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Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property


A Santa Clara County judge has finalized an $845 million ruling in favor of a semiconductor chip processor company ASML, who s...


Civil Litigation, Government, Environmental & Energy


A San Francisco federal judge halted Caltrans’ controversial widening project along U.S. Highway 101 in Richardson Grove, citi...


California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court overturned a 27-year-old precedent on Monday, siding with a creditor holding both junior and senior li...


Civil Litigation


A San Francisco County judge has allowed an entrepreneur to move forward with a $1 billion claim Uber Technologies Inc. founde...


Two former top national security and law enforcement officials spoke about Mueller’s fairness in investigating Trump and the a...


The U.S. Department of Justice is stepping into the 5G wireless technology battle and is asking a federal court for a hearing ...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Criminal


The ongoing criminal investigation into Michael J. Avenatti is presenting a growing civil challenge for him as opposing counse...


Civil Litigation


In a rare suit brought under the False Claims Act by a relator representing the U.S. government, a judge took a pause Friday i...


Civil Litigation


The agreement between auto supplier Robert Bosch, Fiat Chrysler and members of the class includes roughly 100,000 owners and l...


Criminal


US brings charges in dark web marketplace cases

May 6, 2019
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

Federal prosecutors in California announced charges Friday against administrators of one of the world’s largest dark web marke...


Civil Litigation, Government


A superior court judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the California High Speed Rail Authority’s use of $1.1 billion in ...


Judges and Judiciary


Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Marc D. Gross has been removed from a lawsuit challenging a major talent agency’s pack...


Law Practice, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


A law firm representing one of Uber Technologies Inc.’s competitors suing for anticompetitive practices was booted from the ca...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A reverse auction of a class action, in which a defendant settles the weakest case in a series of lawsuits, isn’t illegal or e...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


A judge has overturned $128 million in punitive damages that was part of an arbitration award against 21st Century Fox over pr...


Law Practice


Food giant Nestle has hired Leanne Geale as its first general counsel and leader of its legal and compliance departments, the ...


Todd Spitzer says he'd rather work on his new collaboration with Loyola Law School's Project for the Innocent to review old co...


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


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that last year’s California Supreme Court decision establishing a stringent, e...


Law Practice


Business conflicts motivated Lincoln Bandlow’s departure from Fox Rothschild LLP’s Los Angeles office, the prolific copyright ...


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Two years after a federal judge approved a billion dollar settlement ending much of the consumer litigation following revelati...


Civil Litigation


In a rare suit brought under the False Claims Act, a defendant invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during testimony Thu...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


New members named to Judicial Council

May 3, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye appointed three judges to the Judicial Council on Thursday and reappointed fou...


U.S. Supreme Court, Environmental & Energy


After multiple failed attempts to try and charge $379 million to ratepayers to recover costs linked to the 2007 wildfire that ...


Special Coverage, Law Practice, Community News


Law Rocks raised more than $136,000 at its San Francisco fundraiser, with a winning performance by a band dominated by Winston...


Government, Environmental & Energy


A group of water suppliers are attempted to block new wetlands protections passed by the State Water Resources Control Board l...


Corporate


Walmart creates new general counsel role

May 3, 2019
By Nicole Tyau

Walmart appointed healthcare veteran Jeanine Jiganti to new health and wellness general counsel role.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


What is a federal appeals court to do when considering a legal question already addressed by a nationwide injunction issued ou...


Civil Litigation, Government


Defense says False Claims Act case is a vendetta

May 2, 2019
By Blaise Scemama

An attorney for the defense said the relator was pursuing the case out of revenge against a former employee turned competitor,...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench began her term Wednesday as a member of the Commission on Judicial Perfo...


Civil Litigation, Government


Defense says False Claims Act case is a vendetta

May 2, 2019
By Blaise Scemama

An attorney for the defense said the relator was pursuing the case out of revenge against a former employee turned competitor,...