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Criminal


Eastern District of California also allowed to suspend trials for a year.


Of the 3,496 inmates released on expedited parole, more than 2,000 are between the ages of 25 and 39, while only 107 are 60 an...


Southern District Judge Dana M. Sabraw refused to pause a lawsuit filed by a group of lifeguards suing the California State La...


Judges and Judiciary, Insurance


Status conferences in the Woolsey Fire mass tort action in Los Angeles County Superior Court have been vacated until July 7 am...


Labor/Employment


The firm had been pursuing Persson for a while, said privacy security and technology practice co-chair Nancy C. Libin.


Judges and Judiciary, Government


Further measures have been taken for Central District court operations amid public health emergency, ceasing the majority of o...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


“We need to make sure the environment is safe and ensure to our jurors that the court can ensure their safety such that they h...


Labor/Employment


The case exemplifies what plaintiff attorneys say is a growing labor defense tactic aimed at hindering mass filings.


Government, Criminal


“When survivors are surveyed on what kind of priorities they want to see in the criminal justice system, the majority of victi...


Recalling the recession in 2008, when law firms canceled summer programs, leaving students without job offers or work experien...


Criminal


Governor speeds juvenile detention releases

Apr. 16, 2020
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Under the governor’s late Tuesday order all discharge hearings will be held via video conference “to minimize the youths’ and ...


Faced with steep funding cuts and low staffing levels, indigent defendants’ attorneys are often overburdened with massive case...


At a status conference Tuesday in downtown Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter directed attorneys to work out a l...


Insurance


The utility originally intended to use interest accrued in its $13.5 billion settlement with wildfire victims to pay the penal...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


An Oakland federal judge has kept alive an antitrust class action accusing California’s bail bond industry of a long-running c...


Labor/Employment


The governor’s plan to require businesses to reshape their workspaces to give workers and customers more physical space betwee...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


Bar group recommends changes in exam topics

Apr. 15, 2020
By Henrik Nilsson

Administrative law and procedure might be a future topic, while professional responsibility, trusts, wills, community property...


Civil Rights


“Supreme Court precedent and California precedent both hold you can’t quarantine people who aren’t sick or aren’t proven to be...


Civil Litigation


A jury trial that was on its seventh week in Santa Barbara County received permission from the chief justice to proceed as the...


Law Practice


Snell & Wilmer opens La Jolla location

Apr. 15, 2020
By Kamila Knaudt

Jeffrey D. Morton specializes in intellectual property in the life sciences space, and Steffi Gascón Hafen is a tax specialist.


Labor/Employment


The couriers’ attorneys “could have filed arbitration demands promptly upon being retained, rather than strategically waiting ...


Labor/Employment


Ongoing uncertainty around how the coronavirus spreads has made it necessary for employers to take extra precautions for emplo...


Environmental & Energy


The cases concern the Legislature’s passage of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, which created the Delta St...


A remnant from a time when smallpox still ravaged the country, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905) has been successf...


Intellectual Property


Facebook and LinkedIn are targeted as co-defendants in a new privacy class action filed against Zoom Media Communications in t...


The lawsuit alleged Education Secretary Betsy DeVos damaged plaintiffs’ potential earnings and credit by illegally pausing the...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Compliance expert joins Vinson & Elkins

Apr. 14, 2020
By Morgan Keith

Michael Ward will be a part of the firm’s white-collar and government investigations practice.


The packet of complaints argue specific payment mechanisms in their insurance coverage plans were triggered when the Los Angel...


Civil Litigation


LA courts won’t start ramping up until after June 22, attorneys were told in a telephonic briefing Friday and they should not ...


The panel noted California law recognizes a legal interest in unjustly earned profits, and therefore, “Plaintiffs have adequat...