Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment, Government
As contract work reclassification bill is signed, legal challengers are prepared
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez keeps a framed picture in her office displaying the words, "A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the ...
An injunction issued Tuesday prohibits the Orange County sheriff’s department from selling art linked to Michael Avenatti’s ba...
Civil Litigation
Positives for both sides in Tubbs fire civil trial date approval
By Gina Kim
Weeks after a bankruptcy judge ruled that a jury trial should decide whether Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was liable for the...
Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law, Government
New battle brewing over whether coffee requires a warning label
By Justin Kloczko
A new state law stating the beverage is not hazardous after all contradicts a 2005 finding by the California health hazard age...
Criminal
Anti-abortion activist says he was trying to expose crimes when videotaping officials
By Craig Anderson
David R. Daleiden, testifying in his own defense Tuesday, said he was out to expose crimes when recording Planned Parenthood a...
Tax, Government
GOP aims to stop Berkeley dean’s amicus brief in presidential tax returns case
By Malcolm Maclachlan
According to attorneys for the Republicans, Erwin Chemerinsky’s brief was filed late and restates claims already made by the s...
Civil Litigation, Government, Environmental & Energy
Judge appears satisfied with PG&E’s wildfire preparations
By Winston Cho
Despite the revelation in response to a report that its vegetation management program is running behind, U.S. District Judge W...
Criminal, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Government can't mute executions, 9th Circuit rules
By Brian Cardile
The public may not be prevented from hearing the sounds of a prisoner being put to death, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Tax, Government
Anti-tax group gains US DOJ ally in fight against CalSavers program
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Attorneys with the DOJ' civil division filed a statement of interest arguing the state program is preempted by the Employee R...
A Judicial Council report released Tuesday called for an additional 173 judgeships to handle the state's current caseload, def...
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP
Government, Criminal
Bill strengthening parole rules passes Legislature by avoiding sentence enhancement
By Jessica Mach
The first week of September saw an unusual display of consensus between the California Legislature’s Democrats and Republicans...
Civil Litigation
Google hit with age discrimination lawsuit by former employee
By Nicole Tyau
A 72-year-old former Google employee claims the company allowed ongoing harassment and discrimination because of his age to oc...
Civil Litigation
Musk seeks summary judgment in case of diver he called ‘pedo’
By Steven Crighton
When Elon Musk accused a British diver in Thailand of pedophilia in a highly publicized 2018 Twitter spat, the Tesla CEO was r...
Government, Civil Rights
Data privacy bills may be models, but users unlikely to get data
By Carter Stoddard
While five amendments and a separate bill just passed by the Legislature significantly deem consumers the owners of the privat...
Labor/Employment, Government
Exempting newspapers from gig bill may lead to opt-outs
By Glenn Jeffers
In the waning moments of the legislature session, the state legislature passed Assembly Bill 170 early Saturday morning, givin...
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment
Suit claims UCLA Medical Center retaliated against concerned employee
By Glenn Jeffers
A former nursing director at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center has filed suit alleging retaliation
Civil Litigation
Prop 65 plaintiff: State previously said coffee is hazardous
By Justin Kloczko
A new battle is brewing in the nearly 10-year-long litigation over a cancer link in coffee, this time regarding a new law stat...
A power struggle to control opioid litigation in California includes an unusual duel between the state attorney general’s offi...
Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Fight to carry gun in public looks stalled at 9th Circuit
By Brian Cardile
A fight to carry a firearm in public that is pending in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals looks likely to be stalled for t...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Sutter Health faces antitrust trial with national implications
By Craig Anderson
A legal showdown over a large Northern California health care nonprofit’s business practices, set to start jury selection next...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar to provide record amount for legal aid in 2020
By Lyle Moran
The State Bar will distribute a record $79.1 million in legal services funding to 100 nonprofits in 2020, the agency announced...
International Law, Government
Global comity is good, but Americans need protection, says US antitrust chief
By Blaise Scemama
Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim said while he is committed to improving comity among nations, the division will not ...
Entertainment & Sports
Kanye West flips to Bird Marella to handle his contract tangle
By Steven Crighton
Kanye West has flipped to Bird Marella at a critical moment of litigation with his estranged publisher EMI April Music Inc.
Government, Criminal
Bill to eliminate private prisons may be limited by court order
By Jessica Mach
The Legislature passed a bill aimed at winding down private prisons in California but a court order limiting how many inmates ...
Civil Litigation, International Law
US judge won’t enforce $2.2 million French damages order in decades-long battle
By Nicole Tyau
In a case that has spanned two countries and more than 20 years, Judge Edward Davila declined to enforce a French court's orde...
Taking the stand in his own defense in a criminal case for surreptiously videotaping officials at Planned Parenthood and stem ...
Civil Litigation
Uber faces suit after vow to disobey new gig workers law
By Glenn Jeffers
As Assembly Bill 5's passing in the Legislature signals a possible sea change in how millions of California gig economy worker...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit skeptical law makes US company liable for foreign workplace harms
By Brian Cardile
With the Supreme Court growing less amenable to human rights suits brought by foreign plaintiffs under the Alien Tort Statute,...
