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Tesla’s counsel maintained in filings the jury reasonably interpreted the evidence before them, especially given the jurors ca...



Tesla takes unusual route to build in-house team

Apr. 7, 2023
By Craig Anderson

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 Packaged Foods sued the defendant companies for strict product liability, negligence, trespass, and nuisance after accusi...


Litigation & Arbitration


Dole Packaged Foods sued the defendant companies for strict product liability, negligence, trespass, and nuisance after accusi...



Patient and Prepared

Apr. 7, 2023
By Shane Nelson

Neutral Judy Hersher does the research to thoroughly explain her reasoning, attorneys say.


Litigation & Arbitration


The lawsuits filed by partners of Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi LLP and E & L LLP accuse the retail chain, its landlord, Broo...


Environmental & Energy


The recently adopted Red Rock Canyon General Plan authorizes use of a campground and two roads by off-road vehicles “that will...


Litigation & Arbitration


The data was posted to WatchtheWatchers.net, a searchable database created by a group called the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. O...


Technology


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


The plaintiffs, present and former Division I college athletes, are represented by attorneys from Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro ...


Civil Litigation


Apple’s position in this trial, which could significantly affect how the company proceeds with other intellectual property law...


State Bar & Bar Associations


“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


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


Proposed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules designed to shed light on which companies demand arbitration agreements in...


“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


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

Apr. 5, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Manuel F. Cachán was co-head of the Trial Practice Group at Proskauer Rose.


Labor/Employment


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


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


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


The plaintiffs claim that the city pays them a lower percentage per month than employees who also retired but were hired betwe...



San Luis Obispo County settles suit over redistricting

Apr. 4, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

“The Fair Maps Act is relatively new and, as a result, we felt this case would potentially create an important precedent for f...



Activision limits competition in esports playing, DOJ says

Apr. 4, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

“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...