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Appellate attorneys say Justice Jon B. Streeter's 49-page concurrence carries no precedential weight but could influence lawma...


Community News


Central District judges offered attorneys advice on trial practice, AI and opportunities for younger lawyers while highlightin...


Environmental & Energy


U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong indicated residents may proceed with a trespass claim but questioned whether a...


Technology


A proposed class action accuses OpenAI of failing to adequately disclose that contractors may review ChatGPT conversations to ...


Bankruptcy


Longtime Sacramento bankruptcy attorney Jamie P. Dreher begins a 14-year term as bankruptcy filings in the Eastern District co...


Civil Procedure


Meta, YouTube and Snapchat want jurors in the next social media addiction bellwether trial in Los Angeles to hear that both fa...


Immigration


U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong ordered federal immigration agents in Southern California to make individualiz...


Retired state and federal judge Raul A. Ramirez once thought remote mediation would never work. Now the longtime neutral says ...


Technology


Developed with OpenAI, Cooley GO Public can produce an initial IPO registration statement in minutes, as the firm looks to AI ...


Business Law


Eli Lilly opened its defense against Nektar Therapeutics' contract claims, telling jurors it abandoned the autoimmune drug Rez...


Constitutional Law


The Justice Department says San Jose's concealed carry licensing fee violates the Second Amendment, setting up a potential tes...


Civil Procedure


A Los Angeles judge proposed two 2027 trials involving Dominguez Channel odor claims as the court considers whether California...


Civil Procedure


Federal prosecutors announced three new cases in an expanding investigation of Los Angeles homelessness spending, including al...


San Francisco Superior Court judges elected Assistant Presiding Judge Christopher C. Hite as the court's next presiding judge,...


Torts/Personal Injury


California litigation alleging Pfizer failed to warn that Depo-Provera increases the risk of meningiomas continues in Alameda ...


Technology


Newsom signs AI performer disclosure law

Sep. 17, 2026
By Malcolm Maclachlan

California advertisers will have to disclose prominent use of AI-generated performers under a new law that drew opposition fro...


Slideshow, Community News


Chief U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee welcomed a new generation of federal judges and emphasized the importance of the bench-...


Insurance


New California laws establish standards for testing and remediating smoke-damaged homes and impose new requirements on insurer...


Real Estate/Development


Community groups challenging an 850-unit development above a Marina District Safeway say San Francisco misapplied state housin...


A Los Angeles judge reconsidered an initial decision to reinstate eight plaintiffs in coordinated litigation over the 2021 Dom...


Criminal


Los Angeles County prosecutors declined to seek death against Nick Reiner, but attorneys say capital punishment remains legall...


Government


Beginning in 2028, Californians 80 and older will be able to claim a permanent medical exemption from jury service without pro...



Los Angeles accuses fire truck makers of price fixing

Sep. 16, 2026
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The city alleges the nation's largest fire apparatus manufacturers rigged bids, restricted competition and drove up prices whi...


A Paramount-commissioned economic analysis estimates a full departure from California could eliminate nearly 58,000 jobs and $...


Attorney General Rob Bonta charged Kings County Superior Court Judge Kendra Weber with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in t...


Civil Procedure


Rebel Wilson and producers of "The Deb" are seeking evidence from Australia and England in their Los Angeles defamation litiga...


Environmental & Energy


Recent disputes increasingly center on construction, property and contracts, while legislation awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom's si...


Torts/Personal Injury


A San Francisco judge gave plaintiffs one final chance to amend a wrongful death suit alleging the city's recreation center de...


Civil Procedure


Plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation over McKinsey's role in the opioid crisis want Johnson & Johnson to produce documen...


Environmental & Energy


Triumph Foods argues a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling undermines the dismissal of its claim that California's animal-confine...