Bay Area family law attorneys say private-company equity, volatile valuations and complex compensation packages are making AI-...
Civil Procedure
Overheard lunch conversation fuels privilege fight in LAX people mover case
By Devon Belcher
Los Angeles is seeking to seal references to a deputy city attorney's restaurant conversation that developer LINXS says suppor...
Real Estate/Development
'Zombie mortgage' lawsuits test retroactive reach of California law
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Borrowers are invoking AB 130 to challenge foreclosures completed before the law took effect, despite a growing line of federa...
Slideshow, Community News
Riverside Bar honors 2 veteran criminal defense attorneys
By Ricardo Pineda
Virginia M. Blumenthal and Steven L. Harmon presented each other with the association's top service awards as Elisabeth A. Lor...
U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton questioned whether homeowners claiming their fire-damaged house is a constructive tota...
Torts/Personal Injury
LA jury awards $11M to children of man fatally shot by LAPD
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Jurors found two officers used unnecessary deadly force in the 2024 shooting of Wilver Blanco Mendoza, but a 40% fault finding...
Judges and Judiciary
Supreme Court names McGill presiding judge of State Bar Court
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
W. Kearse McGill will succeed retiring Presiding Judge Richard Honn, while Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Samantha Je...
Securities
Jury awards Nektar $90M in Rezpeg dispute with Eli Lilly
By Daniel Schrager
Jurors found Lilly breached the implied covenant of good faith in its agreement to develop the autoimmune drug, but rejected N...
Business Law
Jury finds company owns $13M profit rights to 'Ali,' 'Gangs of New York,' 'Traffic'
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
A Los Angeles jury unanimously found Library Rights Company validly acquired profit-participation rights in three major films,...
Data Privacy
Judge questions privacy harm in Flock license-plate tracking lawsuit
By Daniel Schrager
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria questioned whether Californians challenging Flock's collection and sharing of license-plate...
Technology
Judge allows LA County child-safety lawsuit against Roblox to proceed
By Devon Belcher
A Los Angeles judge allowed the county's child-safety lawsuit against Roblox to proceed, ruling that claims involving age veri...
Immigration
Judge questions whether flight from masked immigration agents justifies stop
By Skyler Romero
U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong questioned whether running from masked, armed immigration agents emerging from...
A San Francisco judge questioned whether city attorneys will have enough time to prepare for Uber's $75 million-plus tax refun...
Labor/Employment
Jury awards $10.3M to Waymo worker fired after street takeover
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
A Los Angeles federal jury awarded $10.26 million, including $10 million in punitive damages, to a former Waymo roadside assis...
After careers in private practice, as in-house counsel at ARCO and 16 years on the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench, Jo...
California presses to end federal challenge to vehicle-emissions rules
By Malcolm Maclachlan
California urged a federal judge to dismiss the Trump administration's challenge to its vehicle-emissions standards, arguing t...
The federal appeals court allowed a class of roughly 100,000 Californians to pursue claims that Classmates.com improperly used...
A Los Angeles judge considered Southern California Edison's bid to narrow claims over the Palisades Fire while hearing eight p...
Tax
6th District upholds Santa Clara County's emergency declaration for sales tax
By Craig Anderson
The appellate court found county supervisors had a reasonable basis to declare an emergency and place the five-year sales tax ...
Torts/Personal Injury, Technology
Judge tells attorneys to avoid attacks in ChatGPT liability cases
By Alicia Alvarez
A San Francisco judge admonished attorneys to avoid personal attacks in coordinated ChatGPT liability cases, set deadlines for...
Civil Procedure
Apple agreements surface after two patent trials, undoing $5.6M judgment
By Daniel Schrager
U.S. District Judge Trina L. Thompson found Cyntec failed to disclose agreements that barred certain infringement claims invol...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
LA takes separate path in nationwide fire truck antitrust fight
By Skyler Romero
While other California cities and counties have been swept into federal multidistrict litigation in Wisconsin, Los Angeles is ...
Torts/Personal Injury
Adventist Health to pay $18.5M over therapist sexual abuse claims
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Seven women will receive about $2.64 million each to settle allegations that Adventist Health Sonora failed to act despite rep...
Judge Brad A. Weinreb oversees roughly 25 judges in San Diego Superior Court's North County Division, where shifting trial cal...
Immigration
Assemblymember Krell again sues federal agencies over immigration court records
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The Sacramento Democrat is seeking records on immigration courthouse arrests and restrictions on public access, citing a June ...
Business Law
Cotchett team behind $2.6B Musk verdict targets Alphabet over privacy practices
By Daniel Schrager
An Oklahoma pension fund alleges Alphabet's board allowed Google to pursue a data-hungry business model despite billions of do...
Torts/Personal Injury
More than 100 riders allege brain injuries from Six Flags' X2 coaster
By Skyler Romero
Dordick Law has begun filing lawsuits on behalf of riders who say they suffered traumatic brain injuries on X2, alleging Six F...
A Los Angeles judge tentatively rejected Edison International's bid to exit the Eaton Fire litigation, finding factual dispute...
Environmental & Energy
Fresno, Sacramento counties fight tobacco companies over cigarette-butt cleanup
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Sacramento and Fresno counties are seeking to return lawsuits against Philip Morris and other tobacco companies to state court...
Administrative/Regulatory
9th Circuit weighs HUD bid to cut off LAHSA funding
By Daniel Schrager
A 9th Circuit panel appeared receptive to HUD's concerns about alleged mismanagement at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Auth...