Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant held that absent a preliminary injunction, deputy DAs would be forced to put their care...
Senior U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez of the Southern District of California ruled two years ago that California’s ban o...
Judges and Judiciary, Appellate Practice
Appellate lawyers task force to study decision delays
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The California Academy of Appellate Lawyers weighed in on a recent complaint to the state Commission on Judicial Performance r...
Tax, Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit seems unwilling to block California’s retirement account program
By Craig Anderson
The program, known as CalSavers, violates the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA, the Howard Jarvis Tax...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal
4th District considers whether California’s gig worker law applies to Instacart
By Jessica Mach
The city of San Diego alleges Instacart misclassified drivers as independent contractors in 2019, days before Gov. Gavin Newso...
Harvest Rock Church will challenge the remaining restriction on singing when the 9th Circuit considers its request for an inju...
The department filed the lawsuit against the California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act of 2018, which tak...
Labor/Employment, Government
Third attempt to let legislative staff unionize has more support
By Jessica Mach
The third and most recent iteration of the bill, which Gonzalez introduced in January, has 44 co-authors. What’s more, it’s ex...
Legal Education, Civil Rights
USC law school becomes first to mandate course on racism
By Henrik Nilsson
The course will focus on how the law and lawyers play a role in shaping legal doctrines that can appear race-neutral but are not.
Longest serving public defender in state’s history was gentle and tough
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
After $107M damages were tossed, Sacramento mining dispute not over
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The case involves a more than 80-year-old mine outside of Sacramento. It began more than a decade ago when the mine’s operator...
Responding to inquiries about the DA’s pledge to bring justice to the family of a man shot to death by officers, spokeswoman R...
Law Practice, Law Office Management
Wilson Sonsini renewable energy team joins Vinson & Elkins’ new LA office
By Kamila Knaudt
Partners Sean M. Moran, Michael P. Joyce and Lauren A. Collins, with counsels Josh Heidman and Trevor Shelton, joined the firm...
Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
US Labor Department now won’t take sides in lawsuit to halt CalSavers
By Craig Anderson
President Donald Trump's administration had argued the program is preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of ...
Labor/Employment, Covid Court Ops
Grocers close, may cut hours in response to ‘hazard pay’ ordinances
By Winston Cho
The California Grocers Association sued Oakland and Montebello on Wednesday for passing such ordinances, highlighting growing ...
Law Practice, Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy trustee threatens to remove Girardi from home
By Craig Anderson
Attorneys for Chapter 7 Trustee Jason M. Rund filed a motion Tuesday asking U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barry Russell to compel Gira...
Government, Criminal
Bill aims to allow resentencing of murder accomplices who got life
By Tyler Pialet
SB 300, written by state Sen. Dave Cortese, D-Silicon Valley, would repeal portions of Proposition 115, a 1990 voter-approved ...
Labor/Employment
2nd proposed class sues BofA over unemployment benefit fraud reaction
By Jessica Mach
The federal lawsuit filed Thursday claims the bank, which has an exclusive contract with California's Employment Development D...
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation
LADWP sued over gas leak in San Fernando Valley
By Gina Kim
San Fernando Valley area communities file class action in LA Superior Court against city’s Department of Water and Power over ...
Judges and Judiciary, Covid Court Ops
Largest counties get most of extra backlog clearance funds
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The money seems to go toward three main types of expenditure: staff, technology and protective gear.
Government
LA city attorney says judge can't usurp elected officials' role
By Blaise Scemama
LA City Attorney Mike Feuer told U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, "You've asked, 'Is it really appropriate for a court to ...
Legal Education
JAMS founder joins faculty at Pepperdine’s Straus Institute
By Kamila Knaudt
Daniel Weinstein will teach advanced mediation at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University Caruso ...
Criminal
LA sheriff’s officers will attend parole hearings if DAs won’t
By Tyler Pialet
Prosecutors say Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s decision to send his investigators to appear in their absence is unprecedented.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup suggests “it was reckless, maybe criminally reckless” for the utility to have not cut down a...
State Bar & Bar Associations, California Supreme Court
Supreme Court again tells State Bar to look at bias against Black male attorneys
By Henrik Nilsson
Gregory Harper is challenging his disbarment citing two studies that show Black male attorneys in California are more likely t...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
$2B Roundup settlement modeled on other major cases
By Craig Anderson
Elizabeth J. Cabraser, a San Francisco-based partner with Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, filed the deal Wednesday...
While employers are being forced to grapple with and interpret yet another set of shifting rules -- some of which attorneys sa...
Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court
State high court won’t hear unions challenge to Proposition 22
By Jessica Mach
The high court indicated the plaintiffs could refile the petition "in an appropriate court."
Real Estate/Development, Government, Civil Litigation
Former judge fights state’s rental properties lockdown
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Former judge Steven C. Bailey and San Diego attorney Martha E. Romero represent Mammoth Lakes vacation property owners who sue...
“Congress can give us direct penalty authority to deter deception aimed at workers in the Internet-enabled gig economy and rul...