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Judges and Judiciary


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


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


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

Dec. 27, 2022
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


“The officer knew that continued interrogation violated Miranda and that the statements would not be admissible at trial, but ...


Environmental & Energy


The Center for Biological Diversity remains committed to the cause of completely ceasing offshore drilling, and has filed mult...


Litigation & Arbitration, Class Action


The class counsel’s fee request is opposed by former goalkeeper Hope Solo, whose attorney, A.J. de Bartolomeo at Tadler Law LL...


Obituaries


Justice Richard David Fybel, 1946 - 2022

Dec. 23, 2022
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Prolific justice wrote opinion in priest abuse litigation


Litigation & Arbitration


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


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


According to data from the Department of Housing & Community Development, 319 jurisdictions are past the deadline to have ...


Technology


The agency accused CEO and co-founder David Chin and former chief technology officer and co-founder Matthew Moravec of selling...



The Facilitator

Dec. 23, 2022

Jackson Lucky relies on broad experience and a light touch to resolve disputes.


Judges and Judiciary


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


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.


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


“There has been no official determination of the cause of the Mosquito Fire and the U.S. Forest Service’s investigation is ong...


Government


"This settlement highlights the need for immediate intervention to provide a safer secured environment for our youth offenders...


Securities, Insurance


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


The merger will give Milwaukee-based Quarles & Brady a foothold in California.


Technology, Data Privacy


Regulators and prosecutors are watching closely how company executives respond to data breaches. A team of experts will offer ...


Entertainment & Sports


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

Dec. 21, 2022
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

PETA claimed that the MTA policy amounts to a prior restraint on speech and viewpoint discrimination.


Legal Education


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.


“The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief to prohibit the acquisition … to protect consumers from unlawful concentration of power w...


Labor/Employment


“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


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


“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


“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


Two cases in particular are expected to have a greater impact on workplace litigation, than the end of AB 152.