Environmental & Energy
Delta’s ‘carbon neutral’ claim challenged as false
By Sunidhi Sridhar
A similar complaint was filed in New York last year against KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
Civil Litigation
$12M for Olympic hopeful injured at Camp Pendleton
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“While at the training camp, Perry and other professional wrestlers were placed into a military weapons training exercise and ...
Immigration
US courts can’t decide if immigrant is dangerous, circuit rules
By Craig Anderson
The case concerns a Nicaraguan citizen who became a legal permanent resident of the United States in 1990 and then was twice c...
“How could I ethically represent somebody, ever, that I had a conflict of interest with in the beginning? Do you understand?” ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Elder abuse case against San Francisco moves forward
By Wisdom Howell
At the heart of the matter is a report cited in the complaint from the San Francisco Department of Health in June 2019 that “a...
Civil Rights
Wine Spectator violated tasting, scoring policy, bias suit alleges
By Devon Belcher
The plaintiff alleges she was wrongfully terminated following medical absences for three gender-affirming surgeries last year....
Attorneys who handle such disputes say the latest move, following a U.S. Federal Trade Commission proposal in January to ban n...
The legal settlement stems from a lawsuit that the City of Los Angeles filed against Polymer80 in 2021 following an ambush on ...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Divided circuit panel overturns state death sentence
By Jonathan Lo
Circuit Judges Kim McLane Wardlaw, Paul J. Watford and Eric D. Miller unanimously rejected the petitioner’s challenges to his ...
Civil Litigation
Sheppard Mullin sues San Bernardino County over foster care
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“Workers in San Bernardino County can’t possibly protect these children because of their high caseloads, no matter how hard th...
The federal jury in San Francisco found that Google had not proved by clear and convincing evidence that any of the infringed-...
The report pointed to other areas of the state with successful cooperation between local governments — though “success” often ...
Intellectual Property
Toymaker fighting $300M infringement suit calls it a ‘shakedown’
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Keller/Anderle LLP founding partner Jennifer L. Keller and her team defended MGA Entertainment against claims that, when creat...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Court will not reinstate discipline charges against former director
By Devon Belcher
A State Bar Court review panel on Friday affirmed a February ruling that dismissed with prejudice most discipline counts stemm...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Retired justice can’t testify at law professor’s discipline trial
By Craig Anderson
Attorneys for John Eastman argued that Janice Rogers Brown is qualified to argue that the State Bar’s pursuit of disciplinary ...
Banking
BofA must face class action over handling of COVID relief cards
By Craig Anderson
The lawsuit blames Bank of America for allowing criminals to steal Californians’ unemployment and disability benefits on prepa...
Superior Court Judge David S. Cunningham III sustained the demurrers as to all these causes of action, with leave to amend in ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Judge preserves suit by doctor who lost license after ‘Varsity Blues’
By Wisdom Howell
The petitioner, Dr. Gregory O. Colburn, was sentenced to eight weeks in prison in April 2022. He claims that the California Me...
Bonta’s argument echoes statements from attorneys by the city and county of Los Angeles, that they also have no control over t...
The practice of billionaires intervening has been going on for a while but hasn’t been thought of as litigation funding.
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice, Technology
WATCH NOW: Ready to deploy new technologies to simplify your work? Legal tech experts offer guidance in legal prompting and th...
Donna Wilson’s vision for new Manatt office began with inability to see everyone
By David Houston
Manatt CEO Donna L. Wilson promised herself that when she got a chance to oversee the designing of an office space there would...
MGA Entertainment CEO Isaac Larian says he went “from a dishwasher to a billionaire, and I worked hard. I didn’t hustle,”
Lawmakers and NGOs fight red states over abortion, civil rights
Environmental & Energy
EPA water jurisdiction limited by Supreme Court
By Craig Anderson
“In sum, we hold that the [Clean Water Act] extends to only those ‘wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies tha...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Ethics group advises judges not to attend law firm celebrations
By Devon Belcher
Presence at such an event “may suggest that the judicial officer has a special relationship with the law firm, which may under...
Entertainment & Sports
Nude teens in 1968 ‘Romeo and Juliet’ are protected speech, judge rules
By Skyler Romero
Superior Court Judge Alison Mackenzie granted Paramount’s anti-SLAPP petition to dismiss the case in a tentative ruling on Thu...
Environmental & Energy
Kohl’s ceramic planters alleged to contain toxic chemicals
By Wisdom Howell
The lawsuit was filed under the California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, which was passed by voters...
Litigator joins Pillsbury in newly consolidated San Diego office
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Paul Fraidenburgh, a former Buchalter trial lawyer, has more than 20 years of experience in the construction, technology, and ...
Intellectual Property
LA County accused of illegally taking mineral, property rights
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Bridgeland Resources LLC claims that with a new ordinance, the county seeks to “usurp” the authority of the California Geologi...