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Environmental & Energy


Six Flags Magic Mountain agreed to a new consent decree requiring pollution controls, environmental mitigation payments and co...


A Los Angeles judge tentatively ruled Pasadena adequately alleged UCLA breached its Rose Bowl lease agreement, while also allo...


Entertainment & Sports


The Pac-12 and Mountain West conferences said they reached an agreement in principle to resolve litigation over the departure ...


Snap, TikTok and YouTube settled with the first bellwether plaintiff in the sprawling social media addiction multidistrict lit...


The estate of attorney John P. Kristensen has sued Beverly Hills plaintiffs' firm Carpenter & Zuckerman LLP, alleging the ...


California's judicial discipline commission publicly admonished Los Angeles Judge Susan Bryant-Deason over remarks to prospect...


Land Use


A San Diego judge ordered Huntington Beach to pay $160,000 in sanctions for violating California housing laws, marking the fir...


Experts said the ruling could reshape disability for volunteers and educators. UC Irvine School of Law professor Rachel Moran ...


Securities


SEC ends decades-old 'gag rule' in settlements

May 19, 2026
By Craig Anderson

SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins announced the agency is abandoning its longstanding "no-deny" settlement policy, which had faced g...


Torts/Personal Injury


The widow of late 1st District Court of Appeal Justice Donald B. King alleges a high-end Santa Rosa senior living facility bar...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Software company Adaptamed seeks to disqualify Kirkland & Ellis from representing Commure, alleging the firm obtained conf...


Civil Procedure


Plaintiffs say newly produced State Parks text messages support claims that lingering embers from the Lachman Fire reignited i...


Torrance Superior Court Judge Alan B. Honeycutt says lessons in empathy learned as a child living in Iran continue to shape hi...


The law firm said the head of its national securities practice died Friday in central Georgia.


After a three-week trial featuring testimony about OpenAI's founding, Sam Altman's brief ouster and Elon Musk's falling out wi...


Chief Deputy Amy M. Karlin will again serve as interim head of the Central District federal defender office while the 9th Circ...


Torts/Personal Injury


Fresh off a record-setting Alameda County settlement, plaintiffs' lawyer Chris Dolan discusses suing police agencies, exposing...


A Los Angeles judge largely preserved antitrust claims accusing major insurers of coordinating policy pullbacks in wildfire-pr...


Intellectual Property


AI dominates global IP debate at INTA conference in London

May 18, 2026
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Roughly 10,000 intellectual property attorneys gathered in London for the annual INTA conference, where discussions centered o...


Torts/Personal Injury


Plaintiff attorneys say a recent appellate ruling overturning punitive damages against Suzuki conflicts with longstanding Cali...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Plaintiffs' attorneys defending an $85 million fee request in the Google Play Store antitrust settlement faced intense questio...


Civil Procedure


Juries will begin deliberating liability on Monday, as well. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that the proceed...


Community News


A personal $75,000 donation from Judicate West executive Var Fox Yerganian will fund scholarships and pipeline programs aimed ...


Slideshow, Community News


During a centennial Judges' Night celebration in Woodland Hills, the San Fernando Valley Bar Association honored judges and le...


In a speech at the Antitrust West Coast Conference in San Francisco, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Daniel Glad said...


Wills, Estates & Trusts


A court referee ordered three law firms to return $625,000 in bonuses paid by the Michael Jackson estate, ruling the executors...


Business Law


Attorneys for Elon Musk and OpenAI delivered sharply contrasting closing arguments Thursday in a high-stakes trial over whethe...


The lawsuit filed by Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP alleges county officials ignored repeated warnings dating back to 1996 that ...


Dana Williamson faces a reduced prison term as the scandal reverberates through California's chaotic governor's race.


Business Law


Bar exam vendor renews challenge to fraud claims

May 15, 2026
By Devon Belcher

Meazure Learning renewed its attack on the State Bar's fraud allegations, arguing the bar is improperly attempting to transfor...