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Judges and Judiciary


Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Erica R. Yew, elected the next president of the California Judges Association, will pu...


Civil Litigation


“An immense amount of time is wasted during the litigation while a petitioner prepares a record and seeks discovery on the rec...


Marc S. Harris was most recently a senior investigative counsel for the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Attack...


Civil Litigation


BNSF mark suit against airline startup moved to LA

May 24, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Represented by attorneys at Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC in Fort Worth, BNSF Railway Co. filed a lawsuit last fa...


Technology


Court reporting technology closes new round of funding

May 24, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The pandemic triggered an industrywide assessment of technology’s role in legal proceedings, which helped drive Steno’s growth.


Technology


Video privacy lawsuit over TikTok may be part of wave

May 24, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

At least 70 Video Privacy Protection Act cases were filed in the past year against companies whose websites have videos with t...


Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports


The plaintiffs’ counsel claimed that the companies “knowingly and willfully conspired” to create an upper level management str...


Technology


A federal jury in San Francisco found that Nippon Chemi-con violated antitrust law by conspiring to set prices for aluminum an...


U.S. Supreme Court


Legal observers say the case could make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which could look unkindly on the commission’s argum...


Obituaries


Ronald S.W. Lew, 1941-2022

May 23, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Judicial pioneer committed to excellence, hard work


Technology


The FTC amicus brief was written in response to a query from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asking if the commission wa...


Civil Litigation


“The caveat is that the states and the bureau has kicked the can down the road for a while, until the end of 2026, which is go...


Entertainment & Sports


Alec Baldwin countersued Gutierrez-Reed and Zachry after being sued in November by script supervisor Mamie Mitchell for emotio...


Technology


U.S. District Judge Jacqueline S. Corley said that the gamers did not adequately show they will suffer “immediate irreparable ...


Real Estate/Development


The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles argued in its lawsuit that the city does not have the authority under Califor...


Government, Environmental & Energy


Governor lays out steps to speed up CEQA litigation

May 22, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced an executive order and said he would introduce a package of trailer bills designed “to accelerate ...


State Bar & Bar Associations, California Supreme Court


The California Supreme Court found out about this more than 32-year-old practice on Jan. 31, in a letter from State Bar Court ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


After two years, 19 meetings and hundreds of hours of analysis, the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of the Bar Exam estab...


Judge David S. Cunningham III continued the motion by plaintiff Shell Oil Co. in order to allow Dole time to provide evidence ...


Environmental & Energy


State must redo CEQA plans for Ballona Wetlands

May 22, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Judge James C. Chalfant on Wednesday identified two issues in which the department failed to adhere to mandatory provisions of...


Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The dismissal leaves LIV Golf, which joined the case after it was filed in August 2022, as the only plaintiff left — transform...


California Courts of Appeal


Justice Brian Currey was nominated to serve as presiding justice of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 4, where he has...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar Board of Trustees on Thursday agreed to send two alternatives to the Supreme Court that would implement a requir...


Health Care & Hospital Law


“It’s unforgivable that BHC Alhambra would knowingly put other patients in harm’s way,” said Mike Arias of Arias Sanguinetti W...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


U.S. Magistrate Judge Allison Claire approved an unopposed motion for administrative relief from Milk Moovement Inc. She order...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The appeal panel explained that the district court wrongly “speculated about possible conflicts and ordered officewide disqual...


Civil Litigation


Expansion of sex abuse law, other bills remain alive

May 19, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The annual deadline for bills to pass fiscal committees combines life-and-death drama with some of the dullest hearings held e...


U.S. Supreme Court


Legal experts said the decisions, in cases against Twitter Inc., Alphabet-owned Google LLC, and Meta Platforms Inc. are especi...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Plaintiffs allege that the company misled physicians about the toxicity of its HIV antiretroviral drugs containing tenofovir d...


Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


“This case should be over,” Deputy Attorney General Sarah M. Brattin said. “Nearly eight years ago this statewide class action...