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...
Criminal
Church has duty to warn students of abuse danger, judge rules
By Skyler Romero
“There is no California case law that imposes a specific duty to school districts to warn, train or educate students as to the...
Civil Rights
2 ex-Bay Area air district directors claim race, sex bias
By Wisdom Howell
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District said the accusations were false and misleading.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit judge accused colleagues of playing politics
By Craig Anderson
“That’s a pretty serious allegation, but the majority leaves itself open by not providing an explanation for why this policy i...
Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey M. Ferguson is accused of shooting his wife to death hours after posting an endeari...
Judges and Judiciary, Criminal
Orange County judge charged with killing his wife is released on bail
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The Anaheim Police Department said in a news release that homicide detectives arrested Superior Court Judge Jeffrey M. Ferguso...
Council to review whether Tracy city attorney practiced while suspended
By Devon Belcher
Tracy Mayor Nancy Young called for an emergency city council meeting Monday to review whether City Attorney Bijal M. Patel did...
The business litigation boutique Connor, Fletcher & Hedenkamp LLP tied up with the 220-attorney full service firm.
Health Care & Hospital Law
Doctor who says UC took his research funds wins $39M
By Skyler Romero
The San Diego doctor sued for wrongful termination and retaliation that occurred after he pointed out the funds had been misus...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Kagan says Congress can set ethics rules for high court
By Craig Anderson
“Of course Congress can regulate various aspects of what the Supreme Court does,” Justice Elena Kagan told the 9th Circuit Ju...
Education Law
Temecula school district sued over ban on critical race theory
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The Riverside County school district already clashed with Gov. Gavin Newsom this year over a ban on teaching about gay rights ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Former State Bar chief asks for dismissal of disicpline charges
By Devon Belcher
Joseph L. Dunn's attorneys argue that the bar admitted in pleadings before a review panel that the current disciplinary procee...
The temporary restraining order U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley issued on Thursday has become an annual tradition in the st...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Antitrust suit against Kroger-Albertsons merger dismissed
By Jonathan Lo
The grocery chains argued that no court has ever enjoined a merger when individuals have challenged it months before its plann...
The unanimous state Supreme Court found that the state, as directed by the Legislature and governor, had “fully occupied” the ...
Labor/Employment
Employee-shareholder sues SVB over nearly 100% price drop
By Wisdom Howell
The plaintiff, a Silicon Valley Bank employee, says she was induced by misleading statements to hold onto her stock that was w...
The government claimed in the two months the new rule has been in effect, it has reduced illegal immigration, encouraged the u...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Antitrust suit against Kroger-Albertsons merger dismissed
By Jonathan Lo
The grocery chains argued in filings that no court has ever enjoined a merger when individuals have challenged it months befor...
The U.S. Supreme Court appears to watch closely dissents issued by Judge Sandra Ikuta, a conservative member of the 9th Circuit.
Defense attorney Michael L. Duncan told jurors that in order to convict they will be asked to conclude “that the only reasonab...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
At 9th Circuit meeting, scholars debate FTC chair’s effectiveness
By Craig Anderson
Jennifer Huddleston, a research fellow at the Cato Institute, pointed to the FTC’s recent failures in the Northern District of...
Government, Criminal
New Trump indictment might spell trouble for Eastman
By Skyler Romero
“If John Eastman is actually charged and convicted of a felony that involves moral turpitude, then that would be a summary dis...
Labor/Employment
Workers who left Tesla for Rivian ask judge to void NDA
By Wisdom Howell
Attorneys for the nine defendants called the NDA in Tesla’s employment contract a “sweeping provision” that essentially bans t...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Antitrust attorney to lead state’s oversight of petroleum market
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Tai Milder most recently served two years as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, after ne...
Los Angeles Judge Elaine Lu sustained the video game maker’s demurrer to Regus Management Group’s breach of rent contract laws...
Immigration
US looks to 9th Circuit to save rule limiting asylum seekers
By Jonathan Lo
The government claimed in the two months the new rule has been in effect, it has reduced illegal immigration, encouraged the u...