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Immigration


Santa Ana weighs reviving immigrant protection panel

Feb. 4, 2025
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Santa Ana is considering reinstating an advisory group to strengthen immigrant protections. Meanwhile, Huntington Beach is tak...


The lawsuit, brought by attorneys representing two female high school cross-country runners, argues that AB 1266 violates Titl...



The new measure, backed by Mayor Daniel Lurie and state Sen. Scott Wiener, would give law enforcement greater authority to cit...


Torts/Personal Injury, Environmental & Energy


A law firm involved in a class action against Martinez Refinery might include a recent explosion in its lawsuit, citing toxic ...



9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges asked skeptical questions about the differences between Google and Epic Games.


Intellectual Property


Stubbs Alderton & Markiles persuaded a federal judge in Riverside to restrain U.S. Legal Support's former employee and her...



Civil Litigation


Erewhon accused of selling tainted kale chips

Feb. 3, 2025
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The organic food market was accused in a lawsuit of selling kale chips contaminated with harmful minerals. The maker of the ch...


A Culver City man faces penalties after his drone struck and grounded a crucial firefighting aircraft during January's devasta...



A consumer's lawsuit over a cereal box containing up to 47% air has survived a dismissal motion, but the plaintiff must correc...


Attorneys representing Lucid shareholders claim that an Aug. 8 ruling from U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín in a se...



Criminal


An Orange County judge accused of his wife's murder will be tried in his home court, the Los Angeles County judge who will pre...


An Alameda County judge said she is disinclined to award 33% of an $800,000 settlement fund as attorney fees in a wages and ho...



Mediators and four major provider organizations have united to waive their fees for pro bono services, in an effort to assist ...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


In a ruling watched by many religious organizations, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc panel said the Church of Jesu...



Government


L.A. City Council and officials were accused of using discussions on a settled lawsuit about homeless encampments as a ruse to...


Intellectual Property, Contracts


Actor Barry Tubb, who starred in the original Top Gun (1986), is suing Paramount Pictures, alleging the studio used a group ph...



Technology, Intellectual Property


Attorneys for Anthropic PBC and authors presented a tutorial on the AI model Claude to a federal judge in San Francisco, focus...


Attorneys who have lost their homes in the L.A. County fires have no specific latitude for lapses in representing their client...



Immigration


Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer is calling on the federal government to tighten restrictions on the Electronic Sy...


Civil Procedure


While a wave of litigation followed the Supreme Court's landmark ruling against affirmative action, recent legal challenges to...




Retired Sacramento judge joins Judicate West

Jan. 31, 2025
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Retired Judge Geoffrey Goodman enhances Judicate West's expertise in criminal prosecution, civil litigation, and judicial over...


Consumer Law


California Attorney General Rob Bonta has reached a $600,000 settlement with Amazon over the sale of skin-lightening creams co...



Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Federal prosecutors challenged Hewlett Packard's $14B Juniper acquisition, signaling continued aggressive antitrust enforcemen...


Neutral Robert Schnider employs an empathetic approach to dispute resolution, lawyers say.



Ogletree Deakins shareholders Karen Tynan and Charles Thompson discuss how California employers can obtain workplace violence ...



Labor/Employment


A complaint against Alaska Air claims the airline systematically underpays flight crew by failing to compensate for time spent...



Consumer Protection Law


The complaint says the mugs contain lead that leaches onto the skin when consumers handle the mugs.


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Michael J. Libman, the only attorney in the Los Angeles water billing litigation scandal ordered to disgorge his fees, was rec...



District Attorneys from four Southern California counties are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to extend emergency price gouging p...



How RFK Jr. could reshape vaccine litigation

Jan. 30, 2025
By Malcolm Maclachlan

If confirmed as U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could roll back liability protections and expa...