Labor/Employment
State Supreme Court to review Prop 22 constitutionality
By Craig Anderson
The initiative passed by voters says drivers for companies like Uber and Lyft are contractors.
Litigation & Arbitration, Health Care & Hospital Law, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
HIV drug antitrust case against Gilead, Teva goes to jury
By Skyler Romero
The plaintiffs accused Gilead of forging a deal with Teva, which had challenged many of Gilead’s vulnerable patents, to delay ...
Civil Litigation
J&J expert says plaintiff got mesothelioma spontaneously
By Wisdom Howell
After settling multiple lawsuits for $8.9 billion Johnson & Johnson is defending itself in San Francisco against a single ...
Intellectual Property
Defense attorneys seek $6.1M for IP win against pop group
By Sunidhi Sridhar
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
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
Mistrial for class saying Cognizant has pro-Indian bias
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Attorneys at Kotchen & Low LLP represented a plaintiff class that said Cognizant discriminates against non-Indian candidat...
California Supreme Court
State high court hears arguments against at-large elections
By Craig Anderson
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
Some of state’s attorneys don’t want to return to office
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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...
Civil Litigation
Witnesses testify against LA attorney who tweeted protesters and looters should be shot
By Devon Belcher
“This type of speech by an attorney misrepresenting an affiliation with the Los Angeles Police Department encouraging violence...
Real Estate/Development
City denied plan to turn defunct power plant into development
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The petition, filed by attorney Michael W. Shonafelt, accuses Redondo Beach of violating the law that mandates approval of a h...
Civil Litigation
2 bellwether clergy abuse cases chosen for February trial
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Since the Legislature passed Assembly Bill 218 in 2019 and extended the statute of limitations for alleged victims of child se...
Law Practice
San Francisco bans contractors implicated in fraud from bidding on city contracts
By Wisdom Howell
“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
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Several of the judges filled new positions created last year.
Entertainment & Sports
Columbia slams ‘Bad Boys’ screenwriter’s copyright claims
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“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
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...
Tax
Opponents of LA’s ‘mansion tax’ disagree on pleadings strategy
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
"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
LA judge erred in tossing firefighters’ COVID suit, panel says
By Skyler Romero
“Under California’s pleading rules, however, truth, scientific or otherwise, usually cannot be determined on demurrer,” 2nd Di...
U.S. Supreme Court
Caltech mostly prevails in patent fight with Apple, Broadcom
By Craig Anderson
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
Defendants open in outlier J&J talc case, allowed by bankruptcy judge because of plaintiff's health
By Wisdom Howell
Johnson & Johnson has maintained throughout the litigation that there is a lack of scientific evidence that its products c...
The FTC is seeking to enjoin Microsoft from consummating its deal until it can finish its administrative review. Microsoft has...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Eastman invokes privilege when asked to name others
By Skyler Romero
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
Defendant can stay case while seeking interlocutory appeal
By Craig Anderson
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for a court majority that included all the justices appointed by Republica...
U.S. Supreme Court
State's pork importing rule must be implemented now, rights groups say
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Pork producers and Attorney General Rob Bonta reached a deal that gives farmers six months to get rid of current stock before ...
In his order denying Crime Survivors Inc.’s motion to intervene, Judge Lawrence P. Riff noted that if a prospective intervenor...
Environmental & Energy
Volkswagen wins summary judgment on updates to ‘defeat devices’
By Wisdom Howell
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
High court: Law against inducing illegal migration not too broad
By Craig Anderson
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 can be sued for alleged bias in housing ads
By Wisdom Howell
Facebook has denied the allegation that it created discriminatory exclusion tools in its platform in a motion to dismiss that ...
