The justices stayed a Northern District of California ruling that blocked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from termina...
A Los Angeles judge rejected the county's argument that the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission needs approval from County C...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Law firm challenges Thomson Reuters' $650M Casetext acquisition
By Daniel Schrager
A Carlsbad law firm claims Thomson Reuters bought AI legal research upstart Casetext to eliminate a lower-cost rival and prese...
Education Law
UCLA faces 2 Title VI battles under sharply different legal standards
By Skyler Romero
Justice Department actions targeting UCLA Law admissions and the university's response to alleged antisemitism invoke the same...
Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown of the 1st District Court of Appeal, a former federal prosecutor who wrote the opinion large...
Presiding Justice Brian M. Hoffstadt of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 5, known for questioning lawyers early and ...
Business Law
Bike shipper claims 180 athletes' bicycles were held 'hostage'
By Devon Belcher
TriBike Transport claims companies involved in shipping 180 athletes' bicycles home from a 2023 race withheld them for three m...
Torts/Personal Injury
Jury awards $11.5M to bicyclist injured by raised PCH sidewalk
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
A Los Angeles County jury found Caltrans liable for a longshoreman's traumatic brain injury after evidence showed the agency h...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court returns to 9th Circuit as new term opens
By Craig Anderson
The justices have already agreed to hear six appeals from the 9th Circuit, nearly matching last term's total, as major dispute...
Arnold Schwarzenegger wants a car-crash plaintiff to pay added courthouse security costs he says could result from her attorne...
Newsom closes final legislative session with changes to privacy, indigent defense laws
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a record 1,040 bills in his final legislative session, including measures narrowing some California p...
Cal State athletes sue over alleged sexual misconduct, ignored complaints
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Three Cal State Dominguez Hills student-athletes allege the track coach's husband sexually harassed and assaulted them and tha...
Technology
Meta defeats lawsuit over tracking on California DMV website
By Daniel Schrager
Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Y. Illston ruled that information transmitted to Meta about users' activity on the Californi...
Government
He napped on a courthouse bench. Now he's asking voters to keep him on one.
By Laurinda Keys
Justice Victor A. Rodríguez of the 1st District Court of Appeal, who spent his career in public service and ran Alameda County...
New Division 3 presiding justice faces voters with record of rulings that cut both ways
By Laurinda Keys
A former dependency judge who put off applying to the appellate bench to gain trial experience, Justice Rashida Adams now lead...
Government
Newsom signs limits on older childhood sexual abuse claims
By Malcolm Maclachlan
On his final day of signing bills as governor, Gavin Newsom approved SB 577, tightening rules for some older childhood sexual ...
Torts/Personal Injury
Edison says it has offered $1B to Eaton Fire claimants
By Devon Belcher
Nearly 80% of the offers have been accepted, according to the utility, while about 2% have been declined.
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Google defeats consumer challenge to default search deals
By Daniel Schrager
U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin ruled that consumers challenging Google's agreements to make its search engine the default on ...
Immigration
Immigration lawyers warn new contempt powers could chill advocacy
By Skyler Romero
A new Justice Department rule giving immigration judges authority to impose monetary contempt penalties has drawn objections f...
Immigration
US citizens invoke new California law against immigration agents
By Skyler Romero
Three Southern California residents alleging unlawful detention and excessive force by federal immigration agents have added c...
Class Action
5 Children's Council data breach suits move toward consolidation
By Alicia Alvarez
Five suits over a 2025 Children's Council of San Francisco data breach are expected to be consolidated after a judge questione...
After 44 years as a civil litigator, ARC neutral Gary N. Stern brings extensive trial experience, rigorous preparation and a d...
Immigration
GEO Group sues California over new immigration detention rules
By David Houston
Private detention operator GEO Group is challenging California's new Civil Detainees' Bill of Rights Act, arguing the state ca...
Labor/Employment
Lyft agrees to $272.5M settlement over California driver classification
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Lyft will pay at least $237 million to drivers to resolve claims it misclassified them as independent contractors before Prop...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Paramount-Warner Bros. merger wins final court approval
By Craig Anderson
An Oakland federal judge approved Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery over objections from advocacy gr...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Newsom signs major expansion of California antitrust law
By Malcolm Maclachlan
AB 1776 gives state prosecutors new authority to pursue anticompetitive conduct by dominant companies, widening California's d...
Technology
OpenAI sued over AI agents' alleged escape, Hugging Face cyberattack
By Daniel Schrager
A California nonprofit claims OpenAI is legally responsible after AI agents allegedly escaped a controlled testing environment...
A federal judge will end one of the nation's longest-running police monitorships after the Oakland Police Department achieved ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Beverly Hills lawyer and neutral charged in San Diego child abduction case
By David Houston
Prosecutors allege Harold G. Becks drove his daughter and granddaughter to Mexico in violation of court orders in a custody di...
Contracts
Sutter, Kaiser near agreement to bifurcate $50M payment trial
By Alicia Alvarez
Sutter Bay Hospitals and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan are preparing to bifurcate a November jury trial over allegations that ...