Labor/Employment
Pao admits defeat, but legal experts expect gender discrimination suits to continue
By Kevin Lee
Ellen Pao's defiant admission of defeat Wednesday in her gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & ...
Labor/Employment
Major beauty retailer hit with employee misclassification lawsuit
By Philip Johnsonn
Current and former managers with Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc. say the chain chronically understaffs stores, leav...
California Courts of Appeal
Report on Pasadena police shooting must be released, appellate court rules
By John Roemer
A Pasadena police union failed to keep secret an independent report on the 2012 officer-involved fatal shooting of an unarmed ...
Litigation
Lawsuit filed against San Diego company tied to Salmonella outbreak
By Lyle Moran
A San Diego company that distributed cucumbers believed to be responsible for a recent nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has...
In what attorneys said could be the first litigation of its kind in decades, a handwritten lawsuit from a pro per artist takes...
Trusts & Estates
International estate planning easier with new EU rules
By Ben Armisteadn
Last month, new regulations took effect in the EU governing what law controls when dealing with an estate plan in which a clie...
A few weeks ago, Regal Entertainment Group announced a "Backpacks/Packages" policy on its website, which has been implemented ...
Questions about the NFL commissioner's alleged lack of impartiality in the so-called "Delflategate" scandal could be the most ...
Intellectual Property
Google wins patent defense against holding company
By Kevin L Ee
Google Inc. successfully fought off a patent infringement lawsuit brought by plaintiff Blue Spike LLC after an Oakland federal...
California Courts of Appeal
Social media companies win discovery fight
By L.J. Williamson
Criminal defendants awaiting trial have no right to the social media content of victims' Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accou...
Criminal
Federal agents arrest father and daughter in alleged immigration fraud scheme
By Gautham Thomasn
Federal agents Wednesday morning arrested a man posing as an immigration lawyer and his daughter for allegedly setting up Chin...
A new bill likely headed to Governor Jerry Brown's desk would require law enforcement to attain a warrant before collecting on...
A federal judge has denied company's bid to bring gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit before an arbitrator. ...
Deepak Nanda, the previous managing partner of Foley & Lardner LLP's Los Angeles office, has joined the Orange County offi...
With the recent market downturn the number of companies filing initial public offerings could slow in the fourth quarter this ...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council considers new forms for unaccompanied minor proceedings
By America Hernandez
A year after legislators clarified that state courts could make findings that unaccompanied undocumented children are eligible...
Latham & Watkins LLP Century City ...
I write to follow-up to the excellent article on the oral argument before the California Supreme Court in Center for Biologica...
A Court of Appeal recently published an opinion holding that the Right to Repair Act applies to all claims alleging constructi...
9th Circuit says state courts must be free to run its own operations
By L.J. Williamson
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday affirmed the Central District's dismissal of a class action challenging a...
A longtime appellate attorney and former professor Golden Gate University School of Law has launched an appellate boutique thi...
Intellectual Property
Sidley wins $4.6 million award in 'exceptional' patent case
By Kevin Lee
A federal judge has awarded Universal Remote Control Inc. more than $4.6 million in legal fees and costs Thursday after the de...
A federal judge in San Diego sided with Sempra Energy in a long-running dispute with a Mexican rancher stemming from a billion...
Government
Court leadership hopes to head off bill limiting use of outside contractors
By Fiona Smith
A union-backed bill that would curtail courts' use of outside contractors in place of employees has passed out of the Legislat...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Federal prosecutors' press releases cannot be subject of lawsuit, court rules
By Saul Sugarman
U.S. citizens have no legal right to challenge information that the U.S. Department of Justice circulates about them in press ...
California Courts of Appeal
Juvenile murder 'adjudication' prevents early release under Prop. 36, court rules
By Philip Johnsonn
A man's juvenile adjudication for second degree murder renders him ineligible for postconviction release under the Three Strik...
Criminal
State Supreme Court hints at reconsideration of the death penalty
By John Roemer
Pressure from a Santa Ana federal judge's finding that California's death penalty is unconstitutional has reached the state Su...
During a recent meeting with a school district client, they casually mentioned that they were using a "drone." Many other gove...
