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


A lively oral argument session Wednesday morning before a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Pasadena elicited contras...


Veteran in-house attorney Jason Weintraub is El Pollo Loco's latest addition to its expanding list of c-suite executives.


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A California Highway Patrol officer tearfully testified Tuesday that Justice Jeffrey W. Johnson propositioned her for sex and ...


Immigration, Government


San Francisco and Santa Clara counties have sued to block the Trump administration's new "public charge" rule.


Civil Litigation, Government


In court filings, state officials said it would be inappropriate to relate a lawsuit challenging a wildfire funding bill to a ...


The lawsuitby hundreds of California plaintiffs who have sued drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. for allegedly selling a toxic ve...


Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg., 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the National Football League may be violating antitrust law by effect...


Bankruptcy


Two groups, including some unlikely allies, formed Tuesday at a hearing to discuss whether a bankruptcy judge should open the ...


Government


Keeping track of documents delivered in the process of discovery should become easier under a new bill headed to Gov. Gavin Ne...


Law Practice, Government, Criminal


Less than two months after her reappointment as the Central District’s federal public defender, Hilary Lee Potashner announced...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


After half a century with Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP as an employment and labor law attorney, Alan V. Friedman will be joi...


HDI Global Insurance Company has announced the appointment of Patricia Ryan as its new general counsel.


Labor/Employment, Judges and Judiciary, Immigration


Last week's petition by the U.S. Department of Justice to decertify a federal immigration judges' union will most likely fail ...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


An investigation into the behavior of Justice Jeffrey W. Johnson began with a petition bearing 100 names that asked for a work...


Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law


Attorneys representing the plaintiff in an overturned $417 million talc verdict filed a petition with the state Supreme Court ...


Civil Litigation


Bayer AG, which owns Monsanto, has consistently maintained the Environmental Protection Agency’s position that its Roundup wee...


Two proposed class actions alleging California’s public universities unfairly punish students accused of sexual misconduct wil...


A lawsuit against the Boeing Co. over a 2018 wildfire in Southern California should be heard in state court, a federal judge t...


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A judge ordered the city of Los Angeles Monday to turn over documents related to a controversial $67 million water billing set...


Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Student-athletes not NCAA, conference employees

Aug. 13, 2019
By Brian Cardile

Student-athletes are not employees of the National Collegiate Athletic Association or the Pac-12 Conference, a U.S. 9th Circui...


Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court


An attorney has the right to sue a credit card processing company for discrimination even though he never signed up for its se...


Labor/Employment, Government


Numerous bills with widespread Democratic support are in limbo after Senate Appropriations Committee examination


Securities, Criminal


A federal judge on Monday ordered a retired professional baseball player to spend eight months on home detention for insider t...


Obituaries


Trial attorney Ron Dwyer dies at 90

Aug. 13, 2019
By Nicole Tyau

Ron Dwyer, longtime trial attorney and founding member of Dwyer, Daly, Brotzen & Bruno, LLP, died late last month.


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


So long as he keeps his hands off "Fortnite," Epic Games can't force a minor leading a putative class action against them into...


Corporate, Constitutional Law


A lawsuit seeks to halt SB 826, the 2018 law signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown that requires all publicly-traded companies headq...


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary


An attorney challenging new limits on the state retired judges program said Friday he’ll appeal a San Francisco County Superio...


Tax, Civil Litigation


A Fresno-based small business owner is suing the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration and its director for alle...


Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal


A Sacramento-area couple has received a lifeline in their long-running loan case against Wells Fargo, thanks to the 3rd Distri...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations


The California Lawyers Association panel will issue advisory ethics opinions, provide educational programming.