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Civil Litigation, Government


LA city, Pricewaterhouse fighting over sanctions

Oct. 29, 2019
By Justin Kloczko

A fight over sanctions is playing out in litigation related to Los Angeles water billing after the city dropped its lawsuit ag...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


Taylor Swift can't shake off an infringement lawsuit over her song "Shake It Off," a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel r...


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Merced court settles clerk’s sex harassment claim

Oct. 29, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The Merced County Superior Court has settled a sexual harassment claim with a clerk for $160,000 without any admissions of gui...


Judges and Judiciary


Governor names his first 11 judges, including 8 women

Oct. 28, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The group is majority minority and all Democrats. It includes attorneys from a variety of public and private backgrounds, incl...


Intellectual Property, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Intel Corp. is purusing a rare complaint against a SoftBank Group. Corp.-owned investment firm claiming it is violating antitr...


Government, Environmental & Energy


SEC is aiding companies in climate fights, activists say

Oct. 28, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The environmental group has been seeking information about “no action” letters to companies seeking to avoid shareholder votes...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal, California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court de-published three opinions last week, including the reversal of an attorney’s criminal conviction tha...


An attorney representing conversative media outlet Prager University tried to persuade a Santa Clara County judge Friday to ke...


Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports


Apple Inc. and Google LLC are “nothing more than modern tape pirates” according to amended complaint filed Friday in a Los Ang...


Judges and Judiciary, Community News


Women judges and lawyers toast two milestones

Oct. 28, 2019
By Alexandra Applegate

The National Association of Women Judges hosted a reception during its annual conference to celebrate its 40th anniversary as ...


LA Superior Court Judge William F. Highberger, overseeing the Woolsey Fire litigation, has invited the California Public Utili...


Labor/Employment


As California employers and employees clash over settling disputes via arbitration, plaintiff-side employment attorneys are in...


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary


A U.S. magistrate judge in Sacramento recused herself from a nearly-dead discovery dispute sprouting from a civil action broug...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


Cheaters sometimes prosper too much, says lawsuit

Oct. 25, 2019
By Steven Crighton

Filing suit against a business that helps its players cheat, a video game company claimed Wednesday the unfair interference is...


Government, Criminal


Lawsuit says state won’t represent its prison guards

Oct. 25, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

A guard has sued the state prisons department for refusing to represent him in a prisoner civil rights case, a practice his at...


Government, Criminal


A federal judge said she would likely order increased oversight of California’s prisoners mental health care system, according...


California Supreme Court


University of Richmond School of Law student Sarah Alberstein received first place in this year’s Selma Moidel Smith Student W...


Government, Criminal, Constitutional Law


Law enforcement should be required to obtain search warrants to gather information from systems that track license plates, an ...


Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Oregon state Judge Danielle Hunsaker moved a step closer Thursday to becoming President Donald J. Trump's eighth successful ap...


Labor/Employment


The recent signing of Assembly Bill 51 and Senate Bill 707 could signal a growing rebuff of arbitration agreements, provided t...


Entertainment & Sports


Rose McGowan sues Lisa Bloom and David Boies

Oct. 24, 2019
By Steven Crighton

A lawsuit filed Wednesday by actress Rose McGowan accused attorneys Lisa Bloom and David Boies of engaging in a conspiracy to ...


Law Practice


A former member of DLA Piper’s general counsel office said ousted partner Louis Lehot is a “textbook bully” who was being prot...


Statistics released by the Department of Justice indicate newly-appointed U.S. Attorney David Anderson has followed through on...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Three 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges repeatedly questioned the purpose of an argument session Wednesday over a crimi...


Government, Constitutional Law


The city of Pasadena said a non-profit organization leasing government property was not a state actor when it canceled a Repub...


Government


The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office did not authorize special outside counsel hired in controversial billing litigation to ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Real estate billionaire Rick J. Caruso has committed $50 million to the Pepperdine School of Law, which will rename itself the...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment


Class counsel in a $130 million meal-and-rest class action settlement will receive $43.2 million in attorney fees under an ord...


Securities, Civil Litigation


A federal judge indicated Tuesday she plans to approve a $50 million securities class action settlement between a luxury home ...


Labor/Employment, Government


The National Labor Relations Board's general counsel announced a policy Tuesday requiring all forms of evidence pertaining to ...