Government
Governor signs bill allowing wrongful death lawsuit to go forward
By Malcolm Maclachlan
AB 2445 will allow legal guardians of a minor to sue for wrongful death if the child is an orphan. It was passed on an urgency...
Criminal
Federal prosecutors drop pot charges after court approves bar on spending money charging defendants
By Craig Anderson
Hallie M. Hoffman, chief of the criminal division at the Northern District U.S. attorney's office, dismissed the complaint for...
Insurance
Restaurant can’t take business interruption insurance suit back to state court
By Blaise Scemama
Since insurance companies and policyholders are often located in different states, insurers have been able to remove actions t...
Environmental & Energy, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Fight over utility wildfire bailout goes to the 9th Circuit
By Gina Kim
Utility customers have taken their challenge to Assembly Bill 1054’s wildfire fund up to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
California Supreme Court
High court turns back challenge to San Francisco’s new tax
By Winston Cho
Laura Dougherty of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association said the California high court wants "another case with other facts"...
Labor/Employment
Cal/OSHA board will consider rule on protections for employees exposed to virus
By Jessica Mach
Cal/OSHA's standards board will consider a recommendation for an emergency rule that would give certain protections to employe...
Judges and Judiciary
Eric Taylor elected next presiding judge of LA County Superior Court
By Blaise Scemama
No announcement was made about the election of the next assistant presiding judge, which usually take place at the same time.
State Bar & Bar Associations, Real Estate/Development
State Bar once again pondering sale of San Francisco building
By Henrik Nilsson
The Legislature in 2014 weighed in on the bar's real estate holdings and the money the bar could save if it moved to a more af...
Criminal, California Courts of Appeal
Appeal panel hesitant to release killer from San Quentin over virus concerns
By Tyler Pialet
1st District Court of Appeal Presiding Justice J. Anthony Kline said he wasn’t convinced he can order the prisons department t...
Criminal
OC sheriff’s deputy charged with felony filing of false report
By Tyler Pialet
The Orange County district attorney accused the deputy of taking a suspect's debit card, putting it in her shirt pocket and gi...
Intellectual Property, Criminal, Civil Litigation
Judge orders radio station owner to jail for failure to cooperate with receiver
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Judge Jesus G. Bernal, of the Central District of California, ordered the defendant to pay $1.25 million for copyright infring...
Two-year terms begin Jan. 1, 2021 for Presiding Judge-elect Erick L. Larsh and Assistant Presiding Judge-elect Maria D. Hernan...
Civil Litigation, Admiralty/Maritime
Cruise plaintiffs try class action in virus litigation
By Gina Kim
The proposed class action accuses Princess of exposing passengers on the Grand Princess while withholding critical information...
Kendall Brill & Kelly secured a bond hearing for Javier De Santiago Perez, an immigrant detainee housed at Adelanto who wa...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit rules against qualified immunity for accused social workers
By Craig Anderson
9th Circuit Judge Mary H. Murguia, writing for panel, issued a split opinion that one of Sampson's attorneys, Duane R. Folke o...
Law Office Management
Employment litigator moves to Epstein Becker in LA
By Kamila Knaudt
Amy S. Ramsey joined a team of roughly a dozen members of the firm that make up the employment, labor and workforce management...
Insurance, Civil Litigation
Business interruption rulings on Covid appear to be in favor of insurers
By Blaise Scemama
While over 1,000 business interruption claims filed in the U.S. differ from policy to policy, the two most pertinent questions...
Hundreds of alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends of the school attended one of the 20 breakout rooms over Zoom through...
Law Office Management
Patent litigator moves to Baker Botts from Sidley Austin
By Kamila Knaudt
Based in Palo Alto, Peter H. Kang will co-chair Baker Botts' Korea IP practice.
Civil Litigation
4 Mitsubishi mechanics sue over hostile workplace claims
By Winston Cho
The plaintiffs claimed they were segregated with other Black workers to perform menial cleaning tasks, targeted with racial sl...
Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation
Judge tells defendant to get another attorney
By Craig Anderson
Ventura County Superior Court Judge Vincent J. O'Neill declared a second mistrial in the commercial eviction case and ordered ...
Employees gathering with friends, expressing their political views and posting about these things on social media have created...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
State Bar tells attorneys it is investigating their dealings with lawyer referral service it has just approved
By Henrik Nilsson
The bar did not stop at the cease and desist letters. It started to notify attorneys in late July that it was investigating th...
Judges and Judiciary, Criminal
LA’s 1st trial since March ends with jurors having to fill out verdict forms 4 times
By Nick Kipley
Time after time, the jurors filled out the forms, waited for them to be reviewed, and were then called back to fill them out a...
Education Law, Civil Litigation
San Bernardino County charter school sues network over allocation of funds
By Winston Cho
Provenance, formerly known as Inspire Charter Schools, "caused various assets and personnel to be distributed among the school...
Obituaries, Criminal, Civil Litigation
Modesto attorney’s death won’t stop his legal fight with DA
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Frank C. Carson’s attorney said he was preparing a motion seeking to turn his civil rights and wrongful imprisonment case into...
Judges and Judiciary, Criminal, Civil Litigation
Some judges don’t wear masks, igniting debate
By Craig Anderson
In a letter to Monterey County Presiding Judge Julie R. Culver and California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, Salinas de...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar comes under fire for retracting job offer to Black woman
By Malcolm Maclachlan
At issue were allegations that Fredericka McGee, a longtime legislative attorney, was offered the job in July, only to have th...
Law Practice
California’s debate over legal paraprofessionals is reignited
By Blaise Scemama
Arizona plunges into legal paraprofessional system but some California attorneys are hesitant to follow.
Convening an emergency hearing Friday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh considered whether to issue a temporary restraining order ...