DA offices across the state need to be transparent as to how they handle wrongful conviction investigations. By Lucy Salcido C...
A federal bankruptcy judge Wednesday ruled that California Farm Investors LLC, led by prominent entertainment attorney Michael...
The news of the resignation of an Orange County deputy district attorney accused of improperly using jailhouse informants and ...
Former Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP partners have adopted a non-heirarchical environment, life-work bal...
Entertainment & Sports
Judge sides with GoDaddy in cybersquatting suit
By Ashley Cullinsn
Judge Andre Birotte Jr. ruled Thursday that GoDaddy did not violate the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, ending fiv...
JAMS (Santa Monica) ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit voids EPA approval of pesticide, citing concern over bees
By Fiona Smith
The government relied on flimsy evidence when it allowed widespread use of a a new pesticide despite lack of data on its effec...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Secret recordings in federal investigation must be disclosed, 9th Circuit rules
By Saul Sugarman
The U.S. Department of Justice must produce secret recordings made during a federal investigation into the alleged price riggi...
A progressive president seeks to end a long conflict through a multilateral agreement, but faces skeptical senators, especiall...
Litigation
Playboy negligence suit against Sheppard Mullin could go to arbitrator
By Matthew Blaken
Judge Stephanie Bowick tentatively ruled the case should go to an arbitratior, but said she needed more time to study issue. ...
Labor/Employment
Pao admits defeat, but legal experts expect gender discrimination suits to continue
By Kevin Lee
Ellen Pao's defiant admission of defeat Wednesday in her gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & ...
Labor/Employment
Major beauty retailer hit with employee misclassification lawsuit
By Philip Johnsonn
Current and former managers with Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc. say the chain chronically understaffs stores, leav...
California Courts of Appeal
Report on Pasadena police shooting must be released, appellate court rules
By John Roemer
A Pasadena police union failed to keep secret an independent report on the 2012 officer-involved fatal shooting of an unarmed ...
Litigation
Lawsuit filed against San Diego company tied to Salmonella outbreak
By Lyle Moran
A San Diego company that distributed cucumbers believed to be responsible for a recent nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has...
In what attorneys said could be the first litigation of its kind in decades, a handwritten lawsuit from a pro per artist takes...
Trusts & Estates
International estate planning easier with new EU rules
By Ben Armisteadn
Last month, new regulations took effect in the EU governing what law controls when dealing with an estate plan in which a clie...
A few weeks ago, Regal Entertainment Group announced a "Backpacks/Packages" policy on its website, which has been implemented ...
Questions about the NFL commissioner's alleged lack of impartiality in the so-called "Delflategate" scandal could be the most ...
Intellectual Property
Google wins patent defense against holding company
By Kevin L Ee
Google Inc. successfully fought off a patent infringement lawsuit brought by plaintiff Blue Spike LLC after an Oakland federal...
California Courts of Appeal
Social media companies win discovery fight
By L.J. Williamson
Criminal defendants awaiting trial have no right to the social media content of victims' Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accou...
Criminal
Federal agents arrest father and daughter in alleged immigration fraud scheme
By Gautham Thomasn
Federal agents Wednesday morning arrested a man posing as an immigration lawyer and his daughter for allegedly setting up Chin...
A new bill likely headed to Governor Jerry Brown's desk would require law enforcement to attain a warrant before collecting on...
A federal judge has denied company's bid to bring gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit before an arbitrator. ...
Deepak Nanda, the previous managing partner of Foley & Lardner LLP's Los Angeles office, has joined the Orange County offi...
With the recent market downturn the number of companies filing initial public offerings could slow in the fourth quarter this ...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council considers new forms for unaccompanied minor proceedings
By America Hernandez
A year after legislators clarified that state courts could make findings that unaccompanied undocumented children are eligible...
Latham & Watkins LLP Century City ...
I write to follow-up to the excellent article on the oral argument before the California Supreme Court in Center for Biologica...
A Court of Appeal recently published an opinion holding that the Right to Repair Act applies to all claims alleging constructi...