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Securities, Government, Education Law


SEC charges education company with bond fraud

Apr. 28, 2020
By Winston Cho

The defendants were aware of various issues concerning the company’s finances they neglected to disclose, including being unab...


Attorneys are to reconvene via telephone Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by Los Angeles County against the City of Norwalk.


U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property


US Supreme Court finds states can’t copyright laws

Apr. 28, 2020
By Steven Crighton

The court found the protections cited by the plaintiff in a case involving a publication of Georgia’s legal codes only extend ...


Criminal


The lawyer involved in the scheme, only identified as CW1, or cooperating witness 1, received his license to practice law in 2...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


As a trial, the court also directed that the first-year law students exam, the so-called “baby bar,” should be conducted onlin...


Several judges, district attorneys and sheriffs have pushed back against early releases or zero bail, saying some inmates are ...


“It would ensure businesses deemed essential are protected and shielded from frivolous lawsuits in connection with the critica...


Law Practice


Late last month, TorkLaw founder Reza Torkzadeh spoke with Tom Feher, trial lawyer and founder of Feher Law, who reached out t...


Southern District judge Roger T. Benitez has blocked the state’s order mandating background checks for gun purchases, accordin...


Well established law says allowing a police dog to bite a fleeing suspect after he has surrendered is unconstitutional, and th...


Government


The complaint accuses a hotel of breaching a city lease that allows it to operate as a hotel and restaurant by allowing Los An...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


A federal appellate panel affirmed a $26.7 million award for a San Diego-based health care company Friday against Roche Holdin...


Confusion around who qualifies for funding and how to get application materials together have prevented many small business ow...


Labor/Employment, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Despite Lyft’s presence in the market, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero found Friday Uber has enough drivers and riders to p...


Law Practice, Government


The Small Business Administration reversed course in the new financial aid package, allowing firms to list partner salaries wh...


Government, Civil Litigation


Restaurants, pet groomers and other retailers shut down by pandemic challenge sanctions issued by Mayor Eric Garcetti and Gov....


Law Practice


King & Spalding LLP won a bidding war and is hiring 15 California-based partners from Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, m...


Intellectual Property


The dispute concerns whether it’s too late for plaintiffs’ attorneys to resume the class action lawsuit after both sides agree...


The lawsuit claims federal and state law bar unemployment insurance provided to people in the country illegally and allowing n...


U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property


While a trademark defendant’s mental state “is a highly important consideration in determining whether an award of profits is ...


Labor/Employment, California Courts of Appeal


A state appellate court panel on Thursday reversed a $13 million jury award against UCLA in a lawsuit by a female director of ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Lawyers handling client funds that are too small or held too briefly to earn interest must participate in the program but they...


Government


Los Angeles County on Thursday sued the City of Norwalk for trying to block Gov. Gavin Newsom's Project Roomkey plan.


One of the first antitrust class actions to has been filed in the Central District against bank behemoths over their illicit a...


The legal disputes involve the question: If a state cannot make good on its financial obligations, should that loss be paid by...


Criminal


The attorney general’s brief further argued that the judicial comity doctrine permits one district to decline judgment on an i...


Government


The order explicitly bars three kinds of debt from protection: child support, spousal support and victim restitution payments....


Constitutional Law


“Civil rights are not suspended by a virus. Fundamental and unalienable rights are, by their very nature, ‘essential,’” said t...


Law Practice, Health Care & Hospital Law


Structuring contracts, obtaining emergency authorization and immunity from regulations are some of the tasks attorneys are doi...


Earlier this month, Monterey County conducted the first at-home sexual assault examination and evidence collection, when a wom...