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Family


Bay Area family law attorneys say private-company equity, volatile valuations and complex compensation packages are making AI-...


Los Angeles is seeking to seal references to a deputy city attorney's restaurant conversation that developer LINXS says suppor...


Real Estate/Development


Borrowers are invoking AB 130 to challenge foreclosures completed before the law took effect, despite a growing line of federa...


Slideshow, Community News


Virginia M. Blumenthal and Steven L. Harmon presented each other with the association's top service awards as Elisabeth A. Lor...


Insurance


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

Sep. 28, 2026
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


W. Kearse McGill will succeed retiring Presiding Judge Richard Honn, while Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Samantha Je...


Securities


Jurors found Lilly breached the implied covenant of good faith in its agreement to develop the autoimmune drug, but rejected N...


A Los Angeles jury unanimously found Library Rights Company validly acquired profit-participation rights in three major films,...


Data Privacy


U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria questioned whether Californians challenging Flock's collection and sharing of license-plate...


A Los Angeles judge allowed the county's child-safety lawsuit against Roblox to proceed, ruling that claims involving age veri...


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


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 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...


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


A San Francisco judge admonished attorneys to avoid personal attacks in coordinated ChatGPT liability cases, set deadlines for...


Civil Procedure


U.S. District Judge Trina L. Thompson found Cyntec failed to disclose agreements that barred certain infringement claims invol...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


While other California cities and counties have been swept into federal multidistrict litigation in Wisconsin, Los Angeles is ...


Torts/Personal Injury


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...


The Sacramento Democrat is seeking records on immigration courthouse arrests and restrictions on public access, citing a June ...


An Oklahoma pension fund alleges Alphabet's board allowed Google to pursue a data-hungry business model despite billions of do...


Torts/Personal Injury


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


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

Sep. 23, 2026
By Daniel Schrager

A 9th Circuit panel appeared receptive to HUD's concerns about alleged mismanagement at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Auth...