Labor/Employment
Judge is making it impossible to challenge outside counsel, union says
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Employment sued over the decision by the Sta...
Litigation & Arbitration, Labor/Employment
LA partner to lead Davis Wright Tremaine executive committee
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Camilo Echavarria, an employment litigator, began his leadership role on April 20.
Technology, Litigation & Arbitration
Microsoft/Activision deal may be dead, but FTC litigation presses on
By Craig Anderson
Microsoft has vowed to appeal the decision by British antitrust authorities. But Stephen Calkins, a professor at Wayne State U...
Intellectual Property
Bunsow De Mory hires 3 IP attorneys from Kramer Day
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
M. Elizabeth Day and Marc Bellol will work in the San Francisco Bay Area while Jerry D. Tice II will work in Texas.
Litigation & Arbitration, Insurance
Fireman’s Fund wins state’s 1st jury trial on COVID business loss
By Skyler Romero
The decision against a Venice Beach hotel that sued in 2020 is now one of four in the country where a jury has affirmed that t...
Technology, Litigation & Arbitration
Facebook can’t arbitrate woman’s bias claims
By Skyler Romero
Judge Curtis E.A. Karnow rejected Facebook’s claim that the former product manager was attempting “to shoehorn her complaint i...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined the case in April along with eight other states.
On appeal, the regents argued that suspending student enrollment exceeded the trial court’s jurisdiction and ran afoul of stat...
Manning Gross + Massenburg LLP attorneys persuaded a jury to find their oil refinery cleanup company client liable for only $2...
To follow the required script for interaction with parents who may ask about their children’s gender preferences teachers are ...
Class Action
Putative class action filed by employee of top staffing agency
By Skyler Romero
The lawsuit alleges that hourly, nonexempt employees of Robert Half were regularly asked to work outside of their scheduled ho...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Disabled could be pressured to commit suicide, lawsuit says
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“The plaintiff organizations and individuals bring this action to stop the defendant government agencies and officials from ru...
Civil Litigation
Jury awards $10M to family of Lake Elsinore man fatally shot by deputy sheriff
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The lawsuit contended that Riverside County Sheriff’s Sergeant Dan Ponder used excessive force to violate Najera-Aguirre’s Fou...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Confirmation vote on 9th Circuit nominee expected Monday
By Craig Anderson
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, moved for a cloture vote on Anthony D. Johnstone on Thursday.
State Bar & Bar Associations
LA County Bar lauds outstanding attorneys, court staff
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Technology
Judge won’t rule on Google dispute with Android users over timeliness
By Wisdom Howell
Android users accused the company of taking advantage of their cellular data plan allowance to send app data back to its serve...
Technology
Before jury deliberates, judge cuts copyright claims in half
By Jonathan Lo
Masimo had alleged Apple stole 12 trade secrets, which were then used to develop the Apple Watch. Without notifying the eight ...
Litigation & Arbitration
Charges dropped after Proove Biosciences official pleads guilty
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Attorneys for co-defendants had alleged prosecutorial misconduct by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Litigation & Arbitration
Bill to regulate litigation funders passes Senate Judiciary Committee
By Malcolm Maclachlan
SB 581 passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 10-0 bipartisan vote Tuesday. The measure, dubbed the Third Party Litigation...
During 17 years in the U.S. attorney’s office, Jeff Schenk worked on a number of high-profile criminal cases, including his re...
Class Action
Disney hires Petrocelli to lead fight against Florida’s DeSantis
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The O’Melveny & Myers partner filed a 77-page complaint accusing the Florida governor of “a targeted campaign of governmen...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Proposed new bar exam would retain ethics questions
By Devon Belcher
The majority of the 1,416 comments received opposed the recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of the Bar...
“We are fully activating the tools that Congress gave us,” FTC Chair Lina M. Khan said during event at Berkeley.
During the first bellwether trial over Juul’s electronic cigarettes, both parties’ lawyers thoroughly questioned the first exp...
“I hasten to add that the court is not a policymaking institution. This goes back to my Day One conversation about separation ...
Litigation & Arbitration
$2.28B for sex assault victim after stepfather refuses to come to court
By Wisdom Howell
“He could not face members of the community and face the victim of nine years of sexual abuse. He did not have the courage to ...
Van Dermyden Makus, which conducts workplace assessments and investigations, has offices in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego...
Civil Litigation
Suit against Girardi attorney stayed pending prosecution
By Skyler Romero
Judge Richard L. Fruin granted the stay as David Lira, Girardi’s son-in-law and business partner and the last remaining defend...
Criminal
Crime decreased under zero bail, LAPD officer testifies
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Judge Lawrence P. Riff is considering the plaintiffs’ injunction request and is seeking expert testimony on what the consequen...
Litigation & Arbitration
Pointing to funder, TikTok lawyer wants $8M fee for 'bad faith' litigation
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“The jury verdict alone is not sufficient to deter the improper, frivolous, and bad faith litigation conduct described above,”...
