Civil Litigation, Corporate, California Courts of Appeal
Court of Appeal rules website must be equally accessible to the blind
By Ilan Isaacs
A business website that was inaccessible to the visually impaired violated the Unruh Act and the Americans With Disabilities A...
Criminal
Court finds lack of DNA evidence, overturns murder conviction
By Justin Kloczko
An inmate’s 33-year battle for freedom has come to an end after the 6th District Court of Appeal overturned his murder convict...
The judge presiding over the state attorney general’s office unusual prosecution of two anti-abortion activists for videotapin...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar wants to split off part of Lawyers Assistance Program
By Lyle Moran
The California Lawyers Association is willing to take on the initiative supporting attorneys with substance abuse and mental h...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State high court reappoints attorneys to Bar Board of Trustees
By Glenn Jeffers
The California Supreme Court announced Tuesday the reappointment of attorneys Mark A. Broughton and Sean M. SeLegue to four-ye...
San Francisco will eliminate its pre-arraignment cash bail schedule in favor of a system that "takes money out of the equation...
Friends and colleagues who worked with him at ADR Services Inc. before his death last Wednesday at 71 said despite having to e...
Simmons Hanly Conroy won a $34 million Los Angeles jury verdict for a former mechanic who said he developed a fatal cancer fro...
Prosecutors and defense attorneys in state attorney general’s case against two anti-abortion activists told very different sto...
Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Family
San Diego judge recuses law firm from major divorce case
By Meghann Cuniff
Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP’s prior representation of a husband’s company prohibits current representation of...
Judges and Judiciary
Latest district court nominees have diversity of experience
By Blaise Scemama
President Trump said last week he intends to nominate three people for seats on the Central District of California and two on ...
Labor/Employment, Government
State bill codifying Dynamex survives fiscal committees
By Malcolm Maclachlan
An amended version of a bill to reclassify many groups of independent contractors as employees survived a Friday deadline for ...
After three weeks of graphic testimony and outlandish behavior by self-proclaimed “eccentric billionaire” Alki David, jurors o...
More than 100,000 owners of certain vehicles in the emissions scandal in which automakers overstated the fuel efficiency of th...
Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Latest 9th Circuit nominee appears poised for a smoother confirmation
By Brian Cardile
With credentials likely to appeal to senators of both political parties, President Donald Trump's choice to fill the 9th U.S. ...
Civil Litigation
O.C. sheriff’s deputy pleads 5th in federal civil trial
By Meghann Cuniff
The deputy has been on paid leave for four years after a judge found his testimony in a death penalty case untruthful
Criminal
State AG’s criminal case against anti-abortion activists rife with complications
By Craig Anderson
In a prosecution complicated by two ongoing civil lawsuits, sanctions, and discovery disputes, two anti-abortion activists who...
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment
US judge OKs $20M deal between Uber and its drivers
By Winston Cho
Uber Technologies Inc. closed a long-running chapter on a tumultuous legal saga over the ride-hailing service's classification...
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court
Arbitration agreements must be clear, Supreme Court says
By Justin Kloczko
Employers may have to take a closer look at their arbitration agreements after the state Supreme Court Thursday invalidated on...
A paralegal was arrested Thursday on a federal grand jury indictment that accuses her of stealing $181,344 from several Southe...
Government
State senator seeks restraining order against anti-vaccine activist
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, has requested a restraining order against an anti-vaccine activist who shoved him near the Cap...
Civil Litigation
Appeals court deals Wells Fargo another mortgage loss
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Wells Fargo & Co. lost two mortgage related decisions in the 3rd District Court of Appeal on Wednesday, the latest in a lo...
Government, Environmental & Energy
Suit seeks halt to Northern California predator killing
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The complaint demands the agency cease killing predators such as wolves, mountain lions and bears in 10 Northern California co...
Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law
LA suits say Allergan knowingly sold cancer-causing breast implants
By Carter Stoddard
Attorneys from Panish Shea & Boyle LLP and Bentley & More LLP said they believed consolidation of many similar cases w...
Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
LA city attorney said he delegated water billing litigation
By Justin Kloczko
Los Angeles City Attorney Michael N. Feuer voluntarily sat for a deposition about a month after the FBI searched his office f...
The country’s largest trial advocacy event at the Wynn Las Vegas from Aug. 29-Sept. 1 will feature 120 panelists, including 48...
Judges and Judiciary, Government, Criminal
Bill to put felons on juries heads to Assembly floor
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A heavily amended version of a bill that would allow former felons to serve on juries is headed to the full Assembly. But if S...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Retired appellate justice to investigate bar exam leak
By Glenn Jeffers
The state Supreme Court hired retired 3rd District Court of Appeal Presiding Justice Arthur G. Scotland on Wednesday to spearh...
Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Oregon state judge nominated for 9th Circuit seat
By Brian Cardile
The White House moved to fill a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seat that has been vacant since Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain t...
San Francisco-based financial company Cred, Inc. has announced the hiring of Fintech law veteran Dan Wheeling as the company’s...