Government, Environmental & Energy
Placer County Water Agency sues PG&E over Mosquito Fire
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“There has been no official determination of the cause of the Mosquito Fire and the U.S. Forest Service’s investigation is ong...
Government
LA County pays $790k to teen whose burst appendix went untreated in custody
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
"This settlement highlights the need for immediate intervention to provide a safer secured environment for our youth offenders...
Securities, Insurance
Policies of underwriter defendants not wanted in securities lawsuit
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The Honest Company, which was founded by Alba in 2011 with a mission to create safe and toxin-free formulas for its products, ...
Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Quarles merges with San Diego firm to enter California market
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The merger will give Milwaukee-based Quarles & Brady a foothold in California.
Regulators and prosecutors are watching closely how company executives respond to data breaches. A team of experts will offer ...
Entertainment & Sports
$6.6M in fees too much for $24M women's soccer deal, says Hope Solo
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The former athlete believes that the record is inconsistent with what courts have come to expect in class actions “to support ...
Government, Communications Law
US judge strikes LA Metro’s ban on noncommercial ads
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
PETA claimed that the MTA policy amounts to a prior restraint on speech and viewpoint discrimination.
Legal Education
7 ABA-approved law schools in California below overall pass rate of 66.8%
By Laurinda Keys
Tied for the best performance by graduate first-time exam takers in July were UC Berkeley School of Law and UCLA School of Law...
Technology, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
2 law firms sue to stop Microsoft-Activision merger
By Jonathan Lo
“The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief to prohibit the acquisition … to protect consumers from unlawful concentration of power w...
Labor/Employment
McDonald’s, Black-owned ad agency ordered to talks
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“The court urges the parties in the strongest possible terms to use their best efforts to resolve this case instead of incurri...
Judges and Judiciary, Government
Newsom says judge agreed on Texas law, judge says he didn’t
By Craig Anderson
SB 1327 copied SB 8 — the Texas statute that allows private parties to sue anyone who assists with an abortion — even though N...
Technology, Litigation & Arbitration
100 individual arbitration demands begin ‘wave’ against Twitter, attorney says
By Wisdom Howell
“If Elon Musk wants to fight these claims one by one in individual arbitration, we are ready to fight them one by one, on beha...
Real Estate/Development, Insurance
Company, cities say they shouldn’t be defendants in odor case
By Skyler Romero
“The court, I’m sure, is aware that this was a fire that occurred in the city of Carson, it was responded to by the county fir...
Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law
COVID sick pay relief expiring, employers may face lawsuits
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Two cases in particular are expected to have a greater impact on workplace litigation, than the end of AB 152.
Law Practice, Labor/Employment
Kirkland & Ellis says it fired associate for lack of skill
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“The factual allegations sprinkled amidst the conclusory ramblings of Zoya Kovalenko’s 130-page complaint confirm the defects ...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Coinbase can’t force customer into arbitration over sweepstakes, Circuit says
By Craig Anderson
The dispute involved a sweepstakes that awarded $1.2 million in Dogecoin, a digital exchange.
U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment
Partial PAGA overturn may be reversed in 2023 cases
By Craig Anderson
The multiple cases wending their way through the court system pit plaintiffs against employers who have forced workers into ar...
Securities, Class Action
Proposed investor class sues electric scooter company
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The complaint against focuses on a Nov. 14 news release in which Bird Global said none of its reports or releases up to Sept. ...
Litigation & Arbitration
Juul’s top investor heads to trial despite 5000 lawsuit settlement
By Wisdom Howell
Altria faces April trial despite Juul settlement for ‘marketing to minors’ case.
Environmental & Energy, Class Action
Fisher plaintiffs to get most of $50M from Amplify oil spill deal
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“The settlement provides that Amplify shall pay $34 million to the fisher class in exchange for a full release of claims alleg...
National expert in civil, criminal forfeiture achieved many ‘firsts’
Judges and Judiciary
Disciplinary hearing set for judge who vowed to ‘go postal’
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Lassen County Superior Court Judge Tony R. Mallery acknowledges he made mistakes, his attorney said, “but none worthy of his r...
Immigration
Sacramento County, ex-sheriff settle suit over ICE cooperation
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Plaintiff Misael Echeveste alleged Sheriff Scott Jones’ department notified federal Immigration & Customs Enforcement abou...
Environmental & Energy
Southern California air regulator sued over refinery exemptions
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The lawsuit alleges that the South Coast Air Quality Management District exempted refineries with a production capacity of und...
Criminal
Ex-Girardi Kees financial officer arraigned in US court in LA
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Represented by Jack P. DiCanio and Matthew J. Tako of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom LLP and Affiliates, Christophe...
Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
CJP closes complaint against 3rd District justice, ‘no basis for action’
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“They don’t tell me whether the letter concerns [former justices] Murray or Blease, whether they found no basis for disciplina...
Following nearly a week of deliberation, the jury handed down a verdict placing the plaintiffs’ actual damages at nearly $41 m...
Judges and Judiciary, Entertainment & Sports
US judge’s novel imagines a Lee Harvey Oswald trial
By Sunidhi Sridhar
U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco made his imagined trial of Lee Harvey Oswald a paeon to the justice system,...
Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Corporate partner brings expertise to Food Finder nonprofit
By Skyler Romero
Steinbrecher & Span LLP partner Geoffrey T. Stover put his legal experience to work in a different role in 2022 as a new b...
Real Estate/Development, Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Susman Godfrey kept 1000s of tenants in their homes during rent moratorium
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Rohit Nath, an attorney at the firm, estimates that he and his colleagues invested about 1,700 hours in various housing morato...