Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Propel Fuels wants to boost $604.9M award from Phillips 66
By Wisdom Howell
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
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 rejects Coastal Commission authority over Air Force approved launches
By Devon Belcher
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
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
Meet the lawyer behind the LA archdiocese's record sex abuse settlement
By David Houston
Although Margaret Graf lacked litigation experience, she had an ability to work constructively with parties holding diverse in...
Labor/Employment, Government, California Supreme Court
State high court to decide who sets county workers' pay
By Craig Anderson
The case is a dispute between the public employee retirement system and Los Angeles County, which in 2018 started rejecting em...
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
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
By Wisdom Howell
The complaint filed in San Francisco County Superior Court claims Hermes made "a concerted effort" to avoid paying California ...
Neutral Richard Buck is prepared for discussion on the merits of a case, lawyers say
Intellectual Property
Penile implant inventor calls rival's request for retrial 'pointless'
By Devon Belcher
Waymaker attorneys secured an $18.3 million victory for Dr. James Elist of Beverly Hills and his businesses on all 10 claims t...
Securities
Federal court dismisses Hawaiian Electric securities lawsuit over Maui wildfires
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Investor plaintiffs had claimed that the company and its executives provided misleading information to investors regarding the...
U.S. Supreme Court, Environmental & Energy
San Francisco tells high court EPA sewer standards are unclear
By Craig Anderson
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
Uvalde victims' relatives to add plaintiffs to Meta lawsuit
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
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
Meta can't dismiss liability for kids' social media use
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The judge noted that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act significantly limited the claims and insulated the design a...
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan P. Schulman criticized the fairness of the $2.5 million agreement Gametime reached wi...
Litigation & Arbitration
LA Archdiocese agrees to pay $880M to settle clergy abuse claims
By David Houston
The deal, subject to approval from all the plaintiffs, would provide compensation to 1,353 victims.
Intellectual Property, Class Action, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Consumers try new 'weak patents' gambit against Qualcomm in antitrust case
By Craig Anderson
Adam J. Zapala, a partner with Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP in Burlingame, made a new argument before a skeptical circui...
Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports
F1 company pursues trademark claim against ex-team manager's book
By Devon Belcher
In successfully arguing for dismissal of the lawsuit, defense attorneys argued that if the plaintiff's theory prevailed, any a...
Government, Environmental & Energy
Huntington Beach reaches $5M settlement over oil spill
By Skyler Romero
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
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...
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
Quinn Emanuel client sanctioned over expert testimony
By Wisdom Howell
U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen has barred the admission of an expert witness' evidence related to a medical trial after he...
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
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 prepares appeal of closure of stadium on VA land in LA
By Devon Belcher
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
Alameda County DA recall: Who's for, who's against, what's next?
By Wisdom Howell
As the vote to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price draws closer, her supporters and detractors are making the...
Musk said his comments on X have nothing to do with the California Coastal Commission, some of whose members criticized his po...
Constitutional Law
Law banning spectators at dangerous car events upheld
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The Alameda County ordinance criminalizes publicly observing the exhibitions of dangerous driving stunts, which often draw lar...