A salacious lawsuit against a prominent venture capitalist accused of failing to make good on a $40 million hush payment over ...
The EPA's move to rescind a Congress-created pass for California to fight air pollution is the sort of agency action some cons...
Plaintiffs, bondholders propose end to PG&E’s exclusive reorganization plan
By Winston Cho
Two unlikely allies have teamed up in support of opening the door to competing proposals to reorganize the Pacific Gas & E...
Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property
Zillow infringed IBM’s patents, lawsuit alleges
By Nicole Tyau
Information technology company IBM Corp. accused real estate mobile platform Zillow Group of infringing seven IBM patents rela...
Civil Litigation
Buck’s arrest comes amid unusual lawsuit against DA Lacey
By Meghann Cuniff
A federal judge recently gutted claims against the prosecutor, but a plaintiff’s attorney has vowed to amend
Civil Litigation
Judge finds Trump supporters allegedly harmed at 2016 rally aren’t a class
By Winston Cho
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said the putative class was treated individually by officers making independent judgments and dec...
Obituaries
Longtime commissioner volunteered for pro se family law calendar
By Arin Mikailian
Longtime Orange County Superior Court Commissioner Tom Schulte has died at 74 from complications of spinal surgery, accordin...
Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy
Plaintiffs’ still want Porter Ranch cause report admitted
By Gina Kim
Plaintiffs’ counsel plan to continue pressing LASC Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl to admit the much-awaited Porter Ranch root cause ana...
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment, Government
As contract work reclassification bill is signed, legal challengers are prepared
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez keeps a framed picture in her office displaying the words, "A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the ...
An injunction issued Tuesday prohibits the Orange County sheriff’s department from selling art linked to Michael Avenatti’s ba...
Civil Litigation
Positives for both sides in Tubbs fire civil trial date approval
By Gina Kim
Weeks after a bankruptcy judge ruled that a jury trial should decide whether Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was liable for the...
Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law, Government
New battle brewing over whether coffee requires a warning label
By Justin Kloczko
A new state law stating the beverage is not hazardous after all contradicts a 2005 finding by the California health hazard age...
Criminal
Anti-abortion activist says he was trying to expose crimes when videotaping officials
By Craig Anderson
David R. Daleiden, testifying in his own defense Tuesday, said he was out to expose crimes when recording Planned Parenthood a...
Tax, Government
GOP aims to stop Berkeley dean’s amicus brief in presidential tax returns case
By Malcolm Maclachlan
According to attorneys for the Republicans, Erwin Chemerinsky’s brief was filed late and restates claims already made by the s...
Civil Litigation, Government, Environmental & Energy
Judge appears satisfied with PG&E’s wildfire preparations
By Winston Cho
Despite the revelation in response to a report that its vegetation management program is running behind, U.S. District Judge W...
Criminal, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Government can't mute executions, 9th Circuit rules
By Brian Cardile
The public may not be prevented from hearing the sounds of a prisoner being put to death, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Tax, Government
Anti-tax group gains US DOJ ally in fight against CalSavers program
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Attorneys with the DOJ' civil division filed a statement of interest arguing the state program is preempted by the Employee R...
A Judicial Council report released Tuesday called for an additional 173 judgeships to handle the state's current caseload, def...
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP
Government, Criminal
Bill strengthening parole rules passes Legislature by avoiding sentence enhancement
By Jessica Mach
The first week of September saw an unusual display of consensus between the California Legislature’s Democrats and Republicans...
Civil Litigation
Google hit with age discrimination lawsuit by former employee
By Nicole Tyau
A 72-year-old former Google employee claims the company allowed ongoing harassment and discrimination because of his age to oc...
Civil Litigation
Musk seeks summary judgment in case of diver he called ‘pedo’
By Steven Crighton
When Elon Musk accused a British diver in Thailand of pedophilia in a highly publicized 2018 Twitter spat, the Tesla CEO was r...
Government, Civil Rights
Data privacy bills may be models, but users unlikely to get data
By Carter Stoddard
While five amendments and a separate bill just passed by the Legislature significantly deem consumers the owners of the privat...
Labor/Employment, Government
Exempting newspapers from gig bill may lead to opt-outs
By Glenn Jeffers
In the waning moments of the legislature session, the state legislature passed Assembly Bill 170 early Saturday morning, givin...
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment
Suit claims UCLA Medical Center retaliated against concerned employee
By Glenn Jeffers
A former nursing director at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center has filed suit alleging retaliation
Civil Litigation
Prop 65 plaintiff: State previously said coffee is hazardous
By Justin Kloczko
A new battle is brewing in the nearly 10-year-long litigation over a cancer link in coffee, this time regarding a new law stat...
A power struggle to control opioid litigation in California includes an unusual duel between the state attorney general’s offi...
Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Fight to carry gun in public looks stalled at 9th Circuit
By Brian Cardile
A fight to carry a firearm in public that is pending in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals looks likely to be stalled for t...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Sutter Health faces antitrust trial with national implications
By Craig Anderson
A legal showdown over a large Northern California health care nonprofit’s business practices, set to start jury selection next...