9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Litigation & Arbitration
Coinbase can’t force customer into arbitration over sweepstakes, Circuit says
By Craig Anderson
The dispute involved a sweepstakes that awarded $1.2 million in Dogecoin, a digital exchange.
Neutral Sheridan Reed only uses a hammer and torch for her metalsmithing hobby.
Judge David L. Berry learns from attorneys and Court of Appeal justices
Ahmad Abouammo was sentenced to 42 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $242,000. He passed along confidential and sensitiv...
Labor/Employment, Litigation & Arbitration, Technology
Twitter must tell workers about litigation during severance talks
By Wisdom Howell
The company is facing three class actions, all of which were filed by Shannon Liss-Riordan of Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC in...
Labor/Employment
2 years after consent decree, Del Taco faces new harassment claim
By Skyler Romero
Thursday’s complaint is the latest sexual harassment lawsuit to be brought against the fast food company, whom the EEOC sued i...
Criminal, Law Practice
Probate lawyer says his conservatorship team solved murder
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Andrew G. Watters was first approached by the victim’s family to file a petition for the conservatorship of her estate because...
U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly of Chicago ruled that there was a “clear nexus” between the lawsuit and the underlying...
Ensuring people are heard is personal for San Diego County Commissioner Lizbet Muñoz
Civil Litigation, Government
Policy to evict tenants accused of crimes ends in settlement
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Hesperia and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department will pay under $1 million to residents affected by the ordinances ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar seeks feedback on proposed civility pledge
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Lawyers licensed since June 2014 already have taken the civility pledge.
International Law, Technology
Rohingya refugee can refile case accusing Meta of inciting genocide, judge says
By Jonathan Lo
‘At the end of the day we are confident that we can demonstrate to a jury that, to borrow a phrase from its own employees, Met...
Constitutional Law
Newsom knows gun law is unconstitutional, opponents argue
By Craig Anderson
Bradley A. Benbrook, an attorney with the Benbrook Law Group who represents the plaintiffs fighting a gun restriction law the ...
Civil Litigation
Judge threatens to sanction lawyers seeking gun law injunction
By Malcolm Maclachlan
U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez said the plaintiff’s attorneys, seeking a preliminary injunction against a law that allows ...
Loma Linda woman pleads guilty to $2.6M commodity futures trading scheme
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
According to court documents, Sharief Deona McDowell, 57, used investors’ money to pay for her lavish lifestyle. T
Ediscovery, Judges and Judiciary
Retired judges lose motion to compel discovery, set chief justice deposition
By Wisdom Howell
Counsel for the plaintiffs — Daniel S. Mason of Furth Salem Mason & Li LLP in San Francisco and Quentin L. Kopp, a former ...
Butte County Commissioner Kurt Worley emphasizes research, communication
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Litigation & Arbitration
High Court to decide if compelled arbitration dispute halts litigation
By Wisdom Howell
The case comes to the nation’s highest court after Coinbase’s attempts to compel arbitration in two class actions alleging the...
California Courts of Appeal, Labor/Employment
Appeal court hears argument over gig worker referendum
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“This case concerns unprecedented limitations on the initiative power, one of the most precious rights of our democratic proce...
California Supreme Court, Technology
Supreme Court takes up Slack’s circuit split appeal on standing
By Skyler Romero
“Because stocks are traded across the country, plaintiffs can pick whatever forum they like, and they will now pick only the 9...
Labor/Employment
Hollywood Foreign Press member beats anti-SLAPP motion
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
“It can be inferred for purposes of an anti-SLAPP analysis that the HFPA acted extremely and outrageously by issuing a press r...
Class Action, Technology
Google scores 2 victories in browser class actions
By Jonathan Lo
In one case, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland issued an order granting Google’s motion for summary judgme...
Labor/Employment
Employee bias suit against San Diego cannabis firm heads for trial
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The former vice president of business operations of Skye Bioscience is suing the CEO of the company after the plaintiff said s...
Government, Judges and Judiciary
Senators quiz nominee over support of Judge Reinhardt
By Craig Anderson
The Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Altshuler Berzon LLP partner P. Casey Pitts and U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew G. Scho...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Jury finds Health Net is to blame for woman’s opioid addiction
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“Health Net had ample opportunities to step in and deliver the specialist services that are promised to plan members under the...
Entertainment & Sports, Intellectual Property
Taylor Swift shakes off suit over lyrics copying complaint
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Composers and producers Sean Hall and Nathan Butler sued singer Taylor Swift and her music label over her 2014 song, “Shake It...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Serial ADA suer hit with fees, counsel won him ‘$5M in 3 years’
By Skyler Romero
James S. Link, a sole practitioner from Pasadena who represented the defendant in the 9th Circuit case, said his victory again...
Commissioner Chandra Reid aims to instill confidence in the judicial system
California Courts of Appeal
Report: 3rd District Court of Appeal has slashed case backlog
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Between July 1, 2020, and Sept. 30, 2022, the court reduced its backlog of fully briefed cases awaiting decision from 814 to 2...
Newsom's supplemental brief was filed by his attorneys with Olson Remcho LLP after Attorney General Rob Bonta refused to defen...