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Civil Litigation


Beats claims it doesn’t have to pay former hedge fund manager Steven Lamar anything for headphones released after the initial ...


Law Practice, Government, Alternative Dispute Resolution


A bill that would allow out-of-state and foreign attorneys to represent international arbitration clients in California moved ...


Environmental & Energy, Criminal


Jury members, deciding whether Plains All American Pipeline was criminally negligent in their handling of a 142 thousand gallo...


Civil Litigation, Government, Corporate


Pacific Gas and Electric Co. warned investors and shareholders that it expects to record a “significant liability for losses” ...


Civil Litigation


Industrial designer Robert Brunner didn’t have many negative things to say about his longtime business associates at Beats Ele...


Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law, Administrative/Regulatory


Judge dismisses most claims in medical device case

Jun. 13, 2018
By Justin Kloczko

A judge has dismissed most federal class action claims alleging that a fat-freezing company misled consumers into thinking its...


Labor/Employment, Government


A clause in a state bill regulating cannabis businesses which requires them to enter "labor peace agreements" in order to be l...


Law Practice


A new managing partner and chief executive officer is poised to lead Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP.


U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


In a nearly unanimous decision, the justices ruled Monday that tolling provisions that allow plaintiffs to bring individual la...


Immigration, Government


Immigration attorneys will likely face greater difficultly securing asylum for clients who say they have faced violence from d...


Criminal


Commercial litigator defends murder accused

Jun. 12, 2018
By Steven Crighton

A murder trial that began Monday is the first criminal trial defended by Rick Richmond, managing partner of Jenner & Block...


Government, California Supreme Court


The state Senate Judiciary Committee will take up a bill Tuesday clarifying that many different types of taxes, not just prope...


Civil Litigation


Molestation victim gets $25.3 million verdict

Jun. 12, 2018
By Andy Serbe

A Los Angeles County jury has found an after-school supervisor and the school that employed him jointly liable to the tune of ...


Corporate


Corii Berg replaces Wayne Levin, who resigned last November.


Civil Litigation, Government


Los Angeles County and the city of Oakland have joined the lawsuit against opioid manufacturers scheduled for trial in Orange ...



Air and Space

Jun. 12, 2018

Amy Gonzalez says San Diego Airport is a closely regulated transportation hub and landlord.


Labor/Employment, Government


Amid a tangle of National Labor Relations Board rulings, a recusal and congressional concern, labor attorneys are looking forw...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


A proposed $500,000 cut to the agency failed to make it into Gov. Jerry Brown’s final budget.


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


A legal dispute concerning adult film actress Stormy Daniels' decision to go public about her allegations of a 2006 affair wit...


Civil Litigation


Partway through an aggressive cross-examination of plaintiff Steven Lamar, Beats Electronics’ counsel Arturo Gonzalez told a c...


Civil Rights, California Courts of Appeal


In a case pitting land use against coastal access, an appellate panel ruled San Diego can prohibit people from accessing a bea...


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property


As a nearly teenage Holden Lenz likely braces himself for his first year in high school, the lawsuit filed over a video of him...


Government


Loretta Lynch addressed a San Diego group promoting women in the law and society


The plaintiff accused Uber of a plot to use fake Lyft accounts to place phony requests for rides, an alleged violation of unfa...


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


President Donald Trump’s first nominee to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a conservative Oregon federal prosecutor who ...


Government, Criminal


Modoc County Public Defender Samuel Kyllo was elected district attorney, defeating incumbent Jordan Funk, whose campaign was i...


Immigration


Hundreds of immigrants facing deportation will likely receive bond hearings after a federal judge ruled certain immigrants det...


Immigration, Government


Two immigrant rights organizations sued the Department of Homeland Security, alleging it failed to respond to a Freedom of Inf...


Attorneys for President Donald J. Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, have filed to remove porn actress Stormy Da...


An appellate court ruled Thursday that insurer AIG Property Casualty Co. must pay to defend comedian Bill Cosby in civil lawsu...