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Kathryn Eidmann will take the reins after former president and CEO, Mónica Ramírez Almadani was appointed to serve as a federa...


U.S. Supreme Court


The concept, which dates back to 1958, has been used by conservative groups to challenge affirmative action policies at Harvar...


Defense counsel for the disbarred attorney say prosecutors' attempts to introduce the expert testimony in Girardi's upcoming w...


Real Estate/Development, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The lawsuit challenges a policy requiring agents to post their listings on an affiliated platform, which the judge found to be...


The lawsuit, initially filed on behalf of seven California cities and later expanded to include 35 municipalities, alleged tha...


The plaintiffs, a group of students and GGU's alumni association, are seeking an injunction to keep the J.D. program open thro...


U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Bankruptcy, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


9th Circuit Chief Judge Mary H. Murguia said the court is working to update its case filing system with a new system, the Appe...


Technology, Law Practice


One attorney has resorted to printing out case files and having them messengered to the court, while several judges continued ...


Technology, Law Practice


Presiding Judge Samantha P. Jessner advised attorneys and other court users not to expect the court to "function fully and com...


Government


"She had a unique ability to connect with people," former Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley said.


Technology, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Attorneys for Huawei Technologies say claims the conglomerate "intends to 'dominate the world' and 'illegally dominate the mar...


Data Privacy


In its federal filing, Potter Handy accused one of the law firms leading a class action against Google of drafting the settlem...


Labor/Employment, Civil Procedure


"I will tell you that the federal courts believe in openness, transparency, and information made public," U.S. Magistrate Judg...


Technology, Law Practice


LA County court closed because of ransomware attack

Jul. 23, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

As of Monday afternoon, it was unclear if normal court operations would resume Tuesday. Law firms have struggled to file new c...


The County and City of San Francisco is suing the company seeking roughly $171,000 that was to be paid to current and past emp...


Real Estate/Development, Government


Real estate and tenant rights lawyers weigh in on what a recent proposal to cap rental increases nationally would mean for the...


U.S. Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


"This was a John Roberts term," Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey L. Fisher told attorneys and judges at the conference in...


Obituaries


Edward A. Panelli, 1931 -- 2024

Jul. 22, 2024
By Ricardo Pineda

Served as a justice on the California Supreme Court.


Technology, Law Practice


The attack occurred in the early hours of Friday morning and is unrelated to the global IT outage caused by CrowdStrike softwa...


Class Action, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Plaintiffs argue that the company violated its promise that any personal information provided while using Chrome would not be ...


Labor/Employment


Judge pauses Wonderful unionization efforts

Jul. 22, 2024
By Skyler Romero

Judge Bernard C. Barmann Jr.'s ruling on Thursday said Wonderful was likely to prevail in its claims that United Farm Workers ...


Marathon Digital Holdings was found to have violated its contract with the individual after failing to compensate him for prov...


Erik T. Johnson was recognized by the California Lawyers Association with a Labor and Employment Law Pro Bono Achievement Awar...


Technology, Labor/Employment


Growing scrutiny for bias in AI hiring software

Jul. 22, 2024
By Sunidhi Sridhar

A novel discrimination lawsuit against Workday Inc.'s applicant screening software has been filed by Derek Mobley, a 50-year-o...


Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The decision is a sharp rebuke of now-retired U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney of Santa Ana.


Civil Litigation


The lawsuit claims the airline's staff knew the industry had a growing problem with reported in-flight sexual assaults, and th...


Civil Litigation


Attorneys for Jeffrey Burrill claim that Grindr LLC concealed from him that his data would be sold to third parties and that i...



The Dealmakers

Jul. 22, 2024

Transactional attorneys at Styskal, Wiese & Melchione LLP enjoy bringing people together.


Several state courts have advised that their operations have been impacted by the outage, caused by an issue with Microsoft an...


Government


"We got everything that we asked for from the court and more," said Katherine J.G. McKeon, an attorney with Western Center on ...