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Government


The city and counsel for class of ratepayers in Department of Water and Power litigation mired in controversy were granted a h...


Government


New privacy rules hard for all to follow, speakers say

Dec. 3, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

About 100 people packed a conference room near the state Capitol Monday morning to weigh in on California’s new data privacy r...


Labor/Employment


Former employee Mahim Khan testified the Hologram USA chief would routinely sneak up behind her and shove her face into his cr...


The judge found the case was related to Abernathy v. DoorDash, Inc., another suit filed in the Northern District of California...


Government


The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the city of Hesperia, San Bernardino County and its sheriff’s depart...


Civil Litigation, Insurance


A Butte County jury awarded over $3 million to an elderly man it found an insurance company had scammed into spending $100,000...


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


Two immigration-related appeals argued Monday gave a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel opportunity to engage in a simmer...


Civil Litigation, Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Two immigration-related nationwide injunctions -- one in effect and one stayed by the Supreme Court -- will be considered by a...


Labor/Employment, Government


A federal judge in Sacramento has approved a request by the United Steelworkers union to intervene in a case over state worker...


Monsanto has maintained through three years of litigation that plaintiffs’ attorneys are offering unreliable experts to testif...


International Law, Civil Rights, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A San Diego attorney filed a $62 million federal tort claim last week to challenge a qualified immunity ruling by the 9th U.S....


Environmental & Energy


The Pacific Gas & Electric Co. lost its bid to offset some of its mounting financial culpabilities in the midst of its ban...


Intellectual Property, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


This mash-up book is not fair use, says Dr. Seuss

Dec. 2, 2019
By Steven Crighton

The case now before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals over “Oh The Places You’ll Boldly Go!” — a children’s book mashing elemen...


Government


New housing projects in California have often been blocked by so-called "NIMBY" groups who say more building will lead to crow...


Environmental & Energy


The oldest ongoing civil case in California might have reached the beginning of its end, according to an attorney representing...


An appellate court has denied an attorney’s attempt to block the release of communications with his former client regarding a ...


Judges and Judiciary


Less than six months after she was severely publicly censured by the Commission on Judicial Performance for misconduct, Santa ...


In Recess


No Nonsense

Nov. 29, 2019
By Shane Nelson

Adversity doesn't knock judge off a bicycle, or her courtroom program.


U.S. Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The Supreme Court has added to its March argument session a trio of cases from the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, each bea...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar is already slated to distribute a record amount of legal aid funding next year, but the agency is hoping to gene...


State Bar & Bar Associations


A State Bar task force plans to explore how the agency can enhance its proactive efforts to reduce lawyer misconduct, instead ...


Civil Litigation


A Santa Monica jury has ordered a country club to pay $12 million over the death of philanthropist William M. Keck III, who su...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Courts of Appeal


A state appellate ruling chastised a Pasadena attorney for referring to a then-Los Angeles County judge as “attractive” in a b...


Civil Litigation


A plaintiff has obtained an $8.4 million verdict, including $8 million in punitive damages, after his insurer denied a claim f...


Civil Litigation


Working through a flurry of dueling, last-minute motions filed by attorneys in a defamation case against Elon Musk, a federal ...


Civil Litigation


Hologram CEO must pay $8M to harassed employee

Nov. 27, 2019
By Steven Crighton

Hologram CEO Alki David and his business entities must pay $8.1 million in actual damages to a former employee suing him for s...


Labor/Employment


A conservative organization has sued a union representing University of California workers, claiming its process for opting ou...


Labor/Employment


AB 51 will withstand challenges, author insists

Nov. 27, 2019
By Glenn Jeffers

AB 51, which prohibits employers from requiring new or continuing employees to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of e...


Civil Litigation


After a state court found Plains All American Pipeline LP criminally negligent last year on charges relating to a massive 2015...


Government, Environmental & Energy, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Wary of entering the jurisdictional fray over the decommissioning of a San Diego nuclear power plant, U.S. District Judge Jani...