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California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court on Thursday closed the courthouse door to business-owner plaintiffs seeking to recover revenue lost wh...


Civil Litigation, Government, Environmental & Energy


Less than three weeks after an Oakland jury ordered Monsanto to pay over $2 billion when it found the company’s top-selling Ro...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


Quinn Emanuel disqualified from representing Woolsey fire plaintiffs, judge rules


Labor/Employment, Government


The state Assembly’s 55-11 vote to pass AB 5 could install a multi-part test that distinguishes between employees and independ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


An attorney accused of being part of a criminal worker’s compensation fraud ring has been charged by the State Bar with seven ...


Monsanto attorneys urged a federal judge to avoid California during the next phase of litigation over allegations the Bayer AG...


California Supreme Court


Advocates squared off Thursday over whether an online credit card payment processor’s restrictive terms of service provide the...


Community News


The Muslim Bar Association of Southern California and Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney co-host second annual Iftar event.


In Recess


Free Fallin'

May 31, 2019
By Skylar Dubelko

When attorney Jason Gordon skydives with friends, gravity is the only law that matters.


Education Law


As receivership draws to a close for beleaguered Argosy University, Western State College of Law is hammering out a deal to be...


The city of Los Angeles is accused by lawsuit opponents of seeking to have key depositions sealed from public view in order to...


The federal judge overseeing allegations that Facebook Inc. illegally shared vast amounts of users’ personal information consi...


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary


A rare bid to disqualify a federal judge cites 12 cases, including one written by the judge himself.


Government


Compromise police use of force bill passes Assembly

May 30, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The state Assembly has overwhelmingly passed a compromise version of a bill to change the police use of force standard.


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


After a combative cross-examination Wednesday, the defense attorney for Edward Wildmans Palmer LLP extracted testimony before ...


Government, State Bar & Bar Associations


The Senate passed the State Bar’s fee increase 32-4, but some skepticism remains among some legislators.


Corporate


San Diego-based chip maker Qualcomm Inc. is seeking a stay on a federal judge’s anti-trust order pending appeal to the 9th U.S...


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Government


A major law firm is trying to recuse a federal judge from a new homeless civil rights case in Orange County, arguing his 18-mo...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Attorneys for the National Collegiate Athletic Association called the $45 million bill by the student-athletes’ legal counsel ...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A disbarred British solicitor testified in superior court Tuesday that when he questioned a bill, attorneys at Edwards Wildman...


Obituaries


Knobbe Martens co-founder Don Martens is remembered as a principled attorney and a friend first.


Civil Litigation


Three iTunes customers claim Apple Inc. disclosed iTunes listening data to third parties without customers’ consent.


Labor/Employment, Government


SB 707 is opposed by business groups coordinated by the California Chamber of Commerce, which object to specifics of the bill,...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The Commission on Judicial Performance has issued a severe public censure to a judge who tried to avoid responsibility for run...


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


The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday shot down First Amendment claims advanced by an Alaskan partygoer who said police officers a...


Civil Litigation, Constitutional Law


A team of Hunt Ortmann Palffy Nieves Darling & Mah Inc. attorneys secured a $15 million settlement in binding arbitration ...


U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Litigation


A split U.S. Supreme Court limited some defendants’ ability to remove class actions to federal court.


Legal observers praise attorney Kenneth R. Feinberg as “the perfect guy” to mediate settlement discussions in litigation betwe...


Labor/Employment, Government


Employers would be barred from firing a worker without cause within 90 days of a sexual harassment claim under a bill passed b...


Labor/Employment


On the third day of testimony in a wrongful termination case, the chair of the California Institute of Technology’s engineerin...