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Antitrust & Trade Reg., Entertainment & Sports

Jurors had no discretion to rely on experts, ignore instructions, a US judge said, reversing the $4.7 billion verdict that had...


Data Privacy, Technology

"This action is necessary to prevent the defendants, who are repeat offenders and operate on a massive scale, from collecting ...



Judges and Judiciary

Senate passes bill to add 21 judges in California

Aug. 2, 2024
By Sunidhi Sridhar

The unusual unanimous approval of the bill in the Senate sent the proposal for more federal judges to the House of Representat...


California Supreme Court, Labor/Employment

Justice Goodwin H. Liu, dissenting, argued that the ruling creates the risk of auctioning settlements to the 'lowest bidder.'



Intellectual Property

Intellectual property attorneys suggest federal judge may take the unusual step of bifurcating Masimo Corp.'s trade secrets cl...


Law Practice

The International Association of Defense Counsel announced J. Dominic Campodonico has been chosen as president-elect.



The companies failed to pay the required minimum and overtime wages, provide meal breaks, and paid sick leave, among other all...


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...