In light of his grim assessment of a trial with 9,000 class members, Los Angeles County Judge Elihu Berle encouraged the parti...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Panel skeptical of FBI’s rationale for safety deposit searches
By Craig Anderson
“The government did all of this without any particularized probable cause as to the owners of those safety deposit boxes. This...
State Bar & Bar Associations
17-year-old makes history as state’s youngest lawyer
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“For now, I plan on staying here in Tulare County and learning the ropes of becoming a great prosecutor,” said Peter C. Park.
Judges and Judiciary
Former assistant US attorney sworn as magistrate judge in San Diego
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Valerie E. Torres was a civil lawyer in the Southern District of California for 9 years. She also practiced at Latham & Wa...
Technology
Ex-employees ‘destroyed 1,000s’ of documents, tech company says
By Wisdom Howell
Counsel for Trace3 claimed its forensic experts were unable to recover the trade secrets documents that allegedly contained a ...
Law Practice
Board drafting privacy regulations argue over opt-outs
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“I don’t agree that employees should be able to opt out … but they should absolutely know that it is going on,” said Board mem...
Government
Senator vows to shield courts from massive budget shortfall
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“In facing budget problems of similar magnitudes, the state in the past has made reductions to employee compensation and lower...
Environmental & Energy
Massive litigation planned over Merced County floods
By Devon Belcher
The plaintiffs say Merced County and the Department of Fish and Wildlife failed to properly maintain infrastructure that would...
Judges and Judiciary
US judge to handle discovery in state court social media suits
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
A federal court in Oakland will handle discovery in a state court suit claiming social media platforms harm children.
Apartment owners claimed a rent freeze imposed in 2020 violated their due process rights.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court
Amici: Politicians are hiding behind homeless court rulings
By Craig Anderson
Gov. Gavin Newsom, the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as other California and western jurisdictions filed am...
Civil Rights
Information on women who opted out of class must be provided
By Wisdom Howell
A San Francisco judge rejected the argument of Zendesk INc. that it should not provide to plaintiffs contact information of 81...
Entertainment & Sports
Former Grammys chief sued for sexual assault, battery
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Michael Greene was free to roam and use his power at will for years and years and when he had Terri McIntyre under his control...
Judges and Judiciary
Newsom nominates 2 Court of Appeal justices, appoints 18 superior court judges
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Judge Monique S. Langhorne Wilson of the Napa County Superior Court and Munger Tolles & Olson LLP of counsel Aimee A. Fein...
Mediator Lori Dobrin says positivity helps her disarm angry people.
Bankruptcy
Lawyer has ‘Sophie’s choice’ between court orders in punk rock suit
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
A sole practitioner representing the founder of Frontier Records says he risks ignoring the stay pursuant to the Bankruptcy Co...
Civil Litigation
Teachers seek sanctions, say district violated court order
By Laurinda Keys
Two teachers say their freedom of speech and religion were violated by a school policy that requires them to deceive parents a...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
FTC asks circuit to help pause Microsoft Activision deal
By Craig Anderson
FTC attorney Imad D. Abyad argued that the 9th Circuit appellate panel should reverse the decision by U.S. District Judge Jacq...
Constitutional Law, State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar says it’s required to pursue suspension of Tom Girardi’s son-in-law
By Devon Belcher
Prosecutors argued that the State Bar could not protect the public from serious harm if in every case where an attorney faces ...
Government
New state disclosure rules help small businesses, US judge finds
By Sunidhi Sridhar
A U.S. district judge found that California’s rules for disclosure for nonbank lenders and other financial institutions are no...
Civil Litigation
Anaheim fights to keep out evidence not in administrative record
By Skyler Romero
Damian M. Moos of Best Best & Krieger LLP argued for Anaheim that the plaintiffs’ petition challenges a legislative or qua...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar has sovereign immunity, panel says
By Craig Anderson
9th Circuit Judge John B. Owens wrote that the court’s old standard had been supplanted by several other circuit rulings follo...
Environmental & Energy
Dixie Fire trial to proceed despite plea for settlement time
By Wisdom Howell
“PG&E respectfully submits that the court should permit the ADR protocol to settle as many cases as possible. Preparing fo...
Many of the case’s arguments and disputes center around MOVA’s use in Disney’s live action “Beauty and the Beast” movie.
Civil Litigation
A3 Artists ‘run into the ground’ by majority owner, suit says
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
“Realizing that he had doomed the company, [Adam] Bold has secretly negotiated to sell A3’s most profitable divisions and its ...
“The city has misinterpreted and misused the Boise decision,” DA Thien Ho said. “Specifically, the Boise decision allows you t...
Bankruptcy
Judge OKs more than $4M in fees after last settlement with Girardi Keese creditor
By Devon Belcher
Trustee Elissa D. Miller told the court she currently has $19.5 million on hand that will be used to pay back other unsecured ...
Bankruptcy, Legal Education
Bankruptcy threat was mistake, Southwestern says
By Laurinda Keys
“The fact of the matter is that Southwestern’s attorneys concluded that it was necessary and appropriate to file a pleading wh...
Criminal
Attorney who bribed FBI agent sentenced to 6 months in prison
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Edgar Sargsyan, whose law license is now suspended, told prosecutors that he paid another attorney to assume his identity and ...