A prominent Bulgarian politician and media tycoon has hired a former U.S. attorney in Los Angeles to fight an application for ...
Criminal defense attorney Donald R. Hammond started flying gliders before he could drive a car.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Labor/Employment
9th Circuit panel inclined to wait for high court to decide Uber issues
By Matthew Blake
Lawyers and an appellate panel talked past each other Wednesday about Uber drivers’ employment status and arbitration contracts.
Environmental & Energy
SF, Oakland sue oil giants to abate sea level rise
By James Getz
The cities of Oakland and San Francisco have sued five corporate oil giants, asking state court judges to order abatement fund...
UCLA’s is believed to be the first ABA-accredited law school in California to accept GRE scores.
Labor/Employment
In-house attorney sues biotech company, alleging unequal pay
By Andy Serbe
An in-house attorney has filed a lawsuit against her former employer, a biotechnology company, saying her pay was not similar ...
Criminal
Probationers’ rights to cellphone contents to be tested in court
By L.J. Williamson
A deluge of cases will soon force the state Supreme Court to address an increasingly important legal question: What privacy ri...
Criminal, Judges and Judiciary
Retired commissioner seeks leniency for racketeering court clerk
By Meghann Cuniff
The fired Orange County Superior Court clerk faces at least nine years in federal prison.
The schools says the gift from Bergener Mirejovsky is among the largest in its history.
Civil Litigation, Government
Judge tells AG to rewrite language of gas tax repeal initiative
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A Sacramento County judge has issued a tentative ruling ordering Attorney General Xavier Becerra to rewrite the title and summ...
Civil Litigation, Government, Immigration
State suing administration over border wall
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Wednesday that his office is suing the administration of President Donald...
After a contentious and short-lived move, Alameda County’s North County felony arraignments are leaving the East County Hall o...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
En banc 9th Circuit hears arguments in AT&T ‘data throttling’ case
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
An en banc panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrestled Tuesday with the 21st century implications of a law signed ...
Civil Rights, Government
Fired utilities administrative law judge files whistleblower case against agency
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The recently fired chief administrative law judge of the California Public Utilities Commission has filed a whistleblower reta...
A U.S. magistrate judge declined to unseal a search warrant affidavit in an investigation targeting of a drug rehabilitation c...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Labor/Employment
State Bar releases proposals made to employees’ union
By Lyle Moran
The agency said it has offered a retiree health benefit for the first time and other measures worth $5.5 million.
In a Proposition 65 bench trial, the attorney suing more than 70 vendors, roasters and retailers claiming they failed to warn ...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit rules for beverage industry against SF warning ordinance
By David Mendenhall
In a victory for the beverage industry, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal panel on Tuesday reversed a district court judge’s ...
Nossaman LLP public pension attorney Michael V. Toumanoff has died at 64.
Following her retirement from the Orange County Superior Court, Mary Fingal Schulte has joined ADR Services Inc.
Attorneys for a medical device company accused by a rival of false advertising cast themselves as David battling Goliath, argu...
Government, Immigration
DACA program recipients sue Trump, seeking declaration program is constitutional
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Public Counsel have sued the Trump administration on behalf of six Deferred Action for Chi...
Law Practice, Civil Litigation
Promoter wins suit against his former lawyers
By Andy Serbe
He accused his former lawyers for harming his business and violating the California Rules of Professional Conduct.
The Regents of the University of California have reached a settlement with the former leaders of the UC Davis strawberry breed...
Civil Litigation
Court considers letter sent to judge in Starbucks carcinogen trial
By Justin Kloczko
A letter by a retained witness sent to the judge in a failure to warn Proposition 65 bench trial against coffee vendors is sto...
California Courts of Appeal
State appeals court overturns large award against tribe, citing federal law
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A state appellate court has ruled that a decade-old case against a California gaming tribe is preempted by federal law and sho...
Intellectual Property
Judge dismisses StubHub’s expert witness in trade secrets suit
By Lila Seidman
A federal judge disqualified Dr. Cynthia Lee, an expert witness for StubHub Inc. in a trade secrets case alleging the online t...
Corporate
Litigation finance company offers help to data breach litigants
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
Legalist Inc. is offering to pay filing fees for victims of the recent Equifax Inc. data breach.
The deals’ expiration opens the door for a potential strike
Intellectual Property
Allergan’s patent transfer to tribes raises questions, complaints
By Eli Wolfe
Pharmaceutical companies face a constant struggle to keep their patents out of the hands of competitors. But Allergan PLC is g...