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Environmental & Energy


State must redo CEQA plans for Ballona Wetlands

May 22, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Judge James C. Chalfant on Wednesday identified two issues in which the department failed to adhere to mandatory provisions of...


Antitrust & Trade Reg., Civil Litigation


The dismissal leaves LIV Golf, which joined the case after it was filed in August 2022, as the only plaintiff left — transform...


California Courts of Appeal


Justice Brian Currey was nominated to serve as presiding justice of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 4, where he has...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar Board of Trustees on Thursday agreed to send two alternatives to the Supreme Court that would implement a requir...


Health Care & Hospital Law


“It’s unforgivable that BHC Alhambra would knowingly put other patients in harm’s way,” said Mike Arias of Arias Sanguinetti W...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


U.S. Magistrate Judge Allison Claire approved an unopposed motion for administrative relief from Milk Moovement Inc. She order...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The appeal panel explained that the district court wrongly “speculated about possible conflicts and ordered officewide disqual...


Civil Litigation


Expansion of sex abuse law, other bills remain alive

May 19, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The annual deadline for bills to pass fiscal committees combines life-and-death drama with some of the dullest hearings held e...


U.S. Supreme Court


Legal experts said the decisions, in cases against Twitter Inc., Alphabet-owned Google LLC, and Meta Platforms Inc. are especi...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Plaintiffs allege that the company misled physicians about the toxicity of its HIV antiretroviral drugs containing tenofovir d...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Criminal


“This case should be over,” Deputy Attorney General Sarah M. Brattin said. “Nearly eight years ago this statewide class action...


In support of their motion to compel, at a hearing in Santa Clara County Superior Court, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, Jo...



Experienced Empathy

May 19, 2023

Neutral Richard Aronson is 'respectful but clear' about the strength of parties cases


Health Care & Hospital Law


More than 77,000 people have sued GSK plc, formerly GlaxoSmithKline plc, in Delaware state court. They allege that the ulcer d...


Litigation & Arbitration


A Taco John’s franchisee in Minnesota came up with “Taco Twosday” to promote two tacos for 99 cents on a slow day of the week,...


“This is a disappointing decision that puts endangered jaguars at risk,” Marc Fink, an attorney at the Center for Biological D...


Government, Litigation & Arbitration


U.S. District Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha’s said doctors could not be punished for refusing to assist suicide but he left t...


“After watching our students start to own the courtroom and overcome that fear of facing a judge, they started to win with con...


Corporate, Labor/Employment, Technology


“Plaintiffs ignored a critical term within the merger agreement: the mandatory forum selection clause, which requires that all...


Litigation & Arbitration


Elizabeth J. Cabraser, partner at Lieff Cabraser, said Wednesday that this trial and settlement had a ripple effect: defendant...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Senate Republicans portrayed U.S. District Judge Ana I. de Alba as soft on crime, citing a sentencing decision in a child porn...


Litigation & Arbitration


The plaintiff’s counsel, Kyle R. Tracy of Tracy Law PC, filed the lawsuit saying Uber allowed its drivers to discriminate agai...


Litigation & Arbitration


“We believe it is a fair settlement and great result for investors,” said plaintiffs’ attorney James E. Barz, partner with Rob...


Government


Judge prohibits pre-arraignment bail in LA County

May 17, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The ruling came hours after Superior Court Judge Lawrence P. Riff denied without prejudice an ex parte application by a crime ...


Litigation & Arbitration, Technology


Two content moderators hired to look through and filter offensive videos on TikTok, including necrophilia and child abuse, sai...


Technology


Charges in his case and four other cases were unsealed Tuesday as the Department of Justice unveiled a new multiagency unit, T...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Judge Richard B. Ulmer issued his ruling in a lawsuit brought against PG&E by Winding Creek Solar LLC, an alternative ener...


Litigation & Arbitration


Interim lead class counsel Dennis S. Ellis of Ellis George Cipollone O’Brien Annaguey LLP said in a statement Tuesday, “Black ...


The agency’s objection is not the same as the usual policy concerns concerning mergers. Instead, the FTC worries that Amgen wi...


Four years ago, the former chief operating officer sent a letter to state officials outlining his concerns about poor accounti...