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Intellectual Property


Jeffrey Kennedy, the owner of Irish Rover Entertainment, sued Netflix in 2020, claiming copyright infringement of four screenp...


Law Practice


Los Angeles L&E team moves to ArentFox Schiff

Aug. 15, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The team of lawyers, who came to the firm from Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, have extensive experience defending ...



Litigation & Arbitration


The plaintiff’s attorneys contend that her termination for “poor performance” in March 2019 created a new statutory time clock...


Civil Litigation


Alexander “Trey” Robertson IV of Robertson & Associates LLP and Robert Curtis of Foley Bezek Behle & Curtis LLP repres...



Environmental & Energy


Climate change ruling is symbolic, environmentalists say

Aug. 15, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Bill Tarantino, a partner in the ESG practice at Morrison Foerster LLP, said Judge Kathy Seeley’s decision was “a remarkable r...


Litigation & Arbitration


The class complaint filed Sunday in Hawaii's First Circuit Court names as defendants Maui Electric Company; Hawaiian Electric ...



Technology


Microchip startup CEO pleads guilty to fraud on Qualcomm

Aug. 14, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Executives at Abreezio told Qualcomm that their technology was developed by a Canadian graduate student. They did not disclose...


Technology, Litigation & Arbitration


Activision drops suit against YouTube music critic

Aug. 14, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

According to the complaint, Activision Blizzard uploaded a video to its TikTok page using an audio recording by the music crit...



Litigation & Arbitration


The outcome of the case could expand liability for municipalities for conduct within their jurisdiction.


Litigation & Arbitration


FTC defends attempt to block Illumina merger

Aug. 14, 2023
By Craig Anderson

The legal dispute is the latest battle between the FTC — led by Chair Lina M. Khan, an appointee of President Joe Biden — and ...



A contract between the state Department of Education and a research center prohibits researchers from testifying against the g...


State Bar & Bar Associations


“Respondent has not been charged with a crime, he has not received a target letter, and none of the Trump indictment’s allegat...



9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Apple to pay $310M over iPhone battery issues

Aug. 14, 2023
By Craig Anderson

The class action, filed in 2018, is based on allegations that Apple issued software updates that slowed down the performance o...


Litigation & Arbitration


While the judge accepted that Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s arbitration clauses unmistakably delegate issues of enforceabilit...



Technology


Zuora Inc. was accused of hiding ahead of its initial public offering that its two flagship software products were incompatibl...


Labor/Employment


Cisco denied it violated wage and hour and other labor laws, while the plaintiffs said it did so deliberately.



"The people contend that schedule bail of $1,000,000 -- without supplemental non-monetary conditions -- is insufficient to pro...


Criminal


County failed to protect child killed by gangs, suit says

Aug. 11, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

“If Child Welfare Services and the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office had discharged their mandatory duties, this tragedy could ha...



Law Practice


Music lawyer joins Barnes & Thornburg in Los Angeles

Aug. 11, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Brian L. Schall’s clients include entertainment entrepreneurs, concert promoters, chefs, social influencers, fashion designers...


Law Practice


Summary judgment ends lemon law firm battle

Aug. 11, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The lawsuit pitted longtime Hollywood lawyer Martin D. Singer for the plaintiff against Beverly Hills attorney Ronald Richards...



Litigation & Arbitration


Vital’s former CEO, fired after the verdict against his company, told U.S. District Judge Jesus G. Bernal that he had been lef...


The question is: “Can the actual or potential presence of the COVID-19 virus on an insured’s premises constitute ‘direct physi...



Litigation & Arbitration


The complaint, filed in federal court in San Francisco, claims that Coinbase’s wallet and account services “lacked adequate wa...


Immigration


Lawyers urge judge to block rule on asylum seekers

Aug. 11, 2023
By Craig Anderson

“Use of the CBP One smartphone app has effectively become the sole mechanism to access the U.S. asylum process at a [Port of E...



“Los Angeles County’s registrar has resisted transparency and disclosure at every turn,” Eric M. George of Ellis George Cipoll...



Game Plan

Aug. 11, 2023

Neutral Keith Koeller uses pressure point lists and issue sheets to devise resolutions.



The funds "will be used to address the impacts of the leak, including on local air quality, public health, and customers. The ...


Litigation & Arbitration


“Neither the plain language of the Constitution nor its history prohibits legislation expanding the electorate to noncitizens,...



State Bar & Bar Associations


A State Bar investigation has absolved former Board of Trustees Chair Sean Selegue of wrongdoing in a disciplinary matter agai...


Litigation & Arbitration


Judge Wendy Chang granted the newspaper’s motion to strike in its entirety under the anti-SLAPP statute, finding that the repo...