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9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


In a ruling watched by many religious organizations, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc panel said the Church of Jesu...


Government


L.A. City Council and officials were accused of using discussions on a settled lawsuit about homeless encampments as a ruse to...


Intellectual Property, Contracts


Actor Barry Tubb, who starred in the original Top Gun (1986), is suing Paramount Pictures, alleging the studio used a group ph...


Technology, Intellectual Property


Attorneys for Anthropic PBC and authors presented a tutorial on the AI model Claude to a federal judge in San Francisco, focus...


Attorneys who have lost their homes in the L.A. County fires have no specific latitude for lapses in representing their client...


Immigration


Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer is calling on the federal government to tighten restrictions on the Electronic Sy...


Civil Procedure


While a wave of litigation followed the Supreme Court's landmark ruling against affirmative action, recent legal challenges to...



Retired Sacramento judge joins Judicate West

Jan. 31, 2025
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Retired Judge Geoffrey Goodman enhances Judicate West's expertise in criminal prosecution, civil litigation, and judicial over...


Consumer Law


California Attorney General Rob Bonta has reached a $600,000 settlement with Amazon over the sale of skin-lightening creams co...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Federal prosecutors challenged Hewlett Packard's $14B Juniper acquisition, signaling continued aggressive antitrust enforcemen...


Neutral Robert Schnider employs an empathetic approach to dispute resolution, lawyers say.


Ogletree Deakins shareholders Karen Tynan and Charles Thompson discuss how California employers can obtain workplace violence ...



Labor/Employment


A complaint against Alaska Air claims the airline systematically underpays flight crew by failing to compensate for time spent...


Consumer Protection Law


The complaint says the mugs contain lead that leaches onto the skin when consumers handle the mugs.


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Michael J. Libman, the only attorney in the Los Angeles water billing litigation scandal ordered to disgorge his fees, was rec...


District Attorneys from four Southern California counties are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to extend emergency price gouging p...



How RFK Jr. could reshape vaccine litigation

Jan. 30, 2025
By Malcolm Maclachlan

If confirmed as U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could roll back liability protections and expa...


Data Privacy, Class Action, Civil Litigation


A new class action accuses Amazon of secretly tracking and selling California residents' sensitive location data through its a...


Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation


Uber is accused of hiding violent incident reports in a lawsuit by 1,500 women claiming sexual assault by drivers. The plainti...


Administrative/Regulatory


In his first address to Los Angeles County judges and staff, the new presiding judge focused on enhancing community outreach a...


Criminal, Administrative/Regulatory


State Bar moves to suspend Andrew Do's law license

Jan. 30, 2025
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The State Bar of California is set to suspend Andrew Hoang Do's law license following his guilty plea to federal bribery consp...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Ursula Jones Dickson was selected as Alameda County's new DA after Pamela Price's recall. Dickson, a former prosecutor, ...


Civil Litigation


A judge chided the San Francisco City Attorney's team for excessive discovery in a flood damage lawsuit, setting a trial date ...


Judges and Judiciary


Alameda County judge named district attorney

Jan. 29, 2025
By James Twomey

Judge Ursula Jones Dickson was appointed to a two-year term to replace the DA ousted by voters last year.


Wisner Baum's clients have joined the dozens of lawsuits filed against Southern California Edison now that there is more evide...


Constitutional Law, Administrative/Regulatory


The Trump administration's order to temporarily freeze federal grants and loans has sparked a constitutional battle, with nonp...


Civil Litigation


In an $18M lawsuit, the U.S. government seeks dismissal, denying malicious prosecution claims against Erika Girardi's ex-fashi...


A Los Angeles judge has ordered Southern California Edison to refrain from reenergizing power lines in the area where the Eato...


A U.S. Navy veteran and surf instructor has filed a federal lawsuit against Newport Beach, claiming its ordinance requiring wr...


Data Privacy


LinkedIn seeks dismissal of a class action lawsuit claiming the company's Insight Tag illegally collected medical data from Ci...