The funds "will be used to address the impacts of the leak, including on local air quality, public health, and customers. The ...
Litigation & Arbitration
Panel upholds San Francisco noncitizen voter program
By Laurinda Keys
“Neither the plain language of the Constitution nor its history prohibits legislation expanding the electorate to noncitizens,...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Ex-bar board chair cleared of misconduct in Girardi discipline case
By Devon Belcher
A State Bar investigation has absolved former Board of Trustees Chair Sean Selegue of wrongdoing in a disciplinary matter agai...
Litigation & Arbitration
Judge tosses libel suit against LA Times by celebrity attorney
By Devon Belcher
Judge Wendy Chang granted the newspaper’s motion to strike in its entirety under the anti-SLAPP statute, finding that the repo...
Law Practice
San Francisco law firm office manager charged with embezzling $1 million
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Government
King & Spalding represents LGBTQ+ veterans in suit over Don't Ask, Don't Tell
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Many of these veterans received discharge paperwork that identifies their actual or perceived sexual orientation. Many also re...
Litigation & Arbitration
Ex-manager says Smokey Robinson owes him $1M
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The singer’s attorney, Miller Barondess partner Alexander Frid, tried to persuade the jury Wednesday that the plaintiff, who i...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Kagan refuses to enjoin App Store payment practice pending antitrust case
By Craig Anderson
Epic Games, maker of many popular video games including Fortnite, claims Apple violates antitrust laws by forcing developers t...
"We received notification from the attorney general that we don't have a conflict, and we need to proceed as the prosecuting a...
Environmentalists and fisher groups challenged the contract, which they called “a sweetheart deal” that would privatize much o...
“I didn’t think I was violating anything. I thought I was actively working with the bar association to solve the payment issue...
Law Practice
1st assistant sworn in as acting US attorney for Southern District
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Andrew R. Haden joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2010.
The band’s former hairdresser said Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, as well as manager “Doc” McGhee, failed to institute adequat...
Real Estate/Development
Womble bolsters real estate practice in Los Angeles
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Scott D. Mayer was chief real estate officer for Orange County, overseeing the County’s real estate holdings, which encompasse...
Real Estate/Development
LA County must go to trial in lawsuit over homeless
By Sunidhi Sridhar
"While we're understandably disappointed by the 9th Circuit's ruling on our appeal, the county is prepared to continue litigat...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Arbitration compelled in embryo dispute after fee-shifting is cut
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The fact that American Arbitration Association “has subsequently requested the parties waive the fee-shifting provision to adm...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Major Questions Doctrine cited in Idaho appeal of abortion law
By Craig Anderson
The rulings, if upheld by the appellate courts, would set up a circuit split between the conservative 5th Circuit and liberal ...
Fenwick had an “exceedingly close” relationship with FTX, “in large part because Fenwick supplied a pipeline of key personnel ...
Litigation & Arbitration
Lawyer must pay $5K for demanding in-person hearing
By Devon Belcher
Roger E. Naghash in Irvine asked an appellate court to reverse an award of sanctions against him and his client for demanding ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar agrees to pause charges against Girardi’s son-in-law
By Devon Belcher
Bar prosecutors wrote in a court filing that because there is already a federal criminal case pending against David Lira and o...
Intellectual Property
OpenAI sues another AI company over similar name
By Sunidhi Sridhar
OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, claimed Open Artificial Intelligence Inc. has caused confusion in the marketplace by leading people ...
Collins + Collins LLP says the overbilling claim by former managing partner Samuel Muir is old, unproven, irrelevant and preju...
Criminal, Civil Litigation
Expert who helped defense at criminal trial should be in civil trial, panel says
By Jonathan Lo
The plaintiff’s counsel argued the insight of his expert witness was instrumental in convincing the criminal jury his confessi...
Civil Rights
Former Marin County prosecutor files discrimination lawsuit
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Otis Bruce says he was fired after almost 33 years for racing concerns about the treatment of a newly hired Black attorney.
State Bar & Bar Associations
Eastman seeks halt to bar trial, cites Trump indictment
By Skyler Romero
“That, in our mind, raised the stakes on Dr. Eastman continuing to participate and testify in the State Bar proceedings for fe...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Challenge filed to rule that bar’s inactive lawyers from working as neutrals
By David Houston
Leonard Steiner, the attorney for Morris Getzels, gave a long list of categories of people who could work as private neutrals ...
Litigation & Arbitration
ByteDance says forgery claims by ex-officer are ‘nonsense’
By Wisdom Howell
Yintao Yu “did not sign the purported agreement to arbitrate and even a casual inspection of the document fails to support its...
U.S. Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Hawaii ban on butterfly knives unconstitutional, panel says
By Craig Anderson
In Hawaii, the manufacture, sale, transport and possession of the butterfly knives are barred by a 1993 state law. California ...
Class Action
Shareholders say Live Nation hid problems from investors
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP senior counsel Pavithra Rajesh wrote in the complaint that Live Nation did not disclose to inv...
Measure GS was approved by 53% of the voters in November 2022. It added a third tier to the city’s transfer tax structure effe...