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Criminal, Government


A prosecutor criticized the defense’s closing arguments for glossing over important facts and failing to explain supposedly cl...


Civil Rights, Criminal, Government


LA web hosting company says revised DOJ warrant seeking Trump protesters still too broad.


Civil Litigation, Criminal, Government


State prisoner rules may violate new law, official warns

Aug. 24, 2017
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Regulations proposed by the Department of Corrections of Rehabilitation for which prisoners are eligible for release under Pro...


Government, Judges and Judiciary


Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky’s efforts to invalidate the recall effort against him has prompted the Se...


A Sacramento County judge has allowed criminal charges to proceed against three executives of the website Backpage.com.


Civil Litigation, Government


Litigation brought against the federal government by the University of California, Alameda Health System and Contra Costa and ...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


9th Circuit tosses Lakers’ case

Aug. 24, 2017
By Steven Crighton

The panel ruled 2-1 that Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims are inherently based on a breach of privacy.


Civil Litigation


SEC sues investment adviser over defrauding client

Aug. 24, 2017
By L.J. Williamson

The Securities and Exchange Commission says investment adviser Jeremy Drake defrauded “a high-profile professional athlete” an...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment


A prominent Republican lawyer has signed on to represent an employee fired for writing a memo criticizing Google Inc.’s gender...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has given the green light to a controversial cy pres settlement in a split decision that...



9th Circuit axes ruling on removals

Aug. 23, 2017
By Nicolas Sonnenburg

Activists feared Trump would use broadly to expedite deportations


Criminal, Law Practice


LA defense attorney to lead Cosby defense

Aug. 23, 2017
By Skylar Dubelko

Los Angeles defense lawyer Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. has signed on to defend Bill Cosby in his upcoming retrial on sexual assault...


Government, Immigration


Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer has entered the debate over sanctuary jurisdictions, filing a motion to intervene as a pl...


Civil Litigation


A class of plaintiffs who sued Mercedes-Benz USA LLC over allegedly defective seat warmers is on the verge of securing a payou...


Civil Litigation


An unusual employment case involving Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was kept alive by a judge Tuesday, but the bench offi...


California Courts of Appeal, Government


Corporate defendants will head to the 6th District Court of Appeal to challenge a $1.15 billion public nuisance judgment Thurs...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar replaces its CFO after scam

Aug. 23, 2017
By Lyle Moran

Former Chief Financial Officer Christine Wong fell victim to a phishing scam.


Criminal, Government


A seven-month trial over an alleged bribery scheme among San Bernardino county officials drew to a close Tuesday, with one of ...


Opponents of bail system overhaul efforts are pointing to the murder of a San Francisco photographer as evidence that the pret...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Immigration


A program coordinated by the Bar Association of San Francisco is helping to finance and coordinate attorneys for individuals i...


Civil Litigation


LA County jury awards $417M verdict in talc trial

Aug. 22, 2017
By Justin Kloczko

A superior court jury in the first Johnson & Johnson talc powder trial in California delivered a record $417 million verdi...


Education Law, Civil Litigation, Government


A Los Angeles County judge has approved a $51 million settlement negotiated by Attorney General Xavier Becerra with Aequitas C...


California Courts of Appeal, Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


An appeal that triggered an avalanche of plaintiffs’ employment bar amicus briefs did not seem to draw much interest from an a...


A defense attorney accused the state of manipulating drug-addled witnesses and pursuing “a case that should have never been br...


Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Experts question if the criminal justice system is conducive to uncovering discovery violations such as in the jail informant ...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A Westlake Village law firm must face a claim of unfair debt collection after a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling reviv...


Civil Litigation


A beneficiary of the McClatchy family trust alleges in a trial set to begin Monday that trustees, some of whom were also direc...


Law Practice


LA attorney joins Rand Corporation

Aug. 21, 2017
By Skylar Dubelko

Daniel Grunfeld, the former head of West Coast litigation for Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, will occupy a newly created positio...


Government, Judges and Judiciary


Eclipse eclipses some court proceedings

Aug. 21, 2017
By Andy Serbe

Due to Monday’s solar eclipse, some courts are going dark as jurors and judges attempt to watch the rare celestial event.


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy, Government


The state Department of Water Resources has been hit with at least five lawsuits since Thursday seeking to block a plan to bui...