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Criminal


Backers of the initiative said they had collected nearly 1 million signatures, far more than the 546,651 valid signatures they...


Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court


Amici pour in for challenge to gig worker measure

Apr. 18, 2024
By Craig Anderson

The state Supreme Court has not scheduled oral arguments for the challenge to Prop. 22, which voters overwhelmingly approved t...


Labor/Employment


According to the complaint, a vice president at Zurich American Insurance Company sent out an email that accused the employees...


Litigation & Arbitration


The judge ruled that a 2017 California Supreme Court decision that found pre-dispute arbitration agreements that bar individua...


Intellectual Property


City Attorney David Chiu argued that changing the name to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport would damage the ent...


Law Practice, Class Action


New partners Steven B. Weisburd and Jan E. Dodd will be based in Los Angeles while Ryan S. Cobbs will work in Miami and Ashley...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Discipline trial of former State Bar director ends

Apr. 18, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Both sides agreed Thursday to forgo closing arguments. Dunn is accused of misusing State Bar funds.


Government


Campaigners behind an effort to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price say they’ve amassed enough signatures to ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Testy exchanges erupt in discipline trial of Joe Dunn

Apr. 18, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The trial has been ongoing, with the sides discussing wrapping up by Thursday.


Education Law


The district will be prevented from using the facility other than to lease it to a charter school.


Constitutional Law


First Amendment scholars warned that similar disputes over speech are likely to rage this year as Israel battles Hamas terrori...


Data Privacy


A tentative order from judge Kenneth R. Freeman’s tentative order sustained, in part, and overruled, in part, Regal Medical Gr...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Amazon is currently litigating two separate antitrust lawsuits, accusing it of using its agreements with third-party retailers...


Criminal


Approximately 1,400 pages of search warrants, affidavits, docket sheets and judicial records related to the FBI’s investigatio...


Torts/Personal Injury


Surviving family members of the driver want to exclude “any reference, evidence, opinion, or argument that Mr. Huang was playi...



Litigation & Arbitration


Amazon is currently litigating two separate antitrust lawsuits, accusing it of using its agreements with third-party retailers...


Torts/Personal Injury


Christine S. Haskett of Covington & Burling LLP said that even though flames didn't burn several of the buildings in quest...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Mark Geragos, the lawyer for Joe Dunn, tried to show the bar was biased against its former leader.


Constitutional Law


“I think some parties were attempting to forum shop by using the low number rule to relate cases that weren’t actually related...


Intellectual Property


The complaint, first filed in December 2018, accuses Google of misappropriating and/or misusing ReactX's confidential informat...


Class Action


Lawyers for the U.S. government say that the National Veterans Foundation’s proposed plaintiff class in a case accusing the go...


Environmental & Energy


The proposed law appears to be a response a November ballot initiative backed by the petroleum industry.


Community News


The program aimed to introduce students to the Seventh Amendment and the right to a civil jury trial, while also exposing them...


Land Use


Developer Leonid Pustilnikov sought a stay in his lawsuit seeking to compel Redondo Beach to approve his power plant residenti...


Criminal


Campaigners behind an effort to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price say they've amassed enough signatures to ...


Law Practice, Criminal


Mike Piazza has represented individuals and companies across a variety of industries.


Law Practice, Intellectual Property


Armond Wilson marks 5th anniversary

Apr. 16, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The name partners forged a bond while clerking at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.


Law Practice, Labor/Employment


Partner Clifford D. Sethness will be based in Los Angeles while senior counsel Kent Roger and counsel Taylor Horn will be in t...


Data Privacy


The proposed motion includes documents relating to real-time bidding (RTB) strategy, analysis and revenue, as well as proposed...