Technology
Court reporting technology closes new round of funding
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The pandemic triggered an industrywide assessment of technology’s role in legal proceedings, which helped drive Steno’s growth.
At least 70 Video Privacy Protection Act cases were filed in the past year against companies whose websites have videos with t...
Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports
Proposed class accuses Fox, Tubi platform of bias against women
By Wisdom Howell
The plaintiffs’ counsel claimed that the companies “knowingly and willfully conspired” to create an upper level management str...
A federal jury in San Francisco found that Nippon Chemi-con violated antitrust law by conspiring to set prices for aluminum an...
U.S. Supreme Court
Illumina case setting up constitutional battle over FTC power
By Craig Anderson
Legal observers say the case could make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which could look unkindly on the commission’s argum...
Judicial pioneer committed to excellence, hard work
The FTC amicus brief was written in response to a query from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asking if the commission wa...
Civil Litigation
Colorado River deal ends litigation threat – for the moment
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“The caveat is that the states and the bureau has kicked the can down the road for a while, until the end of 2026, which is go...
Entertainment & Sports
Baldwin’s negligence claims against film crew are blocked
By Skyler Romero
Alec Baldwin countersued Gutierrez-Reed and Zachry after being sued in November by script supervisor Mamie Mitchell for emotio...
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline S. Corley said that the gamers did not adequately show they will suffer “immediate irreparable ...
Real Estate/Development
No injunction for apartment owners fighting LA rent laws
By Devon Belcher
The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles argued in its lawsuit that the city does not have the authority under Califor...
Government, Environmental & Energy
Governor lays out steps to speed up CEQA litigation
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced an executive order and said he would introduce a package of trailer bills designed “to accelerate ...
State Bar & Bar Associations, California Supreme Court
Justices unaware bar didn’t always apply suspended attorney rule
By Laurinda Keys
The California Supreme Court found out about this more than 32-year-old practice on Jan. 31, in a letter from State Bar Court ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar board still wants other paths to licensure
By Devon Belcher
After two years, 19 meetings and hundreds of hours of analysis, the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of the Bar Exam estab...
Judge David S. Cunningham III continued the motion by plaintiff Shell Oil Co. in order to allow Dole time to provide evidence ...
Environmental & Energy
State must redo CEQA plans for Ballona Wetlands
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Judge James C. Chalfant on Wednesday identified two issues in which the department failed to adhere to mandatory provisions of...
Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Litigation over LIV golf tour presses on, but without any golfers
By Craig Anderson
The dismissal leaves LIV Golf, which joined the case after it was filed in August 2022, as the only plaintiff left — transform...
California Courts of Appeal
Newsom nominates 3 to courts of appeal, names 27 trial judges
By David Houston
Justice Brian Currey was nominated to serve as presiding justice of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 4, where he has...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar agrees to send 2 ‘snitch rule’ alternatives to Supreme Court
By Devon Belcher
The State Bar Board of Trustees on Thursday agreed to send two alternatives to the Supreme Court that would implement a requir...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Claim: 2 patients of mental health facility beaten by other patients
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“It’s unforgivable that BHC Alhambra would knowingly put other patients in harm’s way,” said Mike Arias of Arias Sanguinetti W...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Milk Moovement can continue antitrust claims against Dairy LLC
By Malcolm Maclachlan
U.S. Magistrate Judge Allison Claire approved an unopposed motion for administrative relief from Milk Moovement Inc. She order...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge improperly disqualified US attorney’s office, circuit finds
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The appeal panel explained that the district court wrongly “speculated about possible conflicts and ordered officewide disqual...
Civil Litigation
Expansion of sex abuse law, other bills remain alive
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The annual deadline for bills to pass fiscal committees combines life-and-death drama with some of the dullest hearings held e...
U.S. Supreme Court
Does Silicon Valley have a friendly Supreme Court?
By Craig Anderson
Legal experts said the decisions, in cases against Twitter Inc., Alphabet-owned Google LLC, and Meta Platforms Inc. are especi...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Gilead falsely promotes HIV drug as a ‘miracle’, suit says
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Plaintiffs allege that the company misled physicians about the toxicity of its HIV antiretroviral drugs containing tenofovir d...
Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
State seeks end to monitoring of prisons for solitary confinement compliance
By Jonathan Lo
“This case should be over,” Deputy Attorney General Sarah M. Brattin said. “Nearly eight years ago this statewide class action...
Technology
Meta, plaintiffs accuse each other of stalling pixel wiretapping case
By Wisdom Howell
In support of their motion to compel, at a hearing in Santa Clara County Superior Court, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, Jo...
Neutral Richard Aronson is 'respectful but clear' about the strength of parties cases
Health Care & Hospital Law
Los Angeles attorney appointed to co-lead Zantac cancer cases in Delaware
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
More than 77,000 people have sued GSK plc, formerly GlaxoSmithKline plc, in Delaware state court. They allege that the ulcer d...
Litigation & Arbitration
Taco Bell files petition to cancel ‘Taco Tuesday’ trademark
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
A Taco John’s franchisee in Minnesota came up with “Taco Twosday” to promote two tacos for 99 cents on a slow day of the week,...