Health Care & Hospital Law, Criminal
Judge sentences child rapist to 960 years
By Kamila Knaudt
Tulare County Superior Court Judge Nathan G. Leedy used his discretion to order the 15-year penalty for each of 64 felony char...
Alex R. Straus, senior counsel at Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, filed the first proposed class action Monday in fe...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation
Mistrial motion ‘speculation on steroids’ judge says
By Henrik Nilsson
The claims were made in a case involving the billion-dollar estate of movie theater tycoon Robert A. Naify.
Immigration, Criminal, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Circuit reverses ruling on private prisons law
By Craig Anderson
The three-judge 9th Circuit panel ruled that AB 32, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019, improperly interferes with t...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Criminal
DAs implement fentanyl warnings of murder charges
By Kamila Knaudt
The advisement serves, along with the conviction on a drug crime charge, as proof of implied malice if homicide charges are br...
Law Practice, Law Office Management
Former US attorney joins MoFo in San Diego
By Pete Escobar
Adam L. Braverman, a former U.S. Justice Department official whose nomination to serve on the U.S. District Court in San Diego...
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation
Companies must pay $86M in superfund site cleanup deal
By Henrik Nilsson
“These settlements will enhance groundwater quality in Los Angeles County by requiring the responsible polluters to clean up t...
Technology, Labor/Employment, Civil Rights
Investors want Tesla to stop arbitration mandates
By Winston Cho
The $137M verdict was issued ahead of an annual shareholder meeting on Thursday in which there will be a vote on a proposal ur...
Government, Civil Litigation
Teacher’s affair with student leads to limit on arbitrations
By Malcolm Maclachlan
On. Aug. 31, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill inspired by the case being handled by Richard A. Schwartz of Browne George Ross...
Criminal, Civil Litigation
AG sues State Personnel Board over prison guard reinstatement
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“Modification of the penalty is appropriate because dismissal is out of proportion to the proven misconduct,” the Personnel Bo...
Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation
3 judges recuse themselves from Apple patent case
By Henrik Nilsson
According to the Southern District of California docket, U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel, Magistrate Judge Michael S. Be...
Government, Criminal
DAs to continue fight for public sexually violent predator hearings
By Kamila Knaudt
“It’s critically important, and it’s something that I’m not going to give up on,” San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan ...
Legal Education, Community News
Southwestern Law alumni offer trial experience fellowship for students
By Pete Escobar
The Yoka-Panish Civil Justice Fellowship will allow first-year students to participate in two five-week civil trials, working ...
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation
Oil company says ship traffic jam may be culprit in spill
By Gina Kim
Potential legal actions are also clearly scaring investors of Amplify Energy Corp., which owns the oil platform, known as Elly...
Insurance, Civil Litigation
Actor wins $6.3M insurance verdict for burned home
By Henrik Nilsson
Devin A. McRae of Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae LLP represented actor Shannen Doherty in the five-day jury trial.
Insurance, Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Virus exclusion or not, insurers win
By Craig Anderson
More than 64% of lawsuits against insurers over the denial of business interruption coverage in state courts across the nation...
SB 447, passed by the Legislature in September, was sponsored by the Consumer Federation of California and the Consumer Attorn...
Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lawyers want to know more about judge’s financial interests in cases
By Malcolm Maclachlan
"It's not just the Sammartino needed to be recused, it's that she weirdly decided in Target's favor, the company whose stock s...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
$52B opioid trial ends with tense attorney-judge exchange
By Blaise Scemama
“It took five times for the court to finally get an answer to its question, ‘Is there any evidence that any medically inapprop...
Insurance, Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Ruling for insurers, 9th Circuit says cause of closures ‘not debatable’
By Craig Anderson
“There are now seven federal court of appeals decisions on COVID-19 business interruption claims, and every one rejects policy...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation, Bankruptcy
Gas leak case will pay Girardi Keese creditors, trustee says
By Henrik Nilsson
The Porter Ranch gas leak litigation settled last week for $1.8 billion. Together with the Frantz Law Firm, Girardi Keese repr...
Judges and Judiciary
25,000-word judiciary omnibus bill signed into law
By Malcolm Maclachlan
AB 1578 aims at expanding public access to administrative hearings, but not recording them and contains new rules about everyt...
Technology, Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation
$2B Nikola v Tesla patent suit suspended due to no-shows
By Winston Cho
“Plaintiff Nikola Corp. bears the burden of prosecuting this case and moving it to a resolution. It has dropped the ball, and ...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
CHP settles with former officer, in anti-gay harassment case
By Kamila Knaudt
“It’s a significant settlement and sends a strong message to the California Highway Patrol that it needs to improve and reform...
Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation
Last minute deal brings $41.75M for brain-damaged man
By Gina Kim
The eleventh hour deal between their client, Eric Murillo and U-Haul Co. of California Inc. came after a three-week arbitratio...
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Civil Litigation
CourtCall remote service sues LA Courts for canceled contract
By Kamila Knaudt
“In more than 25 years of service, this is the first instance in which CourtCall has been forced to bring such an action agai...
Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation
3 Eastern District judges recuse in toxic label litigation
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The triple recusal case is about the labeling of foods that contain acrylamide under Proposition 65. An intervenor, the Counci...
Contracts, Civil Litigation
Creators of Chinese online shopping site stole idea, suit claims
By Gina Kim
But lawyers for PacTech Holdings, a technology incubator and software product maker, say Fanli’s creators breached contract
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
Riot Games discrimination case ordered into settlement talks
By Gina Kim
Melanie L. Proctor, representing the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing, said she feared the settlement would ena...
Anne Goyette handles complex cases, often as special master