Law Practice, Government, Environmental & Energy
Bill to allow recovery of attorney fees in suits to block infill housing passes key vote
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
Default judgment issued against no-show Desilu Studios Inc.
By Steven Crighton
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
U.S. Soccer denies men’s and women’s teams can be compared in equal pay lawsuit
By Andy Serbe
The U.S. Soccer Federation has responded to a discrimination lawsuit filed by the Women’s National Team by denying that it is ...
Three former NFL players settled with video game maker Electronic Arts on Tuesday, resolving a suit originally brought to dete...
Law Practice, Entertainment & Sports
Court TV aims to reclaim its place in the true crime genre
By Steven Crighton
As streaming services reap the benefits of a resurgent popularity in the true crime genre, the old school king of courtroom TV...
A class of plaintiffs taking the U.S government to trial Tuesday challenged the very system of information that immigration ag...
Intellectual Property
San Francisco-area judges, appellate courts skeptical of artificial intelligence patents
By Winston Cho
While major technology giants and smaller companies are acquiring patents on artificial intelligence technology at a rapid cli...
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
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is constitutionally structured, 9th Circuit rules
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
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
Three defense firms in major class action question Avenatti counsel dispute
By Meghann Cuniff
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
Judge orders Planned Parenthood to release more security threat data
By Blaise Scemama
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
Gibson Dunn report clears prisons department of intent to mislead
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
The state prisons department unintentionally misled a federal judge and a special master when it issued reports about its comp...
Government, Criminal
San Francisco a step closer to banning facial recognition tools
By Carter Stoddard
A San Francisco supervisors’ committee voted unanimously Monday to advance an initiative that would bar any police department ...
Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property
Judge finalizes software firm’s $845 million trade secrets theft verdict
By Gina Kim
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
Judge halts Highway 101 widening project, saying it would harm redwoods
By Gina Kim
A San Francisco federal judge halted Caltrans’ controversial widening project along U.S. Highway 101 in Richardson Grove, citi...
California Supreme Court
State high court overturns precedent, siding with lender
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The state Supreme Court overturned a 27-year-old precedent on Monday, siding with a creditor holding both junior and senior li...
Civil Litigation
San Francisco judge allows suit against Uber to proceed
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
Avenatti’s criminal troubles affecting several of his civil cases
By Meghann Cuniff
The ongoing criminal investigation into Michael J. Avenatti is presenting a growing civil challenge for him as opposing counse...
Civil Litigation
Federal judge mulls burden of proof in False Claims Act trial
By Blaise Scemama
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
Judge OKs $307.5M settlement of car emissions class action
By Carter Stoddard
The agreement between auto supplier Robert Bosch, Fiat Chrysler and members of the class includes roughly 100,000 owners and l...
Federal prosecutors in California announced charges Friday against administrators of one of the world’s largest dark web marke...
Civil Litigation, Government
Dismissal of suit against High Speed Rail Authority sets up appeal
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
Judge removed from Writers Guild suit against talent agents
By Steven Crighton
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.
Quinn Emanuel disqualified from representing Uber competitor
By Gina Kim
A law firm representing one of Uber Technologies Inc.’s competitors suing for anticompetitive practices was booted from the ca...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Reverse auctions are legal, but can lead to a slippery slope
By Justin Kloczko
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
Judge overturns $128M of punitive damages in ‘Bones’ TV show case
By Glenn Jeffers
A judge has overturned $128 million in punitive damages that was part of an arbitration award against 21st Century Fox over pr...
Food giant Nestle has hired Leanne Geale as its first general counsel and leader of its legal and compliance departments, the ...
Criminal
New Orange County DA says he’s spending more time on inherited issues than he would like
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
Todd Spitzer says he'd rather work on his new collaboration with Loyola Law School's Project for the Innocent to review old co...