Community News, State Bar & Bar Associations
LA County Bar announces 3 honorees for annual dinner
By Devon Belcher
The recipients are retired California Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno, 2nd District Court of Appeal Division 4 Presidin...
Criminal
Post-conviction appellate specialist nominated for state public defender
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Galit Lipa has been with the Office of the State Public Defender since 2021, serving as executive director of the Indigent Def...
Ford is facing a pending class action in the Southern District of Florida over similar claims.
Criminal
Claim against DA over officers’ murders dismissed, appeal moot
By Skyler Romero
“Because a prosecutor’s duty to initiate and conduct prosecutions … is discretionary, mandate is not available to compel the d...
Insurance
McKinsey seeks OK of $78M settlement with insurers for opioid consulting
By Jonathan Lo
“We continue to believe that our past work was lawful and deny allegations to the contrary, and the settlement contains no adm...
Judges and Judiciary
Central District of California gets new clerk of court
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Brian D. Karth replaces Kiry K. Gray, the district court announced.
Voters elected a huge new class of lawmakers in 2012 under a new term limits law; those same lawmakers have been moving on as ...
Litigation & Arbitration
Automakers accused of delaying antitheft device litigation
By Sunidhi Sridhar
There is a “controlling question of law” as to whether the supposed foreseeability of the car thefts supports a duty to protec...
Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
State can enforce ban on guns in ‘sensitive places’
By Craig Anderson
C.D. “Chuck” Michel, who represents the plaintiffs challenging the law, said Tuesday that his clients would file a motion seek...
Most matters will be trailed as the lobby, elevators and stairwell were flooded.
The firm decided to open an office in Los Angeles because that’s where their attorneys want to live, founder and CEO Jay Edels...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Environmental & Energy
9th Circuit affirms halt to Berkeley ban on indoor gas pipes
By Craig Anderson
The outcome, unless overturned, is a win for the California Restaurant Association and the natural gas industry, which has fou...
Data Privacy
23andMe says careless users were source of credential attacks
By Wisdom Howell
Amid moves to consolidate lawsuits over information breach, 23andMe says it was not the source of credentials that were attack...
Pierson Ferdinand emphasized a highly customized legal practice management platform featuring a fully integrated, algorithm dr...
Torts/Personal Injury
Parris Law gets $3.1M, praise from judge for wrongful death case
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
"The court has never seen this in a courtroom in 30 years of service on the court," Los Angeles Judge Mary Ann Murphy said in...
The ruling follows months of depositions, hearings and filings between the parties on whether or not Girardi is mentally compe...
Real Estate/Development
Law firms flee to safer, cleaner areas to lure workers to desks
By David Houston
Perhaps no place illustrates the trend better than Century City, where law firms are flocking to higher rents and eschewing de...
Class Action
HopSkipDrive rideshare company lands in court over breach
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The class complaint, filed in Los Angeles, accuses the so-called “Uber for kids” of being negligent and reckless with their pe...
Family, Judges and Judiciary
2 Orange County judge hopefuls aim to strengthen family court
By Devon Belcher
The judicial race is between family law attorney Daniel J. Kern and Senior Deputy District Attorney Whitney L. Bokosky.
Constitutional Law
Content moderation law doesn’t violate free speech, judge rules
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The ruling was a setback for X Corp., formerly Twitter, which claimed AB 587 violates the First Amendment and Section 230 of t...
Class Action, Labor/Employment
Twitter resists notifying former workers of class claim
By Jonathan Lo
“This narrow motion asks the court to require Twitter to give potential class members basic information about this case, so th...
Here is a list of California judge, justice and commissioner appointments, resignations, retirements and deaths in the past year.
The group was founded in January 2021 with the backing of Los Angeles based litigation firm Hueston Hennigan LLP and takes on ...
Judges and Judiciary
Sacramento County Superior Court appoints 2 commissioners
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
James O. Morris has been with the court since 2019 as a research attorney. Benjamin J. Cassady joined the court from the Place...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Criminal defense attorney denies 22 charges of cheating clients
By Devon Belcher
“The facts on which some or all of the counts … are based constitute mistake, inadvertence, neglect or error and do not rise t...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit’s en banc system loomed large in 2023
By Craig Anderson
Few cases are decided by en banc panels, but high-profile disputes on the First Amendment’s free exercise of religion clause, ...
Torts/Personal Injury
Minor sues school over gang attack that left him paralyzed
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The Youth Justice Coalition, which runs the Los Angeles high school where the attack allegedly took place, opposes incarcerati...
Appellate Practice
Police flyover drone footage must be disclosed, court rules
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
General footage not directly related to an investigation is not exempt under the state Public Records Act, an appellate panel ...
Class Action
Class claim follows $1.67B settlement over emissions tests
By Jonathan Lo
The consumers’ counsel claimed in their proposed class action that emissions control devices were installed in RAM trucks to a...
The San Francisco tax code considers the payroll of General Motors subsidiary Cruise Automation, “which results in an amount o...