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Judicial Profile

Judge Edward Moreton, a swimmer, finds rhythm, fairness lap after lap

Edward B. Moreton Jr.
Los Angeles County Superior Court

ADR Profile

Breaking bread breaks the ice

Harris E. Weinberg
ADR Services, Inc.

2025-09-13

MCLE

Accentuate the objective: Rethinking bias in California's courtrooms

Sep. 12, 2025

California's CCP §231.7 and the Racial Justice Act adopt ...

By Brian M. Hoffstadt

Uber's assault on civil justice: a play out of the corporate intimidation playbook

Sep. 10, 2025

Uber is weaponizing federal RICO lawsuits against persona...

By P. Christopher Ardalan

Differences between collaborative courts and diversion for veterans

Sep. 9, 2025

In California, veterans facing criminal charges may recei...

By Eileen C. Moore


Today's News

Torts/Personal Injury, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Courts of Appeal


An appellate court fined L.A. attorney Daniel Geoulla $30,000 for a frivolous scooter-injury appeal, upheld $8,000 in trial sanctions, referred him to the St...


Technology


Tech groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto SB 243 and AB 1064, warning of free speech and compliance issues, while supporters cite recent teen suicides linke...


Immigration


AB 495, allowing parents facing deportation to designate emergency caregivers for children, passed the California Legislature despite fierce opposition from ...


Intellectual Property


A federal judge streamlined Alcon Entertainment's copyright lawsuit against Elon Musk, Tesla and Warner Bros., dismissing some claims but allowing core infri...


Environmental & Energy, Constitutional Law


A federal judge again denied the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's request to block California's new climate disclosure laws, finding no new arguments and rejecting...


Attorneys for 91-year-old, cognitively impaired man seek to expedite his deposition in a lawsuit against California FAIR Plan over Eaton Fire losses, while d...


Columns

Criminal, Constitutional Law

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination in Utah underscores failures in event security, the dangers of polarizing r...


SB 940 expands arbitration discovery rights by granting parties nearly the same discovery tools available in trial court proce...


Evidence

Litigating the gray areas of attorney-client privilege: A risky business

Sep. 15, 2025
By Gretchen L. Jankowski, Jennifer M. Oliver

Courts are increasingly scrutinizing the "primary purpose" of communications with in-house counsel, a...



Verdicts & Settlements

Unfair Competition Djeneba Sidibe, Jerry Janko... $228,500,000
Malpractice Leon Rojas through his guar... $8,500,000
Consumers Legal Remedies Act Amanda Davis v. Natera Inc. $8,250,000
Prisoners' Rights Gariel Brownlee, an individ... $7,000,000
Premises Liability Henrietta Castrellon v. Hom... $6,626,603
Wage and Hour Tammy Tenny v. Dignity Heal... $5,750,000
Wage and Hour Priscilla Aguilar, Julian H... $3,700,000
Wage and Hour Suleyda Farias v. Shasta Be... $2,884,887
Unfair Business Practices Elizabeth Anderson, et al. ... $2,875,000
Premises Liability Chip Brown v. ICO Developme... $2,336,000

On the Move

Mayer Brown

Sep. 12, 2025


Mayer Brown welcomes Davina Pujari as a partner in San Francisco.

Pujari's practice focuses on environmental and white-collar defense, class and mass actions, False Claims Act litigation, and crisis management. She has acted as lead counsel in high-profile matters under the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, the Superfund law, and other federal and state environmental statutes. Her representative work includes defending a global remediation contractor in parallel False Claims Act and mass tort actions, representing a Class I railroad in derailment-related litigation, and resolving numerous criminal environmental investigations with no charges filed.


Mayer Brown Chris Rheinheimer as a partner in San Francisco.

Rheinheimer represents clients in complex environmental, energy and real-estate litigation, class and mass actions, False Claims Act matters and state and federal enforcement defense. He regularly advises clients on land-use and NEPA/CEQA disputes. His recent matters include defending an environmental remediation contractor in multiple governmental enforcement actions and class actions arising from a Superfund site, representing a railroad in a class action and civil enforcement proceedings following a derailment, securing dismissal of charges for an individual in an Endangered Species Act/Lacey Act prosecution, and successfully challenging voter initiatives that sought to restrict large-scale energy and development projects.




Details

Mayer Brown has 1766 attorneys in 22 offices including Los Angeles, Palo Alto, and San Francisco. Among the law firm’s key practice areas are litigation, capital markets, real estate, fund formation, finance. The firm’s website is https://www.mayerbrown.com/en

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Daily Appellate Report

REPLACEMENT COPY OF TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2025

Criminal Law and Procedure

People v. Millsap

Trial court lacked concurrent jurisdiction to resentence criminal defendant while his automatic capital appeal was pending before the Supreme Court because it had exclusive jurisdiction o...


Real Property, Municipal Law

The Kennedy Commission v. Superior Court (People)

Regardless of City of Huntington Beach's status as a charter city, it was subject to the Housing Element Law's compliance deadlines and injunctive restrictions on city authority.


Bankruptcy

In re: Svenhard's Swedish Bakery

Settlement agreement was a financial accommodation for the benefit of the Chapter 11 debtor that could not be assumed or assigned under Section 365(c)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code.


Civil Procedure, Insurance

Ambrosio v. Progressive Preferred Insurance Company

District court did not abuse its discretion declining to certify class of customers against car insurance company, where individual questions regarding insurer's calculations of totaled v...