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Litigation & Arbitration

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

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

Oct. 30, 2023
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

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

Oct. 30, 2023
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

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

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

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

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

Oct. 25, 2023
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

Oct. 24, 2023
By Craig Anderson

The jury declined to award damages for intentional interference with Smashmallow’s relationship with Wolfgang Confectioners.


Litigation & Arbitration

“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

“This case alleges that Caltech and its for-profit partner Simplilearn falsely advertise a ‘Caltech Cybersecurity Bootcamp’ th...


Litigation & Arbitration

Lead defense attorney Thomas Borncamp During argued in the three-week trial in Kern County that there wasn’t any evidence indi...



Litigation & Arbitration

None of the defendants’ vaping devices have received premarket authorization from the FDA. In many instances, they have not ev...


Litigation & Arbitration

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

Oct. 19, 2023
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

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

“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

“I do agree with both of you that it really is a circumstantial evidence case,” Superior Court Judge Christopher B. Harmon said.


Litigation & Arbitration

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

Oct. 17, 2023
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

Oct. 17, 2023
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

Oct. 17, 2023
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

Chao and Lopez P.A. and lead attorney Peter Chao accused Oracle of forcing their former client, Jay Wang, to sign a binding ar...