Emrani’s attorney, Michael W. Feenberg, told Judge David S. Cunningham III that there is an “ironclad” arbitration provision i...
Retired judge Glenda Sanders regularly employs a facilitative approach to dispute resolution.
Construction, Civil Litigation
Trial remains set for June in Golden Gate dispute
By Wisdom Howell
The case, which relates to an alleged $13 million still owed to a steel producer, has been mired in cross complaints since it ...
Criminal
Voters likely will get a chance to make changes to Prop. 47
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Backers of the initiative said they had collected nearly 1 million signatures, far more than the 546,651 valid signatures they...
Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court
Amici pour in for challenge to gig worker measure
By Craig Anderson
The state Supreme Court has not scheduled oral arguments for the challenge to Prop. 22, which voters overwhelmingly approved t...
Labor/Employment
Insurer must pay $80M to defamed former employees, Sacramento jury says
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
According to the complaint, a vice president at Zurich American Insurance Company sent out an email that accused the employees...
Litigation & Arbitration
Judge approves arbitration in Citibank Armenian bias case
By Devon Belcher
The judge ruled that a 2017 California Supreme Court decision that found pre-dispute arbitration agreements that bar individua...
Intellectual Property
San Francisco accuses Oakland airport of name infringement and confusion
By Sunidhi Sridhar
City Attorney David Chiu argued that changing the name to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport would damage the ent...
Law Practice, Class Action
Shook Hardy & Bacon welcomes 4 partners to class action practice
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
New partners Steven B. Weisburd and Jan E. Dodd will be based in Los Angeles while Ryan S. Cobbs will work in Miami and Ashley...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Discipline trial of former State Bar director ends
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Both sides agreed Thursday to forgo closing arguments. Dunn is accused of misusing State Bar funds.
Government
Campaign to recall Alameda County DA want special election
By Wisdom Howell
Campaigners behind an effort to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price say they’ve amassed enough signatures to ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Testy exchanges erupt in discipline trial of Joe Dunn
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The trial has been ongoing, with the sides discussing wrapping up by Thursday.
Education Law
Judge restricts LAUSD’s ability to box out charter schools
By Skyler Romero
The district will be prevented from using the facility other than to lease it to a charter school.
Constitutional Law
USC had legal right to cancel speech, legal experts say
By Craig Anderson
First Amendment scholars warned that similar disputes over speech are likely to rage this year as Israel battles Hamas terrori...
Data Privacy
Judge set to greenlight data breach action against medical group
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
A tentative order from judge Kenneth R. Freeman’s tentative order sustained, in part, and overruled, in part, Regal Medical Gr...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
SF judge weighs contacting federal counterpart overseeing Amazon suit
By Wisdom Howell
Amazon is currently litigating two separate antitrust lawsuits, accusing it of using its agreements with third-party retailers...
Approximately 1,400 pages of search warrants, affidavits, docket sheets and judicial records related to the FBI’s investigatio...
Torts/Personal Injury
Caltrans wants to argue driver of crashed Tesla was playing video game
By Wisdom Howell
Surviving family members of the driver want to exclude “any reference, evidence, opinion, or argument that Mr. Huang was playi...
Sports, Entertainment attorney Jeffrey M. Lenkov takes role as name partner at boutique firm
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Litigation & Arbitration
SF judge weighs contacting federal counterpart overseeing Amazon lawsuit
By Wisdom Howell
Amazon is currently litigating two separate antitrust lawsuits, accusing it of using its agreements with third-party retailers...
Torts/Personal Injury
Napa Valley estate receives $33M appraisal award for fire damage
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Christine S. Haskett of Covington & Burling LLP said that even though flames didn't burn several of the buildings in quest...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Clashes mark start of discipline trial against former State Bar director
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Mark Geragos, the lawyer for Joe Dunn, tried to show the bar was biased against its former leader.
Constitutional Law
Gun advocates can no longer depend on drawing their favorite judge
By Craig Anderson
“I think some parties were attempting to forum shop by using the low number rule to relate cases that weren’t actually related...
Intellectual Property
Google accused of delay tactics in trade secrets dispute
By Jack Needham
The complaint, first filed in December 2018, accuses Google of misappropriating and/or misusing ReactX's confidential informat...
Class Action
Government claims veteran plaintiff class lacks commonality
By Devon Belcher
Lawyers for the U.S. government say that the National Veterans Foundation’s proposed plaintiff class in a case accusing the go...
Environmental & Energy
Lawmakers want to expand oil drillers' liability for health issues
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The proposed law appears to be a response a November ballot initiative backed by the petroleum industry.
Community News
LAUSD students learn about civil jury trials in mock trial event
By Jack Needham
The program aimed to introduce students to the Seventh Amendment and the right to a civil jury trial, while also exposing them...
Land Use
Lawsuits over Redondo Beach development stayed pending appeal
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Developer Leonid Pustilnikov sought a stay in his lawsuit seeking to compel Redondo Beach to approve his power plant residenti...
Campaigners behind an effort to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price say they've amassed enough signatures to ...