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A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge upheld a $20 million compensatory verdict for a former Liberty Mutual employee but ...


Torts/Personal Injury


Attorneys clashed before a Los Angeles judge over disputed juvenile abuse settlement payments, with plaintiffs threatening sub...


An Alameda County judge issued a rare tentative terminating sanctions ruling after plaintiffs' attorneys uncovered defense cou...


The parents of a UC Merced student who died from a fatal overdose sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT encouraged ...


A motorcyclist who was paralyzed from the neck down after a 2025 collision sued San Jose, Santa Clara County and Caltrans, all...


Drawing on more than two decades in dependency court, Superior Court Commissioner Caitlin C. Taylor approaches juvenile justic...


Labor/Employment, Civil Rights


The Justice Department alleged a pandemic-era investment fund for Black- and minority-owned businesses violated federal anti-d...


A federal jury found Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and several affiliated companies used the musical work "MSD PT2" withou...


Business Law


OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified Tuesday that the company remains committed to its founding mission despite Elon Musk's claims ...


Intellectual Property


Attorneys for Ye and a group of music creators delivered intense closing arguments in a federal copyright trial over allegatio...


Technology


Panelists said March rulings against Meta could weaken tech industry arguments as lawmakers weigh new AI and platform regulation.


A federal judge has allowed most privacy claims against Meta to proceed in a class action alleging the company secretly links ...


Business Law


Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever defended the company's restructuring and leadership decisions...


Class Action


The deal includes $90 million in attorneys' fees and payments averaging about $39,000 for 7,700 coaches


A divided panel of the 3rd Circuit concluded that motions to compel arbitration under Section 4 of the Federal Arbitration Act...


Torts/Personal Injury


A Los Angeles judge approved Los Angeles County's $6 million settlement tied to the Carson odor event, rejecting Prologis argu...


Class Action


A Los Angeles judge allowed class claims challenging sewer rate increases to proceed but barred representative Public Records ...


Judges and Judiciary


LA County bar deems sitting judge 'not qualified,' another earns top mark


The transition leaves Bill Burck and Mike Carlinsky, who have shared the co-managing partner role with Quinn since 2022, in ch...


A Santa Clara County judge's decision to remove District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen from the Stanford protest prosecution is drawi...


Civil Procedure


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.


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...


A Los Angeles woman alleges an employee at a Granada Hills detox facility offered her son fentanyl-linked substances before hi...


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


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


At the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel's annual seminar in Los Angeles, judges and appellate specialists hi...


During a luncheon at the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel's annual seminar, women attorneys and mediators sp...