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Each participant in the Conviction and Sentence Alternatives program is required to attend therapy, treatment and court sessio...


Environmental & Energy

CEQA lawsuit seeks to block huge Lake Tahoe development

Dec. 6, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The complaint seeks to force Placer County to set aside its latest approval. It also requests preliminary and permanent injunc...



Civil Litigation

Shutdown of tiny home maker brings multiple lawsuits

Dec. 6, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The complaints state that the company's founders knew they would never be able to deliver homes for resale to the plaintiffs w...


Technology

Most experts agree that a light regulatory touch in internet businesses that was envisioned by the Clinton administration and ...



Data Privacy

The complaint, filed in the Northern District of California, accused Nexstar of re-installing targeted advertising tracker coo...


Torts/Personal Injury, Judges and Judiciary

Gen Z's "desire to do social good" and mistrust of large corporations makes them likely to rule in favor of plaintiffs in case...



Government, Constitutional Law

U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu in Oakland dismissed most claims in a lawsuit against the city but left others intact in a ...


Trump picks White House counsel with California ties

Dec. 6, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

David A. Warrington is a partner at Dhillon Law Group.



Civil Litigation

Kaedian LLP partner Katherine C. McBroom and Los Angeles attorney Ian M. Wallach filed a federal civil complaint against those...


Judges and Judiciary

Lawmaker renews push for tribal judges' protections

Dec. 5, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria introduced her bills amid rising concerns over the safety of judges across the nation.



President Joe Biden's pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, is just the latest in a number of controversial and downright dubious ...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Yelp in state court after the company wrote in 2022 that crisis pregnancy centers provi...



Land Use, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Sober living facility Ohio House failed in its disparate treatment claim targeting Costa Mesa's zoning ordinances.


Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

One question in the case is whether the law requiring background checks on all ammunition purchases falls under permissible st...



Civil Litigation

A former Northrop Grumman worker claims the aerospace giant required off-the-clock work and denied its employees proper breaks.


Judges and Judiciary, Government

Without a precedent for a presidential pardon spanning 11 years and including crimes that "may have" been committed, a federal...



Other proposed legislation includes a measure to protect tribal judges from violence, bills targeting social media companies a...


Nathan Hochman said he rejects extreme policies on both sides of the pendulum, such as mass incarceration and "decarceration" ...



Technology

If granted, the injunction would prevent OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, from requiring investors to hold off on funding compe...


In denying his bid for a new trial on the grounds his mental competency had deteriorated during the proceedings, the judge foc...



Judges and Judiciary

The bill would give President-elect Donald Trump 22 new district judgeships to fill during his upcoming term, including seven ...


Education Law

The California Department of Education "violated the mandate" of the Education Code with its denial of funding to a Los Angele...



Judges and Judiciary

U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi of Los Angeles took aim at Joe Biden's press release announcing the pardon.


Civil Rights

The company's attorneys, who asked the judge to reverse the jury's October verdict, filed a brief Friday replying to the plain...



Technology, Labor/Employment

The technology company is accused of suppressing employee speech and making them sign away their right to privacy in a new law...


Wills, Estates & Trusts

In his Nov. 25 ruling, Judge Jonathan L. Rosenbloom found that Melya Kaplan used millions of dollars from the trust for person...



Civil Litigation

AIDS group breached patients' privacy, lawsuit claims

Dec. 3, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The use of tracking codes by Meta and Google meant those companies received identifying information about patients using AIDS ...


Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Assistant Federal Public Defender Sonam A.H. Henderson challenged the conviction on the grounds that the "felon-in-possession"...



Appointed to the state court bench in 2019 by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Hwang previously worked for a dozen years as a federal public...


Abbey, Weitzenberg, Warren & Emery PC can trace its history back more than a century.