Securities, Criminal
SEC says Sacramento radio financial adviser defrauded hundreds of elderly clients
By Glenn Jeffers
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged Sacramento radio host and Springer Investment Management Inc. ow...
Civil Litigation, Government, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Sutter Health proposed settlement will feature monitor, changes in business practices
By Craig Anderson
Sutter Health has agreed to pay a $575 million settlement and change several of its business practices in a resolution announc...
Without saying outright whether or not a southern Lebanese man facing criminal charges has been monitored under the Foreign In...
Civil Litigation
Kern County jury awards $70.5 million in personal injury trial
By Meghann Cuniff
Attorneys say the verdict, which includes $5.5 million for post-traumatic stress disorder, is a record in the county.
State Bar & Bar Associations
Hellen Hong hopes her experience can bring meaningful changes to support California's needy
By Lyle Moran
Legal aid organizations across the state are struggling to attract and retain attorneys because the salaries they offer cannot...
Labor/Employment
EEOC says it’s now collected 85% of required pay data
By Glenn Jeffers
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Office of Management and Budget have again asked a federal judge to a...
Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Judge denies PwC discovery motion against LA over dismissed water billing dispute
By Blaise Scemama
Pricewaterhouse Coopers took a blow Thursday in its fight for sanctions against the City of Los Angeles after a judge denied i...
Judges and Judiciary
Bay Area judge publicly admonished for hitting attorney
By Winston Cho
The superior court judge hit a female deputy public defender’s hand when she placed it on the bench, “inadvertently us[ing] en...
Education Law, Government, California Supreme Court
High court affirms unreimbursed school mandates are constitutional
By Craig Anderson
The state Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld an appellate court concluding it is constitutional for the Legislature ...
Judges and Judiciary
Auditor finds procurement, disclosure problems at Judicial Council
By Malcolm Maclachlan
State Auditor Elaine Howle has found problems with disclosure and procurement at the Judicial Council, though her most recent ...
Judges and Judiciary, Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Court OKs CHP officer’s suit involving 2nd District justice
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A black female California Highway Patrol officer can move forward with her sexual and racial harassment claims against the sta...
Judge Anthony A. Trendacosta of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, who has spent his entire career working to protect and ...
As a commissioner, former star prosecutor quickly won over a concerned family law bar.
Southern California Edison Co. has fended off claims one of its substations emitted stray voltage, harming residents and prope...
Civil Litigation
Minor files sex abuse suit against Inland Empire Boy Scouts chapter
By Glenn Jeffers
The complaint alleges former troop leader Charles “Kip” Yotter met the minor in 2012 and began grooming him “for the purposes ...
Civil Litigation
PG&E hit with $2.5B putative class action over outages
By Winston Cho
PG&E’s planned energy shutoffs were only necessary because of its negligence maintaining its transmission lines, according...
Immigration, Constitutional Law
FISA case presents novel 4th Amendment questions
By Gina Kim
A southern Lebanese Muslim is fighting to keep the federal government from spying on him under the Foreign Intelligence Survei...
A candidate running for a Los Angeles County Superior Court seat who legally changed his first name to “Judge” can appear as s...
Criminal
Plaintiff’s attorney in Roundup cancer trial charged with extortion
By Winston Cho
Virginia attorney Timothy Litzenburg approached “Company 1” and threatened to find plaintiffs to sue for manufacturing a purpo...
Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Robins Kaplan to represent consumers in technology price-fixing class action
By Winston Cho
will represent consumers who, between May 2008 and April 2016, purchased hard disk drive suspension assemblies for use from J...
Entertainment & Sports, State Bar & Bar Associations
Avenatti’s involuntary license deactivation hearing begins
By Meghann Cuniff
LOS ANGELES -- A former client of Michael J. Avenatti described his slow realization that his attorney was defrauding him, tel...
U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Government, Constitutional Law
Plaintiff appeals district judge’s defiant takings ruling to keep Knick alive
By Blaise Scemama
In what both sides believe to be the first federal takings claim to test these post-Knick waters, a Riverside federal judge gr...
U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment, Constitutional Law
US Supreme Court will consider ministerial exception doctrine in discrimination cases
By Glenn Jeffers
The high court will decide if teachers at two Catholic schools fall under the ministerial exception, which prohibits civil rig...
Labor/Employment
Uber’s $4.4M EEOC harassment settlement followed by new employee class action
By Glenn Jeffers
The complaint claims Uber has misidentified its ride-hail drivers as independent contractors rather than employees since April...
Civil Litigation, Immigration, Government
Government avoids contempt while settlement for abused immigrants approved
By Craig Anderson
A magistrate judge said Wednesday he would approve a settlement of a lawsuit filed by a class of abandoned, abused or neglecte...
Civil Litigation, Government
Renne, Cotchett firms sue Juul for Bay Area schools
By Craig Anderson
Five San Francisco Bay Area school districts, along with the San Mateo County Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools...
Law Practice, Law Office Management
Planned merger will create one of the country’s largest firms
By Henrik Nilsson
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP and Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP will combine to create Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath early nex...
Criminal, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
GOP-named 9th Circuit judges decry death penalty ruling
By Brian Cardile
A chorus of Republican-appointed judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decried on Wednesday a ruling that granted re...
Criminal
US judge says state corrections department ‘knowingly misled’ court on prisoner mental health care
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The judge stopped short of giving explicit instructions to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in her ruling, but...
State real estate law expert was 'indescribable,' colleagues say.