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Health Care & Hospital Law, Criminal


Judge sentences child rapist to 960 years

Oct. 6, 2021
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...


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


Law firms line up oil spill cases

Oct. 6, 2021
By Gina Kim

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


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

Oct. 6, 2021
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


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

Oct. 6, 2021
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


“These settlements will enhance groundwater quality in Los Angeles County by requiring the responsible polluters to clean up t...


Technology, Labor/Employment, Civil Rights


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


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


“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

Oct. 5, 2021
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


“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


The Yoka-Panish Civil Justice Fellowship will allow first-year students to participate in two five-week civil trials, working ...


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


Potential legal actions are also clearly scaring investors of Amplify Energy Corp., which owns the oil platform, known as Elly...


Insurance, Civil Litigation


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

Oct. 5, 2021
By Craig Anderson

More than 64% of lawsuits against insurers over the denial of business interruption coverage in state courts across the nation...


Government


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


"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


“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


“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


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

Oct. 4, 2021
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


“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


“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


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


“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


The triple recusal case is about the labeling of foods that contain acrylamide under Proposition 65. An intervenor, the Counci...


Contracts, Civil Litigation


But lawyers for PacTech Holdings, a technology incubator and software product maker, say Fanli’s creators breached contract


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


Melanie L. Proctor, representing the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing, said she feared the settlement would ena...



Simplified Problem Solving

Oct. 1, 2021
By David Houston

Anne Goyette handles complex cases, often as special master