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Health Care & Hospital Law


Attorneys for the plaintiffs, Michael Kent and Emily Pincin, partners at Kent Pincin in Redondo Beach, said in an interview Th...



Let Them Talk

Dec. 15, 2023

Neutral Charles Margines wants disputing litigants to know he's heard them.


Civil Litigation


On appeal, the plaintiff contended the delayed discovery rule “postponed accrual of her claims until 2020, when she joined a s...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Environmental organizations and groups representing farmworkers sued, arguing that the EPA’s registration of streptomycin sulf...


Environmental & Energy


Justices question CPUC’s right to change its decisions

Dec. 14, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

A coalition of environmental groups challenged the California Public Utilities Commission’s 2022 decision to reduce the rates ...


Litigation & Arbitration


The plaintiffs’ attorneys were Robert Clayton of Taylor & Ring and Lawrence Marks of Mardirossian Akaragian LLP.


Intellectual Property


Rearden accused Disney and other movie makers of partnering with another company, Digital Domain 3.0 (DD3), which a court foun...


Community News



Judges and Judiciary


Judge Howard H. Shore, who has never been challenged in an election since his elevation to the Superior Court in 2000, stipula...


Civil Litigation


The parties filed the ex parte application without prior notice because they all agreed to a continuance, and they do not want...


State Bar & Bar Associations


David R. Lira, who has been fighting with State Bar prosecutors since September in an effort to pause a proceeding that could ...


Intellectual Property


San Francisco Judge Richard B. Ulmer took the defendant’s “amended demurrers’ off calendar in a lawsuit over alleged infringem...


Law Practice, Entertainment & Sports


Sam Fernandez, longtime Dodgers general counsel, joins JAMS

Dec. 14, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

“I’ve been a Dodger fan since I picked the Dodgers in the ‘63 World Series. I not only got to meet Sandy Koufax, I got to work...


Labor/Employment


“In our constitutional system, the electorate has broad power to enact legislation by initiative on virtually any subject, inc...


Civil Litigation


“Nobody in their wild imagination thought Brink’s would leave the jewelry and nothing between the jewelry and the thieves but ...


Securities


Musk’s attorneys argued in their motion to dismiss that the investors are unsuccessfully trying to convert Elon Musk’s legal d...


Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law


Kaiser said it stands by its firing decision, maintained that it was the nurse who endangered patient safety, and vowed to app...


Government


The city says it was “substantially compliant” with the housing element law. It pointed to ordinances passed before the develo...


Litigation privilege immunizes Potter Handy from DAs lawsuit, panel says, adding that criminal charges would have survived dem...


Civil Rights


Attorneys representing eight plaintiffs who say they suffered sexual assaults and other abuse want a special master to oversee...


Law Practice


Sheppard Mullin adds 6-attorney team in San Diego

Dec. 13, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The team moved from Withersworldwide and is led by partners Jenny Hill Bratt and Matthew Owens.


Constitutional Law


S Between the Second Amendment enactment in 1791 and 14th Amendment enactment in 1868, “the rights of individuals under 21 yea...


The plaintiffs attorneys were Robert Clayton of Taylor & Ring and Lawrence Marks of Mardirossian Akaragian LLP.


Attorneys for the NFL say the plaintiffs’ counsel improperly analyzed the Sports Broadcasting Act and that the league’s networ...


Corporate


A benefit fund takes advantage of a 2019 law enacted in Delaware that allows for a statutory public benefit limited partnershi...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Google plans to appeal the verdict, saying it provides more choice to customers than any other major mobile game platform.


“The issue of my self-identification as a MAGA Conservative Republican or MAGA Conservative should be left to the voters who w...


Data Privacy


Lloyd’s accuses UC system of failing to protect data

Dec. 12, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Lloyd’s of London says the UC Regents didn’t set up protections for their data required by an insurance policy to cover breach...


Civil Litigation


“This demurrer concerns an ambiguous derivative shareholder action against LegalMatch by an individual who avoids referring to...


Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports


Actors lost jobs, offers, agents and auditions due to not wanting to be vaccinated, and accuse the Screen Actors Guild of brea...