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Labor/Employment


With vetoes, Newsom cools some labor giddiness

Oct. 9, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Seven bills labeled as “Job Killers” by the California Chamber sit on the governor’s desk unsigned.


U.S. Supreme Court


Perkins Coie removed from its website language about fellowships being offered to “historically underrepresented groups in the...



Insurance


Insurance broker sued again over non-compete covenants

Oct. 9, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

“At issue is the legality of a contractual scheme intended to evade California public policy and law involving restrictive cov...


This brings to 1,415 the number of lawyers whose license were placed on inactive status for failure to comply with the new rul...



Intellectual Property


Quinn says doctored evidence was mistake

Oct. 9, 2023
By Jonathan Lo

“We were dealing with language barriers and operating very quickly to prepare our defense,” Quinn Emanuel attorneys told Senio...


Technology


Tesla’s counsel, led by Michael R. Carey of Dykema Gossett PLLC, argues there isn’t enough evidence to prove the car was drivi...



Eric M. George, who represents members of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s family, said “Judge Ryan’s ruling… protects actual history ...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


Butte, Kern, Kings, Monterey, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Sonoma and Stanislaus counties each got ...



Health Care & Hospital Law


Promosome sued Pfizer and BioNTech in June, claiming that its scientists showed the defendants proprietary information related...


“The court finds this amount to be a reasonable result in light of the quality of the result obtained, the work performed by c...



San Francisco’s argument invites the Supreme Court to use the very mechanism that liberal legal observers have criticized the ...


Real Estate/Development


The case, which has taken 20 years to get to trial, involves the plaintiff’s alleged oral agreement with his four brothers to ...



Civil Litigation


California’s members of Congress have introduced at least two bills this year that would increase the number of federal judges...


“Two days before his scheduled testimony, Musk abruptly notified the SEC staff that he would not appear,” the SEC wrote. “Musk...




Eternal Optimist

Oct. 6, 2023

Independent mediator David Sarnoff believes any dispute can be resolved with extra effort.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Judges on the 9th Circuit panel did not appear eager Wednesday to embrace the argument that Adolph v. Uber Technologies Inc. i...



Environmental & Energy


CEMEX says it has all the requisite environmental permits and approvals and has prevailed in all lawsuits brought by the city ...


Technology, Litigation & Arbitration


The case involves a fatal 2019 Tesla crash which killed the driver and severely injured his girlfriend and her son.



Criminal


E. Martin Estrada said task forces are not intended to be performative or short-term fixtures.


State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar does not have “the unfettered authority to regulate attorneys in their daily lives to censor unfavorable speech,...



Technology


Musk’s attorneys — Adrian Sawyer of Sawyer & Labar LLP plus Marc Dworsky and William T. Reid IV of Reid Collins & Tsai...


Health Care & Hospital Law


In her order on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee ordered Quest Diagnostics to pay $4,000 in damages.



Constitutional Law


Briefs filed to 9th circuit on gun magazine law

Oct. 5, 2023
By Craig Anderson

Attorneys for Second Amendment proponents argued the law should be enjoined now, while the state says the arguments don’t addr...


“There’s only one opt-out, there are no objections, these are good results and I will enter a final order that finds that it’s...



Technology


The complaint says some of the information allegedly taken and leaked was used in a New York Times article that said Twitter’s...


An expert in the nation’s first wrongful death trial involving Tesla’s Autopilot said the data was not enough to conclude whet...



Education Law


The investigation revealed that Stanford had failed to disclose foreign funding for 16 grant proposals submitted to five feder...


Judges and Judiciary


Edith Matthai, counselor to judges and lawyers, joins JAMS

Oct. 4, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Matthai has handled many disputes between law firms and departing partners, disputes over the division of fees between success...



Law Practice


Stacey Abrams speaks at corporate counsel gala

Oct. 4, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The event in Los Angeles raised more than $40,000 for Public Counsel, according to ACC-SoCal President Victoria Harvey.


Law Practice


“We have long been interested in expanding our mass torts practice in California,” said the Irvine and Los Angeles office mana...