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Litigation & Arbitration


The ABA has rejected a “teach-out” plan to allow the students to complete their current coursework as the institution winds do...


Consumer Protection Law


According to the complaint, Tinder and other Match Group-owned apps have “game-like design features” undisclosed to users that...


Data Privacy


The law “creates a regime of proxy censorship that coerces services to suppress protected speech; is massively overbroad; is r...


Litigation & Arbitration


The plaintiffs argue that the automakers’ failure to clearly and conspicuously disclose the absence of industry-standard anti-...


Civil Litigation


Do-over granted for premises liability claim over heist

Feb. 16, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The plaintiffs claimed that Pilot Travel Centers LLC had a duty to maintain reasonably safe conditions for trucks and their “v...


Labor/Employment


The airline did not include incentive compensation as part of the employees’ regular rate of pay” when calculating overtime an...


Intellectual Property


U.S. District Judge William H. Alsup in San Francisco erred in granting summary judgment to the social media giant by misinter...


Torts/Personal Injury


The company has secured three defense verdicts, but its biggest loss in California courts came in the 2019 Pilliod trial, wher...


Thomas Willhite Jr. leverages his judicial experience as arbitrator, mediator, referee.


Criminal, Technology


Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco compared the effort to sentence enhancements for use of a firearm during the commission...


Constitutional Law


“Californians are owed a neutral title and summary of that initiative as part of their core political speech,” said attorney ...


Administrative/Regulatory, Intellectual Property


Auto dealership specialist joins Hogan Lovells

Feb. 15, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

“I am well familiar with the firm’s excellent reputation in the automotive litigation space and am thrilled to be joining such...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The panel heard two different appeals from the same case, which ended in a district court with a plaintiffs’ win for New York ...


Labor/Employment


The negotiations occurred during appeal of a San Mateo County judge’s decertification of the class and dismissal of the plaint...


Intellectual Property


“The subject matter of the prior representations and this representation substantially overlap because they involve the same l...


Civil Litigation


Despite the facts being compelling, “counsel knows that there is also a pleading requirement that supports the motion for summ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Attorneys for the city argued that the defendants provide video services throughout the state by using broadband wireline faci...


Civil Litigation


Some, but not all, of the baby food makers who won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming their products caused autism, told a judge ...


Real Estate/Development


Judge Susan Bryant-Deason told defense attorney Rick Richmond not to say anything that would force the jurors “to look up onli...


Insurance


Elizabeth Tosaris brings expertise in advising insurers and litigating matters.


Intellectual Property


Masimo Corp.’s lawyers have accused Apple Inc. of using a delay tactic to oppose a motion to lift a nearly four-year stay on M...


Torts/Personal Injury


Anesthesia error leads to $28.7M verdict for LA County man

Feb. 14, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Sean O'Neill, a partner at The Stalwart Law Group, and William Collins, a partner at the Law Offices of Marshall Silberberg, r...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The parties requested that the courts hold the lawsuits in abeyance because they are engaged in discussions regarding the rule...


Securities


The policy “clearly contemplates the advancement of defense costs for potentially covered claims, subject to recoupment by the...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Judge to rule on Scientology's anti-SLAPP motion

Feb. 14, 2024
By Skyler Romero

The motion claims that the plaintiffs improperly seek liability for the protected speech of non-parties in the case, including...


Insurance


Getaround’s attorneys claim that Broadspire’s “utter failure to provide Getaround with competent third party administration se...


Criminal


GOP lawmakers propose tougher penalties for retail theft

Feb. 14, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Two Republican lawmakers in California have introduced bills to increase penalties for retail theft, including AB 2391, which ...


Civil Litigation, Contracts


"For example, where's the partnership agreement that there is a partnership?" Rick Richmond of Larson LLP asked jurors in clos...


Intellectual Property


Makers of Squishmallows stuffed toy trade lawsuits

Feb. 13, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Squishmallows maker accused Build-A-Bear of stealing the idea for its own toy, Skoosherz. Build-A-Bear says similarities are p...


Securities


After the Tesla founder purchased Twitter in April 2022, the SEC opened a probe as to whether Musk buying the social media com...