Data Privacy, Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Panel vacates child porn conviction over privacy rights
By Craig Anderson
Google reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that defendant Luke Wilson had uploaded four images ...
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Supreme Court
Judges told how not to see what they shouldn’t
By Craig Anderson
To avoid ethical quandaries, a state Supreme Court advisory committee released guidance Tuesday to judges who routinely search...
Criminal, Appellate Practice
Panel tosses murder convictions, says juror strike ‘tied to race’
By Henrik Nilsson
During jury selection, the defendants filed Batson/Wheeler motions against the prosecutor’s exercise of a peremptory strike ag...
Corporate, Civil Litigation
Judge questions need for quotas on corporate boards
By Gina Kim
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis said she has noticed the “pendulum swing” in academic settings, an...
Law Practice, Law Office Management, Data Privacy
New partner will colead Loeb & Loeb’s privacy, security, data practice
By Kamila Knaudt
Tanya Forsheit moved from Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC, where she was supervising partner of the Los Angeles office an...
Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Proposition 22 is not retroactive, unanimous 9th Circuit panel rules
By Winston Cho
Writing for the court, Judge William A. Fletcher sent the case back to a district court to decide if Grubhub misclassified a d...
Law Practice, Law Office Management, Labor/Employment
4-attorney employment team joins Baker & Hostetler
By Kamila Knaudt
McGuireWoods partners Matthew C. Kane and Sylvia J. Kim, senior associate Amy Beverlin and associate Kerri H. Sakaue made the ...
Legal Education, Law Practice
Animal law specialties edge into mainstream
By Malcolm Maclachlan
"When I started, I could count the number of animal lawyers I knew of on two hands, and half of them were academics," said Bru...
Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
LA can't fire half of firefighters, lawyer says in challenge to vaccine
By Blaise Scemama
Los Angeles attorney Kevin McBride of McBride Law PC, who represents a newly formed organization called the Firefighters 4 Fre...
Cofounder of Munger, Tolles & Olson ‘brought out the best in people’
Securities, Civil Litigation
Twitter agrees to pay $809M to settle securities fraud litigation
By Craig Anderson
The complaint, filed by Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP along with Motley Rice LLC, alleged the San Francisco company con...
Real Estate/Development, Land Use, Government, Administrative/Regulatory
Governor signs bill to build multiple housing units in single family neighborhoods
By Blaise Scemama
Senate Bill 9, one of four Newsom signed Thursday, will allow as many as two duplexes — two houses with attached units for a t...
Civil Litigation
Judge gives Capitol Annex saviors another chance
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Sacramento County Judge Laurie M. Earl said she was seeking additional briefs because neither side had cited the case on which...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
State civil rights agency accused of hampering Riot Games settlement
By Gina Kim
Lawyers for the Department of Fair Employment and Housing objected to the plaintiffs and the gaming giant proceeding with a ma...
Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Veteran Public Justice attorney to launch Bailey & Glasser appellate practice
By Kamila Knaudt
“Bittersweet is a perfect word for it. It’s heartbreaking and at the same time, incredibly exciting,” said Leslie Brueckner, w...
Civil Litigation
City can’t shut shelter it says is growing crime hub, judge rules
By Henrik Nilsson
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter said the clients of the shelter, Mary’s Kitchen in the City of Orange, would suffer irrepa...
Judges and Judiciary, California Supreme Court
Brown’s state Supreme Court legacy may include justices’ future roles
By Craig Anderson
The legacy of Brown’s appointments should include their accomplishments in future positions made possible by his decision to c...
Civil Litigation
Pandemic used as excuse to invoke force majeure, say plaintiffs’ attorneys
By Blaise Scemama
Production event company TEN6 Creative Ltd. said in a cross complaint filed this month in San Mateo County, that Genesys Telec...
Law Practice, Law Office Management
Former US attorney in San Diego returns to Seltzer Caplan
By Gina Kim
Robert S. Brewer had been of counsel with Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek before President Donald J. Trump appointed him as U.S. ...
Labor/Employment, Data Privacy, Civil Litigation
Amazon can’t force delivery drivers into arbitration
By Winston Cho
The lawsuit was brought by Amazon Flex drivers who said that the company was secretly monitoring their posts to private Facebo...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
CALPIA chief counsel says he was pushed to retire because of age
By Gina Kim
The lawsuit was filed in Sacramento County Superior Court by attorney David Graulich of Wronged At Work Law Group in Fair Oaks...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
San Joaquin County sues state health agency for basis for shutdowns
By Malcolm Maclachlan
This conduct by the health department “caused millions of dollars in lost revenues and untold financial and other distress on ...
Litigation & Arbitration, Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Arbitrator can decide if loan contract provision is enforceable, split panel says
By Henrik Nilsson
Instead of allowing a court to decide, the contract said an arbitrator would make the call. Moreover, the arbitrator must appl...
Civil Litigation
Anonymous deposit box owners are not a class, judge rules
By Kamila Knaudt
The proposed class action complaint sought to represent all safety deposit box owners who sought the return of their property ...
Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation
Female grandmaster sues over 'The Queen's Gambit'
By Henrik Nilsson
According to the lawsuit, “The Queen’s Gambit” draws on Nona Gaprindashvili’s career, but depicts a fictional chess commentato...
Judges and Judiciary, California Supreme Court
Speculation begins on who will replace Justice Cuéllar
By Craig Anderson
Other candidates will likely emerge, but the widespread consensus is that Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuéllar, the only Latino j...
The cases are part of an ongoing dispute between Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration and several tribes seeking to renew expiri...
Real Estate/Development, Land Use, Government
Governor signs bill to build multiple housing units in single family neighborhoods
By Blaise Scemama
Senate Bill 9, one of four Newsom signed Thursday, will allow as many as two duplexes -- two houses with attached units for a ...
Judges and Judiciary, California Supreme Court
Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar is leaving California Supreme Court
By Craig Anderson
Cuéllar, who was born in Mexico and lived with his family in Texas until moving to California when he was 14, will leave the c...
Government
Sonoma DA wins recall election she said was ‘revenge campaign’
By Kamila Knaudt
The unofficial ballot count showed District Attorney Jill Ravitch receiving 79% of the vote.