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Judges and Judiciary


If confirmed by the full Senate, Judge Noel Wise would replace U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila of San Jose.


Proposition 5 would lower the threshold to pass bonds from a two-thirds vote to just 55%. It is backed by Howard Jarvis Taxpay...




Creative and Caring

Aug. 2, 2024

Attorneys say mediator Stacie Hausner resolves cases with emotional intelligence and persistence.


Contracts, Intellectual Property


The dispute stems from Lemon's $1.5 million verbal agreement with Musk and X Corp. which would have given the platform exclusi...



Chaney served for nearly a decade as a judge in the Los Angeles County court's Complex Litigation Division.


"San Diego's strong nucleus of life sciences and technology companies makes our entry into this market a natural fit for our c...




Mandatory e-filing reinstated at LA Courts

Aug. 1, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The requirement will resume Thursday for CARE Court, Civil, Family Law, Juvenile Dependency and Probate cases.


Labor/Employment


Robert W. Lofton claimed the firm withheld his pay after he underwent emergency surgery.



Criminal


SEC accuses former IRL CEO of $170M investor fraud

Aug. 1, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Abraham Shafi, founder and former CEO of Get Together Inc. is accused of defrauding investors.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The panel rejected the argument that the new law, Abolish Trafficking Reauthorization Act of 2022, clarified a 2003 anti-traff...



Antitrust & Trade Reg., Entertainment & Sports


U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez did not issue a ruling during the hearing, but he did not seem persuaded by the plaint...


Government, Land Use


Newsom takes aim at California's building codes

Aug. 1, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The order directs the California Department of Housing and Community Development to work with other state agencies to lower th...



Civil Litigation


Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer gave the plaintiffs, who want to keep the law school open until 2025, a chance to file a...


Officers zip-tied plaintiffs' hands after they were arrested at a Black Lives Matter protest. When an officer removed the zip ...



Monday's order from San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Ethan P. Schulman came despite the outcome of two appeal decisio...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


The ruling is the latest development in an ongoing dispute between the Cochran Firm and their former employee Ibiere Seck over...



Land Use


"The City has allowed a vagrancy problem to persist in the neighborhood," wrote the company's lawyer, David A. Diepenbrock.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Government, Labor/Employment


The case revolved around a Labor Department announcement in a 2021 letter that it would deny federal mass transit funds to age...



Civil Litigation


The department has "virtually eliminated accountability for force incidents where the instrumentality causing the injury was a...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


In a motion to toss the case brought by UK lawyer Fiona Harvey, who claims she inspired the character "Martha," Netflix's coun...



Aileen McGrath, who recently argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, joins from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.


Government, Technology


Tech leaders have criticized EU interventions into the sector overseas. Its regulatory reach may be closer to home than they r...



DEI, Labor/Employment


The lawsuit claims that the bank systematically conducted sham interviews and reassured investors about the success of the Div...


Civil Rights, Constitutional Law


Scientology bankrolled elder abuse case

Jul. 30, 2024
By Skyler Romero

It emerged during the five-day bench trial that the plaintiff's elder abuse case was being bankrolled by the Church of Sciento...



Civil Litigation, Civil Rights


A group of Jewish students are seeking a preliminary injunction against a University of California policy against preemptively...


Constitutional Law, Government, U.S. Supreme Court


"Historically, advocating for amendments helped shift national conversations that eventually led to incremental change over t...



Civil Litigation, Consumer Law, Tax


Intuit alleges that H&R Block's marketing tactics deceive customers and affect public trust, while H&R Block denies an...


Government


The lawsuit seeks an injunction invalidating Measure A, which the Board of Supervisors approved last year.



Labor/Employment


The PAGA complaint claims remote employees of Foundation Partners Group are not compensated for the time it takes them to boot...


Labor/Employment


U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim found that the plaintiff had only included three instances related to her hostile work enviro...