Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Bankruptcy judge will grant narrow order in case related to LA litigation
By Justin Kloczko
Federal prosecutors from the Central District of California argued for the complete stay of two proceedings involving Paul O. ...
State Bar & Bar Associations, California Supreme Court
No retroactive lower bar exam score, says state Supreme Court
By Henrik Nilsson
With the court’s decision on July 16 to permanently lower the cut score from 1,440 to 1,390, some deans, students and others w...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
Judge bars Uber, Lyft from classifying drivers as independent contractors
By Craig Anderson
The decision is a win for state legislators who have sought to enforce AB 5 against Uber and Lyft, and a withering judicial cr...
Environmental & Energy
Judge imposes less strict orders on PG&E than expected
By Winston Cho
U.S. District Judge William Alsup's Friday ruling replaced a more demanding set of conditions that could have forced PG&E ...
Civil Litigation
Court ‘safer than a market,’ US judge tells San Diego jurors
By Gina Kim
The first jury trial commenced Monday in the Southern District of California post COVID-19 shutdown orders. It is a civil case...
Law Office Management
Susman Godfrey’s new leader came up through the ranks
By Kamila Knaudt
Srinivasan's appointment marks many first for the law firm. She is also the first managing partner based outside of the firm's...
Criminal
DAs object to state prisoners’ release without victim notification
By Tyler Pialet
Prosecutors are becoming concerned that the way in which prison officials are releasing inmates violates a constitutional righ...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education, Law Practice
Law school debt fuels California’s ‘legal deserts’
By Henrik Nilsson
According to a new report from the American Bar Association, 37% of 1,100 new lawyers who were interviewed said that instead o...
Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
NFL players’ negligence suit against league still alive
By Craig Anderson
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel affirmed rulings by a San Francisco district judge against two of the plaintiffs’ th...
Brown & Charbonneau's niche practice is focused on litigating business and family breakups.
Government
Bill to extend victims’ compensation to those injured by law enforcement moves forward
By Tyler Pialet
Officers wouldn’t need to be arrested or charged with the commission of a crime or a public offense in order for a person to q...
Law Practice, Intellectual Property
Intellectual property ethics attorneys start bi-coastal boutique
By Kamila Knaudt
The new firm will specialize in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Office of Enrollment and Discipline ethics investigatio...
Criminal
AG opposes Kings County DA charging female meth addict with murder in her stillborn child’s death
By Tyler Pialet
Kings County District Attorney Keith L. Fagundes said he never had the chance to brief the Department of Justice on how the la...
Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit overrules immigration board to allow asylum seeker to stay for now
By Craig Anderson
The majority opinion concluded the board wrongly interpreted Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to reject the asylum cla...
Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Firms vie for class leadership in gas price antitrust litigation
By Winston Cho
The lawsuits filed in federal court in San Francisco piggyback on a case filed by the state's top prosecutor claiming Vitol In...
Insurance, Civil Litigation
Business interruption fight focused on state versus federal courts
By Blaise Scemama
Plaintiffs’ attorneys have been particularly resistant to federal court venues, and judges’ decisions vary on remand requests.
Government, Civil Litigation
Judge says Ventura County can halt church’s indoor services, restrict outdoor worship
By Justin Kloczko
Ventura County Judge Matthew P. Guasco, in finding constitutional rights to the free practice of religion must be consistent w...
Labor/Employment
Judge will issue decision soon on enforcement of state gig law
By Jessica Mach
State advocates and lawyers for Uber and Lyft butted heads Thursday when they argued whether a superior court should issue a p...
Civil Litigation
Law enforcement unions sue to halt LA County charter change ballot measure
By Tyler Pialet
Law enforcement agencies have largely opposed the amendment because it would prohibit any of the earmarked funds from being di...
Latham & Watkins LLP snagged Katharine P. Moir, the former head of the West Coast tax practice at Simpson Thacher & Ba...
Government, Criminal
Bill seeks to make it easier for those injured by police to receive compensation
By Tyler Pialet
Compensation could not be denied on the grounds that at injured claimant was in the act of committing a crime or failed to rea...
U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal
US high court grants OC jails a stay from implementing more COVID-19 procedures
By Tyler Pialet
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has twice denied requests from the county to immediately lift the district court orders.
Bankruptcy
Creditor objects to bankruptcy proceedings being stayed for LA criminal probe
By Justin Kloczko
The U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, who is conducting a criminal probe into the Los Angeles Department o...
Civil Litigation
Jurist says Twitter likely not liable for ‘rogue employee’s spying
By Winston Cho
It's too late for the plaintiff to sue Twitter since it alerted him of the Saudi Arabia state-sponsored breach in 2015, nearly...
Government
Democratic legislative leaders ask chief justice to extend eviction and foreclosure bans
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The chief justice said determining the policy “was best left to the legislative and executive branches.” But the lawmakers sa...
Government
US DOJ, cable industry renew attempts to preempt California’s net neutrality law
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Both filed amended complaints and motions for a preliminary injunction in federal court to block SB 822.
Tax, Government, Civil Litigation
Taxpayers group loses bids for major change in tax initiative arguments
By Craig Anderson
Sacramento County judges rejected most challenges to the ballot title and arguments in a major property tax initiative that wo...
Insurance, Civil Litigation
Denial of COVID-related bank lawsuits coordination bodes ill for business insurance consolidation effort
By Justin Kloczko
The rulings by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, which may signal bad news for a pending ruling on a motion...
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation
Woolsey judge asks AG why causation report can’t be public
By Gina Kim
Thousands of plaintiffs, including homeowners, agricultural landowners and insurers sued the utility over the November 2018 bl...