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Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary


The report doesn't make a specific recommendation of removal or other punishment for Judge Tony R. Mallery.


Obituaries


Charles D. Kelso, 1928 – 2024

Feb. 5, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

McGeorge law professor was influential voice for legal education


Litigation & Arbitration


The settlements also include attorney fees of $31 million for lawyers representing the government plaintiffs and $2.3 million ...


Labor/Employment


A lawsuit has been filed against One Call Corporation, a health care network management company, by the Association of Indepen...


Labor/Employment


Fanatics VIP President Michael Z. Hermalyn is challenging noncompete agreements he signed with his former employer, DraftKings...


Construction


San Francisco seeks deposition of jailed founder

Feb. 5, 2024
By Wisdom Howell

The City and County of San Francisco have asked a judge to allow their attorneys to depose Rodrigo Santos, the founder of Sant...


Litigation & Arbitration


U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer indicated during the hearing that he was unsure of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...


Tax


The ballot measure would require majority votes on any state proposals that raise taxes, requiring legislative approval for in...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a decision by U.S. District Judge David O. Carter to hear the case in federal co...


Criminal


Deputy Federal Public Defender Seema Ahmad urged U.S. District Judge Mary M. Rowland to consider a second competency analysis ...


Litigation & Arbitration


Sublime band sues attorneys over business deal losses

Feb. 2, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The lawsuit says the firm did not disclose a conflict before representing the band and their one-time manager in the same tran...


Health Care & Hospital Law


The San Francisco city attorney is using his position “to engage in viewpoint discrimination and … is proceeding as though he ...


Education Law


McGeorge has a large and growing list of successful alumni. In addition to dozens of other prominent people around the state C...


Technology


Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP partner Adam B. Powell argued Apple seeks to unnecessarily further delay Masimo’s patent c...


Litigation & Arbitration


The lawsuit, filed by John Rushing and Ryan McCarl of Rushing McCarl LLP, targets Pacific Market International LLC, which make...


Real Estate/Development


“Park Place was concerned that tenant was ‘judgment proof,’” Jennifer L. Keller of Keller/Anderle LLP wrote in the complaint.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals en banc panel is reconsidering a March ruling by a three-judge panel that ordered U.S. District ...


Environmental & Energy, Government


In the complaint, San Joaquin County District Attorney Ronald J. Freitas detailed California’s “cradle to grave” legal struc...


Zela Claiborne excels at disputes where parties must work together in the future, lawyers say.


Community News, Events


The dinner was postponed last year because of a hotel union strike.


Law Practice


New York firm acquires Long Beach boutique

Feb. 1, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Ellenoff Grossman & Schole already had an office in Orange County.


The aging courthouse has been closed to the public for most of January because of burst water pipes.


Senior U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen, in describing the dispute, said the statute left unregulated many products that can...


Class Action


"I know all defense counsel thinks their demurrer is dispositive but if it is then it ends the case and we don't need to go t...


Community News


About 1,000 people attended the event that honored David Rudorfer of Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi LLP, Los Angeles County Presid...


Civil Litigation


Marine Corps instilled his leadership traits, said Edward Tugade, new president of the 700-member Association of Defense Couns...


Judges and Judiciary


The 54-45 vote for the assistant U.S. attorney brings the regularly short-staffed Eastern District court back to its full stre...


Litigation & Arbitration


Woman who accused horse trainer of rape wins $9M

Feb. 1, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

“It was some vindication for her to have a judge actually say this man raped her. In a small way, it could help her begin heal...


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


“This law, like most of California’s gun control laws, has not made anyone safer. But it has made it much more difficult and e...


Environmental & Energy


“While the city has never explicitly refused to record the conservation easement deed, at some point the delay must be seen as...