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Constitutional Law


The city argues the requirements violate constitutional limits on federal spending authority, infringe on Congress' power over...


Torts/Personal Injury


The jury's $22.1 million punitive award adds to a $176 million compensatory verdict rendered last week, in which a 12-member p...


Intellectual Property


A federal judge ruled that authors who opted out of the $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement cannot sue multiple AI com...


Civil Procedure


SB 932 targets efforts to hide litigation interests through assignments to shell companies.


Torts/Personal Injury


A Los Angeles County jury began deliberating whether Rebecca Grossman and Scott Erickson should pay punitive damages after jur...


Environmental & Energy


California argues the Trump administration cannot use the Defense Production Act to sidestep a court-approved consent decree g...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Attorney Paul Kiesel's latest filing argues that Judge Yvette Roland has already made detailed findings portraying him as a ce...


Recent settlements in Los Angeles and Alameda counties show how notice of hazardous trees can drive liability for public entit...


Paul Paton claims Chapman University ousted him as dean under the guise of scholarship-budget concerns after deciding to retre...


Judges and Judiciary


Shay, who helped oversee major civil, criminal and national security matters for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, su...


Labor/Employment


Devin Kim claims he was fired after repeatedly warning company leaders that Grok posed discrimination and public safety risks,...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Chief Judge Mary H. Murguia initiated a judicial misconduct proceeding against 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ryan D....


Torts/Personal Injury


Plaintiffs have accused Peter Grossman of shifting assets to protect family wealth from potential judgments after the 2020 cra...


Environmental & Energy


Experts say the lawsuit over Gov. Gavin Newsom's four-day per week office mandate may clear early hurdles, but the remedy coul...


Judge Gassia Apkarian found that SCSA Group and its co-founder knew or should have known of the alleged billing irregularities...


Intellectual Property


Apple defeats Neonode touchscreen patent suit

Jun. 9, 2026
By Daniel Schrager

A federal judge ruled that Apple's iPhone touchscreens do not infringe a Neonode patent, finding the patent failed to adequate...


Rejecting Ricoh's argument that determining liability would require individualized review of hundreds of thousands of contract...


Over 25 years, Sacks Glazier evolved from a small Los Angeles boutique into one of California's most influential trust and est...


Contracts


A Los Angeles judge allowed Pasadena's contract claims against UCLA and SoFi Stadium entities to proceed, finding allegations ...


A Los Angeles judge dismissed the murder indictment against former LAPD Officer Clifford Proctor, ruling that a former special...


Entertainment & Sports


A federal judge allowed fraud and misrepresentation claims to proceed against boxer Ryan Garcia and his company over a failed ...


Torts/Personal Injury


Chatsworth jury finds dangerous intersection contributed to crash, rejects Los Angeles' design immunity defense.


Real Estate/Development


Federal judge says Attorney General Rob Bonta cannot be sued over the law because his office does not enforce it.


Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson says her office must rebuild prosecutor training, restore victim trust, ...


The agency opened a formal inquiry earlier this year into Diversity Lab's Mansfield Certification program, which has been adop...


Torts/Personal Injury


A defense verdict in the second ovarian-cancer bellwether trial gives Johnson & Johnson a significant win in California's ...


Proposed class action alleges State Farm unlawfully limited coverage and appraisal rights guaranteed under California insuranc...


Judges and Judiciary


Eight challenged judges appeared headed for re-election; at least 29 new judges won open seats, while several contests remaine...


Civil Procedure


Attorney representing defendants in a fraud suit involving Chinese investors asks a federal judge to order Quinn Emanuel to di...


Torts/Personal Injury


A day after jurors awarded $176 million in wrongful death damages, attorneys began arguing whether Rebecca Grossman and Scott ...