District attorneys argue Brown's sentencing reform measure is unlikely to gather the needed signatures to place it on the Nove...
Litigation
Suit challenging Prop. 65 warning adequacy dismissed, will be appealed
By America Hernandez
A class action alleged arsenic in wine requires stronger warnings than currently required by law. ...
Education
Former Corinthian students may not gain from big default judgment
By Saul Sugarman
While attorney General Kamala Harris's office is celebrating her recent $1.1 billion default judgment against a for-profit col...
The Volkswagen AG emissions cheating class litigation may have found the gear to garner a resolution of the giant legal action...
Litigation
Mortgage company to pay $25M for misappropriating rival's data
By America Hernandez
Guaranteed Rate Inc. and an employee were found liable for taking hundreds of client files from Orange County Rival TRU Mortga...
Jury rules that the school did not falsely report graduates' employment statistics in U.S. News. ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit rules in favor of fast-track habeas deadlines
By Saul Sugarman
A successful bid in federal court to halt a fast-track appeal process for death row inmates was overturned Wednesday by the 9t...
Senior Vice President of International Development and General Counsel Panda Restaurant Group ...
Virginia-based firm names lateral from Reed Smith as managing partner of new outpost. ...
Corporate
Slowing capital markets spur more inside participation in IPOs
By Banks Albachn
According to a recent report from Renaissance Capital LLC, a firm tracking IPOs, inside investors bought up nearly fifty perce...
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh stayed a smartphone patent trial slated for next week because of intervention by the U.S. Supr...
Melissa Murray has expertise in sexual orientation and gender identity law. ...
The Commission on Judicial Performance publicly admonished Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Connolly for "engaging in ...
Landmark case is handed over to the jury to determine if law school misreported jobs figures ...
A federal judge found that none of Sterling's claims against the NBA were actionable. ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
LACBA calls for audit, says event price hikes were due to internal misallocation of funds
By Justin Kloczko
The president of the financially strapped Los Angeles County Bar Association says event pricing guidelines will be revised aft...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Appellate court considers whether to revive habeas appeal filed a day late
By Fiona Smith
The 9th Circuit weighed Tuesday whether to overturn a three-judge panel opinion which held that, even in post-conviction death...
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the editor: Scalia and affirmative action
By Riley Guerin
The U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately recognize that race can never be used by public schools in making admissions decisions,...
A recent column presents an excellent account of how the U.S. Supreme Court continues to follow flawed rationale in affirming ...
California's political supervisory body has fined a former judicial candidate for failing to divulge the origin of a $50,000 l...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Health care regulator approves insurance network merger
By Joshua Seboldn
A $6.8 billion merger between two major health insurance networks received final approval from two California regulators Tuesd...
Intellectual Property
After long litigation, an LA jury sides with Coke against Pom Wonderful in false advertising claims case
By Amanda Schallert
A Los Angeles jury did not think Coca-Cola tricked customers by marketing a juice as "pomegranate-blueberry" though it contain...
Michael Zweiback, who has nearly 20 years of experience as a federal prosecutor and is defending embattled former Los Angeles ...
Writing laws involving police body cameras is not simple and the technology is still untested in much of the state. ...
Plaintiffs' lawyers want to hit the accelerator on the idling Volkswagen emissions cheating class action litigation while atto...
A Fresno County jury found Fidelity National Title Insurance Co. liable for $25 million for failing to pay out insurance polic...
Litigation
A federal judge won't move up status conference in Trump lawsuit
By Amanda Schallert
Judge lets the main plaintiff go and denies a motion for an expedited status conference in the Trump University lawsuit. ...
Fresno County Judge Hilary Chittick is able to motivate others, particularly in drug court.
