca...
Criminal
California’s domestic abuse law extends to financial harms, Court of Appeal rules
By Wisdom Howell
The 4th District Court of Appeal reversed a trial judge in Riverside.
State Bar & Bar Associations
Witnesses are afraid to testify, Eastman lawyer says
By Skyler Romero
Both houses of the Legislature on Thursday approved bipartisan changes to the California Environmental Quality Act that suppor...
Robert Weisberg, co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, explained that the opinion corrects a “mundane error” in...
Government
Sacramento must answer whether if violated court order on camps
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Sacramento Homeless Union general counsel Anthony D. Prince moved to hold the city in contempt of U.S. District Judge Troy L. ...
“We’re building a firm based on what clients want from their counselors. Our priority will always be to listen and then bring ...
Law Practice
Former deputy solicitor general returns to Munger, Tolles & Olson
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Aimee Feinberg argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta 141 S. Ct. 2373 (2021) — a...
Entertainment & Sports
Film funder accuses Disney and Fox of ‘Hollywood accounting’
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
TSG Entertainment Finance LLC says in a lawsuit that Fox and Disney boosted the value of their affiliated streaming platforms,...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge tells disciplinary hearing Lassen court officials were hostile
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A Commission on Judicial Performance prosecutor said Lassen County Judge Tony Mallery’s complaints of hostility by court offic...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court frustrates long battle over looted art
By Craig Anderson
It is unusual for the state Supreme Court to reject certified questions from the 9th Circuit, which address issues of Californ...
Environmental & Energy
Southern California isn’t meeting US air standard, suit says
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Areas that fail to meet federal ozone standards must pay fees on stationary sources like refineries and power plants that emit...