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Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports


The video game giant has recently increased it’s enforcement actions against alleged video game pirates.


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Justice Jeffrey Johnson was recalled as the last witness in his Commission on Judicial Performance hearing Wednesday and testi...


Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


Contentious litigation over profits from the hit TV series "Bones" ended quietly with an undisclosed settlement Wednesday.


Criminal, Corporate, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


StarKist Co. will pay a $100 million criminal fine for its role in a canned tuna price-fixing scheme, a federal judge ruled We...


Labor/Employment, Government, Alternative Dispute Resolution


SB 707 would do two very different things if it becomes law: one relating to arbitration contracts, the other to the diversity...


Constitutional Law, Civil Rights


Judge rejects gag order on anti-abortion defendants

Sep. 12, 2019
By Craig Anderson

A judge on Wednesday rejected a proposed prosecution gag order to block anti-abortion defendants — and their lawyers — accused...


The bill invokes the Cartwright Act, a state antitrust law, and applies it to drug makers. But the situation AB 824 addresses ...


Labor/Employment


A bill that could switch millions of California gig economy workers from independent contractors to employees passed the Legis...


Civil Litigation


The writ petition is the first action in response to a state law overhaul in 2016


U.S. Supreme Court, Immigration


Conspicuous procedural exchanges between the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and a San Francisco-based district judge prompt...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The confirmed pass rate for the First-Year Law Students’ Examination is slightly lower than the State Bar had predicted in mid...


Eugene Volokh found eight types of de-indexing scams including: outright court forgeries; fake stipulated injunctions involvin...


Law Practice


Sonal Mehta joins WilmerHale IP practice

Sep. 11, 2019
By Nicole Tyau

The experienced litigator comes from San Francisco boutique Durie Tangri.


Securities, Government


The action targets the so-called Best Interest Rule, set to take effect next year


Labor/Employment, Government, Criminal


The Legislature passed bills Tuesday relating to criminal justice, debt collection and workplace harassment as it worked towar...


Civil Litigation, Government


An attorney’s attempt to block the release of documents exchanged his former client regarding a controversial Los Angeles wate...


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


The Department of Justice, in a battery of filings Tuesday, reproached a renewed national injunction halting Trump administrat...


Securities, Law Practice, Corporate


Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission official John W. Berry is joining Munger, Tolles & Olson, the firm announce...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Christopher (Kit) Kaufman, previously a partner at Latham & Watkins LLP who specialized in corporate law, is launching an ...


Government, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Becerra avoids antitrust probes of Google, Facebook

Sep. 10, 2019
By Craig Anderson

Google joined Facebook Inc. on Monday as Silicon Valley technology giants to face antitrust probes by multiple state attorneys...


Law Practice


Lally, who said he was drawn to the large, complex corporate investigations at McGuireWoods, will bolsterits white collar and ...


Law Practice


Simona Agnolucci and Ben Hur joined the firm from Keker, Van Nest & Peters.


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


The Trump administration's impact on a traditionally liberal-leaning federal circuit court may be no more apparent than in a r...


Civil Litigation


Facebook Inc. can be sued for selling users’ personal data to the information company Cambridge Analytica, a federal judge rul...


Corporate


Cancer research and development company Epic Sciences Inc. has announced the appointment of Joel Smith as the company's new ge...


Civil Litigation, Criminal


The California Attorney General late last month filed a motion to quash plaintiffs’ subpoenas seeking the release of the cause...


Government


Monday’s session in the California Legislature will likely be remembered for the hundreds of anti-vaccine protestors who shut ...


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


When it trimmed back last month the nationwide reach of an injunction blocking new Trump administration immigration policy, a ...


Lawyer Michael Aguirre is once again suing the state over wildfire funding bills, AB 1054 and AB 235.


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


An insurance company seeking to rescind coverage of a $4 million jet sued plaintiffs’ attorney Michael Avenatti, claiming the ...