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Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


Businesses sue Cal/OSHA over new COVID standards

Dec. 18, 2020
By Jessica Mach

Cal/OSHA violated the Administrative Procedure Act by approving its temporary standards "without prior public notice or a full...


U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law


Cross Culture Christian Center, represented by Dean R. Broyles, argued the Lodi police actions were religiously intolerant and...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Entertainment & Sports, Administrative/Regulatory


Attorneys and restaurant owners say the state and county orders are haphazard and depend on political influence.


U.S. Supreme Court, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


The decision to hear the case comes amid legislation from dozens of state lawmakers to allow athletes to profit from their per...


Criminal


In October 2019, Chelsea Becker gave birth to a stillborn son. She was arrested days later after hospital staff told the Kings...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice


This year, Utah and Arizona approved several significant changes opening up for legal service companies to provide new forms o...


Legal Education


Students and professors alike asked if remote education could match in-person classroom standards. But as law schools have ada...


The directive from Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón instructed prosecutors to use specific language when see...


Legal Education


Santa Clara University law school names new dean

Dec. 17, 2020
By Henrik Nilsson

Michael J. Kaufman, dean at Loyola University Chicago School of Law since 2016, will take the post on July 1, 2021.


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


The lawsuit is an unusual example of a plaintiff in a patent lawsuit alleging pre-litigation infringement claims are extortion...


Labor/Employment


US issues guidance on vaccination requirement

Dec. 17, 2020
By Jessica Mach

Before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its guidelines, the question of whether employers could manda...


Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court


While appellate courts have plugged away with their usual calendars, albeit over Zoom, civil trials essentially stopped in March.


Judges and Judiciary, Government


Many of the current problems with courts go back long before the pandemic brought them to wide public attention, said Sen. Tho...


Government, Criminal


The judge also seemed to disagree with the policy, denying at least two motions to strike enhancements relating to prior convi...


Tax, Labor/Employment


Tax issues loom for lawyers working out of state

Dec. 16, 2020
By Henrik Nilsson

While tax withholding has always been an issue for states close to each other, such as New Jersey and New York, the pandemic h...


Technology, Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


U.S. District Judge James Donato named Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer partner Hae Sung Nam and Bartlit Beck partner Karma M. Giul...


San Francisco County District Attorney Chesa Boudin is seeking additional prosecutors as he prepares for possibly four trials ...


Technology, Criminal, Administrative/Regulatory


An administrative law judge asked Uber to provide data regarding claims arising out of incidents during its ride services. Cal...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


State AGs urge law to protect judges' private information

Dec. 16, 2020
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The proposed law would mandate federal agencies protect judges’ personally identifiable information upon request, prohibit dat...


Labor/Employment, Government


Gig workers still on agenda as Legislature plots 2021

Dec. 15, 2020
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Assembly Kevin Kiley, R-Rocklin, wrote a bill, AB25, to undo Dynamex Inc. v. Superior Court, the basis of the ABC worker class...


Government, Criminal


C. Christopher Gardner, who was appointed by county supervisors as public defender in 2018, had become an outspoken supporter...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


Peloton accused of patent infringement

Dec. 15, 2020
By Gina Kim

Lawsuit accuses Peloton of infringing on protected patents that feature touch-screen instructor-led programs on indoor cycling...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


Sen. Thomas J. Umberg, D-Santa Ana, will be among eight attorneys serving on the committee. All but two of the 11 Assembly Jud...


Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Nevada judge tentatively grants class cert in UFC antitrust lawsuit


Labor/Employment, Corporate, Civil Litigation


Pinterest to pay $22.5M to former executive

Dec. 15, 2020
By Jessica Mach

Partner David A. Lowe of Zieff & Lowe LLP filed the lawsuit in August alleging Pinterest fired chief operating officer Fr...


Law Practice, Law Office Management, Intellectual Property


Including new hire Theodore W. Chandler, the firm has added five lateral hires in California this year.


Government, Criminal


Los Angeles prosecutors have said they can’t talk to the press about policy matters without being reprimanded, that they get c...


Technology, Criminal, Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Facebook indicated in the litigation cited by federal and state officials in their complaints that it “anticipates raising sim...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


San Luis Obispo County Superior Court Judge Matthew Guerrero disqualified District Attorney Dan Dow and his 40 deputies from p...


Legal Education


The school will now be called Western State College of Law at Westcliff University.