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Government, Constitutional Law


US judge says governor has the right to close churches

May 5, 2020
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The judge said police actions such as disrupting a church service would be barred “under normal circumstances. ... But sometim...


The complaint filed in the Northern District of California alleges multiple violations of constitutional guarantees, including...


Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports


The U.S. women's national soccer team was a victim of its own success when a federal judge dismissed the team's equal pay clai...


Environmental & Energy


Former San Diego City Attorney Michael J. Aguirre lost another bid to obtain records from federal nuclear regulators related t...


If banks do not extend some comparable long-term relief, another real estate and mortgage crash is a near certainty, some atto...


U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property


The U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments Monday on a live audiostream for the first time, and the proceedings went off with ...


Obituaries


Michael J. Piuze, 1944-2020

May 5, 2020
By Justin Kloczko

Trial lawyer won billion-dollar verdicts against tobacco


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Uber Technologies Inc. must answer an antitrust lawsuit claiming its predatory pricing and other anticompetitive practices dro...


Civil Rights, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Nearly a dozen cases the U.S. Supreme Court court had been holding under consideration pending the outcome of the New York cas...


Insurance, Civil Litigation


San Francisco-based plaintiffs’ firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP has entered the battle over business interrupt...


Government, Civil Rights


Some attorneys say Newsom’s orders rest on firm constitutional grounds, but much depends on how far he is willing to go to enf...



Fight Club

May 4, 2020

Santa Barbara’s Cappello & Noël has just 7 attorneys but its litigation prowess is fearsome.


Mergers & Acquisitions


David L. Aronoff joined Baker & Hostetler LLP in Los Angeles, the firm announced Monday.


Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The National Football League will not have to face renewed antitrust claims over the Raiders' decision to move from Oakland to...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


A San Mateo County judge has granted class action status to an equal pay case filed by three female employees at Oracle Americ...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


The State Bar said it will not host any ceremonies, even virtually, but will provide applicants with instructions on how to ta...


The Homeland Security agent paid off by a Beverly Hills lawyer embroiled in a bribery scandal has been identified as Felix Cis...


Government, Civil Litigation


More lawsuits over the state and counties using private hotels for homeless housing during the pandemic may stop after one jud...


Governor’s order that weddings be virtual could face constitutional challenges.


Insurance, Bankruptcy


As businesses and policymakers continue to dispute what, exactly, their coverage includes during the pandemic, attorneys repre...


In Recess


Feather Movement

May 1, 2020
By Shane Nelson

Modesto Deputy Public Defender Peter Stavrianoudakis finds serenity in flight.


Prosecutors said the collaborative effort with the public defender’s office eliminates the need to clear records individually.


Judges and Judiciary


9th Circuit judge elected to honorary society

May 1, 2020
By Morgan Keith

9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge M. Margaret McKeown was elected to the American Academy of Art and Sciences.


Criminal, Constitutional Law, California Supreme Court


The American Civil Liberties Union’s argument, filed Thursday, contested the state’s response on Tuesday that mandating mass r...


More than 40,000 beach goers were reported last weekend in Newport Beach, where officials closed parking lots but kept the sho...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Ballot initiative to raise MICRA postponed until 2022

May 1, 2020
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Supporters who say they have 988,000 signatures to get the proposition on the ballot, said voters are overwhelmed because of t...


Environmental & Energy


In a sharply-worded reprimand of its safety performance, U.S. District Judge William Alsup accused the company of being unable...


To help public safety agencies around the nation deal with the fallout of the COVID-19 crisis, the DOJ has begun doling out gr...


Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court


Reversing an appellate court decision, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday a company accused by four counties of unfair bus...


Legal Education, Alternative Dispute Resolution


Pepperdine ADR courses going remote and global

May 1, 2020
By Henrik Nilsson

The Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution usually enrolls Pepperdine’s own students into three different programs, but since...