Environmental & Energy
US Forest Service sued over EIS for logging project
By Jonathan Lo
The plaintiffs argue that the Forest Service only prepared three Environmental Assessments and associated Findings of No Signi...
Civil Rights
Parents of disabled Jewish children seek injunction on state policy
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The plaintiffs do not have standing because they could not show that the religious schools the children attend are “able and r...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Does State Bar have sovereign immunity on admissions?
By Craig Anderson
The State Bar says yes, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted in a decision announced Friday that the question needs...
Judges and Judiciary
Witness says court staff were hostile to Lassen County judge now facing discipline
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Clerks and officials were angry when Judge Tony R. Mallery was elected, a former court operations manager testified in his def...
Immigration
State to provide free legal services to farmworkers
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“Farmworkers are the backbone of our economy, and we won’t stand by as bad actors use the threat of deportation as a form of e...
Labor/Employment
Staffing agency prevails in dispute with workers’ comp carrier
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The dispute between State Compensation Insurance Fund and ReadyLink Healthcare centered on whether premiums were owed for per ...
Litigation & Arbitration
Family company dispute sees lawyers partially disqualified
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Judge Kevin C. Brazile agreed that attorneys from De Castro Law Group PC would likely be witnesses at trial in a dispute among...
Civil Litigation
49ers to settle data breach lawsuit with 21,000 plaintiffs
By Jonathan Lo
The San Francisco football team maintained it was not liable for negligence and breach of implied contract.
The circumstances surrounding the Chabad of Poway shooting brought to the California Legislature’s “attention that, unless cla...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
4 judges say circuit expanded ‘state-created danger’ law
By Craig Anderson
“But the state-created danger exception finds no support in the text of the Constitution, the historical understanding of the ...
Google did not show that the plaintiff’s claims, which differed between his original and amended complaints, were made in bad ...
Intellectual Property
Taco Tuesdays for everyone! Restaurant abandons its trademark
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“We’re lovers, not fighters,” the president of Taco John’s said in a statement meant to call a truce to litigation filed by ot...
Intellectual Property
Opponents call toymaker’s $6M fee request ‘gratuitous’
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Attorneys at Keller/Anderle LLP and Umberg Zipser LLP, who successfully defended MGA Entertainment at trial in May, are asking...
Civil Rights
State civil rights agency seeks $138,000 in sanctions from Activision
By Devon Belcher
State civil rights attorneys seek $138,386 in sanctions against Activision for continued discovery attempts after a judge rule...
Buchalter healthcare litigator was generous mentor and loyal friend
Criminal
In reversal, judge won’t stay defamation case for criminal probe
By Skyler Romero
Counsel for OneTaste Inc. repeatedly questioned the legal basis for the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York to r...
Government, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Local government workers can solicit campaign money from coworkers, 9th Circuit rules
By Craig Anderson
Two Santa Clara County deputy public defenders sued the state after they were warned against soliciting political contribution...
Civil Rights
Law firms could be hauled before Congress over race-based hiring, senator warns
By Devon Belcher
Sen. Tom Cotton wrote 51 law firms that their DEI initiatives might be illegal following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on ...
Government
Sacramento DA threatens to prosecute officials over encampments
By Malcolm Maclachlan
By failing to clear the public rights of way on the sidewalks, District Attorney Thien Ho warned, city officials could be pros...
President Joe Biden’s rule — which the plaintiffs want the judge to declare unlawful — prohibits asylum for people who travele...
Tax
‘Mansion tax’ opponents can’t fight in federal and state court, defense says
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
“Newcastle cannot now overcome claim and issue preclusion because it does not like how the state court is proceeding,” wrote I...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge refuses to dismiss copyright claim against Zazzle
By Sunidhi Sridhar
U.S. District Judge Beth L. Freeman said plaintiff Nicky Laatz plausibly alleged that she owns the copyright to the “Blooming ...
Environmental & Energy
AG warns cities they can’t zone their way out of housing laws
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“Some local jurisdictions enacted ‘urgency zoning ordinances’ aiming to restrict or impose additional requirements on projects...
Criminal
Testimony: Judge told prosecutors they were ‘too light’ on criminals
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“He told us there would no longer be any plea bargains,” former Lassen County Deputy District Attorney Shannon Carter said. “T...
Law Practice
Debevoise & Plimpton bolsters San Francisco office with 2 new partners
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Josh Cohen came from Clarence Dyer & Cohen and Abraham Tabaie came from Skadden Arps.
Banking
Philanthropists say First Republic lost $7M in scholarship money
By Skyler Romero
“They were told by the manager at First Republic that First Republic was fine, it had no problems: ‘Don’t get excited, you’re ...
Civil Litigation
Alameda County jury returns $18.8M talc verdict against J&J
By Wisdom Howell
The Alameda County trial was allowed to proceed, despite a stay on litigation against the company due to pending bankruptcy p...
Criminal
Pre-arraignment bail to end for some offenses in LA County
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Presiding Judge Samantha P. Jessner, announced in a remote news conference Tuesday afternoon that, starting Oct. 1, police off...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Ruling in Oregon sets up clash at 9th Circuit over gun regulations
By Craig Anderson
“What we’re seeing in the 9th Circuit is a microcosm of what we’re seeing nationwide because the Supreme Court guidance is not...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Verdict against Apple in Epic Games dispute stayed for appeal
By Jonathan Lo
Despite the three-judge panel granting that stay, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Milan Smith wrote separately in a co...