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Environmental & Energy


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...



Direct Approach

May 26, 2023

Neutral Jonathan Andrews expertly toes the line between empathy and realism, lawyers say.


State Bar & Bar Associations


There is a “crisis of confidence,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Tom Umberg told bar officials.


Criminal


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


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


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

May 25, 2023
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

May 25, 2023
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


Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Erica R. Yew, elected the next president of the California Judges Association, will pu...


Civil Litigation


“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...


Civil Litigation


BNSF mark suit against airline startup moved to LA

May 24, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

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

May 24, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The pandemic triggered an industrywide assessment of technology’s role in legal proceedings, which helped drive Steno’s growth.


Technology


Video privacy lawsuit over TikTok may be part of wave

May 24, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

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


The plaintiffs’ counsel claimed that the companies “knowingly and willfully conspired” to create an upper level management str...


Technology


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


Legal observers say the case could make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which could look unkindly on the commission’s argum...


Obituaries


Ronald S.W. Lew, 1941-2022

May 23, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Judicial pioneer committed to excellence, hard work


Technology


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


“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


Alec Baldwin countersued Gutierrez-Reed and Zachry after being sued in November by script supervisor Mamie Mitchell for emotio...


Technology


U.S. District Judge Jacqueline S. Corley said that the gamers did not adequately show they will suffer “immediate irreparable ...


Real Estate/Development


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

May 22, 2023
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


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


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 ...