Environmental & Energy
County oil well ban preempted by state law, attorney argues
By Craig Anderson
Theodore J. Boutrous told the state Supreme Court that while Monterey County can impose zoning restrictions on oil drilling, i...
Fourteen anonymous current and former baseball players for the San Francisco Dons had filed suit against coaches Troy Nakamura...
Neutral Jonathan Andrews expertly toes the line between empathy and realism, lawyers say.
State Bar & Bar Associations
No legislative interest in increasing fees, State Bar officials are told
By Devon Belcher
There is a “crisis of confidence,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Tom Umberg told bar officials.
Criminal
Assembly hearing debates best response to fentanyl crisis
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Legislative Republicans have repeatedly criticized their colleagues in recent weeks for failing to pass several GOP bills desi...
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a Connecticut-based organization, said in an 80-page complaint that the bill willfull...
Criminal
Crime victims try to intervene in suit over zero bail plan
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
If the motion is approved on Friday, Crime Survivors Inc. will be the first such organization to defend in court the long-stan...
Sonos, an audio products manufacturer, alleged that Google clearly infringed on their patents when developing its wireless aud...
U.S. Supreme Court
‘Common use’ gun dispute appears destined high court
By Craig Anderson
In a brief filed Monday over an Oregon ban of large capacity magazines, attorneys for gun rights groups said the law should be...
Community News, Education Law
LA ABOTA holds 1st mock trial with students
By Skyler Romero
“We are really hoping people go home to their families and start thinking about what kind of career they want to have, and we...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Orange County judge joins Judicate West
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
When James L. Crandall was on the bench, he juggled between 500 and 800 active cases at any given time.
Judges and Judiciary
Next CJA head to push for more remote proceedings
By Wisdom Howell
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Erica R. Yew, elected the next president of the California Judges Association, will pu...
Civil Litigation
Proposal would speed CEQA administrative record preparation
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“An immense amount of time is wasted during the litigation while a petitioner prepares a record and seeks discovery on the rec...
Marc S. Harris was most recently a senior investigative counsel for the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Attack...
Represented by attorneys at Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC in Fort Worth, BNSF Railway Co. filed a lawsuit last fa...
Technology
Court reporting technology closes new round of funding
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The pandemic triggered an industrywide assessment of technology’s role in legal proceedings, which helped drive Steno’s growth.
At least 70 Video Privacy Protection Act cases were filed in the past year against companies whose websites have videos with t...
Entertainment & Sports, Labor/Employment
Proposed class accuses Fox, Tubi platform of bias against women
By Wisdom Howell
The plaintiffs’ counsel claimed that the companies “knowingly and willfully conspired” to create an upper level management str...
A federal jury in San Francisco found that Nippon Chemi-con violated antitrust law by conspiring to set prices for aluminum an...
U.S. Supreme Court
Illumina case setting up constitutional battle over FTC power
By Craig Anderson
Legal observers say the case could make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which could look unkindly on the commission’s argum...
Judicial pioneer committed to excellence, hard work
The FTC amicus brief was written in response to a query from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asking if the commission wa...
Civil Litigation
Colorado River deal ends litigation threat – for the moment
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“The caveat is that the states and the bureau has kicked the can down the road for a while, until the end of 2026, which is go...
Entertainment & Sports
Baldwin’s negligence claims against film crew are blocked
By Skyler Romero
Alec Baldwin countersued Gutierrez-Reed and Zachry after being sued in November by script supervisor Mamie Mitchell for emotio...
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline S. Corley said that the gamers did not adequately show they will suffer “immediate irreparable ...
Real Estate/Development
No injunction for apartment owners fighting LA rent laws
By Devon Belcher
The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles argued in its lawsuit that the city does not have the authority under Califor...
Environmental & Energy, Government
Governor lays out steps to speed up CEQA litigation
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced an executive order and said he would introduce a package of trailer bills designed “to accelerate ...
California Supreme Court, State Bar & Bar Associations
Justices unaware bar didn’t always apply suspended attorney rule
By Laurinda Keys
The California Supreme Court found out about this more than 32-year-old practice on Jan. 31, in a letter from State Bar Court ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar board still wants other paths to licensure
By Devon Belcher
After two years, 19 meetings and hundreds of hours of analysis, the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of the Bar Exam estab...
Judge David S. Cunningham III continued the motion by plaintiff Shell Oil Co. in order to allow Dole time to provide evidence ...