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The city was sued by the group San Franciscans Supporting Prop B, which said Measure F, supported by 77% of voters in 2019, vi...


Litigation & Arbitration, Entertainment & Sports


“WarnerMedia benefits by driving up the value of its subsidiary, just as [it] prepares to spin off and merge with Discovery, a...


Labor/Employment, Judges and Judiciary, Civil Litigation


The seven remaining plaintiffs — an eighth died after the litigation began — claim recent participation limits discriminate on...


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Former Chapman University Fowler School of Law professor continues to fight subpoenas for documents related to work for Trump.



No Predispositions

May 27, 2022

A skilled mediator and arbitrator, Fred K. Morrison uses his experience as a former appellate court justice


Law Practice, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Appellate Practice


Doctors, lawyers discuss chances of new cooperation era

May 27, 2022
By Malcolm Maclachlan

“A lot of the areas where we have historically not been able to work together on have really been a function of our difference...


Law Practice, California Supreme Court, Appellate Practice


Reasons for failure to meet the deadline include: failure to sit for any of the four bar exams administered since the pandemic...


Ediscovery, Civil Litigation


San Francisco has put on a parade of experts to try to show that all of the companies in the opioid supply chain bore responsi...


Civil Litigation


A disgruntled employee of Valley Transportation Authority killed nine of his co-workers before turning the gun on himself. He ...


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


“Once a complaint for limitation of liability is filed by a vessel owner, courts generally stay applicable claims against the ...


Technology, Securities


Plaintiffs’ attorney Anne Marie Murphy accused the billionaire of making statements to drive down the price of Twitter stock, ...


Judges and Judiciary


A confirmation of Fresno County Superior Court Judge Isabel I. de Alba would leave the long-overworked Eastern District judici...



Answering the Call

May 26, 2022

Judge Annette E. Rees says juvenile court is where she needs to be


Civil Litigation


Parents across the nation have sought to argue in court cases that exposure to arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury in various ...


Judges and Judiciary


The Judicial Council also agreed “not to fight this lawsuit pending action from the governor and the Legislature to end civil ...


Law Practice, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Appellate Practice


Healthcare litigator joins Nossaman in San Francisco

May 26, 2022
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Michael Gawley has extensive experience handling a broad range of litigation matters, including medical staff and peer review ...


Technology, Securities, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


“Elon Musk is paying them a lot of money so [defense attorneys] had to argue something,” said Adam C. Pritchard, a professor a...


Law Practice, Labor/Employment, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Appellate Practice


The Lewitt Hackman lawyers wrote that Miracle Mile Law Group had been “caught withholding text messages and illegal audio reco...


Civil Litigation


The complaint – filed jointly by 10 lawyers from Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy; Newsome Melton; Levin, Papantonio, Rafferty, ...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Appellate Practice


James J. Di Cesare has broad experience hearing civil litigation, including serving as the supervising judge of the Orange Cou...


Technology, Data Privacy


The company also agreed to build a stronger anti-breach system, in deal with FTC


Barstow Commissioner Carrier Halgrimson tries to bring clarity and understanding to proceedings.


Technology, Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


Oracle claims it suffered $66.8 million in lost profits because Hewlett Packard Enterprise worked with Terix Computer Co. to i...


Technology, Data Privacy, Civil Litigation


In the wake of the July 2021 Supreme Court decision Goldman Sachs Grp. v. Arkansas Teachers’ Retirement Sys., class actions by...


Civil Litigation


The UK-based fashion company was accused of publishing inflated prices only to pretend to slash them in fake flash sales.


Edward J. Nowakoski pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation and ordered to repay the money.


Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Civil Litigation


$43M award for woman with mesothelioma

May 25, 2022
By Federico Lo Giudice

The woman said she believes she was exposed to asbestos cleaning clothes of her husband, a general contractor.


Judges and Judiciary, Criminal


One of these courts counters that the report’s statistics are flawed, yet also concedes they don’t know how well their judges ...


Technology, Criminal, Civil Rights


The case, with a hearing in August over the plaintiffs request to file a second amended complaint, already has been tangled by...


Torts/Personal Injury, Judges and Judiciary


“The jury appreciated that our client accepted full responsibility for a low speed accident which caused the soft tissue injur...