Tesla’s counsel maintained in filings the jury reasonably interpreted the evidence before them, especially given the jurors ca...
The company’s new general counsel, Brandon Ehrhart, in a LinkedIn pitch aimed at an “experienced partner at a top law firm,” w...
Stockbridge Treasure Island Investment Company LLC and Wilson Meany seek a declaration from the court that negotiations betwee...
Dole, Dow and Shell settle claims over contaminated water at Atwater plant
By Craig Anderson
Dole Packaged Foods sued the defendant companies for strict product liability, negligence, trespass, and nuisance after accusi...
Litigation & Arbitration
Dow and Shell settle claims over contaminated water at Dow's Atwater plant
By Craig Anderson
Dole Packaged Foods sued the defendant companies for strict product liability, negligence, trespass, and nuisance after accusi...
Neutral Judy Hersher does the research to thoroughly explain her reasoning, attorneys say.
Litigation & Arbitration
Target faces 2 suits over homeless man’s stabbing attack
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The lawsuits filed by partners of Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi LLP and E & L LLP accuse the retail chain, its landlord, Broo...
Environmental & Energy
State sued over off-road vehicles in Mojave desert park
By Skyler Romero
The recently adopted Red Rock Canyon General Plan authorizes use of a campground and two roads by off-road vehicles “that will...
Litigation & Arbitration
Undercover LA police officers prepare to sue over release of photos
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The data was posted to WatchtheWatchers.net, a searchable database created by a group called the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. O...
Technology
Could ebook rights loss harm Internet Archive’s other work?
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Last month, U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl of the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment to four publisher...
Litigation & Arbitration, Labor/Employment
Athletes file another antitrust case against NCAA over pay
By Jonathan Lo
The plaintiffs, present and former Division I college athletes, are represented by attorneys from Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro ...
Civil Litigation
‘No proof’ of Apple stealing watch designs, jury told
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Apple’s position in this trial, which could significantly affect how the company proceeds with other intellectual property law...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Non-exam licensure might stymie diversity, CLA president says
By Devon Belcher
“I’ll speak for myself in saying this, but in the research we looked at, I just felt that having an apprenticeship type progra...
“We have things like this flood on a daily basis, which is why we requested this court to take these exceptional circumstances...
Civil Procedure
Judge moves to halt talc cases as J&J bankruptcy proceeds
By Craig Anderson
The question is whether the latest maneuver by Johnson & Johnson and a group of plaintiffs’ attorneys will work, or if it ...
“The company continues to believe that these claims are specious and lack scientific merit,” said Erik Haas, Johnson & Joh...
Litigation & Arbitration
Businesses gird to fight proposed CFPB arbitration disclosure rules
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Proposed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules designed to shed light on which companies demand arbitration agreements in...
School agrees to pay $13M to family of student killed by security officer
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“We hope with a settlement of this size that school districts everywhere that have school security guards who are armed, that ...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit issue emergency stay as 2nd judge enjoins state handgun law
By Craig Anderson
The rulings over the past few days are the first examples of how judges in California will treat the 1999 Unsafe Handgun Act i...
Litigation & Arbitration
Defense lawyer in Roundup litigation joins Skadden Arps
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Manuel F. Cachán was co-head of the Trial Practice Group at Proskauer Rose.
Labor/Employment
Pilots aren’t ‘learned professionals’ under labor law
By Wisdom Howell
The law allows employers who require employees to obtain “an advanced academic degree as a standard if (if not universal) prer...
Judge Lawrence P. Riff said he wanted to know what would happen if he were to prohibit the city and county of Los Angeles and ...
Technology, Litigation & Arbitration
Lawyers ponder lower award from 2nd Tesla worker race trial
By Jonathan Lo
Plaintiff Owen Diaz’s attorneys said after the verdict that one possible reason for the lower award was the fact that the firs...
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria also remarked that class counsel was “not required to do much work in this case to achieve ...
Attorney General Rob Bonta praised dozens of agents with his office who knock on doors and seize firearms. But he said the suc...
Technology
Apple CEO may testify in trade secrets trial over watches
By Sunidhi Sridhar
U.S. District Judge James V. Selna in Santa Ana denied on March 28 the plaintiff’s motion to block Apple CEO Time Cook’s testi...
Labor/Employment
San Francisco pension system, accused of age bias, heads to trial
By Wisdom Howell
The plaintiffs claim that the city pays them a lower percentage per month than employees who also retired but were hired betwe...
“The Fair Maps Act is relatively new and, as a result, we felt this case would potentially create an important precedent for f...
“Professional esports players — like all workers — deserve the benefits of competition for their services,” Assistant Attorney...
The agency’s decision is a victory for the more aggressive approach to antitrust enforcement it has taken under FTC Chair Lina...