California Courts of Appeal
City worker must be reinstated despite harassment allegations, court rules
By Kevin Lee
A Stockton city employee who posted a nude photo of a co-worker with a crude comment must be reinstated because a private arbi...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Study: Lower bar exam scores increase likelihood of attorney discipline
By Lyle Moran
Two Pepperdine University School of Law professors also concluded that lowering the passing score on the exam would likely inc...
Criminal
OC judge questions sheriff's lieutenant's truthfulness in open court
By Meghann M. Cuniff
A superior court judge on Wednesday questioned the truthfulness of a uniformed sheriff's lieutenant who hours earlier was gran...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
OC judge admonished for sex-charged Facebook post
By L.J. Williamson And Malcolm Maclachla
Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeff Ferguson has been publicly admonished by the Commission on Judicial Performance after ...
Criminal
OC judge questions sheriff's lieutenant's truthfulness in open court
By Meghann M. Cuniff
A superior court judge on Wednesday questioned the truthfulness of a uniformed sheriff's lieutenant who hours earlier was gran...
Government
Bill to aid "revenge porn" victims advances in Legislature
By Malcolm Maclachlan And L.J. Williamso
State legislators have been meeting every day this week as bills face a Friday deadline to pass.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit cracks down on shackling of defendants
By Joshua Sebold
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that federal courts cannot have a blanket policy for shackling all defen...
Law Practice
How immigration consequences affect a plea dependson the state
By L.J. Williamson
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and domestic violence victim advocates have found common ground over a shared concern that...
Litigation
Ex-SpaceX technician's cross-examination testimony alleges falsified reports
By Paula Lehman Ewing
Former Space Exploration Technologies Corp. technician Jason Blasdell animatedly gave his account of how the results of radioa...
Labor/Employment
McDonald's official testifies company didn't know state overtime law
By Matthew Blake
Kathryn Froehlich, senior project manager for McDonald's, told Joseph M. Sellers, a partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers & To...
Law Practice
Summer associate was once her boss’ pro bono asylum case
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
Summer associate joins firm that successfully argued her family's asylum petition 15 years ago. ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Man faces deportation for being "habitual drunkard"
By Joshua Sebold
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc panel ruled Monday in a split decision that a Mexican man's request to stay in the...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit judge blasts Trump administration immigration policy
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
A veteran liberal judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed the deportation of a Mexican immigrant wh...
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court restricts personal injury claim filings
By Eli Wolfe
Plaintiff attorneys will face further restrictions on where they can file personal injury claims following a ruling on Tuesday...
The plaintiffs claimed Spotify had secured performance rights, but not mechanical rights for songs.
California Supreme Court
Voter-backed tax initiative election rules debated by state Supreme Court
By Kevin Lee
The highly-charged political battle between the city of Upland and the medical marijuana industry reached the state's highest ...
Judges and Judiciary
Retiring state high court justice lauded by colleagues
By Kevin Lee
Kathryn M. Werdegar, the state Supreme Court justice who will retire from the bench this summer, received celebratory plaudits...
Litigation
Man sues university, claiming he got cancer from kidney transplant
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A man has sued the UC Davis Medical Center for medical negligence after allegedly receiving a cancerous kidney.
Law Practice
Longtime litigator reflects on her career as a woman lawyer
By Justin Kloczko
The partners in Helen Zukin's first firm had never heard of a woman trying a case alone. ...
Immigration
US seeks property forfeiture in alleged $50M EB-5 visa fraud operation
By Eli Wolfe
In the latest crackdown on EB-5 visa fraud, the Central District U.S. attorney's office filed nine civil complaints last week ...
SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell's recollection of a conversation with a now-fired technician has become a cornerstone for bot...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bartolotta selected for San Diego consumer attorney bar's Hall of Fame
By Riley Guerin
The Consumer Attorneys of San Diego selected Vincent J. Bartolotta Jr. as the recipient of its 2017 Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame ...
Litigation
Harrowing questions, excruciating detail mark McDonald's overtime pay trial
By Matthew Blake
The bench trial regarding McDonald's Restaurants of California Inc. and 13,000 overnight workers comes to an end this week.
Coming Events
Employment and consumer arbitration topics for Western Justice Center panel
By Shane Nelson
The building battle over mandatory arbitration clauses in both employment and consumer contracts takes center stage at the Wes...
A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.
California Courts of Appeal
State universities largely exempt from city taxes, court rules
By Joshua Sebold
A state appellate court has ruled in a split decision that cities do not have the right to tax state entities under most circu...
Government
Bill would require AG permission to close emergency rooms
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The state Senate Appropriations committee passed a bill that would require nonprofit hospitals to obtain the permission of the...
Immigration
Citizenship applications soar since Trump took office
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
Attorneys are reporting a significant increase in citizenship application work, which many are attributing to fears and uncert...
Attorney moves and promotions and new firms from around the state.
Superior Court Judge Monterey County (Monterey) ...