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U.S. Supreme Court


The university will have to try again on damages, and on the third patent, but it prevailed against Apple’s argument that the ...


A Redwood City software company, Zuora Inc., which provides customer subscription management services, aims to end a lawsuit f...


Bankruptcy, Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law


Johnson & Johnson has maintained throughout the litigation that there is a lack of scientific evidence that its products c...


Technology


The FTC is seeking to enjoin Microsoft from consummating its deal until it can finish its administrative review. Microsoft has...


State Bar & Bar Associations


John C. Eastman declined to answer a State Bar prosecutor when asked to identify people with whom he had discussed alternate e...


U.S. Supreme Court


U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for a court majority that included all the justices appointed by Republica...


U.S. Supreme Court


Pork producers and Attorney General Rob Bonta reached a deal that gives farmers six months to get rid of current stock before ...


Criminal


Crime victims group can’t intervene in LA bail case

Jun. 26, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

In his order denying Crime Survivors Inc.’s motion to intervene, Judge Lawrence P. Riff noted that if a prospective intervenor...


Environmental & Energy


U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer said Volkswagen's software updates to the devices that were meant to cheat on emissions ...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, dissented, accusing the government of essentially rewriting the statute in o...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Facebook has denied the allegation that it created discriminatory exclusion tools in its platform in a motion to dismiss that ...


Civil Litigation


The attorneys said they should be awarded 25% of the $725 million settlement fund for nearly 150,000 hours of work and more th...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Danny Chou will sit on the 1st District Court of Appeal and Judge David Rubin will sit on the 4th District.


Labor/Employment


Marriott sued over extra fees for worker safety

Jun. 23, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Junk fees — surprise charges that drive up purchase prices — cost consumers billions of dollars every year. Bills against them...


Environmental & Energy


Debate over specialized CEQA courts draws strong opinions

Jun. 23, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

“You will get increased expertise, presumably. But I would suggest that the specificity of that subject matter and its importa...


California Supreme Court, Government


The rule, opposed by many California attorneys, will go into effect Aug. 1.


State Bar & Bar Associations


“We’re being faced with a situation where I have no bullets in my gun on this,” stated Eastman’s attorney, Randall A. Miller o...


Criminal


ACLU, LA County settle lawsuit over jail conditions

Jun. 23, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The settlement requires the county to beef up its mental health facilities and services so that mentally ill jail inmates get ...


The unanimous ruling only addressed one of the county’s defenses, but one that has been successfully employed by state governm...


Technology


Microsoft’s attorney, Beth A. Wilkinson of Wilkinson Stekloff LLP, said of the deal in her opening remarks, “By definition it’...


Real Estate/Development


Santa Clara County claims that the regulations have not reduced the “residential capacity” of an area near Stanford University.



Risk Broker

Jun. 23, 2023

Herbert Hoffman gives clients a clear picture of their chances at trial or settlement.


The rule, opposed by many California attorneys, will go into effect Aug. 1.


A proposed class action says the bank downplayed the risks that rising interest rates posed to First Republic’s interest earni...


Civil Rights


The complaint alleges Black and brown children are disciplined at 2 to 3 times the rate of white students.


Civil Litigation


Attorneys for plaintiffs and Catholic dioceses disagreed about whether having well-known accused offenders would make the case...


Technology


BSD Crown Ltd. alleged that despite Amazon’s prior knowledge, its subsidiaries Amazon Web Services Inc. and Twitch Interactive...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Adam R. Pulver, an attorney with Public Citizen Litigation Group, said plaintiffs in other cases have been waiting for months ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Greg Jacob, testifying against John Eastman in a State Bar trial, said he was offended “by the advice that I had seen given, a...


Labor/Employment


Elon Musk’s attorneys have argued in previous lawsuits that the sale agreement requires employee actions be arbitrated and pro...