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Ghost gun maker can no longer do business in California

May 31, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The legal settlement stems from a lawsuit that the City of Los Angeles filed against Polymer80 in 2021 following an ambush on ...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Circuit Judges Kim McLane Wardlaw, Paul J. Watford and Eric D. Miller unanimously rejected the petitioner’s challenges to his ...


Civil Litigation


“Workers in San Bernardino County can’t possibly protect these children because of their high caseloads, no matter how hard th...


Technology


The federal jury in San Francisco found that Google had not proved by clear and convincing evidence that any of the infringed-...


Government


Grand jury faults Sacramento’s response to homeless

May 30, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The report pointed to other areas of the state with successful cooperation between local governments — though “success” often ...


Intellectual Property


Keller/Anderle LLP founding partner Jennifer L. Keller and her team defended MGA Entertainment against claims that, when creat...


State Bar & Bar Associations


A State Bar Court review panel on Friday affirmed a February ruling that dismissed with prejudice most discipline counts stemm...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Attorneys for John Eastman argued that Janice Rogers Brown is qualified to argue that the State Bar’s pursuit of disciplinary ...


The lawsuit blames Bank of America for allowing criminals to steal Californians’ unemployment and disability benefits on prepa...


Government


Superior Court Judge David S. Cunningham III sustained the demurrers as to all these causes of action, with leave to amend in ...


Health Care & Hospital Law


The petitioner, Dr. Gregory O. Colburn, was sentenced to eight weeks in prison in April 2022. He claims that the California Me...


Bonta’s argument echoes statements from attorneys by the city and county of Los Angeles, that they also have no control over t...


The practice of billionaires intervening has been going on for a while but hasn’t been thought of as litigation funding.


Technology, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


WATCH NOW: Ready to deploy new technologies to simplify your work? Legal tech experts offer guidance in legal prompting and th...



Manatt CEO Donna L. Wilson promised herself that when she got a chance to oversee the designing of an office space there would...



Feisty chief of toy company denies stealing designs

May 26, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

MGA Entertainment CEO Isaac Larian says he went “from a dishwasher to a billionaire, and I worked hard. I didn’t hustle,”


Civil Rights


California continues to brace against red states

May 26, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Lawmakers and NGOs fight red states over abortion, civil rights


Environmental & Energy


EPA water jurisdiction limited by Supreme Court

May 26, 2023
By Craig Anderson

“In sum, we hold that the [Clean Water Act] extends to only those ‘wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies tha...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Presence at such an event “may suggest that the judicial officer has a special relationship with the law firm, which may under...


Entertainment & Sports


Superior Court Judge Alison Mackenzie granted Paramount’s anti-SLAPP petition to dismiss the case in a tentative ruling on Thu...


Environmental & Energy


The lawsuit was filed under the California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, which was passed by voters...


Paul Fraidenburgh, a former Buchalter trial lawyer, has more than 20 years of experience in the construction, technology, and ...


Intellectual Property


Bridgeland Resources LLC claims that with a new ordinance, the county seeks to “usurp” the authority of the California Geologi...


Environmental & Energy


Theodore J. Boutrous told the state Supreme Court that while Monterey County can impose zoning restrictions on oil drilling, i...


Fourteen anonymous current and former baseball players for the San Francisco Dons had filed suit against coaches Troy Nakamura...



Direct Approach

May 26, 2023

Neutral Jonathan Andrews expertly toes the line between empathy and realism, lawyers say.


State Bar & Bar Associations


There is a “crisis of confidence,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Tom Umberg told bar officials.


Criminal


Legislative Republicans have repeatedly criticized their colleagues in recent weeks for failing to pass several GOP bills desi...


The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a Connecticut-based organization, said in an 80-page complaint that the bill willfull...


Criminal


If the motion is approved on Friday, Crime Survivors Inc. will be the first such organization to defend in court the long-stan...