Education Law
Stanford Law School to fund 3rd group of Flywheel Fellows
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Flywheel Fund for Career Choice is a nonprofit organization founded by alumni from the law schools at Harvard and Stanford to ...
U.S. Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Justices reject challenge to conversion therapy law
By Craig Anderson
The 9th Circuit decision affirmed a Washington state law in a case nearly identical to an unsuccessful 2014 challenge to a sim...
Bankruptcy
Sacramento diocese will file for bankruptcy, bishop says
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“The diocese faces more than 250 lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by clergy or other church staff. The reorganization process wi...
Law Practice
Former Justice Department cyber lawyer joins Pillsbury
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Mark L. Krotoski was national coordinator of the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Program at the Department of Justice.
A Loyola Law School professor said she observed Superior Court Judge Tomson T. Ong for roughly 2 1/2 hours during arraignment ...
Criminal
Orange County judge denies cities' challenge to LA bail policy
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Judge William D. Claster also sustained the Los Angeles County Superior Court's demurrer, concluding the plaintiffs did not as...
Government
Ex-DA Boudin still opposes early recalls, but says he’s moved on
By Devon Belcher
“If you recall somebody months into their first year in office, you haven’t given them a chance. We have four-year terms for d...
In light of his grim assessment of a trial with 9,000 class members, Los Angeles County Judge Elihu Berle encouraged the parti...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Panel skeptical of FBI’s rationale for safety deposit searches
By Craig Anderson
“The government did all of this without any particularized probable cause as to the owners of those safety deposit boxes. This...
State Bar & Bar Associations
17-year-old makes history as state’s youngest lawyer
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“For now, I plan on staying here in Tulare County and learning the ropes of becoming a great prosecutor,” said Peter C. Park.
Judges and Judiciary
Former assistant US attorney sworn as magistrate judge in San Diego
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Valerie E. Torres was a civil lawyer in the Southern District of California for 9 years. She also practiced at Latham & Wa...
Technology
Ex-employees ‘destroyed 1,000s’ of documents, tech company says
By Wisdom Howell
Counsel for Trace3 claimed its forensic experts were unable to recover the trade secrets documents that allegedly contained a ...
Law Practice
Board drafting privacy regulations argue over opt-outs
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“I don’t agree that employees should be able to opt out … but they should absolutely know that it is going on,” said Board mem...
Government
Senator vows to shield courts from massive budget shortfall
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“In facing budget problems of similar magnitudes, the state in the past has made reductions to employee compensation and lower...
Environmental & Energy
Massive litigation planned over Merced County floods
By Devon Belcher
The plaintiffs say Merced County and the Department of Fish and Wildlife failed to properly maintain infrastructure that would...
Judges and Judiciary
US judge to handle discovery in state court social media suits
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
A federal court in Oakland will handle discovery in a state court suit claiming social media platforms harm children.
Apartment owners claimed a rent freeze imposed in 2020 violated their due process rights.
U.S. Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Amici: Politicians are hiding behind homeless court rulings
By Craig Anderson
Gov. Gavin Newsom, the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as other California and western jurisdictions filed am...
Civil Rights
Information on women who opted out of class must be provided
By Wisdom Howell
A San Francisco judge rejected the argument of Zendesk INc. that it should not provide to plaintiffs contact information of 81...
Entertainment & Sports
Former Grammys chief sued for sexual assault, battery
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Michael Greene was free to roam and use his power at will for years and years and when he had Terri McIntyre under his control...
Judges and Judiciary
Newsom nominates 2 Court of Appeal justices, appoints 18 superior court judges
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Judge Monique S. Langhorne Wilson of the Napa County Superior Court and Munger Tolles & Olson LLP of counsel Aimee A. Fein...
Mediator Lori Dobrin says positivity helps her disarm angry people.
Bankruptcy
Lawyer has ‘Sophie’s choice’ between court orders in punk rock suit
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
A sole practitioner representing the founder of Frontier Records says he risks ignoring the stay pursuant to the Bankruptcy Co...
Civil Litigation
Teachers seek sanctions, say district violated court order
By Laurinda Keys
Two teachers say their freedom of speech and religion were violated by a school policy that requires them to deceive parents a...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
FTC asks circuit to help pause Microsoft Activision deal
By Craig Anderson
FTC attorney Imad D. Abyad argued that the 9th Circuit appellate panel should reverse the decision by U.S. District Judge Jacq...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Constitutional Law
Bar says it’s required to pursue suspension of Tom Girardi’s son-in-law
By Devon Belcher
Prosecutors argued that the State Bar could not protect the public from serious harm if in every case where an attorney faces ...
Government
New state disclosure rules help small businesses, US judge finds
By Sunidhi Sridhar
A U.S. district judge found that California’s rules for disclosure for nonbank lenders and other financial institutions are no...
Civil Litigation
Anaheim fights to keep out evidence not in administrative record
By Skyler Romero
Damian M. Moos of Best Best & Krieger LLP argued for Anaheim that the plaintiffs’ petition challenges a legislative or qua...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar has sovereign immunity, panel says
By Craig Anderson
9th Circuit Judge John B. Owens wrote that the court’s old standard had been supplanted by several other circuit rulings follo...
