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Government


AB 1510 has passed the state’s Senate Judiciary Committee, which allows victims facing statute of limitation challenges a chan...


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


A federal judge's decision to remove his colleague from an Orange County homeless civil rights lawsuit comes amid an intersect...


Labor/Employment, Government


AB 51 passed the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee by a 4-1 party line vote Wednesday. The bill revives...


Corporate


DocuSign hires new general counsel amid growth

Jun. 19, 2019
By Nicole Tyau

Veteran general counsel Tram Phi joins the DocuSign team three months after their previous GC retired.


The judge who oversaw the trial of a couple arguing Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer causes cancer will have to walk a fine line...


Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports


Management company defeats copyright lawsuit

Jun. 19, 2019
By Steven Crighton

Management company Hastings, Clayton & Tucker prevailed Monday in a dispute over feature performances by the singer Barry ...


Civil Litigation


Kinetic Concepts defeats False Claims Act case

Jun. 19, 2019
By Blaise Scemama

After a case brought under the False Claims Act lingered for more than 11 years, a federal judge has granted summary judgement...


Government


A controversial bill to allow felons to serve on juries was pulled from consideration in the Assembly Judiciary Committee Tues...


Civil Litigation, Constitutional Law


A conservative physicians’ group confirmed Tuesday that it plans to file a second amended complaint challenging caps to so-cal...


Criminal


Computer chips the government accused a former UCLA professor of illegally exporting to China were recovered by defense counse...


Oral arguments were made at the 2nd Dist. Court of Appeals involving a $417M talc verdict against Johnson and Johnson. Eva Ech...



Mary E. Alexander

Jun. 19, 2019
By Lisa Churchill

Mary E. Alexander, founder of her eponymous San Francisco based law firm, who’s headed the litigation as plaintiffs counsel in...


Civil Litigation


Oral arguments were made at the 2nd Dist. Court of Appeals involving a $417M talc verdict against Johnson and Johnson.


Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


9th Circuit issues workplace relations report

Jun. 19, 2019
By Nicolas Sonnenburg

A committee established by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals charged with investigating workplace conditions released a re...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Fourteen of 20 American Bar Association-accredited schools improved their repeat pass rate on February’s bar exam, according t...


Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


After the four-week legal malpractice trial Superior Court Judge Terry A. Green called “the strangest case I think I’ve ever s...


The state Senate announced the addition of two non-lawyers to its Judiciary Committee, which is soon expected to hear key bill...


Education Law, Civil Litigation


A jury deliberated for two hours Monday before finding for the California Institute of Technology in a wrongful termination su...


Law Practice, Labor/Employment


A former female partner at Jones Day, who filed a lawsuit against the firm arguing it underpaid female attorneys and failed to...


Civil Litigation


Judge denies Monster Energy’s motion for preliminary injunction against defendant Vital Pharmaceuticals over false advertising...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


A federal jury found video service VidAngel Inc.'s stated ignorance of the law was no excuse for infringement, granting a $62....


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A special masters panel found Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge John T. Laettner committed willful misconduct in office...


Government


Budget includes funds for 25 more judges

Jun. 18, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Gov. Gavin Newsom may get to have an early impact on the judiciary, thanks to the state budget, which includes long delayed m...


Civil Litigation


Woolsey Fire trial to start in January

Jun. 18, 2019
By Gina Kim

Judge William F. Highberger indicates he will establish a leadership structure in Woolsey fire litigation, over individual pla...


Mazda North America GC Shawn Murphy thought he’d work in the financial services industry. But as in the automative industry, w...


Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the government violated an immigrant worker's rights in a mass roundup executed in...


A proposed structure that would allow attorneys for local governments to negotiate and accept settlements for roughly 25,000 c...


Judges and Judiciary, Entertainment & Sports


As it became apparent that a damages trial, originally estimated to take two days, was heading for a second week, U.S. Distric...


University of San Francisco School of Law has appointed its interim dean Susan Freiwald to the position full-time, effective J...


David H. Wright, who worked on restoring ratepayer trust regarding the utility’s water billing issues since assuming the lead ...