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Health Care & Hospital Law, Education Law


3 Cal State students sue over COVID vaccine requirement

Jun. 29, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The students state that the requirement to have a COVID-19 vaccination to attend class under federal law policy deprives them ...


Real Estate/Development, Government


Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, the author of the bill, AB 832, began the hearing by noting the current eviction ban ...



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


Since he joined the bench in 1993 he has handled some of the most complex and important cases in the history of the Northern D...


Government, Constitutional Law, Civil Litigation


The church had challenged the governor’s ban on singing and chanting during in-person services, claiming the state applied the...



Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


Drug companies open defense with opioid advocate

Jun. 29, 2021
By Blaise Scemama

Four opioid manufacturers are accused by four California communities of false advertising and creating a public nuisance by al...


Criminal, California Courts of Appeal


The defendant, Phillip Dorsett, made headlines this spring when the California District Attorneys Association released a video...



U.S. Supreme Court, Real Estate/Development, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Jeffrey W. McCoy, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation who represents the plaintiffs, said the Fifth Amendment taking...


Law Practice, Law Office Management


Michael D. Weil’s arrival brings to 80 the number of labor and employment specialists in the firm’s five California offices.



Judges and Judiciary, Bankruptcy


Ernest M. Robles, who was first appointed in 1993, began his third 14-year term on June 12.


Real Estate/Development, Government


Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature tucked a $5 billion rent relief plan and eviction moratorium into a 30,000-word bill.



Law Practice, Bankruptcy


Ronald N. Richards has “continued unabated in a jihad of extrajudicial statements, including social media posts and interviews...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Covid Court Ops


County courts divided on masks as they reopen

Jun. 28, 2021
By Craig Anderson

In Los Angeles and San Francisco, for example, face coverings will still be required for all courthouse visitors regardless of...



Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal, Civil Litigation


Ara Jabagchourian, a San Mateo personal injury attorney, filed a claim over the death of his clients’ daughter.


Securities, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


“Plaintiffs were trying to turn Affiliated Ute into an open-ended presumption that would apply in every case, since every misr...



Civil Rights, Alternative Dispute Resolution


“The strong federal policy and the public interest in enforcing the nation’s disability related civil rights laws outweighs an...


Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


If the high court declines to review the case, truckers would immediately be subject to Assembly Bill 5, the 9th Circuit ruled...



Law Practice, Law Office Management, Environmental & Energy


Laurie Edelstein, an experienced energy and complex commercial litigator, is the San Francisco office's second lateral hire si...


Mergers & Acquisitions, Law Practice, Law Office Management


Crowell has expanded on both U.S. coasts, in Europe and Asia since its launch 42 years ago. According to chair Philip T. Ingli...



Labor/Employment, Government


Wednesday’s decision in favor of the Sonoma County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association illustrates a potential impediment to the move...


Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


The players seek to overturn association-wide rules that limit how much money they can make from their names, images and liken...



Tax, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips indicated she is leaning toward dismissing a taxpayer action but allowing a civil rights...


Litigation & Arbitration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Judge Michelle T. Friedland warned 20 months ago, when the decision was issued, that it might create chaos. Now other judges s...



Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Superior Court Judge Theresa M. Traber said that for the purposes of deciding on a demurrer she was required to accept as true...


Constitutional Law, Civil Litigation


In the raid on U.S. Private Vaults on March 22, FBI agents seized property, some of it possibly from people who weren’t target...



Judges and Judiciary


Starting Sept. 15, Santa Clara County Superior Court Presiding Judge Theodore C. Zayner and Los Angeles Judge Rupert A. Byrdso...


The rule, issued under President Donald Trump’s administration, increased the minimum investment to apply for EB-5 visas from ...



Technology, Civil Litigation


“Plaintiff has adduced no evidence of classwide exposure to the alleged misrepresentations other than the mere existence of th...


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


Do bank loan denials affect property values?

Jun. 24, 2021
By Craig Anderson

Neal K. Katyal, a partner with Hogan Lovells US LLP, argued the city cannot prove a link, a proximate cause, between the alleg...



Judges and Judiciary, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


Although most of the hearing was inaccessible to remote listeners, the website regained functionality at the tail end.


U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal, Constitutional Law


Justice Elena Kagan’s opinion, though unanimous, was accompanied by several limited concurrences grouping different justices o...