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State Bar & Bar Associations


A State Bar task force plans to explore how the agency can enhance its proactive efforts to reduce lawyer misconduct, instead ...


Civil Litigation


A Santa Monica jury has ordered a country club to pay $12 million over the death of philanthropist William M. Keck III, who su...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Courts of Appeal


A state appellate ruling chastised a Pasadena attorney for referring to a then-Los Angeles County judge as “attractive” in a b...


Civil Litigation


A plaintiff has obtained an $8.4 million verdict, including $8 million in punitive damages, after his insurer denied a claim f...


Civil Litigation


Working through a flurry of dueling, last-minute motions filed by attorneys in a defamation case against Elon Musk, a federal ...


Civil Litigation


Hologram CEO must pay $8M to harassed employee

Nov. 27, 2019
By Steven Crighton

Hologram CEO Alki David and his business entities must pay $8.1 million in actual damages to a former employee suing him for s...


Labor/Employment


A conservative organization has sued a union representing University of California workers, claiming its process for opting ou...


Labor/Employment


AB 51 will withstand challenges, author insists

Nov. 27, 2019
By Glenn Jeffers

AB 51, which prohibits employers from requiring new or continuing employees to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of e...


Civil Litigation


After a state court found Plains All American Pipeline LP criminally negligent last year on charges relating to a massive 2015...


Government, Environmental & Energy, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Wary of entering the jurisdictional fray over the decommissioning of a San Diego nuclear power plant, U.S. District Judge Jani...


Labor/Employment


McDonald’s has agreed to pay $26 million to California workers to resolve unpaid wage claims, about $10 million of which is re...


Criminal, California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court affirmed the death penalty in two cases Monday despite pointed dissents from Justice Goodwin H. Liu an...


Government, Civil Litigation


The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the city of Los Angeles are facing legal action arising from a wildfire spar...


Criminal, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Defense attorney Elliot Peters accused Department of Justice attorneys of knowingly ignoring rulings barring examination over ...


Labor/Employment


The complaint alleged the printer giant failed to pay plaintiffs for meal and rest breaks, sick leave, and expenses, among oth...


State Bar & Bar Associations


A State Bar task force studying whether to broadly open the legal marketplace to nonlawyers has been given an additional three...


Obituaries


David J. Pasternak, 1951-2019

Nov. 26, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Sports fan, music lover and bar junkie 'wanted it all'


Labor/Employment


Media reports highlighting the discontent of remote transcribers might have revealed another group of independent contractors ...


Entertainment & Sports


Plaintiff's counsel wrapped up their sexual harassment and assault case Friday against Hologram USA CEO Alki David.


Labor/Employment


Foes of the law, which takes effect Jan. 1 and bans employers from mandating arbitration as part of new or continuing employme...


SoCalGas, Sempra Energy secure victory barring plaintiffs from pursuing permanent nuisance claim in Porter Ranch gas rupture l...


Intellectual Property, Civil Rights


Apple Inc. scored a partial victory in its long-running battle to eliminate or at least slash a $503 million patent infringeme...


Civil Litigation


After a series of unfortunate events, Ford Motor Co. finds itself in a precarious situation where a $35 million settlement wit...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The California Supreme Court has agreed to hear Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising International, a case the 9th Circuit initially...


Noting that San Francisco voters recently elected public defender Chesa Boudin as district attorney instead of Mayor London Br...


Criminal


Facing criminal charges, the seafood packaging company's former chief said those working for him colluded in a price-fixing sc...


Judges and Judiciary


The Hollywood Courthouse closed in 2013 due to statewide budget cuts but reopened in October and had an official opening Frida...


Deputy DA Joseph Iniguez urged other candidates to continue their efforts to unseat the incumbent, Jackie Lacey.


Intellectual Property


A San Francisco intellectual property attorney has persuaded a federal judge to dismiss an infringement complaint against Netf...


Government, California Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


State officials gave up their effort to try to force President Donald J. Trump to disclose his tax returns in order to be plac...