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Intellectual Property


Google trade secrets trial slated for November

Apr. 23, 2024
By Skyler Romero

ReactX sued Google in 2018 on claims that the tech giant misappropriated and misused its confidential information, platform an...


Entertainment & Sports


Marc E. Mayer, who represents Aylo, argued his motion to dismiss many of the claims that beneficiary claims should survive, no...


Labor/Employment


Julie W. O'Dell claims she was treated as an employee despite her promotion to equity partner on Jan. 1, 2022.


Torts/Personal Injury


Tesla confidentially settled with the family of a man who perished in a 2018 car accident while using the auto pilot feature o...


Criminal, Government


An attorney for Andrew Heglund called it "much exaggeration over some people who got upset at a Chick-fil-A."


Judges and Judiciary


The Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act was introduced by U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, both membe...


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


The court's Republican majority seemed unpersuaded by arguments made by lawyers for the homeless plaintiffs.


The municipal law specialists at the OMLO firm celebrate diversity and inclusion in practice.


Civil Litigation


Trial dates set in clergy abuse cases

Apr. 19, 2024
By Skyler Romero

The proceedings cover lawsuits filed against the Catholic Church in California since the 2019 approval of AB 218, which extend...


Civil Rights


Proponents of the measure claim Attorney General Rob Bonta’s title for the measure is prejudicing prospective signatories agai...


Administrative/Regulatory, Litigation & Arbitration, U.S. Supreme Court


Judge shopping battle rages in SpaceX's NLRB case

Apr. 19, 2024
By Craig Anderson

The case has been the subject of an increasingly common struggle over venue and is not done even after Wednesday's 5th Circuit...


Civil Litigation


Lawyers representing consumer plaintiffs in the case accusing the manufacturers of selling cars with substandard anti-theft fe...


The company allegedly withheld some orders to extract a higher price from customers.


Civil Litigation, Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law


The first trial of dozens of lawsuits is scheduled for October 2025. The companies argue that the plaintiffs' claims are barre...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment


Casting website accused of exploiting actors

Apr. 19, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Casting Networks' fee model is in breach of state law and exploits actors, according to a new class complaint.


Civil Litigation


Lawsuit over 'Yesterday' trailer dismissed with prejudice

Apr. 19, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The suit was filed in relation to a scene appearing in a trailer for the 2019 film which did not ultimately make it into the f...


Superior Court Judge Stephen P. Acquisto wrote that AG Rob Bonta's title of "Restricts Rights of Transgender Youth" was "accur...


Health Care & Hospital Law


IVF firm faces multiple suits over lab accident

Apr. 19, 2024
By Skyler Romero

The accident is alleged to have killed embryos which were then transferred to patients who didn’t become pregnant.



Career Advice

Apr. 19, 2024


Contracts


Complaint against Jacob Emrani set to expand

Apr. 19, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Emrani’s attorney, Michael W. Feenberg, told Judge David S. Cunningham III that there is an “ironclad” arbitration provision i...



No Pressure

Apr. 19, 2024

Retired judge Glenda Sanders regularly employs a facilitative approach to dispute resolution.


Civil Litigation, Construction


Trial remains set for June in Golden Gate dispute

Apr. 18, 2024
By Wisdom Howell

The case, which relates to an alleged $13 million still owed to a steel producer, has been mired in cross complaints since it ...


Criminal


Backers of the initiative said they had collected nearly 1 million signatures, far more than the 546,651 valid signatures they...


California Supreme Court, Labor/Employment


Amici pour in for challenge to gig worker measure

Apr. 18, 2024
By Craig Anderson

The state Supreme Court has not scheduled oral arguments for the challenge to Prop. 22, which voters overwhelmingly approved t...


Labor/Employment


According to the complaint, a vice president at Zurich American Insurance Company sent out an email that accused the employees...


Litigation & Arbitration


The judge ruled that a 2017 California Supreme Court decision that found pre-dispute arbitration agreements that bar individua...


Intellectual Property


City Attorney David Chiu argued that changing the name to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport would damage the ent...


Class Action, Law Practice


New partners Steven B. Weisburd and Jan E. Dodd will be based in Los Angeles while Ryan S. Cobbs will work in Miami and Ashley...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations


Discipline trial of former State Bar director ends

Apr. 18, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Both sides agreed Thursday to forgo closing arguments. Dunn is accused of misusing State Bar funds.


Government


Campaigners behind an effort to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price say they’ve amassed enough signatures to ...