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Judges and Judiciary, Government
Senate Democrats expected to quickly fill judicial vacancies
By Craig Anderson
"I expect Democrats to push through as many judges as quickly as they can while they have the majority," said Arthur D. Hellma...
Government
LA County homeless settlement must awaits new leaders, judge says
By Sunidhi Sridhar
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
Former chief of SEC asset management unit joins Quinn Emanuel
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
C. Dabney O’Riordan was a founding member of the SEC’s Climate and Environmental Social and Governance Task Force and spearhea...
The company argued the users voluntarily provided Twitter their phone numbers and email addresses after it expressly disclosed...
John “Jake” Loftus and Christine Ellice were both at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP for more than a decade.
Technology, Criminal
Motions filed to postpone Tesla autopilot crash criminal trial
By Skyler Romero
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
US judge orders Trump endangered species reviews to remain
By Wisdom Howell
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
Division 6 courtroom of 2nd District to be named in honor of presiding justice
By David Houston
Justice Arthur Gilbert has ast on the court since 1982.
Technology, Securities, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Apple counsel peppered with ‘monopolistic’ questions
By Craig Anderson
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
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
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
Riot Games’ copyright complaint against Chinese developer is dismissed
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“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
Complex court judges offer tips of wage and hour actions
By Skyler Romero
“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 ...
Government
Plaintiff rejects San Francisco claim that police didn’t know of DNA crime lab
By Wisdom Howell
This argument, housed in a new brief filed Friday, challenges the motion to dismiss which claims that the San Francisco Police...
Government, Environmental & Energy
Sacramento water district can sue over contamination, judge rules
By Jonathan Lo
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
‘Legal needle’ has moved in Hollywood copyright cases, lawyers say
By Ricardo Pineda
Copyright plaintiffs’ lawyers cheer as they see trial courts applying 9th Circuit’s ‘substantial similarity’ ruling.
Government, Class Action
Proposed class action aims to end cash bail in L.A. County
By Malcolm Maclachlan
"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
Baldwin fires back at armorer, crew for ‘Rust’ set fatality
By Skyler Romero
“More than anyone else on that set, Baldwin has been wrongfully viewed as the perpetrator of this tragedy,” the cross-complain...
Norman P. Tarle sees his job as keeping parties away from a place of potential peril: court.
Criminal
No bail for ex-Girardi Keese CFO, heads to LA accused of embezzlement
By Craig Anderson
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
Judge Kelli M. Evans confirmed as justice on state Supreme Court
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Evans, 53, won’t be sworn in until January. She will take the seat of Justice Patricia Guerrero, who was promoted by Gov. Gavi...