Criminal, Government
Prosecutor says defense’s explanations for PAC donations are insufficient
By Andy Serbe
A prosecutor criticized the defense’s closing arguments for glossing over important facts and failing to explain supposedly cl...
Civil Rights, Criminal, Government
Web host: DOJ’s revised search warrant broad
By Eli Wolfe
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
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
Persky bid to invalidate recall effort draws opposition
By James Getz
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky’s efforts to invalidate the recall effort against him has prompted the Se...
Criminal
Judge allows some criminal charges against Backpage executives to move forward
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A Sacramento County judge has allowed criminal charges to proceed against three executives of the website Backpage.com.
Civil Litigation, Government
Health care systems fight federal government over Medicare reimbursement
By Joshua Sebold
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
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
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
GOP-affiliated lawyer takes fired Google engineer’s case
By Matthew Blake
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
9th Circuit gives blessing to controversial cy pres settlement
By Joshua Sebold
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has given the green light to a controversial cy pres settlement in a split decision that...
Activists feared Trump would use broadly to expedite deportations
Los Angeles defense lawyer Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. has signed on to defend Bill Cosby in his upcoming retrial on sexual assault...
Government, Immigration
LA city attorney seeks to intervene in lawsuit over ‘sanctuary city’ funding
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer has entered the debate over sanctuary jurisdictions, filing a motion to intervene as a pl...
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
Skeptical judge keeps former sheriff’s employment lawsuit alive
By Matthew Blake
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
Companies to test counties’ large lead paint verdict in appellate court
By James Getz
Corporate defendants will head to the 6th District Court of Appeal to challenge a $1.15 billion public nuisance judgment Thurs...
Former Chief Financial Officer Christine Wong fell victim to a phishing scam.
Criminal, Government
Defense blames corruption trial on ‘unfair’ investigation
By Andy Serbe
A seven-month trial over an alleged bribery scheme among San Bernardino county officials drew to a close Tuesday, with one of ...
Criminal
Photographer’s murder inflames debate over bail, risk assessments
By L.J. Williamson
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
Bar programs help lawyers represent people in immigration court
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
A program coordinated by the Bar Association of San Francisco is helping to finance and coordinate attorneys for individuals i...
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
Loan underwriter in Corinthian Colleges case agrees to pay $51M settlement
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
Workers try to hold closed restaurant’s CEO liable
By Matthew Blake
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
OC judge’s dismissal of death penalty could touch thousands of cases
By Meghann Cuniff
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
9th Circuit revives debt collection suit against Los Angeles-area law firm
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
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
McClatchy beneficiary sues trustees after stock price plummets
By James Getz
A beneficiary of the McClatchy family trust alleges in a trial set to begin Monday that trustees, some of whom were also direc...
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
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
State water agency hit with lawsuits over plan for tunnels
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The state Department of Water Resources has been hit with at least five lawsuits since Thursday seeking to block a plan to bui...