Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
Allergan says there’s no false advertising if public never sees it
By Blaise Scemama
After a month and a half of plaintiffs’ evidence in an Orange County bench trial, one of four drug company-defendants accused ...
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation
Until guilt determined, judge hesitant to give PG&E new probation conditions
By Winston Cho
The Sonoma County district attorney charged PG&E with five felonies and 28 misdemeanors in connection with the Kincade Fir...
Criminal, California Supreme Court
Must jury be unanimous on aggravating evidence to impose death?
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The case before the state Supreme Court has garnered significant attention because it could vacate the death sentences of many...
Government, Community News
Hogan Lovells helps make police use of force nationwide map
By Kamila Knaudt
The map allows the public to learn about each state’s current and proposed laws on the subject and allows for comparison betwe...
Law Practice, Bankruptcy
Girardi bankruptcy trustee defends special counsel
By Henrik Nilsson
Peter J. Mastan, who represents Erika Girardi, argued that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barry Russell should reject Ronald Richards’ ...
Law Practice, Law Office Management
Title IX specialty firm opens in Palo Alto, anticipating rule changes
By Jessica Mach
It’s a natural move, said founding partner Andrew T. Miltenberg, since Nesenoff & Miltenberg LLP has spent the last three ...
Civil Litigation, Banking
BofA ordered to halt some fraud deterrents for unemployment payments
By Winston Cho
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria barred the bank from freezing accounts or denying claims of unauthorized transactions using...
Video company suing Kanye West for breaching business deals loses bid to depose the rapper and his apparel company top officia...
Tax, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit OKs Roth IRA corporate tax scheme
By Craig Anderson
The decision is the latest in a series of rulings by circuit courts around the nation against the IRS in its challenges to the...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
Judge denies many untimely filed plaintiffs’ documents in opioid trial
By Blaise Scemama
Since the trial began in April, Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson has made several comments expressing disconten...
Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit says ConAgra settlement ‘reeks of collusion’
By Craig Anderson
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kenneth K. Lee blasted the settlement as a giveaway to attorneys who did nothing for t...
Judges and Judiciary
Fire Victim Trust head blasts call for investigation
By Craig Anderson
The legislators, who represent constituents who lost homes, businesses and property in the fires, say they are dissatisfied wi...
U.S. Supreme Court, Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit’s ‘always believe the asylum claimant’ rule overturned
By Winston Cho
Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion rejected the use of a “special rule in immigration disputes” by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...
State Bar & Bar Associations
National bar examiners say no remote testing next February
By Henrik Nilsson
“Remote exams create challenges for exam security and uniformity, and for this reason, we have consistently advocated for in-p...
Government, Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
DA challenges Newsom’s naming of law firm to review murder conviction
By Malcolm Maclachlan
San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason M. Anderson challenged the authority of anyone outside a court of law reviewing ...
Judges and Judiciary, Government
Legislative budget leaders offer more court funds than prior years
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The Legislature’s $4.5 billion budget plan for the judicial branch is slightly below Gov. Gavin Newsom’s number but much highe...
Commissioner Laura Cohen steers parties through restraining orders.
Criminal, California Supreme Court
Juries shouldn’t rely on eyewitness testimony, state high court says
By Craig Anderson
The court, in a unanimous opinion Thursday, directed lower courts to omit a jury instruction that they should consider a witne...
Judges and Judiciary, Community News
Statewide judicial mentor program planned on LA model
By Blaise Scemama
In an effort to expand diversity on the bench, the governor’s judicial appointments secretary, Luis Céspedes, formed an execut...
Law Practice
$25M is largest law firm claim yet against Girardi Keese
By Henrik Nilsson
Owen, Patterson & Owen LLP, a personal injury law firm in Los Angeles, filed the $25 million claim in Girardi Keese’s bank...
Law Practice, Intellectual Property
Finnegan’s 80% diverse summer associate class part of IP practice drive
By Kamila Knaudt
Of the 20 summer associates participating in Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP’s nine-week program, 80% a...
Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Defenders seek review of panel’s reinstatement of doctor’s opioid trial
By Gina Kim
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Central District of California dismissed defendant Dr. Jeffrey Olsen’s 34-count in...
Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin will have to prove defendant Jesse Rodriguez intended to kill three people who...
Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Walmart freed from $100M meal break class award
By Jessica Mach
The opinion by 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Patrick J. Bumatay concluded the former employee plaintiff lacked stand...
California Supreme Court
State high court orders review of gun enhancement case from LA
By Tyler Pialet
Petitioner Rehan Nazir was charged in 2019 by then DA Jackie Lacey, who filed dozens of criminal counts alleging he used his p...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
Judge OKs $2.2M settlement in joint employer litigation
By Jessica Mach
Three hundred and seventy-seven former workers at Koji’s Japan, a now-shuttered restaurant chain, will recover the money.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barry Russell granted a request by trustee Elissa D. Miller to transfer 92 clients in litigation against...
Judges and Judiciary, California Courts of Appeal
Justice Jon Streeter to join Access to Justice Commission
By Henrik Nilsson
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, appointed the 1st District Court of Appeal justice on Thursday. Stre...
DA Chesa Boudin who ran on a platform of reducing incarceration and cracking down on police misconduct is preparing four separ...
Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory
PG&E pays net $20M fine for website breakdown during power shut-off
By Winston Cho
“PG&E’s violations put the health of many customers at risk and made an already stressful and fraught situation significan...