Labor/Employment
Uber, Postmates sue to stop AB5, claim it’s unconstitutional
By Glenn Jeffers
Ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. and food delivery service Postmates Inc. filed a lawsuit late Monday afternoon again...
Labor/Employment
US judge enjoins law banning required arbitrations
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the plaintiff in the case, claims AB 51 is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act.
A collective of attorneys hope to change the legal industry in 2020 by modernizing the way cases are litigated.
Criminal, California Courts of Appeal
LA DA joins halts opposition to new felony murder law until Supreme Court weighs in
By Jessica Mach
Other Southern California prosecutors say the law is unconstitutional, but many DAs, and the attorney general, say courts are ...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elizabeth White, who has primarily handled civil assignments since her appointment in ...
Judges and Judiciary
After Persky and other challenges, some want end to all judicial elections
By Winston Cho
Some members of the legal community are renewing calls to protect judicial independence by eliminating judicial elections and ...
Civil Litigation, Government
Pole maker faces liability for accident it had no role in causing
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The pole was sold as a “breakaway” model, designed to sheer off at its lower section to minimize impact when hit by a car. But...
Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law, Government
School class actions are latest plaintiffs’ tool against JUUL
By Carter Stoddard
As nearly 200 cases from around the nation against vaporizer manufacturer JUUL Labs are being consolidated, some recent plaint...
Labor/Employment, Government
Teamsters seek to stop truckers from pausing independent contractor law
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The court granted the Teamsters' bid to intervene in the case in January. On Thursday, attorneys for the union filed an opposi...
Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Plaintiffs’ firms in NCAA case awarded $31.8M, but don’t get extra money
By Craig Anderson
A magistrate judge awarded $31.8 million in attorney fees to firms that secured an injunction for student-athletes in a lawsui...
Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports
Federal Music Modernization Act has a troubled rollout
By Steven Crighton
As legislators and industry appointees work to drag long-outdated copyright laws into the 21st century, the process of impleme...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Government
Judge issues remedial order in prisons mental health case
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The changes U.S. District Court Judge Kimberly J. Mueller ordered this week follow from her ruling earlier this month that off...
Civil Litigation, Government, California Supreme Court
San Diego scores victory against taxpayer suit against ballpark bonds
By Craig Anderson
The state Supreme Court, reversing a 4th District Court of Appeal decision, ruled Thursday nonparties cannot sue to block the ...
Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court
State high court revives suit against revised child pornography reporting law
By Craig Anderson
The state Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by therapists challeng...
U.S. Supreme Court
Lawsuits related to homeless grip municipalities throughout California
By Meghann Cuniff
State high court revives suit against revised child pornography reporting law
California Supreme Court
Governor releases some, still redacted, clemency records
By Jessica Mach
The First Amendment Coalition announced receipt of the records Monday, over two months after the state Supreme Court issued si...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Several California law schools faced struggles in 2019
By Lyle Moran
More California law schools may have accreditation trouble in coming year.
Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
FBI raids, dropped suit and stonewalled depositions marked LA water bill tangle this year
By Justin Kloczko
Three investigations, six resignations, and one dropped case later, the $67 million water billing settlement refuses to go awa...
Civil Litigation
Judge ditches $15M jury award in legal battle against the Los Angeles Times
By Glenn Jeffers
A judge tossed out a $15 million jury award against the Los Angeles Times in an age and disability discrimination suit filed b...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Wells Fargo decision expected to raise $4M for legal aid
By Lyle Moran
Wells Fargo's decision to offer a higher interest rate on the Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts it holds is expected to gene...
Government
Women attorney/legislators delivered for trial bar in 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan
SACRAMENTO -- In September, Sen. Jeff Stone, R-La Quinta, stood up in the California Senate to warn AB 51, a bill barring arbi...
Government
Law allowing med-mal claims against DoD is flawed: lawyers
By Blaise Scemama
Prompted by the plight of an Army Green Beret with lung cancer, President Donald Trump signed legislation that allows servicem...
Criminal
Law on juvenile criminals splits attorney general and county prosecutors
By Jessica Mach
A rift between Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the state’s district attorneys, five cases before the California Supreme Co...
Government, Corporate
One lawyer’s quest to teach America’s high schoolers about the democratic process
By Glenn Jeffers
When Laura W. Brill started The Civics Center, a nonprofit that works with schools to preregister 16- and 17-year-olds to vote...
Law Practice, International Law, Immigration
Law school wants to help US and Mexican lawyers understand each other
By Lyle Moran
University of Arizona's law school is teaming with a Mexican university to offer a certificate program focused on Mexican publ...
LOS ANGELES -- Killing time after a client meeting at Grand Central Station's Mid-City Comics, in downtown Los Angeles, entert...
Judges and Judiciary
4 judges named to superior courts in Central Valley
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Gov. Gavin Newsom had an early Christmas present for the Fresno and San Joaquin county courts on Monday: four new superior cou...
Education Law, Government
Defrauded students ask judge to fine Department of Education $100k
By Winston Cho
A class of defrauded students asked a U.S. magistrate judge Monday to increase a $100,000 contempt fine against the U.S. Depar...
Securities, Corporate
Disappointment, litigation follow top IPOs in 2019
By Winston Cho
After multibillion-dollar valuations, Uber and Lyft were hit with a flurry of lawsuits alleging they misled investors after ma...
Civil Litigation, Government
Dreyer Babich team wins $27M from Sacramento County for traffic accident
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Sacramento County and its insurers agreed to the largest legal settlement of its type in the county's history: $27 million to ...