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Ellen Pao's defiant admission of defeat Wednesday in her gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & ...


Labor/Employment


Current and former managers with Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc. say the chain chronically understaffs stores, leav...


California Courts of Appeal


A Pasadena police union failed to keep secret an independent report on the 2012 officer-involved fatal shooting of an unarmed ...


A San Diego company that distributed cucumbers believed to be responsible for a recent nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has...


Intellectual Property


Artist sues Netflix in rare copyright claim

Sep. 11, 2015
By Ashley Cullinsn

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


Last month, new regulations took effect in the EU governing what law controls when dealing with an estate plan in which a clie...


Criminal


A few weeks ago, Regal Entertainment Group announced a "Backpacks/Packages" policy on its website, which has been implemented ...


Perspective


Goodell: judge, jury, commissioner

Sep. 11, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

Questions about the NFL commissioner's alleged lack of impartiality in the so-called "Delflategate" scandal could be the most ...


Intellectual Property


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

Sep. 11, 2015
By L.J. Williamson

Criminal defendants awaiting trial have no right to the social media content of victims' Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accou...


Federal agents Wednesday morning arrested a man posing as an immigration lawyer and his daughter for allegedly setting up Chin...


Government


Privacy bill heads to governor amid controversy

Sep. 11, 2015
By Joshua Seboldn

A new bill likely headed to Governor Jerry Brown's desk would require law enforcement to attain a warrant before collecting on...


Litigation


Broadcom gender bias case will stay in court

Sep. 11, 2015
By Matthew Blaken

A federal judge has denied company's bid to bring gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit before an arbitrator. ...


Law Practice


Gibson Dunn snags Foley's LA managing partner

Sep. 11, 2015
By Deirdre Newmann

Deepak Nanda, the previous managing partner of Foley & Lardner LLP's Los Angeles office, has joined the Orange County offi...


Transactions


Health care IPOs strong in market downturn

Sep. 11, 2015
By Banks Albachn

With the recent market downturn the number of companies filing initial public offerings could slow in the fourth quarter this ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Sep. 10, 2015
By Melanie Brisbonn

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


Judges and Judiciary


A year after legislators clarified that state courts could make findings that unaccompanied undocumented children are eligible...



Joseph A. Calabrese

Sep. 10, 2015
By Ashley Cullinsn

Latham & Watkins LLP Century City ...


Perspective


I write to follow-up to the excellent article on the oral argument before the California Supreme Court in Center for Biologica...


Construction


A Court of Appeal recently published an opinion holding that the Right to Repair Act applies to all claims alleging constructi...


A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday affirmed the Central District's dismissal of a class action challenging a...


Law Practice


Retired law professor launches appellate boutique

Sep. 10, 2015
By Steven Crighton

A longtime appellate attorney and former professor Golden Gate University School of Law has launched an appellate boutique thi...


Intellectual Property


A federal judge has awarded Universal Remote Control Inc. more than $4.6 million in legal fees and costs Thursday after the de...


Litigation


Sempra Energy defeats Mexican rancher's lawsuit

Sep. 10, 2015
By Banks Albachn

A federal judge in San Diego sided with Sempra Energy in a long-running dispute with a Mexican rancher stemming from a billion...


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


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


A man's juvenile adjudication for second degree murder renders him ineligible for postconviction release under the Three Strik...


Top 100


Top 100

Sep. 9, 2015
By STEPHEN LARSON


Pressure from a Santa Ana federal judge's finding that California's death penalty is unconstitutional has reached the state Su...


Administrative/Regulatory


Public drone use raises legal concerns

Sep. 9, 2015
By Hannah Hartshornn

During a recent meeting with a school district client, they casually mentioned that they were using a "drone." Many other gove...