Judges and Judiciary
Veteran LA Judge Stephen Czuleger to retire after nearly 40 years on the bench
By Ricardo Pineda
Longtime Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge J. Stephen Czuleger, a former presiding judge known for demanding preparation...
Judge finds Meta violated child privacy law but leaves key COPPA question for jury
By Daniel Schrager
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 settles 2nd social media bellwether case weeks before trial
By Devon Belcher
TikTok has settled claims brought by the second bellwether plaintiff in the Los Angeles social media addiction litigation, lea...
Government
LAHSA sues Trump administration over HUD funding suspension
By Skyler Romero
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority alleges HUD exceeded its authority and endangered more than $200 million in homelessne...
Torts/Personal Injury
Broader bellwether pool for social media addiction litigation
By Devon Belcher
Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl approved a broader framework for selecting the third wave of bellwether plaintiffs, rejecting defense ef...
Criminal
Appeal heats up over San Francisco public defender contempt ruling
By Alicia Alvarez
The parties filed competing responses to amicus briefs supporting and opposing San Francisco Public Defender Manohar Raju as t...
Real Estate/Development
Defense concession emerges as Beverly Hills mansion trial is postponed
By Laurinda Keys
A Los Angeles judge postponed a Beverly Hills mansion nuisance trial until March, scheduling a special October hearing to reso...
Orange County judge was mentor and champion of civility
The Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic marked its 17th anniversary with a patriotic Walt Disney Concert Hall performance celebra...
Environmental & Energy
Roundup ruling fuels fears of broader shield for manufacturers
By Alicia Alvarez
Plaintiffs' lawyers say the U.S. Supreme Court's decision shielding Bayer and Monsanto from certain Roundup failure-to-warn cl...
Bankruptcy
San Francisco archdiocese agrees to $395 million abuse settlement
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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.
Bail bond insurers agree to $66 million antitrust settlement
By Daniel Schrager
Nine bail bond insurance underwriters agreed to pay $66 million and end alleged price-fixing practices in a proposed settlemen...
Consumer Protection Law
Meta loses bid to exclude internal evidence before August trial
By Daniel Schrager
A federal judge indicated she will allow states suing Meta over alleged adolescent social media addiction to use internal comp...
Environmental & Energy
Judge says record from retired colleague's trial is a 'Gordian knot'
By Devon Belcher
A Los Angeles judge said he remains undecided whether alleged evidentiary errors during a Carson odor bellwether trial require...
Judges and Judiciary
More than 100 retired California judges form 'wall of justice' to defend an independent judiciary
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
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
Judge picks Bursor, Edelson to lead Flock privacy litigation
By Daniel Schrager
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said Bursor & Fisher and Edelson's track record in automated license plate reader litig...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that migrants turned away while still in Mexico cannot invoke federal asylum laws, giving the fed...
Data Privacy
Federal judge limits California call-recording law to traditional phones
By Daniel Schrager
Finding the statute unambiguous, a Northern District magistrate judge ruled that Section 632.7 does not require consent to rec...
DOJ threatens California over handgun roster, Glock restrictions
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
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
Legislature approves bill to avert Uber-attorney ballot fight
By Malcolm Maclachlan
SB 623 passed unanimously hours before a deadline to pull competing initiatives from the November ballot.
Constitutional Law, Civil Rights
Huntington Beach tentatively ordered to adopt ranked choice voting
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
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
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
Uber RICO suit accuses injury lawyers of fraud, not advocacy
By Skyler Romero
Defense lawyers argued Uber's racketeering claims target constitutionally protected litigation activity, while the company ins...
Environmental & Energy
Warehouse owner loses bid to erase Carson odor verdict
By Devon Belcher
A Los Angeles judge denied Prologis' effort to overturn an $8.8 million Carson odor verdict but continued hearing arguments on...