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Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Daniel Zaheer of Kobre & Kim LLP said Propel Fuels will seek an enhancement of the jury's damages award "based on the find...


Real Estate/Development, Community News


Veteran real estate attorney joins Clark Hill in San Diego

Oct. 18, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Brian Adkins joins the firm from Buchalter. He specializes in aiding clients with fair housing complaints and governmental age...


Environmental & Energy, Constitutional Law


SpaceX attorneys have said the California Coastal Commission exceeded its authority and ignored federal law and policy by reje...


Environmental & Energy


Metal recycler, state rush to reach settlement

Oct. 18, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

A Watts recycling facility accused of environmental violations and the attorney general's office are in the final stages of se...


Criminal, Civil Litigation


Although Margaret Graf lacked litigation experience, she had an ability to work constructively with parties holding diverse in...


Labor/Employment, Government, California Supreme Court


The case is a dispute between the public employee retirement system and Los Angeles County, which in 2018 started rejecting em...



LAPD officers seek new trial in gun theft case

Oct. 18, 2024
By Skyler Romero

Plaintiff Gus Murra sued the Los Angeles Police Revolver and Athletic Club and the city in 2021 after several firearms he boug...


Technology, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Epic asks judge to reject Google's emergency stay

Oct. 18, 2024
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Google asked U.S. District Judge James Donato to pause -- pending appeal -- a preliminary injunction requiring the company to ...


Labor/Employment, Class Action, Civil Litigation


Luxury retailer Hermes hit with wage lawsuit

Oct. 18, 2024
By Wisdom Howell

The complaint filed in San Francisco County Superior Court claims Hermes made "a concerted effort" to avoid paying California ...



Does His Homework

Oct. 18, 2024

Neutral Richard Buck is prepared for discussion on the merits of a case, lawyers say


Intellectual Property


Waymaker attorneys secured an $18.3 million victory for Dr. James Elist of Beverly Hills and his businesses on all 10 claims t...


Investor plaintiffs had claimed that the company and its executives provided misleading information to investors regarding the...


U.S. Supreme Court, Environmental & Energy


The issue revolves around language intended to prevent wastewater from the sewer system from flowing into the Pacific Ocean d...


A Los Angeles judge found that attorneys for a stone worker diagnosed with silicosis had not presented enough evidence to esta...


Technology, Civil Litigation


The potential additional plaintiffs are parties to the case as nominal defendants or minor children whose time to sue under Co...


Technology, Consumer Protection Law


The judge noted that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act significantly limited the claims and insulated the design a...


Class Action, Business Law


Judge knocks back Gametime settlement

Oct. 17, 2024
By Wisdom Howell

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan P. Schulman criticized the fairness of the $2.5 million agreement Gametime reached wi...


Litigation & Arbitration


The deal, subject to approval from all the plaintiffs, would provide compensation to 1,353 victims.


Intellectual Property, Class Action, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Adam J. Zapala, a partner with Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP in Burlingame, made a new argument before a skeptical circui...


Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports


In successfully arguing for dismissal of the lawsuit, defense attorneys argued that if the plaintiff's theory prevailed, any a...


Government, Environmental & Energy


The settlement follows a $7 million agreement between the city and the producers of the annual Pacific Air Show, which was can...


Real Estate/Development


India-based landlord can't avoid LA court deposition

Oct. 16, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The fact that Haresh Jogani is neither a citizen nor a resident of the United States does not exempt him from complying with a...


Family


Before SB 343 and its counterpart, AB 1755, took effect in September, the income bands used to calculate parents' total net di...


Expert Advice, Discipline, Civil Procedure, Civil Litigation, Business Law


U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen has barred the admission of an expert witness' evidence related to a medical trial after he...


Civil Litigation


According to an amended complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Ye, aka Kanye West, "touched, groped, fondled, g...


Real Estate/Development, Consumer Law


Tenants sue over access to investigative reports

Oct. 15, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Dozens of tenants claimed a landlord failed to furnish them with investigative reports ordered when they rented their dwelling...


Class Action


UCLA's lease of the land where its baseball facility is built includes a distinct land-use term that Congress enacted exclusiv...


Government, Community News


As the vote to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price draws closer, her supporters and detractors are making the...



Musk vows free speech suit against Coastal Commission

Oct. 15, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Musk said his comments on X have nothing to do with the California Coastal Commission, some of whose members criticized his po...


Constitutional Law


The Alameda County ordinance criminalizes publicly observing the exhibitions of dangerous driving stunts, which often draw lar...