Labor/Employment
Some of state’s attorneys don’t want to return to office
By Malcolm Maclachlan
In a tentative ruling, Sacramento County Judge Timothy W. Salter found the Department of Human Resources had failed to show th...
“The court finds the state board abused its discretion in reversing the district board’s and county board’s decision to deny t...
Civil Litigation
Witnesses testify against LA attorney who tweeted protesters and looters should be shot
By Devon Belcher
“This type of speech by an attorney misrepresenting an affiliation with the Los Angeles Police Department encouraging violence...
Real Estate/Development
City denied plan to turn defunct power plant into development
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The petition, filed by attorney Michael W. Shonafelt, accuses Redondo Beach of violating the law that mandates approval of a h...
Civil Litigation
2 bellwether clergy abuse cases chosen for February trial
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Since the Legislature passed Assembly Bill 218 in 2019 and extended the statute of limitations for alleged victims of child se...
Law Practice
San Francisco bans contractors implicated in fraud from bidding on city contracts
By Wisdom Howell
“Anyone who attempts to compromise our public contracting process will face consequences,” said City Attorney David Chiu.
Microsoft and its counsel have pointed to Sony as the biggest player in the video game console market to make their main argum...
Judges and Judiciary
Newsom names 15 judges to 9 superior courts
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Several of the judges filled new positions created last year.
Entertainment & Sports
Columbia slams ‘Bad Boys’ screenwriter’s copyright claims
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“Columbia Pictures relied on the fact that the story was a work for hire,” Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP partner Kelly M. Kla...
Government, Civil Litigation
State courts to get 2-plus years for remote proceedings
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The amendments added on Saturday to AB 133 and SB 133 would allow courts to hold remote proceedings in civil and juvenile proc...
Tax
Opponents of LA’s ‘mansion tax’ disagree on pleadings strategy
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
"Whatever happens in trial court isn't going to end this litigation. It's so big -- so much money is at stake -- it's going to...
Civil Litigation
LA judge erred in tossing firefighters’ COVID suit, panel says
By Skyler Romero
“Under California’s pleading rules, however, truth, scientific or otherwise, usually cannot be determined on demurrer,” 2nd Di...
U.S. Supreme Court
Caltech mostly prevails in patent fight with Apple, Broadcom
By Craig Anderson
The university will have to try again on damages, and on the third patent, but it prevailed against Apple’s argument that the ...
A Redwood City software company, Zuora Inc., which provides customer subscription management services, aims to end a lawsuit f...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation, Bankruptcy
Defendants open in outlier J&J talc case, allowed by bankruptcy judge because of plaintiff's health
By Wisdom Howell
Johnson & Johnson has maintained throughout the litigation that there is a lack of scientific evidence that its products c...
The FTC is seeking to enjoin Microsoft from consummating its deal until it can finish its administrative review. Microsoft has...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Eastman invokes privilege when asked to name others
By Skyler Romero
John C. Eastman declined to answer a State Bar prosecutor when asked to identify people with whom he had discussed alternate e...
U.S. Supreme Court
Defendant can stay case while seeking interlocutory appeal
By Craig Anderson
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for a court majority that included all the justices appointed by Republica...
U.S. Supreme Court
State's pork importing rule must be implemented now, rights groups say
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Pork producers and Attorney General Rob Bonta reached a deal that gives farmers six months to get rid of current stock before ...
In his order denying Crime Survivors Inc.’s motion to intervene, Judge Lawrence P. Riff noted that if a prospective intervenor...
Environmental & Energy
Volkswagen wins summary judgment on updates to ‘defeat devices’
By Wisdom Howell
U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer said Volkswagen's software updates to the devices that were meant to cheat on emissions ...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
High court: Law against inducing illegal migration not too broad
By Craig Anderson
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, dissented, accusing the government of essentially rewriting the statute in o...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Facebook can be sued for alleged bias in housing ads
By Wisdom Howell
Facebook has denied the allegation that it created discriminatory exclusion tools in its platform in a motion to dismiss that ...
Civil Litigation
Cambridge Analytica plaintiffs’ attorneys ask for $181M in fees
By Devon Belcher
The attorneys said they should be awarded 25% of the $725 million settlement fund for nearly 150,000 hours of work and more th...
Judges and Judiciary
2 justices confirmed to California courts of appeal
By David Houston
Judge Danny Chou will sit on the 1st District Court of Appeal and Judge David Rubin will sit on the 4th District.
Labor/Employment
Marriott sued over extra fees for worker safety
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Junk fees — surprise charges that drive up purchase prices — cost consumers billions of dollars every year. Bills against them...
Environmental & Energy
Debate over specialized CEQA courts draws strong opinions
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“You will get increased expertise, presumably. But I would suggest that the specificity of that subject matter and its importa...
Government, California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court approves ‘snitch rule’ for lawyers
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The rule, opposed by many California attorneys, will go into effect Aug. 1.
State Bar & Bar Associations
Evidence rulings prejudice John Eastman, attorney says
By Skyler Romero
“We’re being faced with a situation where I have no bullets in my gun on this,” stated Eastman’s attorney, Randall A. Miller o...
The settlement requires the county to beef up its mental health facilities and services so that mentally ill jail inmates get ...