Government, Civil Litigation
California sued over ban on flavored tobacco products
By Jonathan Lo
More than 300 jurisdictions across the nation have some sort of flavored tobacco ban and most of the challenges to those laws ...
Class Action
Judge dubious of need for class counsel in PFAS litigation
By Jonathan Lo
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
At NCAA trial, a scramble for witnesses, and role playing, ‘I’m not your monkey’
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The jury was excused as the defense counsel and attorneys for plaintiff Alana Gee, the widow of former USC linebacker Matthew ...
Government, Civil Litigation
USPS wants to postpone 17 states’ lawsuit over gas vehicles
By Wisdom Howell
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
California sues DuPont and 3M over ‘PFA’ chemicals
By Skyler Romero
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
By Christer Schmidt
The anonymous post Wednesday night — far ahead of the official release of the results on Thursday evening — gave specific inst...
Government
Attorneys expected to dominate state Legislature following election
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
By Sunidhi Sridhar
NCAA lawyer shows jury doctor wanted to ‘commoditize’ his brain work and the plaintiff widow wept through her testimony before...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Data Privacy
Injunction sought to end Meta collection of medical data
By Jonathan Lo
The plaintiffs say Meta’s alleged medical data gathering is a violation of wiretap and privacy laws as well as the Health Insu...
San Francisco County incumbent District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, appointed by Mayor London Breed to replace recalled Chesa Bou...
“The settlement occurred as a result of extensive, arms-length negotiations by experienced counsel after sufficient formal and...
Judges and Judiciary
San Francisco court picks next assistant presiding judge
By Craig Anderson
Judge Rochelle C. East has served in a variety of assignments since Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her to the court in 2013.
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation
Morgan Lewis wins $133M jury verdict for Shell USA
By Skyler Romero
Shell won a unanimous verdict against Barclay Hollander for equitable allocation of the costs of cleaning a Carson neighborhood.
Half the battle is showing up on time Fresno County jurist tells attorneys and defendants
Criminal
Girardi firm CFO arrested on wire fraud charge
By Sunidhi Sridhar, Craig Anderson
Christopher K. Kamon is the first former employee of the now-defunct firm to be charged with a crime.
Health Care & Hospital Law, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation
NCAA lawyers tangle with doctor who identified CTE
By Sunidhi Sridhar
"It was strongly, strongly pushed back by the sports industry," Dr. Bennet Omalu, the first person to find CTE in a deceased f...
Technology, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Panel mulls Lanham Act suit against anti-malware maker
By Craig Anderson
This is the second appeal by Enigma Software Group USA LLC of a dismissal of its lawsuit against Malwarebytes, competitors in ...
Technology, Labor/Employment, Civil Rights
Google opposes 6th amending of free speech labor lawsuit
By Wisdom Howell
At a case management conference Tuesday alongside its co-defendant, Adecco USA Inc. — a staffing agency that provided Google w...
Land Use, Environmental & Energy
Sheppard Mullin crafted complicated deal to form nature preserve near Malibu
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“One of the most challenging aspects of this transaction was that our client didn’t own the property but had a sizable judgmen...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Lawsuit claims 2 lawyers helped competitors smuggle assets
By Skyler Romero
“Just three days before Orion could execute on the judgment, Ningbo Sunny’s co-conspirator and largest customer, Celestron, pa...
Securities, Class Action
$13.5M Amyris securities class settlement approved
By Jonathan Lo
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said Tuesday the settlement seemed appropriate and she would issue a written order....
Intellectual Property
US Supreme Court to review Patent Act section for 2nd time in history
By Jonathan Lo
If the high court affirms the Federal Circuit Court’s ruling against Amgen Inc. of Thousand Oaks, the justices’ decision could...
The team included students Kathryn Rosenfeld, Sydney Gaskins, Erica Kelley and Sophia Cherif. Cherif also won the “best advoca...
U.S. Supreme Court, Administrative/Regulatory
US justices seem poised to allow court challenges to administrative agency rulings?
By Craig Anderson
The cases are the latest example of legal tests raised by companies and individuals against the authority of federal administr...
Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation
NCAA gets doctor’s admission medical was incomplete
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Former USC football college football player Matthew Gee’s cocaine use was omitted from the official evaluation of his brain in...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
$8B Walgreens damages trial pauses for deal talks
By Wisdom Howell
The damages trial was to have begun Monday after San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charles Breyer issued a 112-page order in ...
Judges and Judiciary
Newsom nominates to 6th District, 9 to superior courts
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Daniel Bromberg, Gov. Gavin Newsom's former deputy legal affairs secretary, was nominated for the 6th District Court of Appeal...
Judges and Judiciary
Appeals court judge receives first ever Excellence in Ethics award
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
9th Circuit Judge William A. Fletcher co-authored a textbook on civil procedure which addresses complex litigation and class a...
Technology, Civil Litigation, Banking
Judge skeptical of suit against celebrities over crypto promotion
By Skyler Romero
U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald expressed doubt about the merits of consolidated class complaint alleging Steve Gent...
Recent attorney disbarments, suspensions, probations and public reprovals in California.
