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Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


Third-party entities could be brought into litigation as direct defendants by plaintiffs or as cross-defendants by Amplify Ene...


Labor/Employment, Civil Rights


In a motion filed late Wednesday, the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing said the proposed $18 million settlement...


Government, Criminal


“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


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

Oct. 8, 2021
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

Oct. 7, 2021
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...


Obituaries


Larry D. Morse II, 1957-2021

Oct. 7, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Ex-Merced prosecutor, state DAs’ group lobbyist was ‘whirling dervish’


Law Practice, Civil Litigation


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


“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

Oct. 7, 2021
By Pete Escobar

The merger with Karnopp Petersen LLP will add 15 attorneys to BB&K.


Government, Criminal


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


“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

Oct. 7, 2021
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

Oct. 6, 2021
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...


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


Law firms line up oil spill cases

Oct. 6, 2021
By Gina Kim

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


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

Oct. 6, 2021
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


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

Oct. 6, 2021
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


“These settlements will enhance groundwater quality in Los Angeles County by requiring the responsible polluters to clean up t...


Technology, Labor/Employment, Civil Rights


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


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


“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

Oct. 5, 2021
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


“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


The Yoka-Panish Civil Justice Fellowship will allow first-year students to participate in two five-week civil trials, working ...


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


Potential legal actions are also clearly scaring investors of Amplify Energy Corp., which owns the oil platform, known as Elly...


Insurance, Civil Litigation


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

Oct. 5, 2021
By Craig Anderson

More than 64% of lawsuits against insurers over the denial of business interruption coverage in state courts across the nation...


Government


SB 447, passed by the Legislature in September, was sponsored by the Consumer Federation of California and the Consumer Attorn...