Labor/Employment
Uber tells judge sick pay plan is huge success, drivers say no
By Winston Cho
Uber is allegedly violating an agreement to expand its financial assistance program to provide paid sick leave for drivers les...
The University of Southern California is the latest educational institution hit with class actions from students fighting to g...
Government
LA judge OKs $75M in state funds to those in the country illegally
By Justin Kloczko
Judge Samantha P. Jessner said the $75 million didn’t rise to a significant level of harm to taxpayers.
Government
Lawmakers return to Sacramento with urgency fueled by pandemic
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The California Bankers Association and the California Credit Unions League opposed the bill, saying it is too broad.
Criminal
Riverside County under federal order to social distance its jail inmates
By Blaise Scemama
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips said the county “has failed to demonstrate that it is currently taking adequate precauti...
Labor/Employment, Government, California Supreme Court
State high court considers pension benefits dispute
By Craig Anderson
The California Supreme Court considered arguments Tuesday over a 2013 law that reduced some retirees’ pension benefits in what...
Civil Litigation
Panel overturns most of $9.4M award to Quincy Jones, who sued Jackson estate
By Blaise Scemama
“Interpretation of the producer agreements was solely a judicial function, yet the trial court allowed the jury to perform tha...
LA County Judge Daniel Crowley does a complete analysis of issues before him.
Government
LA Registrar-Recorder will accept electronically signed documents
By Kamila Knaudt
The Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder County Clerk will now accept electronically signed and notarized documents, according to an...
Judges and Judiciary
San Diego County court announces plan to reopen May 26
By Kamila Knaudt
San Diego County Superior Court plans to re-open May 26. The court's suspension of all non-emergency services is effective thr...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney sworn in as magistrate judge for Central District
By Gina Kim
Patricia A. Donahue has been appointed U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Central District.
Labor/Employment, Government
Businesses sue over Paycheck Protection Program guidelines
By Gina Kim
New lawsuit questions recent guidelines issued by the U.S. Treasury Department and Small Business Administration reimposing a ...
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP is escalating its battle against insurers for refusing to cover restaurant losses c...
Labor/Employment
Unemployment strain drove suit of Uber, Lyft, lawyers say
By Jessica Mach
The pandemic's strain on state unemployment funds likely motivated the lawsuit state entities filed against Uber and Lyft Tues...
Government, Civil Rights, California Supreme Court
State high court speeds challenges of Newsom’s emergency orders
By Blaise Scemama
Governor is taking “legally justified and morally necessary” action says his spokeswoman.
Government
Those suing governor getting what they want without the courts
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Plaintiffs suing Gov. Gavin Newsom over his emergency orders are starting to get some of what they want, though generally not ...
Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Split 9th Circuit panel denies US stay on order barring some immigrants
By Craig Anderson
A divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel denied the U.S. government's request to stay an Oregon district judge's orde...
Government, Constitutional Law
US judge says governor has the right to close churches
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The judge said police actions such as disrupting a church service would be barred “under normal circumstances. ... But sometim...
Civil Litigation
UC Hastings, hotels, restaurants sue San Francisco over Tenderloin conditions
By Kamila Knaudt
The complaint filed in the Northern District of California alleges multiple violations of constitutional guarantees, including...
Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports
Successful women’s soccer team can’t claim it earned less
By Jessica Mach
The U.S. women's national soccer team was a victim of its own success when a federal judge dismissed the team's equal pay clai...
Former San Diego City Attorney Michael J. Aguirre lost another bid to obtain records from federal nuclear regulators related t...
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy attorneys concerned about whether loan deferments will help landlord clients
By Carter Stoddard
If banks do not extend some comparable long-term relief, another real estate and mortgage crash is a near certainty, some atto...
U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property
High court holds first live audio argument with a few hitches
By Craig Anderson
The U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments Monday on a live audiostream for the first time, and the proceedings went off with ...
Trial lawyer won billion-dollar verdicts against tobacco
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Uber must answer antitrust lawsuit by now-defunct rival
By Winston Cho
Uber Technologies Inc. must answer an antitrust lawsuit claiming its predatory pricing and other anticompetitive practices dro...
Civil Rights, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Background check challenge might mark significant 9th Circuit shift
By Tyler Pialet
Nearly a dozen cases the U.S. Supreme Court court had been holding under consideration pending the outcome of the New York cas...
Insurance, Civil Litigation
Plaintiffs hope to consolidate restaurant suits over coverage
By Craig Anderson
San Francisco-based plaintiffs’ firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP has entered the battle over business interrupt...
Government, Civil Rights
Open defiance, multiplying lawsuits in response to governor’s shutdown orders
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Some attorneys say Newsom’s orders rest on firm constitutional grounds, but much depends on how far he is willing to go to enf...
Santa Barbara’s Cappello & Noël has just 7 attorneys but its litigation prowess is fearsome.
Mergers & Acquisitions
BakerHostetler continues growth with new litigator in LA
By Kamila Knaudt
David L. Aronoff joined Baker & Hostetler LLP in Los Angeles, the firm announced Monday.