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Judicial Profile
Judge Ashley Price focuses on early intervention for families
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Gray, Duffy, Eisenbaum & Lee wants to be more than an insurance defense firm, but still do insurers' work
From The Archive
MCLE
When going low no longer works: Strategic civility as the new power play in family law
In family court, the sharpest move isn't shouting--it's s...
By Noel E. GuthWorkers on the spectrum and the quiet frontier of employee civil rights
Workers diagnosed with autism and attention deficit hyper...
By Pawanpreet K. DhaliwalA mediator's perspective on health care negligence cases: From advocate to neutral
Early immersion in the courtroom and jury box yields last...
By Gary N. Stern
Today's News
Labor/Employment
Disney sued over alleged age and disability bias in layoff
By Devon Belcher
A longtime Disney production employee claims he was demoted and later terminated after a cancer diagnosis, alleging age and disability discrimination tied to...
Real Estate/Development
LA's Barrington Plaza faces new $30M tenant suit after eviction fight
By John Roemer
Tenants who beat mass eviction claims now seek millions more, arguing the landlord undercut its own Ellis Act strategy by taking rent.
Immigration
Border Patrol faulted for ignoring court order on immigration stops
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A federal ruling says agents relied on boilerplate reports instead of individualized suspicion, allowing enforcement of a prior injunction.
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Fee dispute erupts among plaintiffs' firms in Sutter Health antitrust case
By James Twomey
A dispute over a $75.4 million fee award in the Sutter Health antitrust settlement pits plaintiffs' firms against each other, with allegations of improper al...
Judges and Judiciary
Misconduct hearing for LA Judge Draper set for April 27
By Devon Belcher
A public hearing is set at the end of April for Los Angeles Judge Robert Draper, who faces wide-ranging misconduct allegations, including bias, improper comm...
Torts/Personal Injury
LA personal injury hub ends as court returns to single-judge model
By Skyler Romero
Los Angeles Superior Court sunsets its personal injury hub, shifting cases back to independent calendar courts as attorneys welcome single-judge oversight de...
Columns
Judges and Judiciary, Criminal
A second look at sentencing should not be a coin toss
By Orly Ahrony
To resentence or not to resentence: The question courts face under amended Penal Code Section 1172.1.
Banking
Here we go again: Market woes foretell of forthcoming defaults
By Marianne Martin, Bennett G. Young
With mounting economic pressure ahead of Q1 2026 reporting, lenders and borrowers should act now to manage covenant risk and p...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
No president should have the power to rewrite birthright citizenship
By Allan Lee Dollison
The Supreme Court is considering whether President Trump can use an executive order to reinterpret the 14th Amendment and unde...
Verdicts & Settlements
| Intentional Misrepresentation | Abigail Mamboleo, a Califor... | $33,000,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Randy Gines and Patricia Ri... | $9,700,000 |
| Breach of Contract | Rahul Mewawalla v. Stanley ... | $8,063,813 |
| Wage and Hour | Stephen V. Weaver, Zubeir K... | $7,500,000 |
| Microsoft Corporation, and ... | $6,500,000 | |
| Dangerous Condition of Public Property | Stephanie York, individuall... | $6,030,000 |
| Breach of Fiduciary Duty | Gary Stiffelman v. Stuart R... | $5,950,333 |
| Consumer Protection | Charles Wang, Marilee Bogae... | $5,000,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Elizabeth To, individually,... | $4,500,000 |
| Malpractice | Jane Doe v. Roe Hospital, e... | $3,475,000 |
On the Move
Buchalter
Christopher Van Gundy joined Buchalter as a partner in San Francisco. The move was April 1, 2026.
Details
Buchalter has 600 attorneys in 15 offices including Los Angeles, Napa Valley, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco. Among the law firm’s key practice areas are Bank and Finance, Corporate, Health Care, Litigation, Insolvency and Financial Law. The firm’s website is https://www.buchalter.com/
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Daily Appellate Report
Torts
Harcourt v. Tesla
Consumer expectations test was inapplicable to plaintiff whose toddler inadvertently operated her Tesla because it was unclear that everyday consumers would form safety expectations conce...
Torts
Pagan v. City of San Rafael
City was not liable for dangerous condition of public property where plaintiff's claims were based on open and obvious conditions, an unpleaded theory, and insufficient expert evidence.
Immigration
Eskilian v. Bondi
Because petitioner's due diligence warranted reopening removal proceedings based on ineffective assistance of counsel, the Board of Immigration Appeals' denial of equitable tolling under ...
Criminal Law and Procedure
In re Melson
Reversal of conviction was required where witnesses' actually false testimony that prosecutor should have known was false went unchallenged by the prosecution and affected the outcome of ...
Immigration
Verduzco Ruiz v. Bondi
Nonimmigrant's petition for review was denied where application of reinstatement provision was not impermissibly retroactive and he failed to show prejudice from the absence of counsel. ...