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Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


Broad Beach property owners are no strangers to a lawsuit. The latest focuses on an alleged breach of the California Coastal A...


Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Deputy Attorney General Jerry T. Yen argued the 1999 statute was intended to block "straw purchases," in which people buy a lo...


Technology, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Attorneys for Google, led by Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, unsuccessfully petitioned the court for a new trial and have maint...


The Western States Petroleum Association challenged California regulations designed to give unions a bigger role in negotiatin...


The state claims that Indian managers at Cisco Systems discriminated against other Indian workers they perceived as being from...


The lawsuit, filed last week, called the wording of the ballot measure "untrue, partial, argumentative, and/or prejudicial."


U.S. District Judge James L. Robart rejected claims that the aerospace giant stole technology and sabotaged the business prosp...


Some of the expenses tracked out of the Girardi Keese accounts were traced to diamond jewelry and gems, several golf country c...


Intellectual Property


ChatGPT developer OpenAI, based in San Francisco, filed trademark infringement and unfair competition claims last year against...


Land Use, Environmental & Energy


A Los Angeles County judge's decision to dismiss a legal effort to halt the gondola's construction marks the third time a judg...


Girardi's defense is that at the time of the alleged wire fraud misconduct, he was in the beginning stages of his 2021-diagnos...


Government, Environmental & Energy


"How many more hours do you need to put on your case? Please think about that because I'm going to probably have a time limit....


This year's entries highlight key issues in California's legal landscape, including racial integration in legal education, dis...



Johnny Depp's star lawyer joins Sheppard Mullin

Aug. 14, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Camille Vasquez gained international fame when she represented the actor in a defamation lawsuit against his former girlfriend...


Technology, Intellectual Property


U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick's decision was a notable win for authors, artists, and others suing AI companies for cop...


In cross examination by defense counsel, attorneys and former clients rejected the idea that Tom Girardi's elaborate excuses f...


Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Having received no reply from the State Supreme Court, the 9th Circuit panel's unsigned majority opinion concluded that the st...


Attorney Chris Baker told a San Francisco judge that "it's very important" that employees who might be eligible class members ...


Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Objectors say $2.8B NCAA NIL deal leaves some out

Aug. 13, 2024
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Attorneys for several former and current college athletes told U.S. District Judge Claudia A. Wilken in Oakland the proposed s...


Technology, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Consumers in federal court in San Francisco who accuse Google of illegally brokering an exclusive deal to be the default searc...


Attorney Ryan C. Griffith said the amended complaint remedied "technical defects" that he claims led to the original being tos...


Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


"I perceive no basis for concluding that Meta, in operating such unprecedented legally-hybrid platforms, has any sort of super...


Timm Alan Browne told a Los Angeles judge that he saw evidence of an improper dynamic between city officials and residents whi...


Sally Hammitt, chief of the Community Engagement & Reintegration Service at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare, took the st...


Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that he would use next year's state budget cycle to withhold funds from local governments t...


The lawsuit alleges that the defendants failed to provide adequate security measures, including proper screening of attendees...


Securities, Civil Litigation


Judge OKs $200M Uber-shareholder deal

Aug. 12, 2024
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Stockholders claimed Uber's information about its IPO hid plans to expand into new markets despite greater risk to passenger s...


Government, Corporate, Banking


FDIC must face SVB suit for $2B

Aug. 12, 2024
By Sunidhi Sridhar

U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman in San Jose was skeptical of the federal agency's argument that the bank's claims deal...


Plaintiffs had argued that the imposition of minimum taxes on companies with only a passing interest in the state was unconsti...


Intellectual Property


Defense lawyers say the allegedly stolen code had no value because it was open source. Plaintiffs say that its then-novel feat...