Superior Court Judge David S. Cunningham III sustained the demurrers as to all these causes of action, with leave to amend in ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Judge preserves suit by doctor who lost license after ‘Varsity Blues’
By Wisdom Howell
The petitioner, Dr. Gregory O. Colburn, was sentenced to eight weeks in prison in April 2022. He claims that the California Me...
Bonta’s argument echoes statements from attorneys by the city and county of Los Angeles, that they also have no control over t...
The practice of billionaires intervening has been going on for a while but hasn’t been thought of as litigation funding.
Technology, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
WATCH NOW: Ready to deploy new technologies to simplify your work? Legal tech experts offer guidance in legal prompting and th...
Donna Wilson’s vision for new Manatt office began with inability to see everyone
By David Houston
Manatt CEO Donna L. Wilson promised herself that when she got a chance to oversee the designing of an office space there would...
MGA Entertainment CEO Isaac Larian says he went “from a dishwasher to a billionaire, and I worked hard. I didn’t hustle,”
Lawmakers and NGOs fight red states over abortion, civil rights
Environmental & Energy
EPA water jurisdiction limited by Supreme Court
By Craig Anderson
“In sum, we hold that the [Clean Water Act] extends to only those ‘wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies tha...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Ethics group advises judges not to attend law firm celebrations
By Devon Belcher
Presence at such an event “may suggest that the judicial officer has a special relationship with the law firm, which may under...
Entertainment & Sports
Nude teens in 1968 ‘Romeo and Juliet’ are protected speech, judge rules
By Skyler Romero
Superior Court Judge Alison Mackenzie granted Paramount’s anti-SLAPP petition to dismiss the case in a tentative ruling on Thu...
Environmental & Energy
Kohl’s ceramic planters alleged to contain toxic chemicals
By Wisdom Howell
The lawsuit was filed under the California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, which was passed by voters...
Litigator joins Pillsbury in newly consolidated San Diego office
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Paul Fraidenburgh, a former Buchalter trial lawyer, has more than 20 years of experience in the construction, technology, and ...
Intellectual Property
LA County accused of illegally taking mineral, property rights
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Bridgeland Resources LLC claims that with a new ordinance, the county seeks to “usurp” the authority of the California Geologi...
Environmental & Energy
County oil well ban preempted by state law, attorney argues
By Craig Anderson
Theodore J. Boutrous told the state Supreme Court that while Monterey County can impose zoning restrictions on oil drilling, i...
Fourteen anonymous current and former baseball players for the San Francisco Dons had filed suit against coaches Troy Nakamura...
Neutral Jonathan Andrews expertly toes the line between empathy and realism, lawyers say.
State Bar & Bar Associations
No legislative interest in increasing fees, State Bar officials are told
By Devon Belcher
There is a “crisis of confidence,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Tom Umberg told bar officials.
Criminal
Assembly hearing debates best response to fentanyl crisis
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Legislative Republicans have repeatedly criticized their colleagues in recent weeks for failing to pass several GOP bills desi...
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a Connecticut-based organization, said in an 80-page complaint that the bill willfull...
Criminal
Crime victims try to intervene in suit over zero bail plan
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
If the motion is approved on Friday, Crime Survivors Inc. will be the first such organization to defend in court the long-stan...
Sonos, an audio products manufacturer, alleged that Google clearly infringed on their patents when developing its wireless aud...
U.S. Supreme Court
‘Common use’ gun dispute appears destined high court
By Craig Anderson
In a brief filed Monday over an Oregon ban of large capacity magazines, attorneys for gun rights groups said the law should be...
Education Law, Community News
LA ABOTA holds 1st mock trial with students
By Skyler Romero
“We are really hoping people go home to their families and start thinking about what kind of career they want to have, and we...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Orange County judge joins Judicate West
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
When James L. Crandall was on the bench, he juggled between 500 and 800 active cases at any given time.
Judges and Judiciary
Next CJA head to push for more remote proceedings
By Wisdom Howell
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Erica R. Yew, elected the next president of the California Judges Association, will pu...
Civil Litigation
Proposal would speed CEQA administrative record preparation
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“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...
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
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The pandemic triggered an industrywide assessment of technology’s role in legal proceedings, which helped drive Steno’s growth.