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Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Ryann Jorban’s felony complaint named Efferin Deans, plus 22 aliases he is alleged...


Civil Litigation


Finding it fair and not a result of collusion, San Bernardino County Judge David Cohn tentatively approved the deal but said h...


U.S. Supreme Court, Health Care & Hospital Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Litigation


Marc Hearron, senior counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights, argued that his client should be able to test the law bas...


Native Americans, Legal Education


Hastings Chancellor and Dean David L. Faigman said he will cooperate with any legislative change in the school’s name, which r...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


In a 42-page tentative ruling Monday, Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson said the plaintiff counties of Los Angel...


Torts/Personal Injury, Entertainment & Sports, Criminal


Albuquerque attorneys Robert Gorence of Gorence & Oliveros PC and Jason Bowles of the Bowles Law Firm said in a statement,...


International Law, Criminal


The resolutions are the first corporate criminal enforcement actions brought under the Consumer Product Safety Act, a law givi...


Judges and Judiciary


LA County Judge Ann Jones retires

Nov. 1, 2021
By Gina Kim

Jones said one of her proudest accomplishments was being the first superior court judge to hold a dedicated budget-planning po...


Government


AG Bonta names 21 executive team members

Nov. 1, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The group is led by Chief Deputy Attorney General Venus D. Johnson, who will oversee the legal affairs, law enforcement, opera...


Environmental & Energy, Criminal


The utility was set to be arraigned Friday in Shasta County Superior Court before Judge Cara L. Beatty on 31 charges, includin...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


“Moreover, it is in the interest of justice for the defendant to commence serving the term of incarceration that this court im...


Law Practice, Law Office Management


“Each of these lawyers enjoys tremendous respect from clients and colleagues alike for their legal expertise, drive, sector kn...


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation, Admiralty/Maritime


Three plaintiffs’ firms — Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP, Aitken Aitken Cohn and Bentley & More LLP — filed a motion t...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Bankruptcy


“We filed it because the Girardi Keese client victims deserve at least some chance of recovery before more attorneys drain ass...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions concluded that involvement in civics education does not trigger mandat...


Labor/Employment, Constitutional Law


“I think an employer can have reason to believe that not all requests are based on sincerely held beliefs, but an employer’s a...


Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said he had “questions about her approach and reasoning” but gave Koh credit for disavowing ...


Civil Litigation


The dispute started after the shelter filed a lawsuit against the city’s attempt to shut down Mary’s Kitchen for violating a l...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Supreme Court


Former California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown wrote the decision in a case finding that local rules on what atto...


Criminal, Civil Litigation


“From a legal perspective, what’s groundbreaking about this case is the fact that a police officer could be technically off du...


Technology, Securities, Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge Beth L. Freeman in San Jose expressed skepticism that the existence of an internal cost-cutting target tha...


Government, Criminal, Corporate


U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco is putting back in place the Yates memo that required corporations seeking lenienc...


Litigation & Arbitration


Bobby Kotick, who has led the company for 30 years, promised in a letter to employees significant policy changes in investigat...


Technology, Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


Angel Technologies Group LLC, represented by McKool Smith Hennigan PC, asserting four patents related to the tagging feature w...


Government, Criminal


After 26 years in the job, Charles Parkin will not seek reelection next year.


Legal Education, Government


Beth Van Schaack will help shape the United States’ policy toward atrocities prevention and response.


Civil Litigation


U.S. Judge James V. Selna of the Central District of California dismissed the complaint, saying he believed Section 230 of the...


Torts/Personal Injury, Entertainment & Sports, Criminal


“In my experience, when a company hires a law firm to do an internal investigation like this, they know that they have some bi...


Securities, Civil Litigation, Banking


U.S. District Judge Richard G. Seeborg denied class certification because “there is not a common answer” that would “resolve t...


Labor/Employment, Government, Civil Litigation


The case is one of three recent retaliation claims by attorneys working for the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Co...