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Judges and Judiciary, Covid Court Ops


The motion by Public Counsel, the Inner City Law Center and Bet Tzedek Legal Services, argued the threat from COVID-19 is wors...


Civil Litigation


According to the lawsuit, MindGeek executives never put in place age verification protocols because they feared it would destr...


Criminal


SB 446 would allow a wrongfully convicted person to show that a reasonable jury would find them not guilty based on the eviden...


Litigation & Arbitration


JAMS wanted the U,S. Supreme Court to settle a dispute over professional disclosure rules and, according to U.S. District Judg...


U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal


State and federal courts have long been divided on whether officers in hot pursuit of a misdemeanor suspect qualifies as an ex...


Technology, Judges and Judiciary


The public has had unprecedented access to federal court proceedings throughout the pandemic. Some judges believe it should st...


Technology, Civil Litigation


The attorneys who helped broker the $154.6 million settlement of an investors’ lawsuit against Snap Inc. said they were entitl...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


Elliott Management’s chief executive, Paul Singer, is in a relationship with a colleague whose son, Stephen Backer, holds a se...


Law Practice, Law Office Management, Bankruptcy


Tom Girardi agrees to move out of his home

Feb. 22, 2021
By Craig Anderson

Bankruptcy trustee negotiated a deal to sell the property.


Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


The district attorney is requiring DNA samples as part of plea deals in misdemeanor cases, the plaintiffs said, adding the law...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Through her attorney, Judge Barbara Roberts apologized to those whom she may have offended with her comments and said her goal...


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


Bay Area herring fishers sue Chevron over oil spill

Feb. 19, 2021
By Blaise Scemama

The lawsuit alleges some 700 gallons of oil spilled into the waters of San Pablo Bay on Feb. 9, directly into some of the Bay’...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


It quickly became clear Thursday at the first state Senate budget subcommittee hearing on the court's funding that the branch ...


Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge James Donato called on both sides to settle after calling the case unusual since Robinhood already admitte...


U.S. Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary, Government


These emergency relief orders are short, occur without oral argument, and sometimes are not accompanied by the names of the ju...


Labor/Employment, Government


Employers’ attorneys who have spent the last two years navigating the #MeToo legislation say the bill’s passage could potentia...


Technology, Corporate


Alex Rosenblat, who was formerly a researcher at New York City-based think tank Data & Society, will be head of marketplac...


Government, Criminal


The unusual move adds Orange County DA Todd Spitzer to a growing list of county prosecutors who have publicly rebuked LA Count...


Judges and Judiciary, California Courts of Appeal, Appellate Practice


Gary E. Strankman, leader of a commission that reviewed appellate court delays in 2000 calls continued lags of up to five year...


Labor/Employment, Government


Union attorney nominated as NLRB general counsel

Feb. 18, 2021
By Jessica Mach

Jennifer A. Abruzzo most recently was special counsel for the Communications Workers of America, the nation's largest union re...


Government, Civil Rights


San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow said the attorney violated the Code of Professional Conduct by disseminating ...


Technology, Civil Litigation


Audio cable company Monster Inc. and its chief executive officer Noel Lee, who owned part of the Beats by Dre headphones empir...


Technology, Administrative/Regulatory


The California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act of 2018 imposed net neutrality rules within the state that ...


Technology, Constitutional Law


“Under the court’s ruling ... the internet platforms may arbitrarily block users ... or just decide that they don’t like what ...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


There have been numerous blunders over the course of antitrust history when the courts step into the market, warned Tad B. Lip...


Law Practice, Bankruptcy


Prominent plaintiffs' attorney Thomas V. Girardi's son-in-law, David R. Lira, and Keith D. Griffin, have filed motions seeking...


Technology, Data Privacy


Accellion, the company that provided the platform, says it was a 20-year-old product nearing its discontinuation, and was targ...


Judges and Judiciary


OC judge will handle suit against LA County courts

Feb. 18, 2021
By Blaise Scemama

Filed by Public Counsel last week, the lawsuit seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, requesting Los Angeles County courthou...


Law Practice, Law Office Management


Winston & Strawn announces expansion in Los Angeles

Feb. 18, 2021
By Henrik Nilsson

Fifteen attorneys from boutique Scheper Kim & Harris LLP and three from Sidley Austin LLP join the firm.


The lawsuit concerns a policy with a $20 million limit of liability that ran from 2017 to 2018 just around the time allegation...