Judges and Judiciary
A surprise choice in the next chair of Assembly Judiciary Committee
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Assemblyman Brian Maienschein, D-San Diego, switched his party affiliation to Democrat after winning his first two terms as a ...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education
Provisional Licensure Program extended 3 more years
By Laurinda Keys
The court adopted the program in 2020 because the State Bar Exam was postponed due to COVID-19. Of 912 participants, 645 have ...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Government
DOJ drops Medicare fraud charges against multiple doctors
By Sunidhi Sridhar
In the motion to dismiss the claims against the defendants, Kendall Brill & Kelly partner Janet I. Levine countered that t...
Government, Environmental & Energy
Siskiyou County sues Oregon power company over wildfire
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The complaint shows plaintiff’s attorneys are adjusting to a 2019 California Supreme Court ruling limiting the state’s inverse...
Government, California Supreme Court
3 high court justices say deputy may have violated Miranda
By Craig Anderson
“The officer knew that continued interrogation violated Miranda and that the statements would not be admissible at trial, but ...
Environmental & Energy
Environmental group made strides in 2022 to end offshore drilling
By Skyler Romero
The Center for Biological Diversity remains committed to the cause of completely ceasing offshore drilling, and has filed mult...
Litigation & Arbitration, Class Action
Women’s soccer counsel argue for fees at 30% of common fund
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The class counsel’s fee request is opposed by former goalkeeper Hope Solo, whose attorney, A.J. de Bartolomeo at Tadler Law LL...
Prolific justice wrote opinion in priest abuse litigation
Litigation & Arbitration
Judge drops sanctions threat when lawyer wants to quit over ‘financial ruin’
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Attorney Gary W. Gorski argued his client suffered a clear “chilling effect,” in that SB 1327 has prompted his co-counsel to t...
Judges and Judiciary
Presiding judge steps away after one of the most trying terms in history
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Los Angeles County Judge Eric C. Taylor is credited for measures taken to keep the nation’s largest trial court system running...
Real Estate/Development, Litigation & Arbitration, Government
State, nonprofit sued or threatened several cities over housing plans in 2022
By Jonathan Lo
According to data from the Department of Housing & Community Development, 319 jurisdictions are past the deadline to have ...
The agency accused CEO and co-founder David Chin and former chief technology officer and co-founder Matthew Moravec of selling...
Jackson Lucky relies on broad experience and a light touch to resolve disputes.
Judges and Judiciary
Biden nominates 3 to fill California district court vacancies
By Craig Anderson
The nominees, who have the usual mix of ethnic and professional backgrounds that the president has sought in his judicial pick...
Law Practice, Civil Litigation, Appellate Practice
Attorney pays out of pocket to end lawyer v lawyer dispute
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Nicholas C. Rowley of Trial Lawyers for Justice said his firm cut a check for $250,000 to “bridge the gap” that was preventing...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Judge tosses claims by fired Wells Fargo executive
By Wisdom Howell
In his order granting Wells Fargo’s motion for summary judgment, Superior Court Judge Jeffrey S. Ross wrote that Wells Fargo h...
Government, Environmental & Energy
Placer County Water Agency sues PG&E over Mosquito Fire
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“There has been no official determination of the cause of the Mosquito Fire and the U.S. Forest Service’s investigation is ong...
Government
LA County pays $790k to teen whose burst appendix went untreated in custody
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
"This settlement highlights the need for immediate intervention to provide a safer secured environment for our youth offenders...
Securities, Insurance
Policies of underwriter defendants not wanted in securities lawsuit
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The Honest Company, which was founded by Alba in 2011 with a mission to create safe and toxin-free formulas for its products, ...
Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Quarles merges with San Diego firm to enter California market
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The merger will give Milwaukee-based Quarles & Brady a foothold in California.
Regulators and prosecutors are watching closely how company executives respond to data breaches. A team of experts will offer ...
Entertainment & Sports
$6.6M in fees too much for $24M women's soccer deal, says Hope Solo
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The former athlete believes that the record is inconsistent with what courts have come to expect in class actions “to support ...
Government, Communications Law
US judge strikes LA Metro’s ban on noncommercial ads
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
PETA claimed that the MTA policy amounts to a prior restraint on speech and viewpoint discrimination.
Legal Education
7 ABA-approved law schools in California below overall pass rate of 66.8%
By Laurinda Keys
Tied for the best performance by graduate first-time exam takers in July were UC Berkeley School of Law and UCLA School of Law...
Technology, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
2 law firms sue to stop Microsoft-Activision merger
By Jonathan Lo
“The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief to prohibit the acquisition … to protect consumers from unlawful concentration of power w...
Labor/Employment
McDonald’s, Black-owned ad agency ordered to talks
By Sunidhi Sridhar
“The court urges the parties in the strongest possible terms to use their best efforts to resolve this case instead of incurri...
Judges and Judiciary, Government
Newsom says judge agreed on Texas law, judge says he didn’t
By Craig Anderson
SB 1327 copied SB 8 — the Texas statute that allows private parties to sue anyone who assists with an abortion — even though N...
Technology, Litigation & Arbitration
100 individual arbitration demands begin ‘wave’ against Twitter, attorney says
By Wisdom Howell
“If Elon Musk wants to fight these claims one by one in individual arbitration, we are ready to fight them one by one, on beha...
Real Estate/Development, Insurance
Company, cities say they shouldn’t be defendants in odor case
By Skyler Romero
“The court, I’m sure, is aware that this was a fire that occurred in the city of Carson, it was responded to by the county fir...
Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law
COVID sick pay relief expiring, employers may face lawsuits
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Two cases in particular are expected to have a greater impact on workplace litigation, than the end of AB 152.
