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Civil Litigation


Yahoo agrees to pay $50M over breaches

Oct. 25, 2018
By Sean Kagan

Yahoo Inc. agreed to a $50 million settlement for users affected by security breaches occurring in 2013 through 2016, hacks de...


Labor/Employment, California Courts of Appeal


The 4th District panel wrote that the defendant company failed the third prong in the “ABC” test laid down in Dynamex Operatio...


American corporations may be sued for aiding and abetting international human rights abuses, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of App...


Environmental & Energy, Criminal


An oil company convicted in September of one felony and eight misdemeanors related to its handling of a 140,000-gallon oil spi...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


A game company suspects one of its own is leaking trade secrets about upcoming content updates and has asked a district judge ...


Law Practice, Education Law


Stanford Law School received a $25 million endowment for its global law program.


A San Francisco County judge’s decision upholding a landmark jury verdict which found that Monsanto Co.’s weed killers cause c...


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy


The Animal Legal Defense Fund and American Wild Horse Campaign allege the Forest Service adopted a new policy to sell “federal...


Civil Litigation


The judgment against the celebrity lawyer occurred the same day Eagan Avenatti LLP was evicted.


Civil Litigation


Minutes before a state court jury was about to deliver half a million dollars in punitive damages against a Southern Californi...


Civil Litigation, Immigration, Government


A report from Syracuse University found a significant increase in Freedom of Information Act lawsuits filed by nonprofits and ...


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property


Calling the patents “abstract” and a process “that could be worked out with a pencil and paper,” U.S. District Judge Vince Chh...


Law Practice, Corporate


Simplify Medical Inc., located in Sunnyvale, hired in-house counsel consultant Cindy Lynch to a full-time legal role as it gea...


Judges and Judiciary, Government, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee appears poised to hear testimony from a nominee to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ...


Law Practice, Corporate


Desmarais LLP to open San Francisco office

Oct. 23, 2018
By Matthew Sanderson

Peter Magic, recently promoted to partner, will head the West Coast expansion. The tentative opening date is Dec. 1.


Law Practice, Corporate


Belynda S. Reck comes to the firm from Reed Smith LLP and will help lead a California expansion.


Criminal


Ex-public defender arraigned on rape charge

Oct. 23, 2018
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

Former deputy public defender Rahul Balaram pleaded not guilty to charges he raped a colleague after a holiday work party last...


Civil Litigation



Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Nationwide injunctions, a federal contraceptive health care coverage mandate and an unprecedented jurisdictional argument were...


Civil Litigation


The University of Southern California agreed to a $215 million settlement Friday in a federal class action by women alleging ...


Civil Litigation, Government


The U.S. Department of Justice’s challenge to a law passed last year giving the state the right of first refusal in sales of f...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


A woman who says she suffered a stroke as the possible result of an errant kick at a Skrillex concert will likely have to conv...


Civil Litigation


Jury awards $41.8M after deliberating 4 hours

Oct. 22, 2018
By Blaise Scemama

A Superior Court jury awarded $41.8 million on Friday to a 32-year-old U.S. Air Force captain for past and future physical pai...


Government, Civil Rights


A judge will begin weighing evidence in this summer’s trial over whether the city of Santa Monica violated the California Voti...


Education Law


A forthcoming study found that a result of a shrinking application pool, law schools collectively lost about $1.5 billion annu...


Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


An attorney argued that his case contending McDonald’s Corp. is jointly liable for a franchisee’s labor code violations was im...


Judges and Judiciary, California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court ignored the letter and appointed 7 superior court judges to hear the appeal Thursday afternoon.


U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment


Three employees of a local agency have filed unfair labor practice charges alleging they were harassed for not joining a union.


Judges and Judiciary, In Recess


Bone Sweet Bone

Oct. 19, 2018
By Skylar Dubelko

Orange County Judge Antony Ufland spends his time off the bench finding homes for dogs.


Criminal, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


A canned tuna distributor agreed Thursday to plead guilty and cooperate in an ongoing investigation into price fixing in the p...