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Judges and Judiciary


Longtime Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge J. Stephen Czuleger, a former presiding judge known for demanding preparation...


U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Meta failed to provide the parental notices required by COPPA but held t...


Torts/Personal Injury


TikTok has settled claims brought by the second bellwether plaintiff in the Los Angeles social media addiction litigation, lea...


Government


Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority alleges HUD exceeded its authority and endangered more than $200 million in homelessne...


Torts/Personal Injury


Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl approved a broader framework for selecting the third wave of bellwether plaintiffs, rejecting defense ef...


The parties filed competing responses to amicus briefs supporting and opposing San Francisco Public Defender Manohar Raju as t...


Real Estate/Development


A Los Angeles judge postponed a Beverly Hills mansion nuisance trial until March, scheduling a special October hearing to reso...


Obituaries


Sheila B. Fell 1941 - 2026

Jun. 30, 2026
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Orange County judge was mentor and champion of civility


State Bar & Bar Associations, Community News


Legal Harmony

Jun. 30, 2026

The Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic marked its 17th anniversary with a patriotic Walt Disney Concert Hall performance celebra...


Environmental & Energy


Plaintiffs' lawyers say the U.S. Supreme Court's decision shielding Bayer and Monsanto from certain Roundup failure-to-warn cl...


Bankruptcy


The settlement would resolve claims by about 530 survivors of clergy sexual abuse, a deal plaintiffs' attorneys say would be t...


Attorneys and academics said the government struggled to persuade jurors that Rinderknecht could be held criminally responsibl...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Nine bail bond insurance underwriters agreed to pay $66 million and end alleged price-fixing practices in a proposed settlemen...


Consumer Protection Law


A federal judge indicated she will allow states suing Meta over alleged adolescent social media addiction to use internal comp...


Environmental & Energy


A Los Angeles judge said he remains undecided whether alleged evidentiary errors during a Carson odor bellwether trial require...


More than 100 retired California judges have released a video tribute defending judicial independence, timed to the 250th anni...


Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed 14 Superior Court judges Friday, including three newly elected judges who will assume office immed...


Gov. Gavin Newsom signed compromise legislation governing rideshare safety and medical billing, ending competing ballot campai...


A Los Angeles judge refused to let District Attorney Nathan Hochman intervene in the county's $4 billion juvenile abuse settl...


Data Privacy


U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said Bursor & Fisher and Edelson's track record in automated license plate reader litig...


Immigration


The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that migrants turned away while still in Mexico cannot invoke federal asylum laws, giving the fed...


Finding the statute unambiguous, a Northern District magistrate judge ruled that Section 632.7 does not require consent to rec...


The U.S. Department of Justice warned it will sue California unless the state abandons its handgun roster and impending restri...


After participating in roughly 225 jury trials over a 45-year career as a lawyer and judge, retired Santa Cruz County Superior...


The Judicial Council approved revisions to jury service rules, forms and courtroom scripts replacing gendered language with ge...


Torts/Personal Injury


SB 623 passed unanimously hours before a deadline to pull competing initiatives from the November ballot.


Constitutional Law, Civil Rights


A tentative ruling finds Huntington Beach's at-large election system violates the California Voting Rights Act, rejects the ci...



Bayer Roundup win expected to doom thousands of claims

Jun. 25, 2026
By Alicia Alvarez, Craig Anderson

The U.S. Supreme Court's 7-2 ruling that federal pesticide law preempts state failure-to-warn claims over Roundup gives Bayer ...


Torts/Personal Injury


Defense lawyers argued Uber's racketeering claims target constitutionally protected litigation activity, while the company ins...


Environmental & Energy


A Los Angeles judge denied Prologis' effort to overturn an $8.8 million Carson odor verdict but continued hearing arguments on...