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


Judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared unsure Tuesday of how to rule on a challenge to a San Francisco ordin...


U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decertified a class of some 160,000 Uber drivers who claim they are misclassified as...


Criminal


Panel hears plea to overturn doctor’s murder conviction

Sep. 26, 2018
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

An attorney for the only physician known to have been convicted of murder in the U.S. for prescribing opiates asked a state ap...


Government, Environmental & Energy


Public water suppliers have prevailed against private landowners in what attorneys believe was the first jury trial over groun...


Entertainment & Sports, Corporate


The National Basketball Association’s Golden State Warriors announced that it promoted David Kelly, its then-general counsel a...


Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Both sides in the potentially landscape-altering National Collegiate Athletic Association antitrust case finished examining ex...


Law Practice, Insurance


Pillsbury adds 2 litigators to insurance practice

Sep. 26, 2018
By Matthew Sanderson

Steven Knott and Joan Cotkin come to the firm’s Los Angeles office from Nossaman LLP.


Civil Litigation, Government


A judge has allowed all but one claim to go forward in a retaliation case filed by a fired state Senate staffer who said she w...


Law Practice, Environmental & Energy


Peter Hsiao heads King & Spalding’s West Coast environmental team.



Steady on Course

Sep. 26, 2018
By Steven Crighton

Ex-Navy navigator Judge Thomas Anderle rarely veers from a tentative ruling once he has made it.


U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal


A second reported allegation of a decades-old incident of sexual misconduct by U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh coul...


Civil Litigation


A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge declared a mistrial Monday in the $29 million Johnson & Johnson cosmetic baby po...


Judges and Judiciary, Alternative Dispute Resolution


A project of Tarzana-based Valley Bar Mediation Center is the first nonprofit to serve as a resource vendor settling Los Angel...


Civil Litigation


Forecasting the dismissal of Stormy Daniels’ defamation claims, a federal judge said Donald J. Trump is entitled to an opinion...


Matthew P. Zinn started work at 8x8 Inc., a provider of a real-time communications cloud for companies.


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


A plaintiffs’ lawyer told an Orange County Superior Court jury Monday that Buchalter APC should pay about $15 million to the h...


The two legal teams are disputing the enforcement of a $10 million judgment against Eagan Avenatti issued in May. Frank claime...


Civil Litigation, Government


California-based court reporting firms won a long-sought goal when Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill subjecting their out-of-stat...


Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Survey analysts on both sides defended their methodology studying pay-for-play’s impact on consumer demand Monday in the poten...


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy


The city of Hemet sued Dow Chemical Co., Shell Oil Co., and Crop Production Services Inc. over groundwater contaminated with t...


Corporate


Fannie Mae exec takes top legal post at Coinbase

Sep. 25, 2018
By Matthew Sanderson

Brian Brooks began his new role last Friday at the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange as part of the company’s effort...


U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment, Government


A law absolving unions of liability for fees charged to non-members prior to the Supreme Court decision could raise constituti...


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


California’s attorney general is pushing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear two major Second Amendment cases en ban...


Immigration


A lawsuit seeking bond hearings for asylum seekers across the nation could be undercut by an immigration court case Attorney G...


Judges and Judiciary, Criminal


Prosecuting a case involving 36-year-old sex assault allegations would be extremely difficult, experts say.


Government


Language in election security bill prompts GOP concerns

Sep. 24, 2018
By Malcolm Maclachlan

An election security bill allowing the Secretary of State to ‘educate voters’ to combat false or misleading information has sp...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I Vice President of Governance Kevin Lennon was pressed on apparent in...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice, Environmental & Energy


In the midst of an intense fire and hurricane season, the ABA released guidelines for attorneys responding to and coping with ...


Government, State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar fee bill signed by governor

Sep. 24, 2018
By Erin Lee

Gov. Jerry Brown approved the State Bar bill Friday, keeping the annual licensing fee flat and asking for a plan to increase d...


Civil Litigation, Corporate, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


A federal judge has awarded plaintiffs $82 million in attorney fees related to the settlement of two pharmaceutical antitrust ...