Seven bills labeled as “Job Killers” by the California Chamber sit on the governor’s desk unsigned.
U.S. Supreme Court
Lawsuit is dropped after MoFo changes diversity fellowship
By Craig Anderson
Perkins Coie removed from its website language about fellowships being offered to “historically underrepresented groups in the...
“At issue is the legality of a contractual scheme intended to evade California public policy and law involving restrictive cov...
Law Practice
More lawyers suspended for failing to comply with trust account rules
By Devon Belcher
This brings to 1,415 the number of lawyers whose license were placed on inactive status for failure to comply with the new rul...
“We were dealing with language barriers and operating very quickly to prepare our defense,” Quinn Emanuel attorneys told Senio...
Technology
Tearful plaintiff says Tesla made unusual moves before crashing
By Devon Belcher
Tesla’s counsel, led by Michael R. Carey of Dykema Gossett PLLC, argues there isn’t enough evidence to prove the car was drivi...
Sirhan Sirhan loses habeas challenge to parole denial, attorneys plan appeal
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Eric M. George, who represents members of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s family, said “Judge Ryan’s ruling… protects actual history ...
Butte, Kern, Kings, Monterey, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Sonoma and Stanislaus counties each got ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
San Diego biotech firm ends COVID vaccine patent dispute
By Sunidhi Sridhar
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...
Government
San Francisco seeks reversal of homeless cases with ‘shadow docket’
By Craig Anderson
San Francisco’s argument invites the Supreme Court to use the very mechanism that liberal legal observers have criticized the ...
Real Estate/Development
Los Angeles jury must decide brothers’ sprawling real estate dispute
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
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
Study: California federal courts among fastest in the nation
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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...
Independent mediator David Sarnoff believes any dispute can be resolved with extra effort.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit considers if arbitration clause bars PAGA participation
By Craig Anderson
Judges on the 9th Circuit panel did not appear eager Wednesday to embrace the argument that Adolph v. Uber Technologies Inc. i...
Environmental & Energy
Protest period for Soledad Canyon mining project reopened after 20 years, petition says
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
CEMEX says it has all the requisite environmental permits and approvals and has prevailed in all lawsuits brought by the city ...
Technology, Litigation & Arbitration
Doctor details spine damage in Tesla Autopilot crash trial
By Devon Belcher
The case involves a fatal 2019 Tesla crash which killed the driver and severely injured his girlfriend and her son.
E. Martin Estrada said task forces are not intended to be performative or short-term fixtures.
State Bar & Bar Associations
Attorney’s tweets during 2020 riots not misconduct, judge rules
By Skyler Romero
The State Bar does not have “the unfettered authority to regulate attorneys in their daily lives to censor unfavorable speech,...
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
Quest Diagnostics violated disabilities act, US judge rules
By Sunidhi Sridhar
In her order on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee ordered Quest Diagnostics to pay $4,000 in damages.
Attorneys for Second Amendment proponents argued the law should be enjoined now, while the state says the arguments don’t addr...
Technology
Cloud computing company’s $71M settlement with investors gets OK
By Jonathan Lo
“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
X Corp. claims former executive leaked proprietary information
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The complaint says some of the information allegedly taken and leaked was used in a New York Times article that said Twitter’s...
Civil Litigation
Autopilot was on, but driver's input is unknown, expert says in Tesla crash trial
By Devon Belcher
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
Stanford agrees to $1.9 million for failure to disclose foreign support
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
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
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Matthai has handled many disputes between law firms and departing partners, disputes over the division of fees between success...
The event in Los Angeles raised more than $40,000 for Public Counsel, according to ACC-SoCal President Victoria Harvey.
Law Practice
Womble Bond Dickinson continues to grow its California practice
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“We have long been interested in expanding our mass torts practice in California,” said the Irvine and Los Angeles office mana...