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Labor/Employment, Class Action


“My calendar is 90% wage and hour, and what I try and do in all of my cases, if I even smell a discovery dispute,” Sacramento ...


This argument, housed in a new brief filed Friday, challenges the motion to dismiss which claims that the San Francisco Police...


Government, Environmental & Energy


Chief U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller ruled defendants’ motion to dismiss lacked personal jurisdiction, but said they ...


Intellectual Property, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Copyright plaintiffs’ lawyers cheer as they see trial courts applying 9th Circuit’s ‘substantial similarity’ ruling.


Government, Class Action


"The bail system in Los Angeles County treats people differently based on how much money they have in their bank account," Bra...


Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


“More than anyone else on that set, Baldwin has been wrongfully viewed as the perpetrator of this tragedy,” the cross-complain...



The Rescuer

Nov. 11, 2022

Norman P. Tarle sees his job as keeping parties away from a place of potential peril: court.


Christopher K. Kamon was arrested at a Maryland airport on Saturday after arriving from the Bahamas to visit family. According...


Judges and Judiciary, California Supreme Court


Evans, 53, won’t be sworn in until January. She will take the seat of Justice Patricia Guerrero, who was promoted by Gov. Gavi...


Labor/Employment


The California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers In State Employment claims the State Personnel Board ...


Government, Civil Litigation


More than 300 jurisdictions across the nation have some sort of flavored tobacco ban and most of the challenges to those laws ...


Class Action


Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg asked whether the motion was for the benefit of the attorneys and not their clients....


Health Care & Hospital Law, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


The jury was excused as the defense counsel and attorneys for plaintiff Alana Gee, the widow of former USC linebacker Matthew ...


Government, Civil Litigation


According to a new brief filed Thursday by counsel for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, the Postal Service needs time to conduc...


Government, Environmental & Energy, Civil Rights


Attorney General Rob Bonta accused several companies of actively covering up the potentially harmful effects of per- and polyf...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


Bar glitch lets exam takers see results 24 hours early

Nov. 11, 2022
By Christer Schmidt

The anonymous post Wednesday night — far ahead of the official release of the results on Thursday evening — gave specific inst...


Government


At least seven new attorneys will take their seats, including three who made their LGBT identities a major part of their campa...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


Widow weeps, NCAA challenges CTE doctor

Nov. 10, 2022
By Sunidhi Sridhar

NCAA lawyer shows jury doctor wanted to ‘commoditize’ his brain work and the plaintiff widow wept through her testimony before...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Data Privacy


The plaintiffs say Meta’s alleged medical data gathering is a violation of wiretap and privacy laws as well as the Health Insu...


Government


San Francisco County incumbent District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, appointed by Mayor London Breed to replace recalled Chesa Bou...


Labor/Employment


Walgreens settles wage and hour claims for $10.8M

Nov. 10, 2022
By Wisdom Howell

“The settlement occurred as a result of extensive, arms-length negotiations by experienced counsel after sufficient formal and...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Rochelle C. East has served in a variety of assignments since Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her to the court in 2013.


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


Shell won a unanimous verdict against Barclay Hollander for equitable allocation of the costs of cleaning a Carson neighborhood.


Half the battle is showing up on time Fresno County jurist tells attorneys and defendants


Criminal


Girardi firm CFO arrested on wire fraud charge

Nov. 9, 2022
By Sunidhi Sridhar, Craig Anderson

Christopher K. Kamon is the first former employee of the now-defunct firm to be charged with a crime.


Health Care & Hospital Law, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


NCAA lawyers tangle with doctor who identified CTE

Nov. 9, 2022
By Sunidhi Sridhar

"It was strongly, strongly pushed back by the sports industry," Dr. Bennet Omalu, the first person to find CTE in a deceased f...


Technology, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


This is the second appeal by Enigma Software Group USA LLC of a dismissal of its lawsuit against Malwarebytes, competitors in ...


Technology, Labor/Employment, Civil Rights


At a case management conference Tuesday alongside its co-defendant, Adecco USA Inc. — a staffing agency that provided Google w...


Land Use, Environmental & Energy


“One of the most challenging aspects of this transaction was that our client didn’t own the property but had a sizable judgmen...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


“Just three days before Orion could execute on the judgment, Ningbo Sunny’s co-conspirator and largest customer, Celestron, pa...