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Civil Litigation


PG&E victims settle with executives for $117M

Oct. 3, 2022
By Wisdom Howell

“These funds will be used to satisfy the vast majority of outstanding fire victim claims held by certain federal agencies that...


Government, Civil Litigation


“The defendant exploited his position as an FBI agent for his own personal profit and that’s what the evidence has shown,” Ass...


Civil Litigation


“The trustee’s claim was and is time-barred by every imaginable statute of limitations as well as California’s applicable stat...


Data Privacy, Civil Litigation


“With the benefit of six years of hindsight, the government can try all it wants to second guess the decisions that Joe Sulliv...



Lets lawyers lawyer

Sep. 30, 2022

Stephen McAvoy allows attorneys to conduct mini-directs to make their case in mediations


Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports


The plots and sequence of the two works — one being the 1986 investigative report by the late Ehud Yonay and the other the Tom...


Labor/Employment, Contracts


PGA accuses LIV of ‘inducing contract breaches’

Sep. 30, 2022
By Federico Lo Giudice

The counterclaim is a response to a lawsuit by players Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones, who had enough points on t...


Civil Litigation


Arthur Raffy Aslanian didn’t want to pay his lawyer’s fee, according to a federal indictment. Aslanian and one of his employee...


Civil Litigation


“I concluded that there could not be a breach of fiduciary duty between the plaintiff attorneys and Girardi Keese because ther...


Judges and Judiciary


Lupe Rodriguez Jr. has practiced criminal defense and civil law.


Government, Civil Litigation


Robert E. Johnson, senior attorney for the Institute for Justice and the class of plaintiffs, announced Thursday their intenti...


U.S. Supreme Court


On Monday, the justices will review a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that determined that wetlands in Idaho should...


Government, Civil Litigation


“There are pretty strict policies about FBI agents getting involved with prostitutes, isn’t that right?” Assistant U.S. Attorn...


Labor/Employment, Data Privacy, Contracts


Matthew Henley worked for defendant Joseph Sullivan for 20 years. Sullivan is accused of concealing a 2016 breach from federal...


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


FBI agent accused of taking monthly bribes to search DOJ database for mentions of false attorney testifies that he was just ga...


Securities, Entertainment & Sports


Pasadena Video game maker conducted Ponzi scheme, SEC says

Sep. 29, 2022
By Federico Lo Giudice

“When raising that money, defendants represented that proceeds from the sale of Pebblekick’s notes would be used to finance th...


Environmental & Energy


The platform owner, Amplify Energy Corp., and the U.S. Coast Guard have blamed the spill on ships that allegedly tore the ocea...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


Meeting with reporters last fall, Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye warned of a coming "wave of retirements in 2022." That ...


Law Practice, Civil Litigation, Appellate Practice


"I have no problem with website accessibility lawsuits. . . . I just think it has to be brought forth by a suitable plaintiff,...


Judges and Judiciary, Government, California Supreme Court


Public Policy Institute of California began in 1994 with a $70 million endowment from Hewlett-Packard Co. The San Francisco-ba...


Technology, Data Privacy


The trade secrets case has been embroiled in discovery disputes with each side filing several motions and replies to conceal a...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Joseph W. Cotchett, a founding partner of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP who represents the class, downplayed the signific...


Law Practice, Environmental & Energy, Appellate Practice


Sacramento environmental boutique will join Downey Brand

Sep. 29, 2022
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Thomas Law Group is well-known across the state for its expertise in representing clients in matters of land use law, entitlem...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Some 560 people gathered at the Beverly Wilshire to celebrate those who had worked for passage of AB35, signed by Gov. Gavin N...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Beverly Hills Bar honors 2 at litigation dinner

Sep. 28, 2022
By David Houston

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David J. Cowan and Mathew S. Rosengart, a partner at Greenberg Traurig LLP, were honored.


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Land Use, Government


The lawsuit filed by the California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund takes aim at rezoning regulations that the plain...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Sanford Heisler Sharp opens Palo Alto office

Sep. 28, 2022
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

"Sanford Heisler Sharp is the first national plaintiff-side litigation firm that has a practice group specifically dedicated t...


Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


The lawsuit, filed Monday in the Southern District of California, argues the statute, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, “singles ou...


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


“I invoke my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution,” said Henrik M. Mosesi of Glendale. He reiter...


Insurance, Health Care & Hospital Law


“The Affordable Care Act does not compel plans to cover everything that might fall under the broad rubric of rehabilitative or...