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Environmental & Energy

The groups argue that the project will undermine the state's climate goals and grow the county's polluting oil and gas industr...


Scott Edelman of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher was honored at the event in Beverly Hills.



Government, Class Action

Attorneys representing the VA in a dispute with homeless veterans have pointed to department officials' testimony before a con...


Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Alyssa D. Bell, who represents Mark Ridley-Thomas, told a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel that her client was trying t...



Banking, Antitrust & Trade Reg.

A trade secrets complaint accuses the executives of taking the business to their new employer, BMO Wealth Management.


U.S. Supreme Court, Securities, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

The one-sentence opinion was unsigned and quickly followed oral arguments in the case on Nov. 6, in which justices voiced skep...



Civil Litigation

LASC to begin mandatory eService Dec. 2

Nov. 25, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Civil, family law, probate and Mental Health-LPS cases will eventually be required to utilize eService as well, with full impl...


Labor/Employment

A complaint filed this month by 11 workers asked the California Supreme Court to direct the board to issue final decisions in ...



Environmental & Energy

San Fernando Valley residents sued the department in 2021, accusing it of allowing the station to leak gas over a period of ye...


Constitutional Law

District Attorney Michael A. Hestrin filed an amicus curia brief after Attorney General Rob Bonta agreed with the State Public...



Judges and Judiciary

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's key concession was giving up on trying to confirm President Joe Biden's four federal ap...


Securities

Plaintiffs claim the company and executives misled the public over its compliance with antitrust laws. It comes two months af...



Civil Litigation

LASC boosts incentives for court reporters

Nov. 22, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The measures were announced two months after the court shifted its policy on electronic recordings in an attempt to deal with ...


"Phillips 66 will continue its cooperation with the U.S. Attorney's office and is prepared to present its case in these matter...



Judges and Judiciary

Judge Charles A. Smiley, appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court in 2012, was nominated by Newsom to be a justice of th...


CriticalPoint has sued two companies founded by former employees, claiming they continue to use its confidential data to make ...



Intellectual Property

The dispute focused on compounded ophthalmic medications.


A federal judge in Los Angeles ordered the VA to construct 100 modular housing units this winter for homeless veterans. The VA...



Alexis Loeb was deputy chief of the U.S. Justice Department's Capitol Siege Section, overseeing the coordination of the federa...


Class Action

City Attorney David Chiu had claimed that the decision to appoint a guardian to represent one of the lead plaintiffs made both...



Walmart called the verdict "outrageous," and said it "simply does not reflect the straightforward and uncontested facts of thi...


Judges and Judiciary

Senate Democrats are hurrying to confirm judges by the end of the year, before Republicans take control of the chamber in the ...



Riverside County court announces cutbacks

Nov. 21, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Furloughed staff is one of several measures courts throughout the state are taking to close a $97 million budget cut.


Judges and Judiciary

All the publicly posted comments from judges said the opinion's cautions - particularly suggestions that judges have others de...



Legal Education, Constitutional Law

Some prominent judges -- including the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brenna Jr. --and law professors have tried ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Business Law

U.S. District Judge Edward Chen said he intended to sanction Valerie Lozano, a Los Angeles partner at Quinn Emanuel, for viola...



Civil Litigation

Claims dismissed against Brink's sales agent

Nov. 20, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The plaintiffs accused the defendant of advising them to understate the value of their goods before they were placed in an arm...


Judges and Judiciary, Government

The nominees who advanced were Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Anne Hwang and State Bar Court Judge Cynthia Valenzuela...