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
Divided circuit panel overturns state death sentence
By Jonathan Lo
Circuit Judges Kim McLane Wardlaw, Paul J. Watford and Eric D. Miller unanimously rejected the petitioner’s challenges to his ...
Civil Litigation
Sheppard Mullin sues San Bernardino County over foster care
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“Workers in San Bernardino County can’t possibly protect these children because of their high caseloads, no matter how hard th...
The federal jury in San Francisco found that Google had not proved by clear and convincing evidence that any of the infringed-...
The report pointed to other areas of the state with successful cooperation between local governments — though “success” often ...
Intellectual Property
Toymaker fighting $300M infringement suit calls it a ‘shakedown’
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Keller/Anderle LLP founding partner Jennifer L. Keller and her team defended MGA Entertainment against claims that, when creat...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Court will not reinstate discipline charges against former director
By Devon Belcher
A State Bar Court review panel on Friday affirmed a February ruling that dismissed with prejudice most discipline counts stemm...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Retired justice can’t testify at law professor’s discipline trial
By Craig Anderson
Attorneys for John Eastman argued that Janice Rogers Brown is qualified to argue that the State Bar’s pursuit of disciplinary ...
Banking
BofA must face class action over handling of COVID relief cards
By Craig Anderson
The lawsuit blames Bank of America for allowing criminals to steal Californians’ unemployment and disability benefits on prepa...
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
Judge preserves suit by doctor who lost license after ‘Varsity Blues’
By Wisdom Howell
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...
Donna Wilson’s vision for new Manatt office began with inability to see everyone
By David Houston
Manatt CEO Donna L. Wilson promised herself that when she got a chance to oversee the designing of an office space there would...
MGA Entertainment CEO Isaac Larian says he went “from a dishwasher to a billionaire, and I worked hard. I didn’t hustle,”
Lawmakers and NGOs fight red states over abortion, civil rights
Environmental & Energy
EPA water jurisdiction limited by Supreme Court
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
Ethics group advises judges not to attend law firm celebrations
By Devon Belcher
Presence at such an event “may suggest that the judicial officer has a special relationship with the law firm, which may under...
Entertainment & Sports
Nude teens in 1968 ‘Romeo and Juliet’ are protected speech, judge rules
By Skyler Romero
Superior Court Judge Alison Mackenzie granted Paramount’s anti-SLAPP petition to dismiss the case in a tentative ruling on Thu...
Environmental & Energy
Kohl’s ceramic planters alleged to contain toxic chemicals
By Wisdom Howell
The lawsuit was filed under the California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, which was passed by voters...
Litigator joins Pillsbury in newly consolidated San Diego office
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Paul Fraidenburgh, a former Buchalter trial lawyer, has more than 20 years of experience in the construction, technology, and ...
Intellectual Property
LA County accused of illegally taking mineral, property rights
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Bridgeland Resources LLC claims that with a new ordinance, the county seeks to “usurp” the authority of the California Geologi...
Environmental & Energy
County oil well ban preempted by state law, attorney argues
By Craig Anderson
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...
Neutral Jonathan Andrews expertly toes the line between empathy and realism, lawyers say.
State Bar & Bar Associations
No legislative interest in increasing fees, State Bar officials are told
By Devon Belcher
There is a “crisis of confidence,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Tom Umberg told bar officials.
Criminal
Assembly hearing debates best response to fentanyl crisis
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
Crime victims try to intervene in suit over zero bail plan
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
If the motion is approved on Friday, Crime Survivors Inc. will be the first such organization to defend in court the long-stan...