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Government


U.S. District Judge David O. Carter continued the hearing on objections to the $236 million settlement of litigation over home...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


C. Dabney O’Riordan was a founding member of the SEC’s Climate and Environmental Social and Governance Task Force and spearhea...


Data Privacy


The company argued the users voluntarily provided Twitter their phone numbers and email addresses after it expressly disclosed...



DLA Piper adds 2 veteran litigators to Los Angeles office

Nov. 15, 2022
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

John “Jake” Loftus and Christine Ellice were both at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP for more than a decade.


Technology, Criminal


The manslaughter charges against driver Kevin George Aziz Riad was to be the first to go before a jury in the case of an autop...


Environmental & Energy


U.s. District Judge Jon S. Tigar’s earlier decision to vacate the Trump administration rules was criticized in an order from t...


Judges and Judiciary


Justice Arthur Gilbert has ast on the court since 1982.


Technology, Securities, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


But 9th Circuit Judge Milan D. Smith Jr., an appointee of President George W. Bush, also had tough questions for Thomas C. Gol...


Fresno County judge's policy is to do his best and move on


Technology, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Circuit hears Apple monopoly case

Nov. 14, 2022
By Craig Anderson

The appeal has drawn a host of amicus curiae briefs, and the federal and state departments of justice have gotten permission t...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


July bar exam pass rate slightly lower than last year

Nov. 14, 2022
By Christer Schmidt

The 52.4% pass rate was slightly lower than last July’s 53%, which was held online. A total of 7,164 took the exam and 3,753, ...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


“The question is whether circumstances have truly changed from those that existed in 2017 or whether Riot simply seeks a secon...


Labor/Employment, Class Action


“My calendar is 90% wage and hour, and what I try and do in all of my cases, if I even smell a discovery dispute,” Sacramento ...


This argument, housed in a new brief filed Friday, challenges the motion to dismiss which claims that the San Francisco Police...


Government, Environmental & Energy


Chief U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller ruled defendants’ motion to dismiss lacked personal jurisdiction, but said they ...


Intellectual Property, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Copyright plaintiffs’ lawyers cheer as they see trial courts applying 9th Circuit’s ‘substantial similarity’ ruling.


Government, Class Action


"The bail system in Los Angeles County treats people differently based on how much money they have in their bank account," Bra...


Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


“More than anyone else on that set, Baldwin has been wrongfully viewed as the perpetrator of this tragedy,” the cross-complain...



The Rescuer

Nov. 11, 2022

Norman P. Tarle sees his job as keeping parties away from a place of potential peril: court.


Christopher K. Kamon was arrested at a Maryland airport on Saturday after arriving from the Bahamas to visit family. According...


Judges and Judiciary, California Supreme Court


Evans, 53, won’t be sworn in until January. She will take the seat of Justice Patricia Guerrero, who was promoted by Gov. Gavi...


Labor/Employment


The California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers In State Employment claims the State Personnel Board ...


Government, Civil Litigation


More than 300 jurisdictions across the nation have some sort of flavored tobacco ban and most of the challenges to those laws ...


Class Action


Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg asked whether the motion was for the benefit of the attorneys and not their clients....


Health Care & Hospital Law, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


The jury was excused as the defense counsel and attorneys for plaintiff Alana Gee, the widow of former USC linebacker Matthew ...


Government, Civil Litigation


According to a new brief filed Thursday by counsel for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, the Postal Service needs time to conduc...


Government, Environmental & Energy, Civil Rights


Attorney General Rob Bonta accused several companies of actively covering up the potentially harmful effects of per- and polyf...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


Bar glitch lets exam takers see results 24 hours early

Nov. 11, 2022
By Christer Schmidt

The anonymous post Wednesday night — far ahead of the official release of the results on Thursday evening — gave specific inst...


Government


At least seven new attorneys will take their seats, including three who made their LGBT identities a major part of their campa...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


Widow weeps, NCAA challenges CTE doctor

Nov. 10, 2022
By Sunidhi Sridhar

NCAA lawyer shows jury doctor wanted to ‘commoditize’ his brain work and the plaintiff widow wept through her testimony before...