Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation
3rd-party liability could affect oil spill litigation
By Gina Kim
Third-party entities could be brought into litigation as direct defendants by plaintiffs or as cross-defendants by Amplify Ene...
Labor/Employment, Civil Rights
State civil rights agency tries to intervene in EEOC deal with Activision
By Gina Kim
In a motion filed late Wednesday, the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing said the proposed $18 million settlement...
Government, Criminal
Increase in claims expected with change in law officer sex crimes statutes
By Kamila Knaudt
“By the nature of the law changing, it will ultimately result in additional claimants coming forward. That’s the purpose for i...
Tax, Civil Litigation
Mattel investors class certified in suit over understated income tax
By Henrik Nilsson
U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi found that all persons and entities who purchased Mattel stock from Aug. 2, 2017 to Aug. 8,...
Law Practice, Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Proposed initiatives would cap contingency fees
By Craig Anderson
The Civil Justice Association of California — backed by oil, pharmaceutical, insurance, manufacturing, health care, and techno...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
Bayer wins case over weedkiller
By Henrik Nilsson
A Los Angeles County jury handed down the verdict on Tuesday, saying that a child’s alleged exposure to Roundup was not a subs...
Ex-Merced prosecutor, state DAs’ group lobbyist was ‘whirling dervish’
Law Practice, Civil Litigation
Mayer Brown team wins $21M in fees after 11-year family battle
By Blaise Scemama
While declining Mayer Brown’s request to apply an adjustment that would have bumped the attorney fee award to $26 million, and...
Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Senate Republicans challenge Lucy Koh’s rulings on religious groups
By Winston Cho
“The factual evidence that was before me was uncontroverted by plaintiffs that the risk of transmission of COVID is greater wh...
Law Practice, Law Office Management
Best Best & Krieger to merge with Oregon firm
By Pete Escobar
The merger with Karnopp Petersen LLP will add 15 attorneys to BB&K.
Government, Criminal
Law will allow resentencing for attempted murder and manslaugher
By Kamila Knaudt
Greg Totten, chief executive officer of the California District Attorneys Association said additional funding was approved for...
Antitrust & Trade Reg., 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Former defender of hi-tech companies gets bipartisan support
By Winston Cho
“Liberty depends on opportunity and opportunity depends on free, fair and competitive markets. The antitrust laws play a vital...
Judges and Judiciary, Government
Courts can’t use remote tech to deny physical access
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The new law will also require courts to provide “a public audio stream or telephonic” access when physical access is not possi...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Criminal
Judge sentences child rapist to 960 years
By Kamila Knaudt
Tulare County Superior Court Judge Nathan G. Leedy used his discretion to order the 15-year penalty for each of 64 felony char...
Alex R. Straus, senior counsel at Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, filed the first proposed class action Monday in fe...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation
Mistrial motion ‘speculation on steroids’ judge says
By Henrik Nilsson
The claims were made in a case involving the billion-dollar estate of movie theater tycoon Robert A. Naify.
Immigration, Criminal, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Circuit reverses ruling on private prisons law
By Craig Anderson
The three-judge 9th Circuit panel ruled that AB 32, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019, improperly interferes with t...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Criminal
DAs implement fentanyl warnings of murder charges
By Kamila Knaudt
The advisement serves, along with the conviction on a drug crime charge, as proof of implied malice if homicide charges are br...
Law Practice, Law Office Management
Former US attorney joins MoFo in San Diego
By Pete Escobar
Adam L. Braverman, a former U.S. Justice Department official whose nomination to serve on the U.S. District Court in San Diego...
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation
Companies must pay $86M in superfund site cleanup deal
By Henrik Nilsson
“These settlements will enhance groundwater quality in Los Angeles County by requiring the responsible polluters to clean up t...
Technology, Labor/Employment, Civil Rights
Investors want Tesla to stop arbitration mandates
By Winston Cho
The $137M verdict was issued ahead of an annual shareholder meeting on Thursday in which there will be a vote on a proposal ur...
Government, Civil Litigation
Teacher’s affair with student leads to limit on arbitrations
By Malcolm Maclachlan
On. Aug. 31, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill inspired by the case being handled by Richard A. Schwartz of Browne George Ross...
Criminal, Civil Litigation
AG sues State Personnel Board over prison guard reinstatement
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“Modification of the penalty is appropriate because dismissal is out of proportion to the proven misconduct,” the Personnel Bo...
Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation
3 judges recuse themselves from Apple patent case
By Henrik Nilsson
According to the Southern District of California docket, U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel, Magistrate Judge Michael S. Be...
Government, Criminal
DAs to continue fight for public sexually violent predator hearings
By Kamila Knaudt
“It’s critically important, and it’s something that I’m not going to give up on,” San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan ...
Legal Education, Community News
Southwestern Law alumni offer trial experience fellowship for students
By Pete Escobar
The Yoka-Panish Civil Justice Fellowship will allow first-year students to participate in two five-week civil trials, working ...
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation
Oil company says ship traffic jam may be culprit in spill
By Gina Kim
Potential legal actions are also clearly scaring investors of Amplify Energy Corp., which owns the oil platform, known as Elly...
Insurance, Civil Litigation
Actor wins $6.3M insurance verdict for burned home
By Henrik Nilsson
Devin A. McRae of Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae LLP represented actor Shannen Doherty in the five-day jury trial.
Insurance, Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Virus exclusion or not, insurers win
By Craig Anderson
More than 64% of lawsuits against insurers over the denial of business interruption coverage in state courts across the nation...
SB 447, passed by the Legislature in September, was sponsored by the Consumer Federation of California and the Consumer Attorn...