Real Estate/Development, Land Use
Advocates of denser housing are winning in California
By Craig Anderson
The city of San Mateo on Thursday announced it was surrendering in its legal battle with a dense housing advocacy group over a...
Civil Litigation
AG joins DA and 2 law firms sue ghost gun makers, sellers
By Kamila Knaudt
Due to a provision in the laws that define a firearm as a fully assembled weapon, some ghost gun manufacturers and sellers arg...
Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports
Actor files EEOC complaint against ‘Hamilton’
By Gina Kim
Suni Reid, who uses they/them or she/her pronouns, said in the complaint that they were retaliated against when they requested...
The Santa Monica office, which Adrianne E. Marshack joined this week, is an example of the firm seeking opportunities in emerg...
Securities, Criminal, California Courts of Appeal
Victims waited years for 3rd District decision to allow restitution
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Fraud victims in their 70s and 80s wrote repeated letters asking the 3rd District Court of Appeal to decide the case while the...
The objection filed by the Communications Workers of America said the proposed consent decree reached on Sept. 27 is riddled w...
Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation
Cardi B explains went to Paris but not to trial
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Cardi B defends decision to attend Fashion Week in Paris, but not postponed misuse of likeness trial.
Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
Attorney fee deal ‘a red flag’ for collusion, federal judge says
By Winston Cho
“Sadly, this is another class settlement proposal in which class counsel get vast amounts of cash but the class members get me...
Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Alameda judge confirmed to court of appeal
By Craig Anderson
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Victor A. Rodriguez received unanimous confirmation from the Commission on Judicial Appoin...
Civil Litigation
Parts maker can’t escape litigation over Metrolink crash
By Blaise Scemama
While no California state case discusses the specific issue presented to this case, “This court finds that the preemptive scop...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
$30M deal ends truckers’ misclassification class actions
By Winston Cho
U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner, in an order granting preliminary approval, blessed on Friday a $20 million deal and a $9...
Criminal
LA city councilman, USC former dean indicted on corruption charges
By Henrik Nilsson
Mark Ridley-Thomas, 66, allegedly conspired with Marilyn Louise Flynn, 83, who was a dean of the School of Social Work at the ...
Legal Education, Law Practice
Attorney couple donates $30M to McGeorge School of Law
By Henrik Nilsson
Husband and wife Robert T. Eglet and Tracy A. Eglet, law partners based in Las Vegas, committed $20 million for scholarships t...
Constitutional Law, Civil Litigation
Law against protests at vaccine sites unconstitutional, suit says
By Winston Cho
The complaint filed in federal court in San Jose argued that the law essentially bars all types of constitutionally protected ...
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation
AG to investigate oil spill, marine businesses file class actions
By Gina Kim
Powerhouse plaintiffs’ firms Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Robertson & Associates LLP in Westlake Village tea...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
Unions, states, counties are COVID mandate battlegrounds
By Craig Anderson
Students who didn’t want to get COVID-19 vaccinations faced a stiff hurdle, especially after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Co...
Civil Litigation
$27.4M verdict for man who said talc sold by J&J caused cancer
By Blaise Scemama
Lead plaintiff’s counsel Danny R. Kraft Jr., a New York based associate attorney of Weitz & Luxenberg PC, said he was happ...
Technology, Obituaries
William A. Fenwick was 'true technology lawyer before his time'
By Craig Anderson
The one-time associate at a New York law firm who headed to California in the early 1970s to co-found Fenwick & West LLP, ...
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation, Administrative/Regulatory
US sues San Diego water board over sewage supervision
By Henrik Nilsson
In a lawsuit filed on Friday, the government said that a permit regulating a government-run water treatment plan in San Diego ...
Government, Criminal
Governor signs bills on sentence enhancement over DAs’ objections
By Kamila Knaudt
“Rather than achieving the author’s intent to improve fairness in sentencing while retaining a judge’s authority to apply an e...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice, Government
State Bar won’t get more money, some jurors will, in new laws
By Malcolm Maclachlan
But 2021 could signal the beginning of some long-term changes that will affect attorneys. AB 1452, which Newsom signed Friday,...
Law Practice
Pent-up demand, new clients are driving law jobs growth, leaders say
By Pete Escobar
“When the pandemic hit in early 2020, we were one of the first firms to form a COVID-19 Task Force, to address this new area o...
Civil Litigation
Jury awards $10.6M in noneconomic damages to adult sons’ parents
By Blaise Scemama
“Oftentimes, these are extremely difficult cases to get the jury to understand what a parent’s losses are for an adult son. It...
The law firm Edelson PC asked Bankruptcy Judge Barry Russell for clarification because it wants to pursue Erika Girardi’s asse...
Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation
Judge rejects motion to dismiss, Metallica suit against insurer moves forward
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“The court held that the complaint sufficiently alleged that travel restrictions, the duty to mitigate damages, the need to fl...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
EEOC accuses state civil rights agency of conflict
By Gina Kim
In court papers filed Saturday, the EEOC said two unidentified lawyers at the California Department of Fair Employment and Hou...
Law Practice, Criminal
Revenge porn victims get time to discover and report crime
By Kamila Knaudt
“We had a clear violation, we had an individual who did do this and admitted to doing it, but we could not prosecute because o...
Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation
Attorneys hope to use $50M award to challenge MICRA cap
By Blaise Scemama
The jury awarded mortgage broker Nicholas Merlo $20 million in past and future economic damages, plus $20 million in noneconom...
Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation
Environmental group threatens to sue US over offshore drilling
By Gina Kim
The move comes as the U.S. Coast Guard has scaled back its estimate of the number of gallons spilled from the pipeline rupture...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
State can seek recovery for employees in settled case
By Gina Kim
Riot Games argued in court papers that its private agreements with former employees precluded the state’s statutory authority.