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The first defense witness for disbarred attorney Tom Girardi, his neurologist, was called out of order, delaying the prosecuto...


California Courts of Appeal, Family


The infant was placed with the attorney by the Department of Children and Family Services after the mother tested positive for...



California Supreme Court, Labor/Employment


"We conclude the Legislature intended to exempt public employers such as the hospital authority from Labor Code provisions gov...


Civil Litigation, Consumer Protection Law, Data Privacy


Despite only one of the defendants being situated in the United States, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said he's confi...



Civil Litigation


The conduct leading to the recording's creation, and its later dissemination, was illegal and therefore constituted unprivileg...


A defense attorney involved in the famous manslaughter case against music icon Michael Jackson's physician said this type of c...



SB 549 would create a three-month window for gaming tribes to sue card rooms they believe are infringing on their right to pro...



Craig S. Simon 1953 -- 2024

Aug. 16, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Known as the 'Subro King,' he represented insurers in mass litigation.



More than 60 cases have been dismissed after an appellate ruling last month that the court had unlawfully delayed cases, citin...


Civil Rights, Litigation & Arbitration


U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi declined to mandate any specific policies and procedures or tell UCLA administrators what t...



Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy


Broad Beach property owners are no strangers to a lawsuit. The latest focuses on an alleged breach of the California Coastal A...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Constitutional Law


Deputy Attorney General Jerry T. Yen argued the 1999 statute was intended to block "straw purchases," in which people buy a lo...



Antitrust & Trade Reg., Technology


Attorneys for Google, led by Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, unsuccessfully petitioned the court for a new trial and have maint...


The Western States Petroleum Association challenged California regulations designed to give unions a bigger role in negotiatin...



The state claims that Indian managers at Cisco Systems discriminated against other Indian workers they perceived as being from...


The lawsuit, filed last week, called the wording of the ballot measure "untrue, partial, argumentative, and/or prejudicial."



U.S. District Judge James L. Robart rejected claims that the aerospace giant stole technology and sabotaged the business prosp...


Some of the expenses tracked out of the Girardi Keese accounts were traced to diamond jewelry and gems, several golf country c...



Intellectual Property


ChatGPT developer OpenAI, based in San Francisco, filed trademark infringement and unfair competition claims last year against...


Environmental & Energy, Land Use


A Los Angeles County judge's decision to dismiss a legal effort to halt the gondola's construction marks the third time a judg...



Girardi's defense is that at the time of the alleged wire fraud misconduct, he was in the beginning stages of his 2021-diagnos...


Environmental & Energy, Government


"How many more hours do you need to put on your case? Please think about that because I'm going to probably have a time limit....



This year's entries highlight key issues in California's legal landscape, including racial integration in legal education, dis...



Johnny Depp's star lawyer joins Sheppard Mullin

Aug. 14, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Camille Vasquez gained international fame when she represented the actor in a defamation lawsuit against his former girlfriend...



Intellectual Property, Technology


U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick's decision was a notable win for authors, artists, and others suing AI companies for cop...


In cross examination by defense counsel, attorneys and former clients rejected the idea that Tom Girardi's elaborate excuses f...



9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, California Supreme Court, Civil Litigation


Having received no reply from the State Supreme Court, the 9th Circuit panel's unsigned majority opinion concluded that the st...


Attorney Chris Baker told a San Francisco judge that "it's very important" that employees who might be eligible class members ...



Antitrust & Trade Reg., Civil Litigation


Objectors say $2.8B NCAA NIL deal leaves some out

Aug. 13, 2024
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Attorneys for several former and current college athletes told U.S. District Judge Claudia A. Wilken in Oakland the proposed s...


Antitrust & Trade Reg., Technology


Consumers in federal court in San Francisco who accuse Google of illegally brokering an exclusive deal to be the default searc...