Labor/Employment, Class Action
Complex court judges offer tips of wage and hour actions
By Skyler Romero
“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 ...
Government
Plaintiff rejects San Francisco claim that police didn’t know of DNA crime lab
By Wisdom Howell
This argument, housed in a new brief filed Friday, challenges the motion to dismiss which claims that the San Francisco Police...
Government, Environmental & Energy
Sacramento water district can sue over contamination, judge rules
By Jonathan Lo
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
‘Legal needle’ has moved in Hollywood copyright cases, lawyers say
By Ricardo Pineda
Copyright plaintiffs’ lawyers cheer as they see trial courts applying 9th Circuit’s ‘substantial similarity’ ruling.
Government, Class Action
Proposed class action aims to end cash bail in L.A. County
By Malcolm Maclachlan
"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
Baldwin fires back at armorer, crew for ‘Rust’ set fatality
By Skyler Romero
“More than anyone else on that set, Baldwin has been wrongfully viewed as the perpetrator of this tragedy,” the cross-complain...
Norman P. Tarle sees his job as keeping parties away from a place of potential peril: court.
Criminal
No bail for ex-Girardi Keese CFO, heads to LA accused of embezzlement
By Craig Anderson
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
Judge Kelli M. Evans confirmed as justice on state Supreme Court
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
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
State’s attorneys say they were left out of video game suits
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers In State Employment claims the State Personnel Board ...
Government, Civil Litigation
California sued over ban on flavored tobacco products
By Jonathan Lo
More than 300 jurisdictions across the nation have some sort of flavored tobacco ban and most of the challenges to those laws ...
Class Action
Judge dubious of need for class counsel in PFAS litigation
By Jonathan Lo
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
At NCAA trial, a scramble for witnesses, and role playing, ‘I’m not your monkey’
By Sunidhi Sridhar
The jury was excused as the defense counsel and attorneys for plaintiff Alana Gee, the widow of former USC linebacker Matthew ...
Government, Civil Litigation
USPS wants to postpone 17 states’ lawsuit over gas vehicles
By Wisdom Howell
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
California sues DuPont and 3M over ‘PFA’ chemicals
By Skyler Romero
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
By Christer Schmidt
The anonymous post Wednesday night — far ahead of the official release of the results on Thursday evening — gave specific inst...
Government
Attorneys expected to dominate state Legislature following election
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
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
Injunction sought to end Meta collection of medical data
By Jonathan Lo
The plaintiffs say Meta’s alleged medical data gathering is a violation of wiretap and privacy laws as well as the Health Insu...
San Francisco County incumbent District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, appointed by Mayor London Breed to replace recalled Chesa Bou...
“The settlement occurred as a result of extensive, arms-length negotiations by experienced counsel after sufficient formal and...
Judges and Judiciary
San Francisco court picks next assistant presiding judge
By Craig Anderson
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
Morgan Lewis wins $133M jury verdict for Shell USA
By Skyler Romero
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
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
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
Panel mulls Lanham Act suit against anti-malware maker
By Craig Anderson
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
Google opposes 6th amending of free speech labor lawsuit
By Wisdom Howell
At a case management conference Tuesday alongside its co-defendant, Adecco USA Inc. — a staffing agency that provided Google w...
Land Use, Environmental & Energy
Sheppard Mullin crafted complicated deal to form nature preserve near Malibu
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“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.
Lawsuit claims 2 lawyers helped competitors smuggle assets
By Skyler Romero
“Just three days before Orion could execute on the judgment, Ningbo Sunny’s co-conspirator and largest customer, Celestron, pa...
