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Government, Environmental & Energy


“There has been no official determination of the cause of the Mosquito Fire and the U.S. Forest Service’s investigation is ong...


Government


"This settlement highlights the need for immediate intervention to provide a safer secured environment for our youth offenders...


Securities, Insurance


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


The merger will give Milwaukee-based Quarles & Brady a foothold in California.


Technology, Data Privacy


Regulators and prosecutors are watching closely how company executives respond to data breaches. A team of experts will offer ...


Entertainment & Sports


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

Dec. 21, 2022
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

PETA claimed that the MTA policy amounts to a prior restraint on speech and viewpoint discrimination.


Legal Education


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.


“The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief to prohibit the acquisition … to protect consumers from unlawful concentration of power w...


Labor/Employment


“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


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


“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


“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


Two cases in particular are expected to have a greater impact on workplace litigation, than the end of AB 152.


Law Practice, Labor/Employment


“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


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

Dec. 20, 2022
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


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


Altria faces April trial despite Juul settlement for ‘marketing to minors’ case.


Environmental & Energy, Class Action


“The settlement provides that Amplify shall pay $34 million to the fisher class in exchange for a full release of claims alleg...


Obituaries


Janet Schmidt Sherman, 1941-2022

Dec. 20, 2022
By David Houston

National expert in civil, criminal forfeiture achieved many ‘firsts’


Judges and Judiciary


Lassen County Superior Court Judge Tony R. Mallery acknowledges he made mistakes, his attorney said, “but none worthy of his r...


Immigration


Plaintiff Misael Echeveste alleged Sheriff Scott Jones’ department notified federal Immigration & Customs Enforcement abou...


Environmental & Energy


The lawsuit alleges that the South Coast Air Quality Management District exempted refineries with a production capacity of und...


Criminal


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


“They don’t tell me whether the letter concerns [former justices] Murray or Blease, whether they found no basis for disciplina...


Civil Litigation


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


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


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


Rohit Nath, an attorney at the firm, estimates that he and his colleagues invested about 1,700 hours in various housing morato...