Civil Litigation, Banking, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Oakland can sue Wells Fargo over lending practices
By Craig Anderson
In a Wednesday ruling, the panel upheld most of U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen's denial of a defense dismissal motion and ...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education
Law deans praise lower bar passage score, say it will not affect school admissions standards
By Henrik Nilsson
In July, the court announced that it would lower the cut score from 1440 to 1390, starting from the October examination. Many ...
The preliminary injunction, which has since been stayed by a court of appeal, required the companies to start complying with A...
Civil Litigation
Decade-long coffee labeling case ends with summary judgment for defense
By Blaise Scemama
The lawsuit has gone to the Court of Appeal at least three times, and may end up there again, according to sources familiar wi...
State Bar & Bar Associations
New bar board, examiners committee and bar court officers and members named
By Henrik Nilsson
Sean M. SeLegue, partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, was named by the California Supreme court to chair the State...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education, Government
Assembly Judiciary Committee considers police officer misconduct and bar exam
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A proposed resolution, HR 103, asks the state high court to make the lower bar exam score retroactive to 2015. The bill on pol...
Native Americans
Tribe invokes sovereign immunity, defense responds with mass discovery demands
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Tribes often cite sovereignty as a shield and defense attorneys have found filing extensive discovery motions has led to dismi...
Civil Rights
Judges create group to advocate for more just and united judicial system
By Kamila Knaudt
The judges from state trial and appellate courts throughout California agreed "to work together as one to advocate for a more ...
Civil Litigation
LA County loses another bid to get order shutting church
By Nick Kipley
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff denied the county's second request in part because California Cod...
Government
Newsom endorses challenger in LA DA race where both candidates are Democrats
By Tyler Pialet
Newsom, who as mayor of San Francisco tapped Gascon to lead the city’s police department and to succeed then-DA Kamala Harris,...
Real Estate/Development, Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal
Lease arbitration agreements not enforceable, panel says
By Gina Kim
The 2nd District Court of Appeal applied state versus federal law to the case involving a dispute over claims of bedbugs in an...
Technology, Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Fortnite can remain off app store during Apple litigation
By Winston Cho
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers found that Epic Games cannot suffer irreparable harm if the status quo is maintaine...
Criminal, California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court throws out Scott Peterson’s death sentence
By Tyler Pialet
A unanimous California Supreme Court ruled the trial was tainted by the exclusion of jurors who opposed the death penalty, but...
Government
A heated debate on state bill to decertify police officers
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The biggest drama of the day was probably over a procedural vote on one of the year's most timely and controversial bills. SB ...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Government, Civil Rights
LA county says only judicial order, not enforcement procedures, can get church to stop indoor services
By Nick Kipley
In its fourth attempt to get a restraining order against Grace Community Church the county said, notices, citations and fines ...
Los Angeles boutique Cohen Williams LLP announced Roya Ladan joined as counsel Monday. Ladan came from King & Spalding LLP...
Judges and Judiciary, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Signature Resolution grows federal judge roster with former chief magistrate
By Gina Kim
Walsh served for nearly two decades on the Central District of California, including as chief magistrate judge for the last fo...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education
In a first, California accredits online-only law schools
By Kamila Knaudt
The Committee of Bar Examiners voted Friday to recognize Concord Law School at Purdue University Global, Northwestern Californ...
Constitutional Law
Religious learning institutions challenge closure orders
By Gina Kim
Teachers, parents and students of religious educational institutions filed a lawsuit against the state over school closures in...
Technology, Government, Civil Litigation
TikTok sues over Trump order, calls president’s decision political
By Winston Cho
While the president has long maintained the video app's Beijing-based parent company ByteDance shares Americans' personal data...
“The issue really is to what extent platforms like Craigslist or YouTube or any other social media sites that rely upon user g...
Real Estate/Development, Government, Civil Litigation
Surviving bill to head off eviction tsunami faces litigation wave if it passes
By Malcolm Maclachlan
If AB 1436 becomes law, Attorney General Xavier Becerra will quickly find himself having to defend its constitutionality in co...
Reeves Immigration Law Group devotes a case team to clients in difficult circumstances.
Immigration, Criminal
Labor contractor sentenced for selling US visas to Mexican farmworkers
By Jessica Mach
The defendant was convicted of traveling to Mexico to recruit farmworkers and charging them up to $3,000 for H-2A visas, in ad...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar gears up for a large number of test-takers who need a lower score to pass
By Craig Anderson
A resolution introduced in the Legislature last week calls upon the state Supreme Court to retroactively apply the newly-lower...
Government, Civil Rights
Protesters block LA courthouse to stop resumption of unlawful detainer proceedings
By Blaise Scemama
Protesters plan to demonstrate again in front of the courthouse beginning Sept. 2 and every day after that, which could lead t...
Orange County Superior Court to resume civil jury trials for certain cases, including aged cases, or those with preference pla...
U.S. judge asks Ruby Princess passengers to clarify exactly when they contracted COVID-19.
Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Circuit panel revives Oracle’s infringement suit against Hewlett Packard
By Winston Cho
Oracle alleged in 2016 that HPE and service support company Terix Computer illegally allowed customers to access Solaris opera...
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation
Wildlife group wants to stop luxury project in fire zone
By Winston Cho
A wildlife protection organization has been challenging approval of a new luxury resort and residential development proposed i...