Following three consecutive days of defense evidence from the three-week jury trial arguing human error, rather than mechanica...
California hospital system sued over data breach
Constitutional Law
Judge reverses state’s 30-year ban on assault weapons
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Preparation is the most important aspect, neutral Russell Hom says
Los Angeles, Nevada, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura and Yolo counties each got one; Orange County got 2.
Judges and Judiciary
Senator Butler gets seat on Senate Judiciary Committee, easing concerns over judge confirmations
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“There is no question that this will now allow us to proceed with appointments to our federal courts. The White House has to m...
Litigation & Arbitration
Plaintiffs’ attorney grills Tesla expert over research methods
By Devon Belcher
Tesla says the Autopilot can’t do what the plaintiffs say it did in a 2019 fatal crash, while the plaintiffs said the system h...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Riverside County judge joins Judicate West
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Judge John G. Evans served on the Superior Court for 15 years, hearing matters involving employment, construction defects, neg...
Litigation & Arbitration
Zoom agrees to pay $150M to settle investor lawsuit
By Jonathan Lo
The class’ attorneys are requesting 18.75%, or over $28 million, in attorney fees. They said in the motion for approval that h...
Data Privacy
Investor claims against Meta over data sharing are restored
By Sunidhi Sridhar
In a published opinion, the appellate panel held that the lower court erred in dismissing shareholders’ claims of falsity when...
Law Practice
Paul Hastings expands in Silicon Valley with 12 corporate attorneys
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“With these extraordinary additions and others in the pipeline, we continue to bolster our presence in Northern California and...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Eastman testifies to what he told Pence, reasoning
By Skyler Romero
“We had an election that was not conducted according to law, not according to the manner the legislature had set out, and in m...
Litigation & Arbitration
Au pairs must arbitrate PAGA claims, companies say
By Wisdom Howell
The au pair plaintiffs argued that the suit cannot be sent to arbitration because the contracts require disputes be handled in...
Litigation & Arbitration
San Diego to pay $8M to man run over during arrest
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
During a vandalism arrest a police officer pinned the plaintiff to the ground in the street. An SUV then drove into the police...
U.S. Supreme Court
Musk, Cuban ask U.S. Supreme Court to curb administrative law judges
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“The central issue of the case is whether people have the right to a jury,” said Nicolas Morgan, a partner with Paul Hastings ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Pence should have paused election certification, Eastman testifies
By Skyler Romero
John Eastman testified at his State Bar trial that he advised the vice president to briefly delay certification to investigat...
Litigation & Arbitration
Wachtell forces X to arbitrate dispute over $90M legal bill
By Wisdom Howell
X claims that the hourly fees the firm earned for the Twitter sale totaled $17.9 million but that the “success fee” the firm r...
Litigation & Arbitration
Sheppard Mullin team wins mark dispute for independent publisher
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“As a result of this case, there is now a written opinion that states that SELF is not a famous mark, and is a conceptually we...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
US judge likely to pause antitrust action pending appeal
By Sunidhi Sridhar
U.S. District Judge George H. Wu based his tentative ruling on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in a putative class ac...
Litigation & Arbitration
Nonsuit motion opens Tesla’s defense of Autopilot crash
By Devon Belcher
“I do agree with both of you that it really is a circumstantial evidence case,” Superior Court Judge Christopher B. Harmon said.
Environmental & Energy
Truckers sue CARB over new emissions regulations
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“CARB’s efforts are in service to the laudable goal of decreasing tailpipe emissions from commercial vehicles, but represent a...
Entertainment & Sports
Selena Gomez’s lawyers obtain multiple defaults to settle suit over likeness
By Skyler Romero
The process of litigating the case without discovery from the foreign defendants presented “a unique procedural challenge,” Al...
Entertainment & Sports
Panel guts much of Hollywood Press group member's lawsuit
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The plaintiff is a former member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The organization put him on probation while an in...
Environmental & Energy
Air Resources Board must clean up San Joaquin Valley pollution
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Attorneys for the California Air Resources Board argued it was up to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to force them to...
Environmental & Energy
Biologist says Corps of Engineers water plan harms salmon, trout
By Jonathan Lo
“The best science that we have fortunately, or unfortunately, is Mr. White going out on his own time, at his own expense. He ...
Litigation & Arbitration
Rival wants losing engineering firm’s project proposal
By Skyler Romero
Conduent, which won the bid for the L.A. County transit proposal, requested disclosure of TransCore’s rejected proposal pursua...
Litigation & Arbitration, Health Care & Hospital Law
Santa Ana lawyer gets 6 years for pharmaceutical scheme
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Prosecutors said David J. Miller and his company lied to their customers about the nature and sources of the prescription drug...
Labor/Employment
Federal judge enjoins poultry companies from using child labor
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Prosecutors told U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi that the companies engaged in retaliation tactics and possibly did busines...
Litigation & Arbitration
Jury awards daughter $13.5M in LAPD wrongful death case
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Jacobo Juarez Cedillo died in April 2019 after being restrained by officers pinning him to the ground with their own body weig...