Homeowners sue Rancho Palos Verdes over acceleration of landslides
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Defendants' actions or failures to act caused water from several sources to combine and cause oversaturation, worsening the pr...
Dissident's works face destruction in China, professor says
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Stanford University has maintained that Li Rui, a personal secretary and later prisoner of Mao Zedong, intended for his works ...
9th Circuit: 'Browser agnosticism' irrelevant in Google privacy case
By Craig Anderson
"Because applying the correct standard reveals disputes of material fact regarding whether 'reasonable' users of Google's prod...
Woman scalded by hot coffee at a drive-thru sues Starbucks
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The case is reminiscent of a famous 1994 case in which a woman in New Mexico was scalded by hot coffee at a McDonald's drive-t...
Californians can expect further water conservation measures as the state water resources control board proceeds with its "maki...
California's Insurance Department has proposed streamlining property and casualty rate approvals. Public feedback is mixed, wi...
The American Bar Association recently warned of democracy threats, urging lawyers to act. Meanwhile, pundits have focused on T...
Judge ruled Google monopolized search and search ad markets, and found Google liable for using contracts with device makers an...
Hopkins Carley has 62 attorneys in San Jose and Redwood Shores. Lathrop GPM has 360 attorneys in eight states and Washington, ...
New law aims to address gender bias in California court proceedings
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The lawmaker behind the bill says it will "mitigate the over penalization of women involved in criminal cases."
One legal expert said that the lawsuit could be deliberately targeting small players in the hope of creating precedent to late...
Pandemic and failing health caused mounting debt, Girardi's secretary testifies
By Devon Belcher
Shirleen Fujimoto, who worked for Girardi for 26 years, told jurors that clients were calling and emailing daily throughout 20...
LA jury awards $18M to woman who broke ankle in Long Beach pothole
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
"The city had 52 weeks to fix the problem, while the plaintiff had just 1 second to avoid it," Arash Homampour, who represente...
Hawaii law makes insurers wait for Maui fire victims to be paid, attorneys say
By Laurinda Keys
Making insurers wait for victims to be paid in mass torts could be tried elsewhere, plaintiffs' attorneys in the Maui fire lit...
Stanford provides protection, CCP member's daughter testifies
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Nanyang Li said she was committed to compiling her father's writings because he spoke highly of the Hoover Institution. Li Rui...
Auto manufacturers are not complying with the California Lemon Law, which requires them to repurchase or replace defective veh...
Gov. Newsom should focus on the root causes of homelessness, not push local governments to hide the problem.
Lawyers have a duty of confidentiality to preserve client secrets, which can sometimes prevent them from sharing information. ...
Recent reforms strike a balance between bolstering enforcement and reducing the potential for abuse, while preserving PAGA's c...
Divided state Supreme Court clarifies procedure for Indian child welfare cases
By Craig Anderson
Justice Kelli M. Evans, writing for the majority, said that dependency courts must do extensive diligence to determine if chil...
Woman who lost nearly $5M in crypto app scam blames Google's advertising
By Wisdom Howell
Lawyers claim Google damages Play Store customers by building its marketing campaign on false and misleading representations a...
Defense argues 'bad accounting' to blame as government rests in Girardi case
By Devon Belcher
Several charts shared with jurors throughout IRS Agent Ryan Roberson's three-day testimony showed that during the final decade...
Here's what criminal law will likely look like in 2025
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A recent poll shows Proposition 36, which would roll back some of the criminal justice changes of the past few years, winning ...
Roblox hit with another lawsuit targeting addictive game design
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The company designs games that prioritize purchases over strategy and skill, according to the latest lawsuit, filed in Los Ang...
Chinese party critic wanted papers housed at Stanford, daughter testifies
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Trial began Monday in Oakland in a dispute over the papers and diaries of Li Rui, a personal secretary to Mao Zedong.
His name may be famous, but LA judge treasures the days when someone in his court leaves having faith in the judicial system
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 established a voluntary Drug Price Negotiation Program to reduce the cost of certa...
Elon Musk, an original co-founder of OpenAI, alleges that the company has abandoned its mission and claims breach of contract,...
The California Supreme Court's decisions in the Wilson and Fraziercases raise concerns about the proper applicat...
Bias is an inherent part of the legal profession, and it cannot and will not ever be eliminated. While intentional bias is h...