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Judges and Judiciary


Judge Robert S. Draper defended his remarks about race and gender during a disciplinary hearing, expressing bewilderment at a...


A divided 9th Circuit ruled that eight former SpaceX employees can pursue retaliation and harassment claims in court despite s...


A judge ruled that San Francisco's Access Line Tax applies to lines without emergency or outbound calling capabilities but sid...


Intellectual Property


Separate federal lawsuits accuse the AI music platform of using copyrighted recordings and lyrics without permission, while El...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A divided appellate panel allowed California to require large companies to report direct greenhouse gas emissions and emission...


Government


The combination with Los Angeles-based Carpenter, Rothans & Dumont, effective Jan. 1, will expand Jones Mayer's litigation...


A federal magistrate judge questioned the government's plan to process just 200 pages a month in a lawsuit seeking records abo...


Litigation & Arbitration


A Los Angeles judge ruled that an arbitrator, not the court, must decide whether agreements consumers accepted as Uber passeng...


Investors accuse the chipmaker of misleading shareholders about CEO Jensen Huang's reported relationship with a woman linked t...


Casey R. Johnson plans to build on the plaintiffs' bar's campaign against improper client solicitation, outside financial infl...


A federal judge ruled that female student-athletes may collectively pursue claims that the university failed to provide equal ...


A San Francisco judge declared the now-closed convenience store a public nuisance and permanently barred its owner from keepin...


Immigration


A federal judge proposed expedited procedures to address alleged violations of her Adelanto detention center injunction, citin...


Torts/Personal Injury


A Missouri jury's rejection of Roundup cancer claims could weaken plaintiffs' remaining cases in San Francisco, where a federa...


Defense attorneys want the North Bay fire lawsuits dismissed with prejudice while the San Francisco Superior Court keeps juris...


Torts/Personal Injury


Jurors found a Republic Services subsidiary and its driver partly at fault, citing an inadequate rear underride guard, but pla...


Torts/Personal Injury


A Los Angeles jury awarded $29 million to a former student sexually abused by a teacher decades ago, but ABC Unified says a co...


Technology


Meta, Google and TikTok filed federal lawsuits challenging a California law restricting allegedly addictive social media featu...


Voters retained Justice Kelli Evans despite a law enforcement campaign targeting her frequent dissents. Lawyers say her limite...


Obituaries


Stanley W. Levy 1941 - 2026

Nov. 9, 2026
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The attorney and rabbi helped build Public Counsel, Bet Tzedek and the Western Center on Law and Poverty, and inspired generat...


Judges and Judiciary


Here are unofficial, incomplete results from the Nov. 3 runoff elections for Superior Court judges in Los Angeles, Fresno and ...


Prosecutors say an El Cerrito man's emails threatening to skin U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer were intended to intimidate ...


Civil Litigation


A federal judge reversed her earlier ruling and granted two California tribes a preliminary injunction against Kalshi after th...


Former Orbach Huff partner Sharon Suarez seeks court confirmation of a $308,000 arbitration award over her partnership buyout,...


The confidential settlement resolves claims that a defective fuel tank design contributed to the deaths of Malibu restaurateur...


Tesla denies withholding worker data and internal complaints in a racial discrimination case, accusing California civil rights...


Data Privacy


Two California drivers accuse Axon of violating state privacy law by collecting motorists' location data without a required pu...


The retired Alameda County judge draws on more than three decades on the bench to help parties navigate difficult disputes, co...


Prosecutors and victims' rights advocates question the governor's sweeping clemency plan, while constitutional scholars say hi...


Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


The departure of the Civil Rights Division chief comes after an aggressive enforcement campaign targeting California universit...