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Lyft cannot enforce a provision in its arbitration agreement that bans drivers from bringing state Private Attorney General Ac...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice


The issue has taken on new resonance in California at a time when people are fleeing the state to escape rising housing costs,...


Constitutional Law


Defense attorney Robert Tyler, of Tyler & Bursch in Murrieta, said Friday, “Unjustified emergencies do not support the sus...


The longstanding tradition by the U.S. Justice Department commences on Election Day.


Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal


A 1st District Court of Appeal panel agreed Thursday with Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman, who blocked the U...


Law Practice, Law Office Management


The three come from Pircher, Nichols & Meeks LLP, continuing the Mintz Levin recent expansion push, with 19 new partners a...


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


The complaint argues that under the terms of California Environmental Quality Act, the state should have produced an environme...


Law Practice, Law Office Management


Robert W. Brownlie and Ryan T. Hansen launched Brownlie Hansen LLP to address a segment of the market that they say many big f...


Labor/Employment


“Temporary restraining orders that ‘forbid speech activities’ are ‘classic examples of prior restraints,’ and are ‘the most se...


Technology, Intellectual Property


The Justice Department called the prosecution “an example of … successful efforts to defend American companies from those who...


Government, Civil Litigation


With the pandemic dragging on for months, some newer complaints target local officials for how they have enforced the governor...


Civil Litigation, Bankruptcy


Panish Shea & Boyle LLP’s Kevin Boyle and Jesse M. Creed sued USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee in 2018 in Los...


Law Practice, Civil Litigation


Venable LLP secured $420K in fees defending a racial discrimination lawsuit filed against comedian and producer Marlon Wayans.


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge William Alsup asked five pages of questions about a response filed Monday by Reid J. Schar, a Jenner &...


Technology


The judges on the panel voted to deny a government petition for rehearing and no judge requested a vote to reconsider the case...


Technology, Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The lawsuit accuses San Francisco-based Fortress Investment Group LLC of acquiring a number of patent holding companies, which...


Labor/Employment


The unusually high number of people who weighed in on the proposal speaks to how controversial the independent contractor issu...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


An attorney who pled the Fifth Amendment regarding the LA water billing litigation says in a lawsuit the just-retired chief de...


Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Another officer acted reasonably when he fired bean bag rounds to bring down the suspect, who refused to get on the ground, th...


Law Practice, Law Office Management


The litigation firm Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP will move seven to nine attorneys to Newport Beach early next year and...


Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The Immigrant Legal Resource Center, represented by Nossaman LLP, filed for the dismissal Tuesday, one day after a 9th U.S. Ci...


Judges and Judiciary, Criminal


U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney had stated there would be no real teeth to dismissing the criminal case without prejudice...


Technology, Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


Shipping services industry accuses former Uber executive of stealing trade secrets to start own “copycat” company


Technology, Government


Although the hearing was set to discuss a legal shield protecting internet platforms from liability for what users post on the...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The panel also found that U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley abused his discretion when he found allowing the modifications to...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Supreme Court


The Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions stated that a justice should take immediate steps to remedy the ethical violation wh...


Environmental & Energy, Bankruptcy


State Auditor Elaine Howle said the state agency in charge of the cleanup failed to budget the labor costs and signed deals th...


Government, Criminal


Jackie Lacey, elected in 2012 as the first woman and first Black district attorney for the county, is facing a contentious cha...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


Los Angeles County Judge Elihu M. Berle, who was questioned by an attorney over how he bought a home with cash, had sold his p...


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


Asked by a federal judge in San Francisco to explain its role in the ignition of the blaze, PG&E responded that the issue ...