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Civil Litigation


Skye Bioscience Inc. was found liable for retaliating against Wendy Cunning, the company’s former vice president of business o...


Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law


Kaiser is seeking to bring the dispute into arbitration and said SEIU inappropriately refused to participate in that process.


Weekly Appellate Report, Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary


Cynthia G. Aaron sat on the 4th District Court of Appeal for 20 years. She has also been a U.S. magistrate judge and public de...


Labor/Employment, Class Action


4,000-worker class certified in Boston Market lawsuit

Jan. 20, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

“Plaintiff’s theory of recovery as to the meal periods is that defendant failed to provide employees fully compliant meal brea...


Technology, Data Privacy


Thursday’s proceedings in Santa Clara County dovetailed with the company filing an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Cou...


Technology, Securities


What Elon Musk did could not be fraud, Alexander B. Spiro of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP stated, because in real...


Real Estate/Development


Stefanie Pollack accuses Dennis Chernov of breach of contract, fraud and unjust enrichment, and seeks $650,000 in damages. Pol...


Technology


Activision shareholder dismissal cautionary tale?

Jan. 19, 2023
By Skyler Romero

The lead counsel for Activision, Kevin P. Muck, said the decision could have broad applications to other companies. “The funda...


Civil Litigation


Nicole A. Clark, also a labor and employment attorney, is suing engineer Andrew Thaler for allegedly interfering with investor...


Obituaries


Louis Joseph Knobbe, 1932 — 2023

Jan. 19, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Founder of intellectual property law firm fostered a culture of excellence and respect


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


“We accept CAL FIRE’s determination that a tree falling into our power line caused the 2020 Zogg Fire,” Lynsey Paulo, director...


Bankruptcy


Trustees for the bankruptcy estates of Tom Girardi and his defunct firm have hired special counsels to pursue assets they beli...


Education Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The San Jose Unified School District stripped the club of its official status after concluding the club violated its anti-disc...


Law Practice, Civil Litigation, Appellate Practice


Its president, Nicole A. Clark, is accusing her former partner, engineer Andrew Thaler, of willfully sabotaging her relationsh...


Intellectual Property


Attorneys with the Joseph Saveri Law Firm recently filed a complaint on behalf of artists who say their work was used to train...


Consumer Law, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Dairy suppliers accuse each other of monopolistic actions

Jan. 18, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Dairy supply chain software startup Milk Moovement filed a counterclaim antitrust lawsuit against industry giant Dairy LLC, ac...


Litigation & Arbitration, Consumer Law


Boom, bust, lawsuits seen for COVID panic products

Jan. 18, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Litigation over sanitizers follows boom sales


Technology, Litigation & Arbitration, Labor/Employment, Contracts


Twitter may regret winning arbitration ruling, plaintiffs’ lawyer says


Data Privacy, Class Action


The judge found that neither of the laws under which the suit was brought applied to the facts.


U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property


The case concerns data transmission patents used in Wi-Fi chips. But as important as the case is to the university and technol...


Technology, Securities


On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen rejected claims of a tainted jury pool. Prospective panelists said they held va...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Sungaila has since argued many headline grabbing cases in state and federal appellate courts.


LA judge aims to mentor would-be appellate lawyers throughout his career.


Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Bromberg has spent most of his career in appellate work and spent 75% of his last year in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office litigatin...


Technology, Labor/Employment, Contracts


Twitter severance clauses cited as problematic

Jan. 17, 2023
By Wisdom Howell

Attorneys for employers say such clauses are standard, particularly for large companies like Twitter, but employee attorneys s...


Labor/Employment, Government


Ruling less than two hours after a hearing in her courtroom, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne W.L. Chang ruled in f...


Judges and Judiciary


Jill J. Lifter named Contra Costa County commissioner

Jan. 17, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The former civil litigator also worked as a temporary judge.


Civil Litigation


'Credibility not a fair hearing issue,' judge says

Jan. 17, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

"It's an evidence issue. It's about whether the evidence supports the findings and whether the findings support the decision. ...


Civil Litigation


Brian S. Kabateck represents plaintiffs in coordinated proceedings in Los Angeles County Superior Courtand said he expects the...


Government, Constitutional Law


The judges are trying to determine how to evaluate various California firearms laws under the Supreme Court’s new standard, ad...