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...
The new Division of Petroleum Market Oversight is a key part of Newsom's gas price gouging law, which was approved during a sp...
Adam Fee was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York’s Criminal Division.
Law Practice
Saul Ewing comes to LA and Irvine with Freeman Freeman & Smiley merger
By Devon Belcher
The Saul Ewing move is “part of a long time trend of consolidation in big law and an interest in the Southern California legal...
Government
State AG must remain as defendant in challenge to LA bail
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Attorney General Rob Bonta’s demurrer argued that the plaintiffs failed to establish grounds to name him as a defendant, and t...
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer agreed, granting the motion to compel arbitration despite Mark Shuken, who...
“These lawsuits are a baseless attempt to turn a manufacturer’s exercise of its well-established right to choose the prices, t...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Challenge filed to Inglewood’s health care worker ordinance
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Representing the California Hospital Association, a not-for-profit trade organization based in Sacramento, Matthew J. Silveira...
California Supreme Court
State justices preview coming US policy on Title IX discipline
By Malcolm Maclachlan
If finalized, the guidance would reverse 2020 changes made by President Donald Trump’s administration that said students shoul...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
US Sentencing Commission is ‘back’, and pushing for reforms
By Craig Anderson
One amendment is a hotly disputed proposal to allow judges to release prisoners early if the law changed since they were incar...
Daniel Cousineau provides strategic counsel to both corporate and private equity clients on transaction structuring, purchase ...