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Data Privacy, State Bar & Bar Associations


Disclosure obligations are outlined under two California Civil Code sections — 1798.82 and 1798.29 — and apply to businesses a...


Antitrust & Trade Reg., Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology


Shareholders sue to halt Activision sale to Microsoft

Mar. 1, 2022
By Federico Lo Giudice

The Los Angeles and New York lawsuits allege that current directors and executive officers of Activision Blizzard including CE...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Litigation, Government, Labor/Employment, U.S. Supreme Court


The court denied a petition by a taxpayer group arguing that the law, which allows automatic deductions of employee paychecks,...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


Former USFL team owners sue Fox Sports over branding

Mar. 1, 2022
By Federico Lo Giudice

The lawsuit alleges that FOX Sports is using the name without consulting Real USFL, an organization formed with the express pu...


Environmental & Energy, Government, State Bar & Bar Associations



At the age of four, Commissioner Amir Aharonov immigrated from Israel to Los Angeles. His parents were refugees who fled relig...



Bringing others along

Feb. 28, 2022

The founders of Norton Basu LLP “are always looking for ways to uplift the community.”



Calm amid the fray

Feb. 28, 2022

Judge Victor N. Pippins Jr. keep family law litigants focused on the real issues.


Government, Labor/Employment


Former Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez conceded there were serious flaws with her signature legislation, AB5, the California gig...


Covid Court Ops, Judges and Judiciary


“Our court practice has been to closely follow and amend our practices, as necessary, based on our own assessments of both sta...


Civil Litigation, Government, Health Care & Hospital Law


National opioid deal ends appeal of California appeal

Feb. 28, 2022
By Federico Lo Giudice

When this agreement was first discussed, Orange County, the City of Los Angeles and other government entities in California co...


Banking, Civil Litigation


“This action arises from JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. success in returning to California nearly half a billion dollars in taxpayer...


Law Practice, Legal Education, State Bar & Bar Associations


The chairs of the Senate and Assembly judiciary committees have said they want the bar to focus on its core mission of public ...


California Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary, U.S. Supreme Court


President Joe Biden nominated Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. California Supreme Court Justice Leond...


Bankruptcy, Civil Litigation


Chief Judge of the New Jersey Bankruptcy Court Michael B. Kaplan acknowledged that plaintiffs in the baby powder lawsuits woul...



Never Say Never

Feb. 25, 2022

Christine Masters applies tenacious persistence to dispute resolution.


Law Practice


Bradstreet spent the last two years of her 11-year judicial career handling mandatory settlement conferences during the COVID-...


Criminal, Government


The extension grants more time for both offices to renegotiate a new agreement before the termination of the current MOU, whic...


Civil Litigation, Government, Technology


Adult entertainers say Meta, OnlyFans collude against them

Feb. 25, 2022
By Federico Lo Giudice

The three plaintiffs, performers in the online adult entertainment business, stated in their filing in the Northern District o...


Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, Government


Plaintiff Daniel Chung said he expressed his personal opinion in a newspaper editorial and was fired because he disagreed with...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Intellectual Property, U.S. Supreme Court


The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday vacated a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling rejecting a copyright infringement verdi...


Judges and Judiciary


Judges, dean to help oversee judicial watchdog agency

Feb. 25, 2022
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The administration's appointees include two judges and the dean of UC Hastings School of the Law. Gov. Gavin Newsom created th...


Criminal, Government


Some of the biggest DA races to watch this year include Orange, Alameda and San Francisco counties. In the latter, voters will...


Government, Labor/Employment


“There’s a ton of spot bills. … We could have a ton of significant proposals put into those,” said Benjamin M. Ebbink, who rep...


Administrative/Regulatory, Government


Last month, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James P. Arguelles ruled the plaintiffs should have another six months to c...


Civil Litigation, Education Law, Labor/Employment


Superior Court Judge David S. Cunningham III sustained without leave to amend the university’s demurrer against a professor’s ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Under the program, attorneys could be required to report annually to the bar about whether they are responsible for client tru...


Criminal, Government


Both parties attack Newsom’s anti-retail theft spending

Feb. 24, 2022
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Caitlin O’Neil, a fiscal and policy analyst with the Legislative Analyst’s Office, said the governor’s plan lacked “clear obje...


LA complex civil jurist had a court-wide education when he was the presiding judge.



Human Rights First

Feb. 23, 2022
By David Houston

Americans don’t understand benefits of diversity, judge says