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Civil Rights


The FBI and U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced Thursday they have found insufficient evidence to prosecute two Sacramen...


Civil Litigation, Corporate


Colleen C. Smith of Latham & Watkins won partial dismissal on the grounds the plaintiffs failed to prove a product the com...


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Taking steps to end a controversy that has plagued his office for months, Los Angeles City Attorney Michael N. Feuer on Thursd...


Riverside and San Bernardino counties have both faced an intensifying need for judges as their populations grew in recent year...


Civil Litigation


After a federal judge told Williams & Cochrane LLP it could not accuse a rival law firm and a former client of violating r...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


A Comedy Central star testified Wednesday he'd seen billionaire Alki David tightly and violently wrap his hands around the nec...


Civil Litigation


The suit alleges a driver working for a Monterey-based travel company lost control of a company bus manufactured by Daimler Tr...


Government


More than year after he agreed not to submit a ballot measure, wealthy real estate developer Alastair Mactaggart filed an init...


Labor/Employment


Health care provider Kaiser Permanente reached a tentative settlement with 85,000 union workers on a new four-year contract, n...


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The city of Los Angeles, which has maintained it was not aware of any fraudulent activity regarding a $67 million Department o...


Government, Environmental & Energy


Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Wednesday he was leading a 17-state complaint against what he called the Trump admin...


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


In a perfunctory Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Danielle Hunsaker des...


Civil Litigation


Defendants Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive who were ordered by a jury to pay $12M on June 12 to a retired schoolte...


Civil Litigation


A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit against USC seeking to render its Title IX policy unenforceable, ru...


Judges and Judiciary


Judicial Council revises workload formula

Sep. 25, 2019
By Glenn Jeffers

The Judicial Council of California agreed Tuesday to update its formula to determine judicial workloads around the state.


California Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


As it promised back in July, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals punted on whether the 2018 Dynamex decision, recently signe...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The state Supreme Court and courts of appeal started instituting new protocols for the reporting and handling of misbehavior c...


Bankruptcy


Groups interested in opening the door to competing proposals to reorganize the Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. accused the ut...


Law Practice


Now 45 attorneys strong, King & Spalding’s Los Angeles branch moved into new, larger offices where the walls will be decor...


Civil Litigation


Judge William F. Highberger decided Tuesday to grant the state’s motion to quash plaintiffs’ subpoenas seeking the release of ...


In what could be a huge blow to indigent defendants, a 2nd District Court of Appeal panel rejected a ruling by another divisio...


Civil Litigation


OC homeless decree expands to LA County

Sep. 24, 2019
By Meghann Cuniff

The city of Bellflower on Monday voluntarily entered a federal lawsuit in Orange County to join a regional settlement


Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports


An 11-judge panel for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seemed chiefly concerned Monday with how a ruling in the highly co...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


An en banc 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel heard argument Monday over the Trump administration’s move to block Title X...


Law Practice


Legal aid spending soars in California, despite Trump

Sep. 24, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

A small group of California legislators has for years fought to maintain and expand legal aid funding in California, even as i...


Law Practice, State Bar & Bar Associations


A State Bar task force has yet to finalize recommendations that could dramatically reshape the legal industry by permitting gr...


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


The White House announced Friday two nominees for upcoming vacancies on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals — including a San Fra...


Bail agents’ attorneys say those who can afford to make bail won’t be allowed to under the new arrangements, while other stake...


Imprisoned comedian Bill Cosby must now pay more than $2.7 million in attorney fees initially awarded to Quinn Emanuel Urquhar...


Government, Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory


The lawsuit filed Friday by California and 22 other states seeking to block the Trump administration's decision to stop them f...