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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...



Law Practice



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

Aug. 10, 2023
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.


Epic Games, maker of many popular video games including Fortnite, claims Apple violates antitrust laws by forcing developers t...



Criminal


Orange County DA will prosecute judge in wife’s murder

Aug. 10, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

"We received notification from the attorney general that we don't have a conflict, and we need to proceed as the prosecuting a...


Environmental & Energy


Environmentalists and fisher groups challenged the contract, which they called “a sweetheart deal” that would privatize much o...



Law Practice


“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


Andrew R. Haden joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2010.



Labor/Employment


KISS can’t escape lawsuit over COVID-19 lapses

Aug. 9, 2023
By Skyler Romero

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

Aug. 9, 2023
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

Aug. 9, 2023
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


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


The rulings, if upheld by the appellate courts, would set up a circuit split between the conservative 5th Circuit and liberal ...


Class Action


Fenwick had an “exceedingly close” relationship with FTX, “in large part because Fenwick supplied a pipeline of key personnel ...



Litigation & Arbitration


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 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

Aug. 8, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, claimed Open Artificial Intelligence Inc. has caused confusion in the marketplace by leading people ...



Judge won’t seal accusation firm overbilled

Aug. 8, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Collins + Collins LLP says the overbilling claim by former managing partner Samuel Muir is old, unproven, irrelevant and preju...



Criminal, Civil Litigation


The plaintiff’s counsel argued the insight of his expert witness was instrumental in convincing the criminal jury his confessi...


Civil Rights


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


“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


Leonard Steiner, the attorney for Morris Getzels, gave a long list of categories of people who could work as private neutrals ...



Litigation & Arbitration


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


In Hawaii, the manufacture, sale, transport and possession of the butterfly knives are barred by a 1993 state law. California ...



Class Action


Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP senior counsel Pavithra Rajesh wrote in the complaint that Live Nation did not disclose to inv...


Tax


Judge upholds Santa Monica’s 5.6% ‘mansion tax’

Aug. 7, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

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...