Environmental & Energy
State must redo CEQA plans for Ballona Wetlands
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
Litigation over LIV golf tour presses on, but without any golfers
By Craig Anderson
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
Newsom nominates 3 to courts of appeal, names 27 trial judges
By David Houston
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
Bar agrees to send 2 ‘snitch rule’ alternatives to Supreme Court
By Devon Belcher
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
Claim: 2 patients of mental health facility beaten by other patients
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“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.
Milk Moovement can continue antitrust claims against Dairy LLC
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
Judge improperly disqualified US attorney’s office, circuit finds
By Sunidhi Sridhar
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
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
Does Silicon Valley have a friendly Supreme Court?
By Craig Anderson
Legal experts said the decisions, in cases against Twitter Inc., Alphabet-owned Google LLC, and Meta Platforms Inc. are especi...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Gilead falsely promotes HIV drug as a ‘miracle’, suit says
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
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
State seeks end to monitoring of prisons for solitary confinement compliance
By Jonathan Lo
“This case should be over,” Deputy Attorney General Sarah M. Brattin said. “Nearly eight years ago this statewide class action...
Technology
Meta, plaintiffs accuse each other of stalling pixel wiretapping case
By Wisdom Howell
In support of their motion to compel, at a hearing in Santa Clara County Superior Court, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, Jo...
Neutral Richard Aronson is 'respectful but clear' about the strength of parties cases
Health Care & Hospital Law
Los Angeles attorney appointed to co-lead Zantac cancer cases in Delaware
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
More than 77,000 people have sued GSK plc, formerly GlaxoSmithKline plc, in Delaware state court. They allege that the ulcer d...
Litigation & Arbitration
Taco Bell files petition to cancel ‘Taco Tuesday’ trademark
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
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
State must pay fees of doctors who challenged assisted suicide law
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
Twitter wants ex-employees’ lawsuit moved to Delaware
By Wisdom Howell
“Plaintiffs ignored a critical term within the merger agreement: the mandatory forum selection clause, which requires that all...
Litigation & Arbitration
Walgreens to pay San Francisco $230M over opioid deaths
By Jonathan Lo
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
9th Circuit nominee questioned on criminal law decisions
By Craig Anderson
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
Uber counsel’s answer to suit denied as a ‘laundry list’
By Wisdom Howell
The plaintiff’s counsel, Kyle R. Tracy of Tracy Law PC, filed the lawsuit saying Uber allowed its drivers to discriminate agai...
Litigation & Arbitration
$71M investor settlement is equal to Nutanix’s raised funding
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
“We believe it is a fair settlement and great result for investors,” said plaintiffs’ attorney James E. Barz, partner with Rob...
The ruling came hours after Superior Court Judge Lawrence P. Riff denied without prejudice an ex parte application by a crime ...
Litigation & Arbitration, Technology
Moderators’ suit over graphic TikTok videos advances
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Two content moderators hired to look through and filter offensive videos on TikTok, including necrophilia and child abuse, sai...
Technology
Former Apple employee accused of trade secret theft flees to China
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
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
No superior court can review utility commission actions
By Wisdom Howell
Judge Richard B. Ulmer issued his ruling in a lawsuit brought against PG&E by Winding Creek Solar LLC, an alternative ener...
Litigation & Arbitration
Multidistrict litigation on Wells Fargo mortgage lending moves forward
By Jonathan Lo
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...
Labor/Employment
Lewis Brisbois operated as ‘mom and pop’ outfit, fired executive said
By David Houston
Four years ago, the former chief operating officer sent a letter to state officials outlining his concerns about poor accounti...