Health Care & Hospital Law
San Diego company sues Moderna, Pfizer over COVID vaccine patents
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Promosome LLC claimed in the Tuesday filing that its scientists showed Moderna proprietary information related to increased mR...
Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports
Actor’s lawyers gave discovery to Scientology, judge says
By Skyler Romero
Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo imposed the sanctions “for violating court orders regarding the sharing of criminal discovery with a...
Environmental & Energy
Environmental group linked to union sues over LA apartment project
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
A website called “Phony Union Tree Huggers” claims that unions fronting as environmental groups are exploiting CEQA for the be...
Health Care & Hospital Law
$39M deal ends investors suit against BioMarin Pharmaceutical
By Jonathan Lo
BioMarin was accused of misrepresenting to investors that the Food and Drug Administration was going to approve its new drug, ...
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property litigator joins Gibson Dunn in San Francisco
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
L. Kieran Kieckhefer spent nearly five years at Shearman & Sterling.
Government
State must pay plaintiff fees for challenge to firearm law
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“The unilateral fee-shifting provision of 1327 was intended from the onset to chill the exercise of constitutional rights by t...
Law Practice
Barnes & Thornburg names new leader of San Diego office
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Eric J. Beste handles white collar criminal defense and complex commercial litigation.
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar discipline trial is shaping up to be rehash of 2020 presidential election
By Craig Anderson
Former law professor John Eastman will stand trial later this month on charges he helped to foment an effort to overturn the p...
Civil Litigation
San Diego deputy district attorneys and others sued for wrongful 20-year imprisonment
By Devon Belcher
After she filed a habeas corpus petition, a nearly yearlong preliminary hearing and extensive pretrial litigation followed. On...
The new leadership plans to proceed more quietly and focus on growing client relationships, a firm spokesperson said.
Nancy E. Zeltzer had been a civil litigator for nearly 30 years when she was appointed to the bench by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2014.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Former 9th Circuit Judge Paul Watford joins Wilson Sonsini
By Craig Anderson
The 55-year-old judge, one of the leading Black jurists in the nation, was once mentioned as a possible U.S. Supreme Court jud...
Litigation & Arbitration
Semiconductor firm says rival is using patent litigation to drive it from market
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Rudy Y. Kim, an attorney for Realtek Semiconductor, cited the results of one study that showed that lawsuits brought by "paten...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar leader floats expanding agency's discipline authority to law firms
By Devon Belcher
Under state law, the bar is only authorized to discipline individual attorneys. "We do not have discipline authority over law ...
Community News, Real Estate/Development
Advocacy groups bicker over who caused minority homelessness in Los Angeles
By Skyler Romero
Attorneys for the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights accused the Los Angeles Community Action Network of having a hand in shaping ...
Litigation & Arbitration
Former Gilead GC explains patent suit settlements with competitors
By Jonathan Lo
Gilead is accused of forging a deal with Teva, which had challenged many of Gilead's vulnerable patents, to delay Teva's marke...
Real Estate/Development
Lawmaker is unwavering in push for more rent control
By Malcolm Maclachlan
"I think it's important when we're talking about housing, we're not just talking about development, we're talking about afford...
Coinbase argues that the SEC reviewed its business and allowed the company to go public in 2021, and its CEO Brian Armstrong c...
Data Privacy
CCP had access to US user data, former TikTok officer alleges
By Wisdom Howell
The allegations were made in a new declaration filed by Yintao Yu, in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday and come less th...
"Upon breaching a door with the 5.11-brand medium battering ram for the purpose and in the manner for which it was designed, p...
Law Practice, State Bar & Bar Associations
Proposed law would gut mediation confidentiality, many groups say
By Malcolm Maclachlan
"It would severely undermine the statutory purpose of mediation confidentiality, which is to encourage the resolution of dispu...
Attorney revered for commitment to disadvantaged
Attorney revered for commitment to disadvantaged
"We know that words have power and whether spoken in private or public, they matter. We are ashamed of the words we wrote, an...
“CoStar’s allegation that a small circular logo, which it often applies to photos it doesn’t own, constitutes copyright notice...
Entertainment & Sports, U.S. Supreme Court
US Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to state’s anti-fracking law
By Craig Anderson
The decision affirmed a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last year for environmental groups and California on their Na...
California Supreme Court, Civil Rights
Black Tesla workers want bias suit certified as class
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Larry A. Organ, plaintiffs’ co-lead counsel, said in a news release. “How many more Black workers have to be called the N-word...
Dr. Craig Gibbs testified that Gilead would offer a “social bargain” to the competing companies: in exchange for a settlement,...
Class Action
1st class action against pharma company certified under civil RICO
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
“The result should come as no surprise. It is rooted in well-established 9th Circuit precedent and, frankly, common sense,” Ma...
Government, Real Estate/Development
State settles COVID relief suit with tenants
By Wisdom Howell
The state agreed to send explanation letters to applicants who were denied access to some of the $6 billion worth of relief Ca...