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Civil Litigation


Lawsuit filed over planned $150M game

Dec. 14, 2017
By Steven Crighton

The makers of “Star Citizen” are being sued by the creators of its game engine.


Civil Litigation, Government


Administrative judge sues CPUC for racial discrimination

Dec. 14, 2017
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The former chief administrative law judge of the California Public Utilities Commission has filed a lawsuit claiming wrongful ...


Government, Civil Litigation


The San Jose city attorney’s office is aiming to stop a second church from illegally selling cannabis following a successful e...


The investors’ service says the San Diego school is facing financial deficits


A Los Angeles Superior Court judge who had a complaint lodged against him over conduct during a gender change petition underwe...


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


Plaintiff’s lawyers who argued Tuesday that prior salary cannot be a reason for gender pay disparity may have snatched defeat ...


Civil Litigation, Government


Judge dismisses challenge to state fire fee

Dec. 13, 2017
By Malcolm Maclachlan

A Sacramento County judge has dismissed a long-running suit challenging a state fire fee passed in 2011.


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The Danville attorney misappropriated the settlement funds, according to a press release.


Judges and Judiciary, Criminal, California Courts of Appeal


An appeal by Brock Turner, the ex-Stanford swimmer whose six-month jail term for sexually assaulting a woman fueled an effort ...


Civil Litigation


A federal judge in Oakland has given the green light to tenants pursuing a class action suit against real estate behemoth Equi...


Civil Litigation


Attorneys for the plaintiffs whose loved ones died in the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland have voluntarily dismissed their case aga...


Civil Litigation


A six-month legal battle by Western Digital Corp. to prevent Toshiba Corp. from selling assets in their joint ventures to a th...


An agency official said it may be easier to revert to previous method for determining the success rate.


California Supreme Court


California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said Monday she is eager for Gov. Jerry Brown to fill what has become a lengthy v...


Civil Litigation


In a published ruling for AT&T Mobility LLC and against a putative class of cellphone owners, the court harkened back to ...


A subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. that systematically overbilled railcar operators and polluted the Long Beach Harbor pleaded g...


Immigration, Government


More immigration judges to be added, Sessions asserts

Dec. 12, 2017
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has written a memo announcing the hiring of 60 new judges in the next six months and outlining ...


Civil Litigation


The former rabbi of Pelican Bay State Prison has sued the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, alleging a pattern of ...


Community News


Leah Weil, general counsel for Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., received the Jurisprudence Award at the Anti-Defamation Leagu...


Ross Agre joins Burbank-based Cast & Crew Entertainment Services LLC as general counsel.


Intellectual Property


San Diego Comic-Con court win could have wide impact

Dec. 12, 2017
By Steven Crighton

The ruling might encourage others using the term “comic con” to change their names.


Environmental & Energy, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Three judges wrestled with an unprecedented case at the heart of energy policy, global warming and the separation of powers.


Criminal


OC DA gets fetal tissue sellers to shut down

Dec. 12, 2017
By Meghann Cuniff

A settlement requires two companies to shut down their businesses and donate their remaining tissue and cells, valued at nearl...


Corporate


Shefali A. Shah will be joining Avaya Inc. as chief administrative officer and general counsel.


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


Attorney Paul Boylan and small-town newspaper editor Tim Crews are teaming up again to file lawsuits seeking public records at...


Law Practice, Government, Criminal


In a case that has raised eyebrows in the Southern California desert towns of Indio and Coachella, a local resident who was ch...


Law Practice


The burgeoning vaporized tobacco industry presents a market for attorneys, but a challenging one suffering from hazy regulatio...


California Courts of Appeal


A state appellate court affirmed a judge’s decision to dismiss Cal Fire’s claims against the defendants, including Sierra Paci...


Intellectual Property, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Even if a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel reverses a district court’s dismissal of a copyright infringement lawsuit br...


Civil Litigation


A San Francisco longshoreman with mesothelioma won a $24 million verdict against a shipyard contractor for conditions which co...