“After watching our students start to own the courtroom and overcome that fear of facing a judge, they started to win with con...
Technology, Labor/Employment, Corporate
Twitter wants ex-employees’ lawsuit moved to Delaware
By Wisdom Howell
“Plaintiffs ignored a critical term within the merger agreement: the mandatory forum selection clause, which requires that all...
Litigation & Arbitration
Walgreens to pay San Francisco $230M over opioid deaths
By Jonathan Lo
Elizabeth J. Cabraser, partner at Lieff Cabraser, said Wednesday that this trial and settlement had a ripple effect: defendant...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit nominee questioned on criminal law decisions
By Craig Anderson
Senate Republicans portrayed U.S. District Judge Ana I. de Alba as soft on crime, citing a sentencing decision in a child porn...
Litigation & Arbitration
Uber counsel’s answer to suit denied as a ‘laundry list’
By Wisdom Howell
The plaintiff’s counsel, Kyle R. Tracy of Tracy Law PC, filed the lawsuit saying Uber allowed its drivers to discriminate agai...
Litigation & Arbitration
$71M investor settlement is equal to Nutanix’s raised funding
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
“We believe it is a fair settlement and great result for investors,” said plaintiffs’ attorney James E. Barz, partner with Rob...
The ruling came hours after Superior Court Judge Lawrence P. Riff denied without prejudice an ex parte application by a crime ...
Technology, Litigation & Arbitration
Moderators’ suit over graphic TikTok videos advances
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Two content moderators hired to look through and filter offensive videos on TikTok, including necrophilia and child abuse, sai...
Technology
Former Apple employee accused of trade secret theft flees to China
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Charges in his case and four other cases were unsealed Tuesday as the Department of Justice unveiled a new multiagency unit, T...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
No superior court can review utility commission actions
By Wisdom Howell
Judge Richard B. Ulmer issued his ruling in a lawsuit brought against PG&E by Winding Creek Solar LLC, an alternative ener...
Litigation & Arbitration
Multidistrict litigation on Wells Fargo mortgage lending moves forward
By Jonathan Lo
Interim lead class counsel Dennis S. Ellis of Ellis George Cipollone O’Brien Annaguey LLP said in a statement Tuesday, “Black ...
The agency’s objection is not the same as the usual policy concerns concerning mergers. Instead, the FTC worries that Amgen wi...
Labor/Employment
Lewis Brisbois operated as ‘mom and pop’ outfit, fired executive said
By David Houston
Four years ago, the former chief operating officer sent a letter to state officials outlining his concerns about poor accounti...
Labor/Employment
E-discovery firm lays off 10% percent of workforce
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The layoffs are among several throughout the legal industry in recent weeks. Disco, another e-discovery company, reportedly ju...
“The defendants used fear and lies to defraud investors out of millions of dollars from their hard-earned retirement savings,”...
The defendant, Dr. Edward P. Miranda, and his attorney, Elisabeth A. Madden of the Law offices of Madden & Lynch PC, argue...
“The ultimate timing may move, but the decision has been made,” confirmed diocese spokesman Kevin Eckery on Monday.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge dismissed COVID vaccine religious beliefs, 9th Circuit says
By Craig Anderson
Two San Francisco employees refused to take the Covid-19 vaccine because it was developed using stem cells.
Government, Criminal
City asks high court to review ruling on beach bullying
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
“If public entities can now be found liable for violating the Coastal Act based upon the conduct of private citizens on public...
“With 236,136 cases pending at the 10 courts in California as of the beginning of the year, the judges anticipate that new cas...
Criminal
Commission reports to Congress on vets in criminal justice system
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Veteran treatment courts operate in hundreds of jurisdictions, but participation is often restricted to minor offenses, and on...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Nossaman expands healthcare group in Sacramento with 2 prominent attorneys
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
John Puente was deputy director and chief counsel at the California Department of Health Care Services and Heather Claus was s...
Litigation & Arbitration
$3.5M fee approved for lawyers who sued Huntington Beach
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
“The Kennedy lawsuit was the catalyst that changed long-standing California law,” Los Angeles Judge Michael L. Stern wrote in ...
Nearly $21 million of the courts’ lost revenue will come out of an “ability to pay” fund designed to backfill declining fine a...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Lack of succession planning may be ethical failure, bar says
By Devon Belcher
The number of practicing lawyers above the age of 65 has increased more than 50%. Today, about 14% of lawyers are older than 6...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
LA County appeals federal judge’s denial of homeless settlement
By Skyler Romero
“The court’s insistence on dictating the terms and implementation of a private settlement between the county and L.A. Alliance...
Technology, Litigation & Arbitration
UK buoys to gamers fighting Microsoft-Activision merger
By Jonathan Lo
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority on Thursday decided to prohibit any acquisition between Microsoft and Activision wi...
The ACLU asked U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar in Oakland for permission to amend and supplement its complaint against the ru...
The new lawsuit was filed May 1 by Charles H. Jung, principal of Nassiri & Jung LLP. Jung amended that complaint this week...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court upholds California’s law on pig farming
By Craig Anderson
Pork producers “invite us to fashion two new and more aggressive constitutional restrictions on the ability of states to regul...