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The plaintiff, who has been a deputy public defender since 1995, claims he has been passed over for a promotion to head deputy...


Litigation & Arbitration


They accused the bomb squad personnel of lacking training on disposal using the containment vessel as well as deliberate indif...


Government


If the lawsuit is successful, a judge could order the recall election to be held sometime between this fall and March 2024, at...



What's Old is New

Jul. 10, 2023

For 100 years, Hill, Farrer & Burrill has made its mark on the city of Los Angeles.


The plaintiff, who has been a deputy public defender since 1995, claims he has been passed over for a promotion to head deputy...


In separate letters to a city council member and the mayor, the officials said employees of the court have been threatened and...


Kirkland & Ellis and Disability Rights Legal Center challenged the ordinance they said was aimed at ridding the streets of...


Native Americans


The tribes claim Gov. Gavin Newsom violated the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in negotiations over renewing their casino gaming...


Class Action


A putative class action was filed as a consolidated complaint in July 2022, alleging that Rivian intentionally underpriced its...


Real Estate/Development


Sen. Angelique Ashby, D-Sacramento, was skeptical, though she ultimately voted yes. “I’m going to guess that the reason we don...


State Bar & Bar Associations


SB 40 currently also directs the bar to prepare proposed rules of conduct that would require attorneys to report colleagues wh...


Technology


Hours after Meta launched Threads, Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partner Alex Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of ...


Labor/Employment


“Although it is foreseeable that an employer’s negligence in permitting workplace spread of COVID-19 will cause members of emp...


Litigation & Arbitration


“Cris was trapped inside the room with the carbon dioxide fumes as the door locked behind when others barely escaped. He was l...


Litigation & Arbitration


According to the plaintiffs’ motion to compel, the defendants are attempting to prejudice them by refusing to comply with thei...


Government


A federal judge in Louisiana enjoyed the government and the Biden administration from flagging third-party posts it finds prob...


The defunct biotechnology company claims the firm’s “professional negligence” led to its demise and liquidation, with financia...


Judges and Judiciary


Stephanie S. Christensen was acting U.S. attorney for the Central District of California in 2022.


Health Care & Hospital Law



Litigation & Arbitration


Surf access plaintiffs seek discovery, appellate costs

Jul. 6, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The plaintiffs, who say they were bullied by local surfers trying to block outsiders, want access to a city-owned phone they s...


Law Practice


Sen. Aisha Wahab, D-Hayward, began by downplaying the bill’s most contentious aspect: the belief that it specifically targets ...


Litigation & Arbitration


Former employees alleged that after months of insisting on arbitration, Twitter told JAMS that the company wants all arbitrati...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


“With this decision, our Circuit’s jurisprudence now effectively guarantees a personal federal constitutional ‘right’ for indi...


Civil Litigation


Individual plaintiffs filed the lawsuit against Edison in November 2020, two months after the Bobcat Fire burned approximately...


Civil Litigation


Closing arguments set for J&J outlier talc trial

Jul. 5, 2023
By Wisdom Howell

The path to trial was paved by an April decision from U.S. District Judge Michael Kaplan who allowed the plaintiff to pursue h...


Civil Litigation


At the heart of the litigation is Meta’s pixel technology, a piece of code that other companies attach to their URL as an adve...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Healthcare providers pay $68M over Medicaid fraud

Jul. 5, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

“Health care systems and providers are on notice that the False Claims Act provides us with a powerful tool to ensure that tax...


“This is a master complaint; requiring the same level of specificity that would be required in an individual complaint would d...


Government


The judge found the state agency missed a July 1, 2022 deadline to produce regulations for much of the law — and that this sho...



FTC seeks to clarify legal standards on bundling

Jul. 5, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

“In defending the charges, Medtronic makes arguments that have broad implications for antitrust enforcement in the health care...