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Torts/Personal Injury, Education Law


In a motion for summary judgement, the school district said it met its obligations for supervising the child who overdosed in ...


Health Care & Hospital Law, California Supreme Court


Justice Goodwin H. Liu wrote for a unanimous court that they must prioritize patient care over price transparency concerns. Th...


A civil rights complaint allows the government to do much of the investigative work for the plaintiff, but it also might make ...


California Courts of Appeal


The Daily Journal's in-house team of lawyers summarizes every published decision from the California Court of Appeal, Californ...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


Commure Inc., a health care technology company represented by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, is accused in a trade...


Environmental & Energy


Owners of disused Gold Rush mine sued over wastewater

Dec. 24, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

After the Idaho-Maryland mine in Nevada County halted operations in the mid-1950s, subsurface workings were allowed to flood f...


Intellectual Property


Attorneys for the OMG Girlz - as well as Clifford "T.I" Harris and his wife and group founder Tameka "Tiny" Harris - argued th...


Judges and Judiciary


The confirmations encompass one Supreme Court justice, 45 circuit court judges, 187 district court judges, and two judges for ...


Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Though the voters approved the measure, the City Council promoted it, and it targeted a man who had attempted to recall most o...


Criminal


Disbarred and convicted attorney Tom Girardi, 85, is to be flown to federal facility in North Carolina for 30 days of evaluati...


Judges and Judiciary


U.S. Magistrate Judge Benjamin J. Cheeks and Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Serena R. Murillo were approved on partis...


Criminal


The dispute between former Los Angeles DA George Gascón and the union representing his deputies over sentence enhancements is ...


Health Care & Hospital Law


The case against pharmaceutical companies, filed by California's attorney general, has flipped between state and federal court...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The complaint, filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court, accuses Align Technology Inc., the American Dental Association, and...


Aug. 13, 1969 -- Dec. 18, 2024


Civil Litigation


Shegerian awarded $3.9M in fees against UC Regents

Dec. 23, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

Shegerian & Associates deserve $3.9 million in fees for discrimination lawsuit against UC Regents, judge says, but Regents...


Government, Criminal, Civil Litigation


Daily Journal writers and editors comment on why subscribers found this year's most-read stories compelling.


Judges and Judiciary


Los Angeles County judge confirmed to federal bench

Dec. 20, 2024
By Craig Anderson

Judge Serena R. Murillo became the second California judge confirmed to a federal court seat on Friday, as the Senate moved sw...


Judges and Judiciary


Senate confirms judge to San Diego federal court

Dec. 20, 2024
By Craig Anderson

U.S. Magistrate Judge Benjamin J. Cheeks' confirmation was one of several the Senate is rushing through in the final days of ...


Civil Rights


The defense argued the complex's management "responded quickly as possible to demands" and there was evidence the plaintiff wa...


The Los Angeles County prosecutors' union asked the state Supreme Court to take judicial notice that the dispute in a lawsuit ...


Immigration, Constitutional Law


One expert says Bonta is trying to navigate a "fine line" between helping immigrants who entered illegally and provoking the i...


A federal judge allowed to proceed a putative class action against Wells Fargo that claims it earned "billions" in profits fro...


Entertainment & Sports


Director Francis Ford Coppola sued the magazine for defamation over a July article covering claims about his behavior on the s...


Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


It is the second time within months that the circuit has reversed a Central District of California judge's dismissal of crimin...



The Good Teacher

Dec. 20, 2024

Mediator Emily Vasquez does a great job of educating disputing parties, attorneys say.


Criminal


Although U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton earlier ruled that Girardi was mentally competent to aid in his defense at tr...


Labor/Employment


Workers' comp attorneys welcome review of appeal delays

Dec. 19, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The state Supreme Court will take on the question of so-called "grant for study" case extensions, when the board grants a requ...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


The County of Los Angeles sued Express Scripts Inc. and OptumRx last year, claiming that they worked with drug manufacturers t...


Friday's scheduled sentence hearing could be delayed as Tom Girardi's federal public defenders argued that the 85-year old's p...