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Class Action


Lawyers say AI agents could dramatically increase participation in class action settlements by finding notices and filing clai...


Los Angeles County opened an investigation into FAIR Plan's handling of Eaton and Palisades fire claims, adding to state enfor...


Litigation funder Omni Bridgeway has raised $1 billion for two new funds, bringing its assets under management to approximatel...


Presiding Justice Helen Zukin of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 4, a former complex-litigation lawyer who helped d...


Justice Tara Desautels' appellate opinions examine burdens, deference and trial tactics, reflecting an approach shaped by her ...


The George W. Bush appointee, the Northern District of California's last serving Republican-appointed judge, will retire Dec. ...


Civil Procedure


A Los Angeles judge tentatively found Eaton Fire plaintiffs' proposed deposition of a former Edison executive would duplicate ...


Former LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner and his family sued Chubb, alleging the insurer relied on inadequate testing and co...


Civil Procedure


A federal judicial panel consolidated 17 lawsuits alleging Apple failed to design adequate safeguards against misuse of AirTag...


Civil Procedure


A federal judicial panel centralized 17 product liability lawsuits alleging Nevro improperly used the FDA's supplemental appro...


Justice Danny Y. Chou of the 1st District Court of Appeal, a longtime public-law appellate lawyer who helped win marriage equa...


Justice Victor G. Viramontes of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, a former civil rights litigator and sixth-grade teacher, fac...


Obituaries


Former Superior Court Commissioner Gretchen W. Taylor, a formidable family law practitioner and mediator remembered for her sh...


Intellectual Property


U.S. District Judge James V. Selna has increased Masimo Corp.'s patent judgment against Apple Inc. to roughly $818.5 million, ...


Land Use, Civil Litigation


A Los Angeles judge allowed discovery to begin in Chiquita Canyon Landfill's $825 million suit over its 2024 closure, rejectin...


Civil Litigation


A federal magistrate judge allowed defense attorney William G. Stripp to withdraw from a $35 million investor fraud case after...


Civil Litigation


Plaintiffs' attorneys say a proposed Cal-OSHA prohibition on fabricating and installing artificial stone containing more than ...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


An appellate panel reinstated claims that Align Technology illegally cut off interoperability with a rival scanner maker to pr...


Judges and Judiciary


Chief Judges Mary H. Murguia and Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers reflected on being the first Latinas in their roles and urged younger ...


Technology, Constitutional Law


A Santa Clara County judge ended a constitutional challenge to San Jose's Flock camera network, finding binding appellate prec...


Justice Gregory J. Weingart, a former federal prosecutor, Munger Tolles partner and family law judge, brings a varied backgrou...


Stewart, who argued San Francisco's marriage-equality cases before joining the bench, has written a series of opinions reversi...


The justices stayed a Northern District of California ruling that blocked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from termina...


A Los Angeles judge rejected the county's argument that the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission needs approval from County C...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


A Carlsbad law firm claims Thomson Reuters bought AI legal research upstart Casetext to eliminate a lower-cost rival and prese...


Justice Department actions targeting UCLA Law admissions and the university's response to alleged antisemitism invoke the same...


Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown of the 1st District Court of Appeal, a former federal prosecutor who wrote the opinion large...


Presiding Justice Brian M. Hoffstadt of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 5, known for questioning lawyers early and ...


Business Law


TriBike Transport claims companies involved in shipping 180 athletes' bicycles home from a 2023 race withheld them for three m...


Torts/Personal Injury


A Los Angeles County jury found Caltrans liable for a longshoreman's traumatic brain injury after evidence showed the agency h...