Civil Litigation
Ex-bio pharmaceutical executive gets $4.85M in whistleblower case
By Sunidhi Sridhar
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 workers call lawsuit revenge for solidarity strike
By Jonathan Lo
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
Retired Court of Appeal justice joins Judicate West in San Diego
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
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
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
Meta’s analytic tools under fire in user tracking case
By Wisdom Howell
Thursday’s proceedings in Santa Clara County dovetailed with the company filing an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Cou...
Technology, Securities
Attorneys joust over whether Musk tweet was fraud
By Jonathan Lo
What Elon Musk did could not be fraud, Alexander B. Spiro of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP stated, because in real...
Real Estate/Development
Top LA real estate agent accused of squeezing colleague out
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Stefanie Pollack accuses Dennis Chernov of breach of contract, fraud and unjust enrichment, and seeks $650,000 in damages. Pol...
The lead counsel for Activision, Kevin P. Muck, said the decision could have broad applications to other companies. “The funda...
Civil Litigation
Jury hears business, personal disputes of Trellis Law founders
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Nicole A. Clark, also a labor and employment attorney, is suing engineer Andrew Thaler for allegedly interfering with investor...
Founder of intellectual property law firm fostered a culture of excellence and respect
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation
Preliminary hearing starts for PG&E over Zogg Fire charges
By Wisdom Howell
“We accept CAL FIRE’s determination that a tree falling into our power line caused the 2020 Zogg Fire,” Lynsey Paulo, director...
Bankruptcy
Erika Girardi attorney seeks to disqualify trustee’s counsel
By Craig Anderson
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
Full circuit to hear dispute over Christian high school club
By Craig Anderson
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
Business dispute over legal platform Trellis Law goes to trial
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Its president, Nicole A. Clark, is accusing her former partner, engineer Andrew Thaler, of willfully sabotaging her relationsh...
Intellectual Property
As AI technology proliferates, so do the IP lawsuits
By Skyler Romero
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
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
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Litigation over sanitizers follows boom sales
Technology, Litigation & Arbitration, Labor/Employment, Contracts
Fired Twitter employees must arbitrate, US judge rules
By Wisdom Howell
Twitter may regret winning arbitration ruling, plaintiffs’ lawyer says
Data Privacy, Class Action
Kirkland & Ellis secures defense win in data breach class action
By Devon Belcher
The judge found that neither of the laws under which the suit was brought applied to the facts.
U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property
US justices ask Biden administration to weigh in on CalTech patent dispute
By Craig Anderson
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
Securities fraud trial against Musk and Tesla begins
By Jonathan Lo
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
Veteran appellate attorney M.C. Sungaila joins Complex Appellate Litigation Group
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
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
Daniel Bromberg confirmed as 6th District appellate justice
By Laurinda Keys
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
By Wisdom Howell
Attorneys for employers say such clauses are standard, particularly for large companies like Twitter, but employee attorneys s...
Labor/Employment, Government
Judge halts fast food workers law in light of referendum
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The former civil litigator also worked as a temporary judge.
Civil Litigation
'Credibility not a fair hearing issue,' judge says
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
Suits over business permit fees under shutdowns settled
By Skyler Romero
Brian S. Kabateck represents plaintiffs in coordinated proceedings in Los Angeles County Superior Courtand said he expects the...
Government, Constitutional Law
2 US judges view ‘history’ element of gun laws differently
By Craig Anderson
The judges are trying to determine how to evaluate various California firearms laws under the Supreme Court’s new standard, ad...