Administrative/Regulatory, Government, Labor/Employment
State issues largest-ever wage theft citation
By Andy Serbe
A City of Industry-based construction company has been fined $12 million by the state for wage theft, the largest of its kind ...
Law Practice
Pierce Bainbridge hires McKool Smith intellectual property litigator
By Sean Kagan
Robert E. Allen said he was drawn to the litigation firm’s collegial and diverse working environment.
Civil Litigation
Judge leaning toward excluding some Monsanto expert testimony
By Winston Cho
The San Francisco federal judge overseeing litigation on allegations that Monsanto Co.’s glyphosate-based weed killer causes c...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Environmental & Energy, Government, Immigration
9th Circuit affirms legal waivers for San Diego border barrier
By Meghann Cuniff
The 2-1 decision affirms a ruling from U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Antitrust & Trade Reg., Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit panel reinstates $44.4 million antitrust verdict
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has reinstated a $44.4 million antitrust verdict against the company that makes Swis...
After 14 years and three appeals, the last closing brief was filed Monday in a dispute over a $40 million Camille Pissarro pai...
Immigration
Temporary residents from Nepal and Honduras sue Department of Homeland Security
By Andy Serbe
Advocacy groups sued the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, alleging that it decided to improperly remove temporary pe...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Education Law
State Bar recruits attorney panelists for bar exam study
By Erin Lee
The State Bar is recruiting attorneys to participate in a panel evaluating the content tested on the bar exam. Applications ar...
Government, Civil Litigation
As judges issue rulings on the police records law, new legislation may be on its way
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Courts around the state are suddenly taking up the same question: Does a new law demanding the release of police discipline re...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Constitutional Law
9th Circuit will revisit challenge to Hawaii’s open carry laws
By Erin Lee
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rehear en banc a challenge to Hawaii’s restrictions on the open carry of firearms.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Education Law
9th Circuit hears government request to revive DeVos’ for-profit college loan forgiveness plan
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
A federal appeals court Friday weighed a case testing whether U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos violated a privacy law w...
Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Labor/Employment
Judge declines to dismiss case over attorney-client privilege violations
By Meghann Cuniff
But Orange County Superior Court Judge Sheila F. Hanson's decision includes sanctions that defense attorneys hope will make it...
Immigration, Military Law
Panel nixes plan to keep green-card holders out of military without background checks
By Blaise Scemama
Thousands of green-card holders head to basic training after a divided panel upheld a stay of a Pentagon policy requiring more...
California Supreme Court, Labor/Employment
High court says payroll companies can’t be held liable for wage violations
By Andy Serbe
The court shot down the legal theory that payroll companies carry liability under contract law for wage violations by clients.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Government, Judges and Judiciary
Senate Judiciary Committee advances 2 9th Circuit nominees
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
The nominations of Perkins Coie LLP partner Eric D. Miller and U.S. Magistrate Judge Bridget Shelton Bade head to the Senate f...
Criminal, Government
Rod Rosenstein supports cops in controversy over traffic stops
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
The deputy U.S. attorney general spoke passionately about the Justice Department’s dedication to law enforcement that is data-...
California Courts of Appeal, Government, Tax
Taxpayer group seeks to get ‘fire fee’ money back from the state in appeal
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Rural homeowners could be facing a new fire fee to offset the costs of fighting and suppressing wildfires, even as a taxpayers...
Civil Litigation
Attorneys squabble over alleged misrepresentation during Johnson & Johnson trial
By Winston Cho
Attorneys ended up a heated exchange Thursday over testimony by a scientist as both sides accused the other of misrepresenting...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Judges and Judiciary
Bedsworth honored at Orange County Bar Association event
By Meghann Cuniff
Justice William W. Bedsworth of the 4th District Court of Appeal, left, was awarded the annual Franklin G. West award at the O...
Civil Litigation
Settlement means refund on overcharged reporter fees
By Justin Kloczko
Customers who claim they paid inflated prices for transcription fees to the state’s largest and oldest private court reporting...
The Orange County Trial Lawyers Association raised over $200,000 at its annual Top Gun Trial Lawyer of the Year awards. The do...
The attorney believes she contracted typhus in November from a rat and flea problem she says the city has not adequately addre...
California Supreme Court, Labor/Employment
State high court considers whether ‘intermittent’ worker must arbitrate claims
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The state Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over whether the San Francisco Giants can compel a security guard’s wage and...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit weighs use of shackles on civil litigant during excessive force trial
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
A federal appeals panel in San Francisco on Wednesday grilled a California prosecutor on why a state inmate pursuing a civil r...
Anthony Pacheco, former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, joined Vedder Price PC on Monday as a shar...
California Supreme Court, Civil Litigation
State high court mulls a challenge to anti-SLAPP law
By Steven Crighton
Concerned with a slippery slope in anti-SLAPP law, several members of the state Supreme Court expressed interest Wednesday in ...
Civil Litigation
In first talc trial of the year, Johnson & Johnson attorney grills plaintiffs’ expert
By Winston Cho
Defense attorney Michael A. Brown of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP challenged the witness by referring to studie...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Labor/Employment
9th Circuit panel aligns itself with DC Circuit on joint employer standard
By Andy Serbe
The 9th Circuit revived a civil rights lawsuit against fruit growers and applied a test favored by the Obama-era National Labo...
Otero’s move, after 30 years as a judge, leaves 18 vacancies on federal courts in California.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Government
Senate Judiciary Committee advances 2 9th Circuit nominees
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
The nominations of Perkins Coie LLP partner Eric D. Miller and U.S. Magistrate Judge Bridget Shelton Bade head to the Senate f...