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Labor/Employment


The initiative passed by voters says drivers for companies like Uber and Lyft are contractors.


Litigation & Arbitration, Health Care & Hospital Law, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The plaintiffs accused Gilead of forging a deal with Teva, which had challenged many of Gilead’s vulnerable patents, to delay ...


Civil Litigation


After settling multiple lawsuits for $8.9 billion Johnson & Johnson is defending itself in San Francisco against a single ...


Intellectual Property


Umberg Zipser partner Mark A. Finkelstein highlighted to the court a question on the jury verdict form that was unanimously in...


Environmental & Energy


Budget deal gives Newsom some of his CEQA changes

Jun. 28, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

SB 149 would extend rules requiring that court challenges of the environmental impact report for certain projects “shall be re...


Civil Rights


Attorneys at Kotchen & Low LLP represented a plaintiff class that said Cognizant discriminates against non-Indian candidat...


California Supreme Court


Santa Monica, despite being just 13.6% Latino, has a majority of Latinos on the city council. Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. of Gibs...


Labor/Employment


In a tentative ruling, Sacramento County Judge Timothy W. Salter found the Department of Human Resources had failed to show th...


“The court finds the state board abused its discretion in reversing the district board’s and county board’s decision to deny t...


“This type of speech by an attorney misrepresenting an affiliation with the Los Angeles Police Department encouraging violence...


Real Estate/Development


The petition, filed by attorney Michael W. Shonafelt, accuses Redondo Beach of violating the law that mandates approval of a h...


Civil Litigation


Since the Legislature passed Assembly Bill 218 in 2019 and extended the statute of limitations for alleged victims of child se...


“Anyone who attempts to compromise our public contracting process will face consequences,” said City Attorney David Chiu.


Microsoft and its counsel have pointed to Sony as the biggest player in the video game console market to make their main argum...


Judges and Judiciary


Newsom names 15 judges to 9 superior courts

Jun. 28, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Several of the judges filled new positions created last year.


Entertainment & Sports


“Columbia Pictures relied on the fact that the story was a work for hire,” Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP partner Kelly M. Kla...


Government, Civil Litigation


State courts to get 2-plus years for remote proceedings

Jun. 27, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The amendments added on Saturday to AB 133 and SB 133 would allow courts to hold remote proceedings in civil and juvenile proc...


"Whatever happens in trial court isn't going to end this litigation. It's so big -- so much money is at stake -- it's going to...


Civil Litigation


“Under California’s pleading rules, however, truth, scientific or otherwise, usually cannot be determined on demurrer,” 2nd Di...


U.S. Supreme Court


The university will have to try again on damages, and on the third patent, but it prevailed against Apple’s argument that the ...


A Redwood City software company, Zuora Inc., which provides customer subscription management services, aims to end a lawsuit f...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation, Bankruptcy


Johnson & Johnson has maintained throughout the litigation that there is a lack of scientific evidence that its products c...


Technology


The FTC is seeking to enjoin Microsoft from consummating its deal until it can finish its administrative review. Microsoft has...


State Bar & Bar Associations


John C. Eastman declined to answer a State Bar prosecutor when asked to identify people with whom he had discussed alternate e...


U.S. Supreme Court


U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for a court majority that included all the justices appointed by Republica...


U.S. Supreme Court


Pork producers and Attorney General Rob Bonta reached a deal that gives farmers six months to get rid of current stock before ...


Criminal


Crime victims group can’t intervene in LA bail case

Jun. 26, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

In his order denying Crime Survivors Inc.’s motion to intervene, Judge Lawrence P. Riff noted that if a prospective intervenor...


Environmental & Energy


U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer said Volkswagen's software updates to the devices that were meant to cheat on emissions ...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, dissented, accusing the government of essentially rewriting the statute in o...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Facebook has denied the allegation that it created discriminatory exclusion tools in its platform in a motion to dismiss that ...