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Civil Litigation


A federal judge granted the state’s motion to extend its deadline to respond to a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


In a reply to the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys for Winston & Strawn tried to discredit claims made by a former partner in...


Civil Litigation


LA Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl slapped SoCalGas’ lawyers from Morgan Lewis Bockius LLP in the Porter Ranch litigation...


Civil Litigation, Bankruptcy


The committee representing wildfire victims on Wednesday accused Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. of using state legislation t...


Civil Litigation, Criminal, Civil Rights


In a case steeped in confidentiality issues, Planned Parenthood asked a federal judge this week to sanction anti-abortion acti...


Accusing YouTube LLC of discrimination, a class of LGBTQ content creators claims the popular video-sharing company censors the...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


West fights to keep from moving East

Aug. 15, 2019
By Steven Crighton

No one said litigating a case against Kanye West would be easy.


Environmental & Energy


Southern California Gas Company has been ordered to produce documents containing their communications with AECOM Technology Co...


Tax, Native Americans, Government


A federal judge has dismissed a Native American tribe’s claim it is exempt from state tobacco taxes on the grounds that his co...


Insurance, Government


A state bill that would buy a large wildfire reinsurance policy has hit a snag in the Legislature.


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, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech


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...