Increasingly, chief information officers and chief information security officers will face lawsuits for their actions, and ina...
If a right to food liberty were recognized, the chief beneficiaries would not be sustainable agriculture consumers and produce...
Zico Beverages LLC El Segundo ...
Public Interest
Los Angeles city attorney's office kicks off new homeless initiative
By Kibkabe Arayan
Over 250 of Los Angeles County's homeless population lined up outside Midnight Mission on Skid Row Wednesday, seeking legal a...
Litigation
Plaintiff's lawyer argues UCLA is liable for records leak in day two of trial
By Matthew Blake
Testimony from UCLA Health System's chief privacy officer took almost all of day two in a trial over whether the Regents of th...
Environmental
The Westlands Water District and the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority sued the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation last wee...
LA sheriff's deputies can be sued for failure to disclose evidence, 9th Circuit affirms
By L.J. Williamson
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies who are facing lawsuits by men who were wrongly imprisoned for decades are no...
Already embroiled in numerous state and federal civil lawsuits, Uber Technologies Inc. has been hit with a federal class actio...
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch has approved a motion for $5.5 million in attorney fees in a case handled by ...
O'Connor Davies Munns and Dobbins LLP agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle claims that its misleading audits on a fraudulent h...
Law Practice
Former Quinn Emanuel founder leaves spinoff for Davis Wright Tremaine
By Joshua Seboldn
David W. Quinto, one of the founders of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, has left a boutique formed by ex-Quinn atto...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Iranian bank loses appeal to terrorism victims
By Philip Johnsonn
A San Francisco federal judge properly waived Iran's sovereign immunity to allow terrorism victims to collect money owed from ...
Litigation
Bank of America settles overtime class action for $36 million
By Gautham Thomas
Bank of America Corp. and its appraisal subsidiary reached a $36 million settlement in a pending class action by a group of re...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
More than half of celebrity endorsements of brands or products on social media are not done in compliance with Federal Trade C...
Perspective
Proposed IRS rules may require review of profit interests
By Ben Armisteadn
Earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations that may change the way practitioners draft and s...
Entertainment & Sports
Flim flam: how film festivals can violate the law
By Ben Armisteadn
For film festivals, business is booming. Based on a recent Internet search, there were at least 257 festivals based in Califor...
Patent litigation in the digital age has taken the federal judiciary by storm. That's why professor Peter Menell put together ...
A majority decision ruled that a complaint accusing Guitar Center Inc, as well as five guitar manufacturers, of colluding to f...
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday held that the Southern District of California had failed to provide adequ...
Litigation
Reasons for UCLA patient’s record leak debated as trial opens
By Matthew Blake
A trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court that started Tuesday will determine if the UC Regents violated the state's Confid...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Wiretapping, RICO convictions upheld in Pellicano case
By Gautham Thomas
A federal appellate court panel on Tuesday affirmed the RICO convictions of private investigator Anthony Pellicano and other d...
Justice Therese Stewart, best known for her gay rights advocacy, is impressing appellate lawyers.
Chances are, the federal government's plan to carve out a California-sized part of Alaska as a critical habitat for polar bear...
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Perlette M. Jura visited Kenya as part of a training program for local locals sponsored...
Perspective
Joinder in patent processes: same facts, different results
By Ben Armisteadn
Since the inception of the inter-partes review and covered business method processes in 2011, the Patent Trial and Appeals Boa...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Circuit got it right on unmarried homeowners
By Ben Armisteadn
A recent 9th Circuit opinion resolves a problem of statutory construction that has existed for well over 20 years. By Patricia...
Trust & estate boutique Albertson & Davidson LLP announced it will open an office in Irvine in September, along with n...
In the first decisions of their kind, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected two patent challenges from the Coalition f...