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Antitrust & Trade Reg.


AliveCor’s lawsuit challenged Apple’s ability to improve important capabilities of the Apple Watch that consumers and develope...


Judges and Judiciary, Law Practice


“Clients seem to really appreciate the simplicity and transparency of ADR Services’ business model,” retired Judge Victoria Wo...


Administrative/Regulatory, Government


LeRonne Armstrong’s attorneys accused the mayor of firing him after he publicly criticized an investigation led by federal mon...


Labor/Employment


“They’re not taking a percentage of the recovery and they’re, you know, not demanding that the legal expenses that they devote...


Judge Dena Coggins, who is presiding judge of juvenile court in Sacramento County, was picked to fill the position being vacat...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Gregory J. Elvine-Kreis has denied the Commission on Judicial Performance accusations. His attorney said most of them da...


Data Privacy


Companies may adopt policies that offer the option to override a Global Privacy Control signal or pay a subscription fee, acco...


Real Estate/Development


A Pasadena jury rendered a complete defense verdict for BASTA Inc. and its founder, Daniel J. Bramzon, in the lawsuit over a p...


A Pasadena jury rendered a complete defense verdict for BASTA Inc. and its founder, Daniel J. Bramzon, in the lawsuit over a p...


Obituaries


Rick S. Brown, 1942-2024

Feb. 7, 2024
By Laurinda Keys

Santa Barbara County judge kept working, even after 26 years on bench


Real Estate/Development


The office sector is not expected to fully recover until the end of 2026 as underperforming buildings are redeveloped. San Fra...


Data Privacy, Technology


“Simply put, defendants put their desire for revenue over their patients’ privacy rights,” John R. Parker Jr. of Almeida Law G...


Obituaries


Dan L. Burk, 1962 — 2024

Feb. 7, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

UC Irvine School of Law professor set standard for internet law scholarship


Civil Rights, Constitutional Law


The Louis D. Brandeis Center sued the UC Regents and UC Berkeley last fall, claiming that various campus organizations have en...


California Supreme Court


Their complaint, filed by Dan Siegel with Siegel, Yee, Brunner & Mehta in Oakland, demanded relief from involuntary servit...


Constitutional Law, Contracts


Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer issued a final order sustaining a demurrer without leave to amend brought by attorneys f...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Labor/Employment


“Defendants’ federal contractor minimum wage imposes billions of dollars in new costs … all on the assertion that nebulous mo...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Lawsuit filed over recalled Medtronic insulin pumps

Feb. 7, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The company initiated a recall in October 2019 and replaced the pumps with versions that have more durable black retainer ring...


Corporate


Arcsoft accused of misleading shareholders about finances and planning to go public in China.


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


The 2-1 decision reverses, pending appeal, a decision by Senior U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez that the law is unconstit...


Judges and Judiciary, Litigation & Arbitration


Superior Court Judge Joseph M. Quinn wrote in his order that the plaintiff judges had failed to show that the time limit on pa...


Civil Rights


"Plaintiff's claims are barred because defendant's actions were supported by race-neutral, objective, substantial, and legitim...


Judges and Judiciary


The attorneys representing Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero argued that the plaintiffs’ last remaining claim for age discrimina...


Class Action


The lawsuit said a personal injury firm charged a ‘flat administrative fee’ and separate ‘administrative fee’ to recoup expect...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The plaintiffs seek a declaration that the defendant counties’ lack of uniform vote counting laws and procedures are violation...


Litigation & Arbitration


Hueston Hennigan gets $100M racial bias in advertising claim against McDonald’s dismissed with anti-SLAPP motion.


Constitutional Law, State Bar & Bar Associations


“In the background, but not influencing the creation of Standard 208, were the widely publicized disruption of a speech at Sta...


Law Practice


Naeve confirmed that his final day of practice came on Dec. 31 and spoke fondly of his colleagues at Jones Day, where he led t...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The complaint filed 12 years ago by Wolf Haldenstein accused Apple of monopolizing the app market by banning purchases outside...


Real Estate/Development


2 new attorneys join Stoel Rives' real estate group

Feb. 6, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Construction industry specialist Adam C. Witt joined in San Diego, Commercial real estate specialist Kenneth R. Whiting Jr. jo...