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Judges and Judiciary, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal


Eight retired judges filed the case in 2019, saying new limits on the time a retired judge could take part in the program disc...


Health Care & Hospital Law, California Supreme Court


California Supreme Court Justice Leondra R. Kruger wrote that Dr. Aram Bonni can sue St. Joseph Health System for the discipli...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


In 2019, the Legislature amended the code to allow employees to directly sue employers for statutory penalties when they are n...


Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


Actress Scarlett Johansson said Disney sought to steer viewers toward watching the movie on its streaming platform instead of ...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice, California Supreme Court


“I don’t know if that helps you get reinstated as an attorney but a lot of times Chapter 7 debtors are in a lot of debt and cl...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Cross-examining his former paralegal Wednesday, Avenatti asked her about "other meetings" she had with prosecutors. After the ...



Parks and Recreation

Jul. 30, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Magistrate Judge Jeremy Peterson’s Yosemite post was ideal.


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Prosecutors can't mention specifics about Avenatti's Nike extortion case in redirect, but can refer to another criminal invest...


Law Practice, Law Office Management


David S. Phelps, former co-leader of the national real estate practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has joined Go...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


ExamSoft, which developed the online testing platform used by the California State Bar, told test-takers to restart their comp...


Data Privacy, Civil Litigation


While Stripe notified consumers that it gathers and stores their information, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oa...


Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The federal appellate panel on Wednesday rejected a challenge by pork producers to a voter-approved proposition that requires ...


Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law, Government


Private sector employers across the state are weighing “the potential employee relations pushback of a mandatory vaccination p...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Avenatti lurched from topic to topic ranging from what he supposedly did with a private plane he bought to what checks came in...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary


Juror counseling in graphic trials is hit or miss

Jul. 28, 2021
By Blaise Scemama

An estimated 70% of all jurors report some stress from jury service, according to the National Center for State Courts.


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice


“This is one of the most important parts of our program, if not the most important part. This will discuss and describe how ev...


Antitrust & Trade Reg., 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Arguing before a three-judge circuit l Monday, Chicago plaintiffs’ attorney James Dasso of Foley & Lardner LLP, said the b...


Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law


Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower issued $447,836 in citations against Bodega Latina Corp., which owns 52 El Super grocer...


Data Privacy, Administrative/Regulatory


FTC might seize tech companies’ algorithms

Jul. 28, 2021
By Winston Cho

FTC chief technologist Erie Meyer said Tuesday that the commission will also consider corporate restructuring, bans and other ...


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


San Francisco school historic murals saved for now

Jul. 28, 2021
By Craig Anderson

Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo ruled the school board “ignored CEQA in pursuit of a predetermined result” and or...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Over the objections of the disgraced lawyer, his former employee guided jurors through a financial ledger that showed client m...


Technology, Litigation & Arbitration, Civil Litigation


San Mateo County Superior Court Judge V. Raymond Swope approved the deal brokered by the Joseph Saveri Law Firm that will prov...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


Students sue universities over COVID rules

Jul. 27, 2021
By Gina Kim

On Monday, two students at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles sued to block the university’s requirement that all stud...


Mergers & Acquisitions, Law Practice, Law Office Management


Bradley Finkelstein, with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for 20 years, joined O’Melveny & Myers as a partner in S...


Criminal, Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected a bid by Pangang Group Co. Ltd. and its affiliates to dismiss a criminal ...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Rights


By reducing ambiguity over whether long COVID qualifies as a disability, Monday's federal guidance could help strengthen affli...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


U.S. Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse in San Francisco found that Mauro Botta, a former senior manager, was lawfully terminated de...


Government, Criminal


Before the Cerritos’ council passed the resolution 4-1, Deputy District Attorney John McKinney, who is among a group of deputi...


Government, Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


In her June 20 motion, New York-based attorney Aide Poulson argued the court should let Penny Newman intervene because the sta...


Government, Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


The city said the settlement is not based on proven misconduct or a finding of factual innocence, but on the difficulty of ret...