Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
Vaccine suit against CalState dropped after accommodations
By Craig Anderson
Peter Gibbons, a Nevada attorney who represents the plaintiffs, wrote in an email Tuesday that two of his clients applied for ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal
Mistrial declared in Michael Avenatti's wire fraud case
By Gina Kim
Michael J. Avenatti granted new trial over missing financial data that federal judge agrees was material to his case in chief.
Insurance, Civil Litigation
LA judge addresses ‘every major insurance defense’ to asbestos liability coverage
By Craig Anderson
“For policyholders that are facing massive product liability losses that are going to stretch for decades, this coverage actio...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal
Judge seeks report on Avenatti accounts to consider mistrial
By Gina Kim
“I just need that piece of the puzzle to fully consider the motion and invite argument,” U.S. District Judge James V. Selna sa...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
Opinion that Prop 22 is unconstitutional to be appealed
By Craig Anderson
“The trial court judge has refused to acknowledge that the voters have coequal authority as the Legislature,” said Kurt R. One...
Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Tom Girardi barred from practice in federal court
By Henrik Nilsson
Chief Judge Philip S. Gutierrez of the Central District of California barred Girardi from practicing in federal court on Frida...
Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
State law doesn’t let artists control performance of their music
By Winston Cho
Members of 1960s rock band The Turtles brought their case in 2013 against Sirius XM, stating they are owed payment for the bro...
Law Practice, Health Care & Hospital Law
Vaccine approval means more mandates and lawsuits
By Blaise Scemama
A recurring argument in lawsuits challenging vaccine mandates pointed to the fact that vaccines were not fully FDA-approved. B...
Criminal, California Supreme Court
State high court reverses conviction, death sentence over lack of competency hearing
By Kamila Knaudt
"Given the passage of time and the corollary difficulty of reconstructing defendant's mental state at the time of trial, none ...
Government, California Supreme Court
California redistricting commission asks for second delay in drafting map
By Craig Anderson
The state Legislature sought a four-month postponement earlier this year due to delays in the federal census caused by the COV...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Top State Bar trustees named by Supreme Court
By Jessica Mach
Ruben Duran, an Ontario partner at Best Best & Krieger LLP, will chair the board of trustees. Kern County Deputy District ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar will investigate July online exam problems
By Nicole Tyau
Test takers have reported problems with the October 2020 and July 2021 bar exams, including frozen screens and system crashes.
Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit panel revives asylum bid for nurse who said cartels threatened her
By Craig Anderson
The immigration appeals board had denied her appeal, comparing her claim to that of taxi drivers from El Salvador who sought a...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal
Judge orders US to let Avenatti search his firm’s data servers
By Gina Kim
Judge orders prosecutors to make Eagan Avenatti LLP servers available to Michael Avenatti to look for potentially missing fina...
International Law, Data Privacy
US companies might handle China data privacy law well
By Henrik Nilsson
Since China’s law is similar to Europe’s, law firms will have a road map. Still, questions remain, such as what the level of c...
Civil Litigation
Match won’t have to provide documents in Apple’s app litigation
By Jessica Mach
Match, which owns various online dating services including OkCupid, PlentyofFish, and Tinder, is not a party in either case. H...
Legal Education, Community News
UC Irvine, Pepperdine law students win prizes in annual writing competition
By Luis Gutierrez
The winners appeared virtually Aug. 5 to read summaries of their papers to members of the California Supreme Court Historical ...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice
Those leery of paraprofessionals could have legislators’ support
By Henrik Nilsson
Although several steps remain before the proposal currently in the works in the Paraprofessional Program Working Group reaches...
Torts/Personal Injury, California Supreme Court
Contractors liable for own safety, state Supreme Court rules
By Jessica Mach
The high court overturned a decision by the 2nd District Court of Appeal.
Health Care & Hospital Law, Education Law
1st California school district mandates student vaccination
By Craig Anderson
The Culver City Unified School District’s decision to require all eligible students to get vaccinated for COVID-19 raised a fr...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation
Father-son legal team win $120M verdict, defense got terminating sanctions
By Blaise Scemama
Before the jury took less than an hour to unanimously award Equihua $120 million Wednesday, Riverside defense attorney Scott B...
Education Law, California Supreme Court
Orange County schools lose bid to end governor’s state of emergency
By Craig Anderson
Robert H. Tyler, a partner with Tyler & Bursch LLP, argued Newsom violated his duty under the Emergency Services Act. He s...
Civil Litigation
US magistrate says Twitter must face child pornography lawsuit
By Gina Kim
Twitter can’t escape a lawsuit that claims it benefits from publishing child sex abuse material, a U.S. magistrate judge ruled.
Law Practice, Law Office Management
Wilson Sonsini corporate practice nabs Sheppard Mullin partner
By Luis Gutierrez
The move by Robert L. Wernli Jr. from Sheppard Mullin’s office in San Diego, where he was a special counsel, and most recently...
Community courts champion aided veterans, mentally ill, addicts
Appellate Practice
Brief says appellate attorneys fear objecting to delays
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Because appellants’ attorneys aren’t objecting, public interest gives him standing to challenge alleged slow decision-making b...
Government, Civil Litigation
San Francisco DA calls suit against ‘ghost’ gun makers a crime preventer
By Jessica Mach
“This is a creative way for the DA to use his authority to combat an obvious safety problem. It’s one of the first cases of th...
Government, California Courts of Appeal
Panel mulls whether ban on trying minors as adults is retroactive
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The 3rd District Court of Appeal heard arguments on whether SB1391, which went into effect in 2019 barring DAs from trying min...
Data Privacy, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Challenge to NSA’s mass surveillance program is ‘buried in an unmarked grave’
By Craig Anderson
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled in an unpublished opinion that the plaintiffs lack standing because they canno...
Government, Criminal
DAs, victims’ groups try to block good-conduct changes to release felons
By Kamila Knaudt
Representatives of nonprofits Crime Victims United of California and Citizens Against Homicide joined 44 of the state’s distri...