Immigration
Judge awards attorney fees to lawyers who represented detained immigrants
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
A Santa Ana federal judge has awarded attorney fees to petitioner’s counsel in a case where the government denied an Afghan na...
A Los Angeles County judge has ordered a subprime auto loan company to pay $6.2 million in damages for discriminating against ...
Plaintiffs’ brief says Uber may owe $121B in case it wants to settle for $8M
By Matthew Blake
The $121 billion is the upper range of what Uber Technologies Inc. owes its drivers in labor code penalties stemming from Priv...
After 15 years on the San Diego County Superior Court, Judge Joel M. Pressman has announced that he will retire today.
Johnson & Johnson gets plaintiff’s expert to say no single study proves talc-cancer link
By Andy Serbe
Johnson & Johnson attorney Bart Williams hammered at an opposition expert witness Monday in a bellwether case.
Government
Judicial Council allocates budget, isn’t happy about it
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The bar decided to obtain input on a proposal to lower the passing score applied to the July 2017 bar exam to 141.4 from the c...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit revives case alleging Quality Systems misled investors
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a shareholder suit alleging that leadership at a major California health car...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office has shed light on the nomination process for California’s U.S. attorneys by releasing the names...
Plaintiffs’ attorneys argued that testimony from administrators showed a discriminatory culture.
Criminal
9th Circuit rules prior state drug offenses can affect federal sentencing
By L.J. Williamson
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that a conviction under California’s drug offense statute can be conside...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Former Contra Costa County DA’s law license suspended after conviction
By James Getz
The State Bar has placed former Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Peterson on interim suspension, about six weeks aft...
Johnson & Johnson defense attorneys got their first shot at cross-examining a plaintiff’s witness Friday, questioning the ...
California Courts of Appeal
Court of Appeal denies immunity for public entity defendants in personal injury case
By Andy Serbe
A state appellate court panel issued two opinions ruling that a case in which a diseased tree fell on a camper is triable agai...
Aliso Canyon injunction request running on fumes as LA judge denies request, claiming no jurisdiction
By Andy Serbe
In front of a courtroom packed to capacity with press and protesters, a Los Angeles judge denied an injunction against the res...
Law Practice
Dentons expands IP practice with addition of MoFo patent group
By Skylar Dubelko
Major international law firm, Dentons, expands IP and Technology practice in the U.S.
Gifted golfer Collin L. Waring, an associate at the CGS3 office in San Diego, is no stranger to low scores on the links.
Longtime deputy attorney general Gordon R. “Sam” Overton, who spent much of his 35-year career at the Department of Justice in...
Beverly Hills attorney Howard N. Madris, who practiced bankruptcy law for nearly three decades, died suddenly July 20 from wha...
Criminal
State prosecutor charged with uploading child pornography
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
A deputy attorney general in San Diego is on administrative leave and home detention after being charged with possessing child...
Corporate
Amid litigation and falling share prices, Snap loses top lawyer
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
Three years into his tenure, Christopher T. Handman, general counsel for Snap Inc., has left the company.
A luxury resort that offers timeshares is suing a firm that offers “timeshare exit” services in federal court, claiming that t...
A board-certified pharmacologist and toxicologist testifying as the plaintiff’s first witness in the Johnson & Johnson tal...
The judge assigned to hear a lawsuit by the Commission on Judicial Performance against California State Auditor Elaine Howle w...
California Supreme Court
State high court says CEQA applies to public projects
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, pre-empts a federal law in a ca...
California owes 3,400 active and retired judges about $40 million and must pay now, a judge ordered Thursday, but the state mi...
Attorneys for a data analytics company asked a federal judge Thursday to block Microsoft Corp.-owned LinkedIn from preventing ...
Entertainment & Sports
Olivia de Havilland, 101, seeks to speed up ‘Feud’ trial against FX, Ryan Murphy
By Lila Seidman
Weeks after filing a suit against showrunner Ryan Murphy and FX over her depiction in the Emmy-nominated series, “Feud: Bette ...
Apple Inc. suffered another defeat in an intellectual property case brought by the University of Wisconsin, when a federal jud...
Toyota dealer sues manufacturer for attempting to drive him out of business
By Andy Serbe
A suit filed in Orange County alleges that after a longtime Toyota dealer created a program to streamline customer repairs in ...