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The temporary restraining order U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley issued on Thursday has become an annual tradition in the st...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The grocery chains argued that no court has ever enjoined a merger when individuals have challenged it months before its plann...



Supreme Court limits local authority to ban fracking

Aug. 4, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The unanimous state Supreme Court found that the state, as directed by the Legislature and governor, had “fully occupied” the ...


Labor/Employment


The plaintiff, a Silicon Valley Bank employee, says she was induced by misleading statements to hold onto her stock that was w...


Immigration


The government claimed in the two months the new rule has been in effect, it has reduced illegal immigration, encouraged the u...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The grocery chains argued in filings that no court has ever enjoined a merger when individuals have challenged it months befor...


The U.S. Supreme Court appears to watch closely dissents issued by Judge Sandra Ikuta, a conservative member of the 9th Circuit.


Criminal


Defense attorney Michael L. Duncan told jurors that in order to convict they will be asked to conclude “that the only reasonab...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Jennifer Huddleston, a research fellow at the Cato Institute, pointed to the FTC’s recent failures in the Northern District of...


Criminal, Government


“If John Eastman is actually charged and convicted of a felony that involves moral turpitude, then that would be a summary dis...


Labor/Employment


Attorneys for the nine defendants called the NDA in Tesla’s employment contract a “sweeping provision” that essentially bans t...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Tai Milder most recently served two years as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, after ne...



Activision challenges box-check lease renewal

Aug. 3, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Los Angeles Judge Elaine Lu sustained the video game maker’s demurrer to Regus Management Group’s breach of rent contract laws...


Immigration


The government claimed in the two months the new rule has been in effect, it has reduced illegal immigration, encouraged the u...


The new Division of Petroleum Market Oversight is a key part of Newsom's gas price gouging law, which was approved during a sp...


Adam Fee was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York’s Criminal Division.


The Saul Ewing move is “part of a long time trend of consolidation in big law and an interest in the Southern California legal...


Government


Attorney General Rob Bonta’s demurrer argued that the plaintiffs failed to establish grounds to name him as a defendant, and t...


San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer agreed, granting the motion to compel arbitration despite Mark Shuken, who...


“These lawsuits are a baseless attempt to turn a manufacturer’s exercise of its well-established right to choose the prices, t...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Representing the California Hospital Association, a not-for-profit trade organization based in Sacramento, Matthew J. Silveira...


California Supreme Court


If finalized, the guidance would reverse 2020 changes made by President Donald Trump’s administration that said students shoul...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


One amendment is a hotly disputed proposal to allow judges to release prisoners early if the law changed since they were incar...


Tax


M&A tax attorney joins Greenberg Glusker

Aug. 1, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Daniel Cousineau provides strategic counsel to both corporate and private equity clients on transaction structuring, purchase ...


Law Practice


Barton Klugman & Oetting joins Clark Hill

Aug. 1, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Clark Hill's international platform will allow us to provide our clients with a broader array of services while maintaining th...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Subscribers claim that the NFL conspired with other distributors and networks, including DirecTV, to unlawfully force them to ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


“The facts rooted in the Notice of Disciplinary Charges are often times blatantly false, mischaracterized half-truths and all ...


Civil Rights


“Deon Jones’ historic trial victory sent a message to law enforcement throughout the country that misconduct like shooting pea...


Judges and Judiciary


More public defenders are being appointed as judges

Aug. 1, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Critics of the criminal justice system have long had a goal of getting more public defenders into judicial positions. This has...


Civil Litigation


“Well, my clients were very emotional as they heard the verdict, because they felt that they had put their heart and soul into...