Class Action
Volunteer coaches sue NCAA for back pay after rule change
By Skyler Romero
While the association recently abandoned a rule preventing volunteer coaches from being compensated for their work, the propos...
Class Action
Panel reluctant to revive NFL players’ doping class action
By Craig Anderson
The class action, filed in 2014 by Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end Richard Dent and eight other former NFL players, ha...
Criminal
Senior defense attorney has ‘long road back’ before he can deal with bribery trial
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“He’s tried more cases than all the attorneys here combined, he loves trials and he loves his practice. Obviously, we wish thi...
Litigation & Arbitration, Class Action
Family of teen gunned down at house party sues Airbnb and home owner
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“It is extremely unlikely that a massive advertised house party would have occurred at the subject property had the ‘host’ act...
Ismail J. Ramsey was sworn in by Senior U.S. District Judge Thelton E. Henderson, front left. Chief Judge Richard Seeborg of t...
Class Action
Lyft and plaintiffs shake up bellwether pool in sex assault cases
By Wisdom Howell
The parties are working to “replenish the bellwether pool” in the wake of Lyft’s recent summary judgment motion attempting to ...
Class Action
Huntington Beach vows to continue fight against housing law
By Sunidhi Sridhar
A federal judge denied the City of Huntington Beach’s request for a temporary restraining order in its housing lawsuit against...
Law school professors at UC Irvine and UC Davis will be partnered with colleagues from other academic specialties to help lead...
SBX1-2 would impose several conditions designed to make it harder for refiners to squeeze extra profits out of the California ...
In addition to dispute resolution, Cantil-Sakauye is expected to continue as president and chief executive officer of the Publ...
Tara K. McGrath is the civilian litigation attorney advisor for the U.S. Marine Corps in the Pacific region.
Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis takes threats, reversals, setbacks in stride
By Ricardo Pineda
Judge who makes tough decisions dislikes wrong kind of attention.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
US judge enjoins 1999 state gun safety law, citing Bruen
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“This is the first time a California state gun law has been struck down under the Bruen test,” said Chuck Michel, a lawyer for...
Civil Procedure
Another bill advances to ease time limits on sex abuse allegations
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Committee also advances bill to target ‘crisis pregnancy centers’
Technology
Workers say ‘the sky isn’t falling’ in what Google calls a ‘discovery morass’
By Wisdom Howell
Google says it has already responded to 289 document requests and is trying to end the case over claims of free speech violati...
Environmental & Energy, Class Action
Edison’s Thomas Fire demurrers sustained, plaintiffs can amend
By Skyler Romero
Edison demurred to the class action claims on the grounds that a utility cannot be held liable to third parties for purely eco...
Heather Burke, the firm’s Silicon Valley office executive partner, said this team’s arrival from Paul Hastings further advance...
Events
Midwest securities plaintiff’s firm opens office in San Diego
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“From the time we founded the firm in 2017, we intended to build a top-tier securities litigation practice capable of deliveri...
Litigation & Arbitration
You’ve got voicemail. Communication gaps bedevil attorneys
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
“This happens all the time in the post-COVID world. Litigation can be pretty inefficient,” said Michael A. Sherman, a partner ...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
US Supreme Court mulls lawsuit stays pending arbitration
By Craig Anderson
Neal Katyal, a partner with Hogan Lovells who represents Coinbase, argued the Supreme Court should overturn two 9th U.S. Circu...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Central District US attorney names conviction review officer
By Jonathan Lo
The Central District joins a growing list of U.S. Attorney offices across the nation creating bodies to right wrongful convict...
Litigation & Arbitration
David Graeler named managing partner at Nossaman
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
One of Graeler’s priorities as managing partner will be to attract strong, diverse talent who would benefit from Nossaman’s pl...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Live Nation on track to arbitrate Taylor Swift ticket dispute
By Sunidhi Sridhar
In February, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judge’s decision to compel arbitration in another consumer ant...
“Our office has been fortunate to be led by individuals who can navigate the diverse, and sometimes spirited, personalities of...
In Samsung’s trial brief, Faegre Drinker partner Christopher J. Burrell wrote that his client and S10 Entertainment “operate f...
Prosecutors argued a real estate lawyer should have known what he was doing was a crime. The lawyer said he had trusted his fa...
Bankruptcy
Advocates call for lawmakers to probe diocese bankruptcies
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The Survivors Network called on lawmakers to investigate dioceses for “possible fraud” related to bankruptcies.
Kevin Slagle, a spokesman for the Western States Petroleum Association, criticized the governor’s efforts Monday as damaging t...
Civil Litigation
Subpoena scope limited in matter of alleged stolen movie
By Skyler Romero
The writer sued Creative Artists Agency LLC in 2019, accusing two of the company’s agents of misappropriating a TV pilot he br...
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