California Supreme Court
Government can enter property for testing before eminent domain, court rules
By Kevin Lee
Gov. Jerry Brown's $15 billion water conveyance plan dodged a legal roadblock Thursday when the state Supreme Court ruled that...
A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved.
Judges and Judiciary
Jury convicts man of plotting to kill federal judge by putting him in a wood chipper
By Meghann M. Cuniff
A federal jury in Orange County convicted a man this week in a plot to kill U.S. District Judge Andrew F. Guilford by putting ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Unilever picks up Dollar Shave Club for an estimated $1B
By Banks Albachn
Prominent online razor blade subscription company Dollar Shave Club Inc. in Venice has inked a sale, reportedly worth $1 billi...
Government
"The Wolf of Wall Street" could be seized as part of embezzlement sting
By Steven Crighton
The Justice Department announced Wednesday that it is looking to seize rights to profits, royalties and distribution proceeds ...
Government
OC DA has appealed a Superior Court judge's decision to vacate a man's murder convictions over withheld jail informant records
By Meghann M. Cuniff
The Orange County district attorney's office argued its prosecutors did not violate evidence rules because they did not know o...
California Courts of Appeal
Police video recording must be released, state appellate court rules
By Kevin Lee
A video recording of a police arrest taken from a patrol car is not shielded from public disclosure, a state appellate court u...
Education
Bill would allow veterans' benefits to be used at more law schools
By Lyle Moran
Veterans would again be allowed to use GI Bill benefits at law schools accredited by the State Bar under a bill before the sta...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Panel rejects store manager's tolling theory
By Matthew Blake
A plaintiff cannot rely on successive class actions to keep the clock from starting on their claim's statute of limitations, a...
Litigation
Jury gets case of man who says tasing made him fall from attic window
By Renee Flannery
A case in which the plaintiff alleged that tasing by San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies caused him to fall from an attic...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit rejects death row inmate's appeal
By Saul Sugarman
A man on death row for triple homicide had his petition to review his case denied Wednesday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...
The Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP partner died Sunday after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Labor/Employment
"Teacher jail" class action stripped of due process claims
By America Hernandez.
Public school teachers who claim they were forced to resign by being put on indefinite administrative leave and questioned wit...
The company and its founder, Shervin Pishevar, are seeking $250 million from a group of ousted employees who filed a lawsuit a...
Litigation
Case dismissed a second time, in spite of appeals court exception
By Steven Crighton
An Orange County judge has dismissed a case that could have established precedent for exceptions within state fee-sharing agre...
A lawsuit alleging insider dealmaking, cooking the books, and racial animus at subscription TV channel Starz Entertainment LLC...
L.A. County Board of Supervisors approves $10.1 million wrongful incarceration settlement
By L.J. Williamson
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a $10.1 million settlement in the civil rights cas...
Online education and therapy startup PresenceLearning Inc. announced the hiring of Andrew Byrnes as vice president, general co...
In a blow to groups seeking environmental review for projects that would bring trains loaded with crude oil through the San Fr...
Litigation
Bristol-Myers Squibb to pay $30M to settle state kickback lawsuit
By Saul Sugarman
The pharmaceutical giant will pay $30 million to settle allegations of defrauding commercial health insurers by offering kickb...
Litigation
Jury awards $320,000 to woman who was sexually assaulted by Van Nuys chiropractor
By Justin Kloczko
A Van Nuys chiropractor who was convicted of inappropriately touching his female patient during treatment in 2013 was ordered ...
Judges and Judiciary
San Francisco Superior Court Judge James P. Collins, 72, to retire
By Phil Johnson
Appointed to the bench in 2009, Collins will hang up his robe Friday.
A luxury car dealership's privacy policies and methods are on trial in Orange County Superior Court this week as a lawyer repr...
Litigation
State Bar's attorney appears to win final round of data release trial
By Phil Johnson
Testimony before San Francisco Superior Court Judge Mary E. Wiss came to a close Monday in the case between the State Bar and ...
Labor/Employment
Sacramento jury to hear lawyer's whistleblower charge against education agency
By Matthew Blake
A Sacramento County jury will decide if a former lawyer for the state agency that disciplines teachers was more civic hero or ...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ralph "Bud" Dau died July 14. He had been on the bench since 1995 and was described as...
San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos was sworn in Monday as president of the National District Attorneys Associa...
Intellectual Property
California law professors back patent venue reform legislation
By Saul Sugarman
Fourteen California-based professors are among a larger group that recently penned a letter urging U.S. policymakers to reform...