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Law Practice, Government, Environmental & Energy


A bipartisan bill coming up on the Senate floor this week would give plaintiffs a reason to think twice before filing a lawsui...


Entertainment & Sports


If the new Desilu Studios Inc. was looking to follow in the footsteps of its namesake, it certainly captured the spirit of the...


Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports


The U.S. Soccer Federation has responded to a discrimination lawsuit filed by the Women’s National Team by denying that it is ...



Ex-NFL players settle with video game maker

May 8, 2019
By Carter Stoddard

Three former NFL players settled with video game maker Electronic Arts on Tuesday, resolving a suit originally brought to dete...


Law Practice, Entertainment & Sports


As streaming services reap the benefits of a resurgent popularity in the true crime genre, the old school king of courtroom TV...


Immigration


Trial over immigration data begins

May 8, 2019
By Justin Kloczko

A class of plaintiffs taking the U.S government to trial Tuesday challenged the very system of information that immigration ag...


While major technology giants and smaller companies are acquiring patents on artificial intelligence technology at a rapid cli...


California Supreme Court


State high court trims anti-SLAPP

May 7, 2019
By Steven Crighton

Plaintiff attorneys say a state Supreme Court decision Monday makes a mighty and much-needed dent in the nigh-invulnerable ant...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is constitutional, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, thwarting for the...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Bankruptcy


Their input comes as Michael J. Avenatti is opposing a receiver's attempt to have his ex-partners and current creditors take o...


Civil Litigation, Civil Rights


A federal judge granted in part an anti-abortion group’s motion to compel Planned Parenthood to produce additional security re...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Civil Rights


The state prisons department unintentionally misled a federal judge and a special master when it issued reports about its comp...


Government, Criminal


A San Francisco supervisors’ committee voted unanimously Monday to advance an initiative that would bar any police department ...


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property


A Santa Clara County judge has finalized an $845 million ruling in favor of a semiconductor chip processor company ASML, who s...


Civil Litigation, Government, Environmental & Energy


A San Francisco federal judge halted Caltrans’ controversial widening project along U.S. Highway 101 in Richardson Grove, citi...


California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court overturned a 27-year-old precedent on Monday, siding with a creditor holding both junior and senior li...


Civil Litigation


A San Francisco County judge has allowed an entrepreneur to move forward with a $1 billion claim Uber Technologies Inc. founde...


Two former top national security and law enforcement officials spoke about Mueller’s fairness in investigating Trump and the a...


The U.S. Department of Justice is stepping into the 5G wireless technology battle and is asking a federal court for a hearing ...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Criminal


The ongoing criminal investigation into Michael J. Avenatti is presenting a growing civil challenge for him as opposing counse...


Civil Litigation


In a rare suit brought under the False Claims Act by a relator representing the U.S. government, a judge took a pause Friday i...


Civil Litigation


The agreement between auto supplier Robert Bosch, Fiat Chrysler and members of the class includes roughly 100,000 owners and l...


Criminal


US brings charges in dark web marketplace cases

May 6, 2019
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

Federal prosecutors in California announced charges Friday against administrators of one of the world’s largest dark web marke...


Civil Litigation, Government


A superior court judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the California High Speed Rail Authority’s use of $1.1 billion in ...


Judges and Judiciary


Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Marc D. Gross has been removed from a lawsuit challenging a major talent agency’s pack...


Law Practice, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


A law firm representing one of Uber Technologies Inc.’s competitors suing for anticompetitive practices was booted from the ca...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A reverse auction of a class action, in which a defendant settles the weakest case in a series of lawsuits, isn’t illegal or e...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


A judge has overturned $128 million in punitive damages that was part of an arbitration award against 21st Century Fox over pr...


Law Practice


Food giant Nestle has hired Leanne Geale as its first general counsel and leader of its legal and compliance departments, the ...


Todd Spitzer says he'd rather work on his new collaboration with Loyola Law School's Project for the Innocent to review old co...