Labor/Employment
Judge vacates $83M punitive damages award in Liberty Mutual age bias case
By Skyler Romero
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge upheld a $20 million compensatory verdict for a former Liberty Mutual employee but ...
Torts/Personal Injury
Discovery fight erupts over disputed payments in LA juvenile abuse settlements
By Devon Belcher
Attorneys clashed before a Los Angeles judge over disputed juvenile abuse settlement payments, with plaintiffs threatening sub...
Civil Procedure
Remote deposition coaching texts trigger rare tentative terminating sanctions
By Laurinda Keys
An Alameda County judge issued a rare tentative terminating sanctions ruling after plaintiffs' attorneys uncovered defense cou...
Torts/Personal Injury, Technology
The parents of a UC Merced student who died from a fatal overdose sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT encouraged ...
Motorcyclist blames San Jose intersection design for crash that left him quadriplegic
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
A motorcyclist who was paralyzed from the neck down after a 2025 collision sued San Jose, Santa Clara County and Caltrans, all...
Commissioner Caitlin Taylor brings Dependency Court perspective to juvenile justice
By Ricardo Pineda
Drawing on more than two decades in dependency court, Superior Court Commissioner Caitlin C. Taylor approaches juvenile justic...
Labor/Employment, Civil Rights
DOJ, PayPal settle probe over minority business investment program
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The Justice Department alleged a pandemic-era investment fund for Black- and minority-owned businesses violated federal anti-d...
Intellectual Property
Kanye West found liable for copyright infringement over Grammy-winning song 'Hurricane'
By Skyler Romero
A federal jury found Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and several affiliated companies used the musical work "MSD PT2" withou...
Business Law
Musk lawyer presses Altman on honesty in OpenAI trial testimony
By Daniel Schrager
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified Tuesday that the company remains committed to its founding mission despite Elon Musk's claims ...
Intellectual Property
Ye copyright trial heads to jury after combative closing arguments
By Skyler Romero
Attorneys for Ye and a group of music creators delivered intense closing arguments in a federal copyright trial over allegatio...
Technology
Tech critics say social media rulings may shift Capitol debate
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Panelists said March rulings against Meta could weaken tech industry arguments as lawmakers weigh new AI and platform regulation.
Data Privacy
Judge allows Meta privacy claims over Android tracking allegations to proceed
By Daniel Schrager
A federal judge has allowed most privacy claims against Meta to proceed in a class action alleging the company secretly links ...
Business Law
Musk rests case after Nadella, Sutskever testify in OpenAI trial
By Daniel Schrager
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever defended the company's restructuring and leadership decisions...
Class Action
Judge approves $303M settlement for NCAA volunteer coaches
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The deal includes $90 million in attorneys' fees and payments averaging about $39,000 for 7,700 coaches
Litigation & Arbitration
A divided panel of the 3rd Circuit concluded that motions to compel arbitration under Section 4 of the Federal Arbitration Act...
Torts/Personal Injury
Judge approves county settlement after Prologis fire verdict objections
By Devon Belcher
A Los Angeles judge approved Los Angeles County's $6 million settlement tied to the Carson odor event, rejecting Prologis argu...
A Los Angeles judge allowed class claims challenging sewer rate increases to proceed but barred representative Public Records ...
Judges and Judiciary
County bar groups issue mixed ratings on judicial candidates
By Laurinda Keys
LA County bar deems sitting judge 'not qualified,' another earns top mark
Quinn Emanuel founder John B. Quinn steps down from firm's helm
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The transition leaves Bill Burck and Mike Carlinsky, who have shared the co-managing partner role with Quinn since 2022, in ch...
Stanford protest case spotlights legal risks of campaign-trail rhetoric by prosecutors
By Daniel Schrager
A Santa Clara County judge's decision to remove District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen from the Stanford protest prosecution is drawi...
Civil Procedure
Judge Lawrence Riff has an ambitious aim to tame discovery abuses
By David Houston
Led by the head of the Civil Division of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, a group of more than 30 judges, lawyers and ge...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Medtronic tries to overturn $381.7M antitrust verdict for Applied Medical
By Skyler Romero
A federal judge is weighing Medtronic's bid to overturn a $381.7 million jury verdict in favor of Applied Medical, as the medi...
A California appellate court declined to halt key Palisades Fire claims against Los Angeles and the state, allowing discovery...
Nebraska-led coalition says state case against truck makers violates California's promise not to enforce disputed zero-emissio...
Mother sues Granada Hills detox facility over son's fatal overdose
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
A Los Angeles woman alleges an employee at a Granada Hills detox facility offered her son fentanyl-linked substances before hi...
Bankruptcy
9th Circuit narrows bankruptcy trustee immunity in en banc ruling
By David Houston
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Chapter 7 trustee accused of failing to preserve estate assets is not autom...
Slideshow, Community News
ASCDC Seminar Closes with Warnings on Court Strain and Apolo Ohno's Call for Resilience
By Ricardo Pineda
Judges and legal leaders discussed rising caseloads, AI regulation, remote proceedings and threats to judicial independence be...
Attorney general to take over prosecution of Stanford protest defendants.
Slideshow, Community News
Judges warn of mounting strain on California courts at defense counsel seminar
By Ricardo Pineda
At the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel's annual seminar in Los Angeles, judges and appellate specialists hi...
Women attorneys stress mentorship and civility at defense counsel seminar
By Ricardo Pineda
During a luncheon at the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel's annual seminar, women attorneys and mediators sp...