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The jury found, after a week of trial and two hours of deliberation, that MRG breached the contract while Eventbrite did not, ...


As a teacher, prosecutor and judge, San Diego jurist works for children.


Health Care & Hospital Law, Litigation & Arbitration


Arbitrator awards surfer $4M for botched knee surgery

May 31, 2022
By Federico Lo Giudice

“What Mr. Cozad has been through in terms of types and consequences of surgeries cannot be overstated,” arbitrator Jay C. Hort...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


Deal might give defunct football league players $73M

May 31, 2022
By Federico Lo Giudice

The Alliance of American Football League is in bankruptcy in Texas. Payment of the settlement is subject to the estate receivi...


Sentencing is scheduled Thursday U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman in Manhattan.


Government


Assemblyman Robert Rivas, D-Salinas, announced Friday he had “secured enough votes” to replace Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakew...


The city was sued by the group San Franciscans Supporting Prop B, which said Measure F, supported by 77% of voters in 2019, vi...


Entertainment & Sports, Litigation & Arbitration


“WarnerMedia benefits by driving up the value of its subsidiary, just as [it] prepares to spin off and merge with Discovery, a...


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Labor/Employment


The seven remaining plaintiffs — an eighth died after the litigation began — claim recent participation limits discriminate on...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Government


Former Chapman University Fowler School of Law professor continues to fight subpoenas for documents related to work for Trump.



No Predispositions

May 27, 2022

A skilled mediator and arbitrator, Fred K. Morrison uses his experience as a former appellate court justice


Appellate Practice, Health Care & Hospital Law, Law Practice


Doctors, lawyers discuss chances of new cooperation era

May 27, 2022
By Malcolm Maclachlan

“A lot of the areas where we have historically not been able to work together on have really been a function of our difference...


Appellate Practice, California Supreme Court, Law Practice


Reasons for failure to meet the deadline include: failure to sit for any of the four bar exams administered since the pandemic...


Civil Litigation, Ediscovery


San Francisco has put on a parade of experts to try to show that all of the companies in the opioid supply chain bore responsi...


Civil Litigation


A disgruntled employee of Valley Transportation Authority killed nine of his co-workers before turning the gun on himself. He ...


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy


“Once a complaint for limitation of liability is filed by a vessel owner, courts generally stay applicable claims against the ...


Securities, Technology


Plaintiffs’ attorney Anne Marie Murphy accused the billionaire of making statements to drive down the price of Twitter stock, ...


Judges and Judiciary


A confirmation of Fresno County Superior Court Judge Isabel I. de Alba would leave the long-overworked Eastern District judici...



Answering the Call

May 26, 2022

Judge Annette E. Rees says juvenile court is where she needs to be


Civil Litigation


Parents across the nation have sought to argue in court cases that exposure to arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury in various ...


Judges and Judiciary


The Judicial Council also agreed “not to fight this lawsuit pending action from the governor and the Legislature to end civil ...


Appellate Practice, Health Care & Hospital Law, Law Practice


Healthcare litigator joins Nossaman in San Francisco

May 26, 2022
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Michael Gawley has extensive experience handling a broad range of litigation matters, including medical staff and peer review ...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Securities, Technology


“Elon Musk is paying them a lot of money so [defense attorneys] had to argue something,” said Adam C. Pritchard, a professor a...


Appellate Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Labor/Employment, Law Practice


The Lewitt Hackman lawyers wrote that Miracle Mile Law Group had been “caught withholding text messages and illegal audio reco...


Civil Litigation


The complaint – filed jointly by 10 lawyers from Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy; Newsome Melton; Levin, Papantonio, Rafferty, ...


Appellate Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Law Practice


James J. Di Cesare has broad experience hearing civil litigation, including serving as the supervising judge of the Orange Cou...


Data Privacy, Technology


The company also agreed to build a stronger anti-breach system, in deal with FTC


Barstow Commissioner Carrier Halgrimson tries to bring clarity and understanding to proceedings.


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property, Technology


Oracle claims it suffered $66.8 million in lost profits because Hewlett Packard Enterprise worked with Terix Computer Co. to i...


Civil Litigation, Data Privacy, Technology


In the wake of the July 2021 Supreme Court decision Goldman Sachs Grp. v. Arkansas Teachers’ Retirement Sys., class actions by...