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...
Judges and Judiciary
Court reporters embrace ‘voice writing’ technology
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The passage of AB 156 followed four decades of legislative efforts to codify a growing array of digital tools within the profe...
Judges and Judiciary, Appellate Practice
Judge who focused on moving cases joins Judicate West
By Skyler Romero
“I would plan vacations months ahead of time because I just didn’t believe in continuing either motion or trial because I want...
Government
Judge blocks California law on private suits against gun businesses
By Craig Anderson
Senior U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez, an appointee of President George W. Bush, granted the injunction sought by variou...
Litigation & Arbitration, 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.
Neutral Sheridan Reed only uses a hammer and torch for her metalsmithing hobby.
Judge David L. Berry learns from attorneys and Court of Appeal justices
Ahmad Abouammo was sentenced to 42 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $242,000. He passed along confidential and sensitiv...
Technology, Litigation & Arbitration, Labor/Employment
Twitter must tell workers about litigation during severance talks
By Wisdom Howell
The company is facing three class actions, all of which were filed by Shannon Liss-Riordan of Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC in...
Labor/Employment
2 years after consent decree, Del Taco faces new harassment claim
By Skyler Romero
Thursday’s complaint is the latest sexual harassment lawsuit to be brought against the fast food company, whom the EEOC sued i...
Law Practice, Criminal
Probate lawyer says his conservatorship team solved murder
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Andrew G. Watters was first approached by the victim’s family to file a petition for the conservatorship of her estate because...
U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly of Chicago ruled that there was a “clear nexus” between the lawsuit and the underlying...
Ensuring people are heard is personal for San Diego County Commissioner Lizbet Muñoz
Government, Civil Litigation
Policy to evict tenants accused of crimes ends in settlement
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Hesperia and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department will pay under $1 million to residents affected by the ordinances ...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
State Bar seeks feedback on proposed civility pledge
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Lawyers licensed since June 2014 already have taken the civility pledge.
Technology, International Law
Rohingya refugee can refile case accusing Meta of inciting genocide, judge says
By Jonathan Lo
‘At the end of the day we are confident that we can demonstrate to a jury that, to borrow a phrase from its own employees, Met...
Constitutional Law
Newsom knows gun law is unconstitutional, opponents argue
By Craig Anderson
Bradley A. Benbrook, an attorney with the Benbrook Law Group who represents the plaintiffs fighting a gun restriction law the ...
Civil Litigation
Judge threatens to sanction lawyers seeking gun law injunction
By Malcolm Maclachlan
U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez said the plaintiff’s attorneys, seeking a preliminary injunction against a law that allows ...
Loma Linda woman pleads guilty to $2.6M commodity futures trading scheme
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
According to court documents, Sharief Deona McDowell, 57, used investors’ money to pay for her lavish lifestyle. T
Judges and Judiciary, Ediscovery
Retired judges lose motion to compel discovery, set chief justice deposition
By Wisdom Howell
Counsel for the plaintiffs — Daniel S. Mason of Furth Salem Mason & Li LLP in San Francisco and Quentin L. Kopp, a former ...
Butte County Commissioner Kurt Worley emphasizes research, communication
Litigation & Arbitration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
High Court to decide if compelled arbitration dispute halts litigation
By Wisdom Howell
The case comes to the nation’s highest court after Coinbase’s attempts to compel arbitration in two class actions alleging the...
Labor/Employment, California Courts of Appeal
Appeal court hears argument over gig worker referendum
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“This case concerns unprecedented limitations on the initiative power, one of the most precious rights of our democratic proce...
Technology, California Supreme Court
Supreme Court takes up Slack’s circuit split appeal on standing
By Skyler Romero
“Because stocks are traded across the country, plaintiffs can pick whatever forum they like, and they will now pick only the 9...
Labor/Employment
Hollywood Foreign Press member beats anti-SLAPP motion
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
“It can be inferred for purposes of an anti-SLAPP analysis that the HFPA acted extremely and outrageously by issuing a press r...
