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Environmental & Energy


The plaintiffs argue that the Forest Service only prepared three Environmental Assessments and associated Findings of No Signi...


Civil Rights


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


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


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

Jul. 21, 2023
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


The dispute between State Compensation Insurance Fund and ReadyLink Healthcare centered on whether premiums were owed for per ...


Litigation & Arbitration


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


The San Francisco football team maintained it was not liable for negligence and breach of implied contract.


Criminal


Victims of synagogue shooting can sue gun shop

Jul. 21, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

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


“But the state-created danger exception finds no support in the text of the Constitution, the historical understanding of the ...


Technology


Google did not show that the plaintiff’s claims, which differed between his original and amended complaints, were made in bad ...


Intellectual Property


“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


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 attorneys seek $138,386 in sanctions against Activision for continued discovery attempts after a judge rule...


Obituaries


Andrew H. Struve, June 29, 1966 — July 14, 2023

Jul. 20, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Buchalter healthcare litigator was generous mentor and loyal friend


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


Two Santa Clara County deputy public defenders sued the state after they were warned against soliciting political contribution...


Sen. Tom Cotton wrote 51 law firms that their DEI initiatives might be illegal following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on ...


Government


By failing to clear the public rights of way on the sidewalks, District Attorney Thien Ho warned, city officials could be pros...


Immigration


President Joe Biden’s rule — which the plaintiffs want the judge to declare unlawful — prohibits asylum for people who travele...


“Newcastle cannot now overcome claim and issue preclusion because it does not like how the state court is proceeding,” wrote I...


Judges and Judiciary


U.S. District Judge Beth L. Freeman said plaintiff Nicky Laatz plausibly alleged that she owns the copyright to the “Blooming ...


Environmental & Energy


“Some local jurisdictions enacted ‘urgency zoning ordinances’ aiming to restrict or impose additional requirements on projects...


“He told us there would no longer be any plea bargains,” former Lassen County Deputy District Attorney Shannon Carter said. “T...


Law Practice


Josh Cohen came from Clarence Dyer & Cohen and Abraham Tabaie came from Skadden Arps.


“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


The Alameda County trial was allowed to proceed, despite a stay on litigation against the company due to pending bankruptcy p...


Criminal


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


“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


Despite the three-judge panel granting that stay, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Milan Smith wrote separately in a co...