Litigation & Arbitration
Uber, plaintiffs to pick 20 bellwether driver abuse cases
By Wisdom Howell
Each side will propose to the court 10 cases for inclusion in the bellwether discovery pool by Nov. 17. But they argued over t...
Litigation & Arbitration, Evidence
Last words: On dying declarations
The voice from beyond the grave – it’s not just a trope in Stephen King, but is also codified as a hearsay exception, and has ...
Litigation & Arbitration
San Diego restaurant accused of weeklong E. coli outbreak
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
There have been 17 victims identified so far. Of those identified, seven required hospitalization, and one of those seven, a 1...
Litigation & Arbitration
Jury awards $1.1 million to 4 flight attendants over tainted uniforms
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
About 150,000 uniforms were shipped to flight attendants by Twin Hill, the manufacturer of the uniforms. Some American workers...
Litigation & Arbitration
Club valet injured by drunken driver wins $6M
By Skyler Romero
“We were able to show the parallels between what most people think PTSD is and how that can really apply in a car crash, and h...
Litigation & Arbitration, Civil Procedure, Civil Litigation
“New-clear” verdicts – don’t blame the jurors
It’s easy for the defense to see large verdicts as the result of vindictive, angry jurors. But this ignores the fundamental co...
Litigation & Arbitration
HP agrees to pay $18M to settle claims of age bias
By Jonathan Lo
According to the preliminary approval motion, the 358 class members will receive on average more than $50,000 in compensation ...
Litigation & Arbitration, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lessons learned from classic fictional attorneys
We set the stage with examples of how fictional attorneys handled a thorny issue, and then broke down how the attorney got it ...
Litigation & Arbitration
Jury asked to award $400M in Tesla Autopilot crash trial
By Devon Belcher
Jonathan A. Michaels asked jurors for the award during his closing argument after reminding them of the severity of the physic...
Litigation & Arbitration
Fight over Treasure Island revitalization moves forward
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer Jr. issued an order on Oct. 18 allowing the developer to seek punitive dam...
Litigation & Arbitration
Sonoma company wins $21M for breach of contract
By Craig Anderson
The jury declined to award damages for intentional interference with Smashmallow’s relationship with Wolfgang Confectioners.
Litigation & Arbitration
Is Santa Monica’s opposition to zero bail a harbinger?
By Skyler Romero
“When young mothers with young children do not feel comfortable walking down the street, going to a park or going shopping, t...
Technology, Litigation & Arbitration
Lawsuit claims Caltech duped cyber boot camp users
By Wisdom Howell
“This case alleges that Caltech and its for-profit partner Simplilearn falsely advertise a ‘Caltech Cybersecurity Bootcamp’ th...
Litigation & Arbitration
Yukevich Cavanaugh defeats $48M unloading injury suit
By Skyler Romero
Lead defense attorney Thomas Borncamp During argued in the three-week trial in Kern County that there wasn’t any evidence indi...
Litigation & Arbitration
30 vape manufacturers hit with unfair competition claims
By Sunidhi Sridhar
None of the defendants’ vaping devices have received premarket authorization from the FDA. In many instances, they have not ev...
Litigation & Arbitration
Coinbase is locked in litigation with users, mostly unseen
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“The number of lawsuits you see is a fraction of the number of cases there are against Coinbase. There’s an unknown number in ...
Litigation & Arbitration
No punitive damages for failure to fix sink leak, judge rules
By Skyler Romero
“Failing to check the leak may be a conscious disregard for the safety of others, but is not so vile, loathsome, miserable tha...
Litigation & Arbitration, Health Care & Hospital Law
Investors sue COVID testmaker and CEO over ‘misspent’ funds
By Wisdom Howell
The COVID-19 test kit developer generated $37.6 million in income between 2021 and 2022 but was left with no money by Aug. 1, ...
Litigation & Arbitration
Plaintiffs’ attorney grills Tesla expert over research methods
By Devon Belcher
Tesla says the Autopilot can’t do what the plaintiffs say it did in a 2019 fatal crash, while the plaintiffs said the system h...
Litigation & Arbitration
Zoom agrees to pay $150M to settle investor lawsuit
By Jonathan Lo
The class’ attorneys are requesting 18.75%, or over $28 million, in attorney fees. They said in the motion for approval that h...
Litigation & Arbitration
Au pairs must arbitrate PAGA claims, companies say
By Wisdom Howell
The au pair plaintiffs argued that the suit cannot be sent to arbitration because the contracts require disputes be handled in...
Litigation & Arbitration
San Diego to pay $8M to man run over during arrest
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
During a vandalism arrest a police officer pinned the plaintiff to the ground in the street. An SUV then drove into the police...
Litigation & Arbitration
Wachtell forces X to arbitrate dispute over $90M legal bill
By Wisdom Howell
X claims that the hourly fees the firm earned for the Twitter sale totaled $17.9 million but that the “success fee” the firm r...
Litigation & Arbitration
Sheppard Mullin team wins mark dispute for independent publisher
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“As a result of this case, there is now a written opinion that states that SELF is not a famous mark, and is a conceptually we...
Litigation & Arbitration
Nonsuit motion opens Tesla’s defense of Autopilot crash
By Devon Belcher
“I do agree with both of you that it really is a circumstantial evidence case,” Superior Court Judge Christopher B. Harmon said.
Litigation & Arbitration
Rival wants losing engineering firm’s project proposal
By Skyler Romero
Conduent, which won the bid for the L.A. County transit proposal, requested disclosure of TransCore’s rejected proposal pursua...
Litigation & Arbitration, Health Care & Hospital Law
Santa Ana lawyer gets 6 years for pharmaceutical scheme
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Prosecutors said David J. Miller and his company lied to their customers about the nature and sources of the prescription drug...
Litigation & Arbitration
Jury awards daughter $13.5M in LAPD wrongful death case
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Jacobo Juarez Cedillo died in April 2019 after being restrained by officers pinning him to the ground with their own body weig...
Litigation & Arbitration
Norton Rose wins $5.2M for surgeon sued by partners
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The complaint filed in Ventura County Superior Court says the doctor who founded West Coast Vascular invested significant amou...
Litigation & Arbitration
Law firm’s suit against Oracle for lost client is dismissed
By Wisdom Howell
Chao and Lopez P.A. and lead attorney Peter Chao accused Oracle of forcing their former client, Jay Wang, to sign a binding ar...