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9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


“Moreover we conclude that despite changes in technology and professional norms, the rule governing the court’s subpoena powe...


Obituaries


John E. Virga, 1939 -- 2023

Jul. 28, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Veteran Sacramento attorney defended Squeaky Fromme


Judges and Judiciary


If confirmed, Judge Eumi Lee will fill the vacancy created by U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick III’s move to senior statu...


Criminal


Girardi’s expert barred from competency hearing

Jul. 28, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Tom Girardi, 84, is accused of stealing $15 million from five clients and pleaded not guilty to five counts of wire fraud in F...


Technology


Activision countersues in dispute over office rent

Jul. 28, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Regus Management Group LLC brashly filed suit against its former tenant, Activision, seeking to collect millions of unearned d...


Litigation & Arbitration


Senior U.S. Judge Larry Alan Burns of the Southern District of California instructed the jury to use either the Consumer Expec...


Environmental & Energy


Despite new injunction, raw milk use is growing

Jul. 28, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Hippies and preppers are driving forces behind raw milk movement.


“The cities have been chomping at the bit to shut these sober living homes down, and their plans to do that are tempered only ...


Government


“At no time have the relevant provisions of the California Constitution stated that non-citizens are categorically prohibited ...


Intellectual Property


Pre-1972 copyright claims dismissed against Pandora

Jul. 28, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman of The Turtles, most known for their 1967 hit song “Happy Together,” accused Pandora in 2014 of ...


Litigation & Arbitration


“The best outcome you can hope from me is that [the complaint] is unripe,” U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said.


Jobs neutral Daniel Turner worked in college and law school provide insight in mediation.


Labor/Employment


The departures come the same month that Strook and Nixon Peabody called off proposed merger negotiations.


Law Practice


Dispute resolution pioneer joins Signature Resolution

Jul. 27, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Dario Higuchi, managing director at Signature, said Bruce Edwards will be a significant addition to the office that Signature ...


Environmental & Energy


The cases illustrate the complexity of air quality regulation, involving multiple government entities and several air quality ...


The appeal is the latest to raise questions about the reach of Section 230, the 1996 federal law that includes a provision tha...


Civil Rights


The woman says she was fired for refusing to participate in the food service company’s diversity training.


Litigation & Arbitration


Children blame dad’s drug death on priest sex abuse

Jul. 27, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

"This is the first case where a client died in a manner we could relate to the damage from childhood sexual abuse," said Megha...


Technology


“According to Google, they do, and they charge advertisers hefty amounts for the privilege of autoplaying their advertisements...


Technology, Litigation & Arbitration


The technician, represented by Larry W. Lee and Simon L. Yang at Diversity Law Group PC, said she was required to take college...


Judges and Judiciary


The opinion regards attorney fees in a partial victory in Humboldt County Superior Court for plaintiff Laurance Iloff, who suc...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Approximately one year before the collision that killed Jaime Leonen and injured Joseph “Jorge” Lopez, a San Diego police offi...


No dollar amount for the settlement was disclosed, but both parties are to finalize the terms of their agreement for prelimina...


Insurance


Cigna uses algorithm to deny claims, lawsuit says

Jul. 26, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Cigna’s PXDX, the abbreviation for “procedure to diagnosis,” was scrutinized by Congress earlier this year following accusatio...


Labor/Employment


“There are numerous common issues of fact that justify holding one trial,” Superior Court Judge Stephen Goorvitch wrote in a t...


Shudder, which offers horror, thriller and supernatural content, uses a tracking pixel sold by Meta Platforms.


In increasing rates without mitigating the effect on the utilities tax, the complaint read, the city violated the state consti...


Technology, Litigation & Arbitration


Activision said that Rumduol Vuong and Sue J. Noh of the California Civil Rights Department committed ethics violations by wor...


Technology, Litigation & Arbitration


In 2021, Fantano uploaded a video about pizza slices on TikTok, and the audio has been used in hundreds of thousands of videos...


Immigration


Based on how the U.S. Supreme Court handled the Trump asylum rules, the Biden administration may stand a good chance of gettin...