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Trump picks White House counsel with California ties

Dec. 6, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

David A. Warrington is a partner at Dhillon Law Group.


Civil Litigation


Kaedian LLP partner Katherine C. McBroom and Los Angeles attorney Ian M. Wallach filed a federal civil complaint against those...


Judges and Judiciary


Lawmaker renews push for tribal judges' protections

Dec. 5, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria introduced her bills amid rising concerns over the safety of judges across the nation.


President Joe Biden's pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, is just the latest in a number of controversial and downright dubious ...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Yelp in state court after the company wrote in 2022 that crisis pregnancy centers provi...


Land Use, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Sober living facility Ohio House failed in its disparate treatment claim targeting Costa Mesa's zoning ordinances.


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


One question in the case is whether the law requiring background checks on all ammunition purchases falls under permissible st...


Civil Litigation


A former Northrop Grumman worker claims the aerospace giant required off-the-clock work and denied its employees proper breaks.


Judges and Judiciary, Government


Without a precedent for a presidential pardon spanning 11 years and including crimes that "may have" been committed, a federal...


Other proposed legislation includes a measure to protect tribal judges from violence, bills targeting social media companies a...


Nathan Hochman said he rejects extreme policies on both sides of the pendulum, such as mass incarceration and "decarceration" ...


Technology


If granted, the injunction would prevent OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, from requiring investors to hold off on funding compe...


In denying his bid for a new trial on the grounds his mental competency had deteriorated during the proceedings, the judge foc...


Judges and Judiciary


The bill would give President-elect Donald Trump 22 new district judgeships to fill during his upcoming term, including seven ...


Education Law


The California Department of Education "violated the mandate" of the Education Code with its denial of funding to a Los Angele...


Judges and Judiciary


U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi of Los Angeles took aim at Joe Biden's press release announcing the pardon.


Civil Rights


The company's attorneys, who asked the judge to reverse the jury's October verdict, filed a brief Friday replying to the plain...


Technology, Labor/Employment


The technology company is accused of suppressing employee speech and making them sign away their right to privacy in a new law...


Wills, Estates & Trusts


In his Nov. 25 ruling, Judge Jonathan L. Rosenbloom found that Melya Kaplan used millions of dollars from the trust for person...


Civil Litigation


AIDS group breached patients' privacy, lawsuit claims

Dec. 3, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The use of tracking codes by Meta and Google meant those companies received identifying information about patients using AIDS ...


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


Assistant Federal Public Defender Sonam A.H. Henderson challenged the conviction on the grounds that the "felon-in-possession"...


Appointed to the state court bench in 2019 by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Hwang previously worked for a dozen years as a federal public...


Abbey, Weitzenberg, Warren & Emery PC can trace its history back more than a century.



Oil developer sues to block targeted law 

Dec. 2, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Sentinel Peak Resources says the bill's author intended to target any "low production well" in California that was within 3,20...


Labor/Employment


The settlement brings to a close years of litigation between the company and women who said they were systematically paid less...


Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation


JCCP proceedings can be switched to different courts without explanation, some attorneys say, while the Judicial Council says ...


Litigation & Arbitration


U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Battaglia found Temu's arbitration agreement is reasonably enforced, and he stayed the case pen...


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


Supreme Court asked to rule on gun show sales

Dec. 2, 2024
By Craig Anderson

C.D. "Chuck" Michel, a senior partner with Michel & Associates PC, wrote Wednesday in a writ of certiorari for a gun show ...



'She Gets It Done'

Nov. 29, 2024

Neutral Leslie Landau unravels complexities in a way that makes sense to parties.


The California recipients will use the grants to enhance their technological capabilities and improve service delivery to low-...