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Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


"I've given you a very generous amount of time," Judge Terry A. Green said outside the presence of the jury, adding he would b...


Government, Criminal, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights


The U.S. attorney’s office will consider appealing a judge’s ruling that the federal Anti-Riot Act is unconstitutionally overl...


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


The Trump administration has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an emergency stay to block an injunction prohibit...


Now that the state of California has adopted a regulation stating chemicals in coffee don’t pose a cancer risk, parties will f...


Law Practice


Deep and Wide

Jun. 5, 2019
By Carter Stoddard

At 20 years, Michelman & Robinson has grown its practice areas as well as its size.


Civil Litigation


On the second day of cross examination, a former researcher at the California Institute of Technology testified Tuesday he was...


Law Practice


Boutique intellectual property firm Feinberg Day added two partners to its name and three more attorneys, doubling the firm’s ...


Civil Litigation


Program manager of the state utilities commission is suing Sempra Energy and SoCalGas after contracting hairy cell leukemia as...


While the jury found that the statute of limitations has lapsed in a case between two brothers in a $250M partnership dispute,...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted financial crimes will independently scrutinize a $67 million Los Angeles Depar...


Criminal, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Federal appeals court OKs extradition of U.S. citizen

Jun. 4, 2019
By Nicolas Sonnenburg

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals shot down Monday a constitutional challenge to a federal statute allowing for the extrad...


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


The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case testing Los Angeles’ method for carving up council seats, a process w...


Law Practice, Criminal


Attorney cited for animal cruelty

Jun. 4, 2019
By Meghann Cuniff

A senior counsel at a Cerritos law firm has been cited for misdemeanor animal cruelty after a police raid at his Orange County...


U.S. Supreme Court, Environmental & Energy


Other investor-owned utilities facing liability in California wildfires have filed amici briefs in support of San Diego Gas &a...


Law Practice, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Following the disqualification of Quinn Emanuel from representing plaintiff SC Innovations, Inc. and defendant Uber Technologi...


Criminal, California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court Monday reversed a “street terrorism” conviction after the alleged gang member’s underlying conviction ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar filed a petition Monday to place embattled attorney Michael J. Avenatti on involuntary inactive status.


Government, Criminal


Governor reverses Manson follower’s 3rd parole grant

Jun. 4, 2019
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

Governor reverses Manson follower's 3rd parole


Civil Litigation


A judge asked the plaintiff’s attorneys to please control their client’s outbursts Monday in a case seeking to determine wheth...


Law Practice


San Diego-based civil defense firm Tyson & Mendes LLP will contribute $10,000 toward its attorneys’ student loans through ...


Criminal


LA County probation review to be out this month

Jun. 4, 2019
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

Appointed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in May 2018, the five-member Probation Reform & Implementation Te...


State Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s lawsuit against OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma L.P. and a former executive is part of a...


Labor/Employment


Two former Postmates couriers filed suit against the San Francisco-based company Monday, claiming the on-demand delivery servi...



Making Life Better

Jun. 4, 2019

Agilent Technologies GC Michael Tang focuses on the company’s goals for customers.


Civil Litigation


An emotional Farshid Roumi took the stand Friday and testified his life has changed since his ouster from the Pasadena-based C...


U.S. Supreme Court, Environmental & Energy


Ratepayer says San Diego Gas & Electric’s petition to the U.S. Supreme Court should be denied due to meritless arguments a...


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A San Francisco federal judge has sanctioned another plaintiffs’ attorney for her part in sneaking inadmissible evidence into ...


Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court


Finality is referenced often as a beneficial facet of private arbitration, where appeals and judicial reversals are rare. But,...


Criminal, Administrative/Regulatory


State regulators approved the Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s controversial proposal to shut off power lines during dangerous w...


Law Practice, State Bar & Bar Associations


A State Bar task force appears poised to recommend that non-lawyers be allowed to own legal services companies and potentially...