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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...


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


Information technology company IBM Corp. accused real estate mobile platform Zillow Group of infringing seven IBM patents rela...


Civil Litigation


A federal judge recently gutted claims against the prosecutor, but a plaintiff’s attorney has vowed to amend


U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said the putative class was treated individually by officers making independent judgments and dec...


Obituaries


Longtime Orange County Superior Court Commissioner Tom Schulte has died at 74 from complications of spinal surgery, accordin...


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy


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


Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez keeps a framed picture in her office displaying the words, "A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the ...


Civil Litigation, Bankruptcy


US judge halts Avenatti art sale

Sep. 18, 2019
By Meghann Cuniff

An injunction issued Tuesday prohibits the Orange County sheriff’s department from selling art linked to Michael Avenatti’s ba...


Civil Litigation


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


A new state law stating the beverage is not hazardous after all contradicts a 2005 finding by the California health hazard age...


David R. Daleiden, testifying in his own defense Tuesday, said he was out to expose crimes when recording Planned Parenthood a...


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


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


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


Attorneys with the DOJ' civil division filed a statement of interest arguing the state program is preempted by the Employee R...


Judges and Judiciary


173 judges needed, says Judicial Council report

Sep. 18, 2019
By Glenn Jeffers

A Judicial Council report released Tuesday called for an additional 173 judgeships to handle the state's current caseload, def...



Kelli L. Sager

Sep. 18, 2019
By John Roemer

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP



Nanci E. Nishimura

Sep. 18, 2019
By John Roemer

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP


The first week of September saw an unusual display of consensus between the California Legislature’s Democrats and Republicans...


Civil Litigation


A 72-year-old former Google employee claims the company allowed ongoing harassment and discrimination because of his age to oc...


Civil Litigation


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


While five amendments and a separate bill just passed by the Legislature significantly deem consumers the owners of the privat...


Labor/Employment, Government


In the waning moments of the legislature session, the state legislature passed Assembly Bill 170 early Saturday morning, givin...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment


A former nursing director at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center has filed suit alleging retaliation


Civil Litigation


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...


Civil Litigation


Opioid cases charge forward in California

Sep. 17, 2019
By Meghann Cuniff

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


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.


A legal showdown over a large Northern California health care nonprofit’s business practices, set to start jury selection next...