Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment
Opinion that Prop 22 is unconstitutional to be appealed
By Craig Anderson
“The trial court judge has refused to acknowledge that the voters have coequal authority as the Legislature,” said Kurt R. One...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice
Tom Girardi barred from practice in federal court
By Henrik Nilsson
Chief Judge Philip S. Gutierrez of the Central District of California barred Girardi from practicing in federal court on Frida...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Entertainment & Sports, Intellectual Property
State law doesn’t let artists control performance of their music
By Winston Cho
Members of 1960s rock band The Turtles brought their case in 2013 against Sirius XM, stating they are owed payment for the bro...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Law Practice
Vaccine approval means more mandates and lawsuits
By Blaise Scemama
A recurring argument in lawsuits challenging vaccine mandates pointed to the fact that vaccines were not fully FDA-approved. B...
California Supreme Court, Criminal
State high court reverses conviction, death sentence over lack of competency hearing
By Kamila Knaudt
"Given the passage of time and the corollary difficulty of reconstructing defendant's mental state at the time of trial, none ...
California Supreme Court, Government
California redistricting commission asks for second delay in drafting map
By Craig Anderson
The state Legislature sought a four-month postponement earlier this year due to delays in the federal census caused by the COV...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Top State Bar trustees named by Supreme Court
By Jessica Mach
Ruben Duran, an Ontario partner at Best Best & Krieger LLP, will chair the board of trustees. Kern County Deputy District ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar will investigate July online exam problems
By Nicole Tyau
Test takers have reported problems with the October 2020 and July 2021 bar exams, including frozen screens and system crashes.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Immigration
9th Circuit panel revives asylum bid for nurse who said cartels threatened her
By Craig Anderson
The immigration appeals board had denied her appeal, comparing her claim to that of taxi drivers from El Salvador who sought a...
Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Judge orders US to let Avenatti search his firm’s data servers
By Gina Kim
Judge orders prosecutors to make Eagan Avenatti LLP servers available to Michael Avenatti to look for potentially missing fina...
Data Privacy, International Law
US companies might handle China data privacy law well
By Henrik Nilsson
Since China’s law is similar to Europe’s, law firms will have a road map. Still, questions remain, such as what the level of c...
Civil Litigation
Match won’t have to provide documents in Apple’s app litigation
By Jessica Mach
Match, which owns various online dating services including OkCupid, PlentyofFish, and Tinder, is not a party in either case. H...
Community News, Legal Education
UC Irvine, Pepperdine law students win prizes in annual writing competition
By Luis Gutierrez
The winners appeared virtually Aug. 5 to read summaries of their papers to members of the California Supreme Court Historical ...
Law Practice, State Bar & Bar Associations
Those leery of paraprofessionals could have legislators’ support
By Henrik Nilsson
Although several steps remain before the proposal currently in the works in the Paraprofessional Program Working Group reaches...
California Supreme Court, Torts/Personal Injury
Contractors liable for own safety, state Supreme Court rules
By Jessica Mach
The high court overturned a decision by the 2nd District Court of Appeal.
Education Law, Health Care & Hospital Law
1st California school district mandates student vaccination
By Craig Anderson
The Culver City Unified School District’s decision to require all eligible students to get vaccinated for COVID-19 raised a fr...
Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Father-son legal team win $120M verdict, defense got terminating sanctions
By Blaise Scemama
Before the jury took less than an hour to unanimously award Equihua $120 million Wednesday, Riverside defense attorney Scott B...
California Supreme Court, Education Law
Orange County schools lose bid to end governor’s state of emergency
By Craig Anderson
Robert H. Tyler, a partner with Tyler & Bursch LLP, argued Newsom violated his duty under the Emergency Services Act. He s...
Civil Litigation
US magistrate says Twitter must face child pornography lawsuit
By Gina Kim
Twitter can’t escape a lawsuit that claims it benefits from publishing child sex abuse material, a U.S. magistrate judge ruled.
Law Office Management, Law Practice
Wilson Sonsini corporate practice nabs Sheppard Mullin partner
By Luis Gutierrez
The move by Robert L. Wernli Jr. from Sheppard Mullin’s office in San Diego, where he was a special counsel, and most recently...
Community courts champion aided veterans, mentally ill, addicts
Appellate Practice
Brief says appellate attorneys fear objecting to delays
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Because appellants’ attorneys aren’t objecting, public interest gives him standing to challenge alleged slow decision-making b...
Civil Litigation, Government
San Francisco DA calls suit against ‘ghost’ gun makers a crime preventer
By Jessica Mach
“This is a creative way for the DA to use his authority to combat an obvious safety problem. It’s one of the first cases of th...
California Courts of Appeal, Government
Panel mulls whether ban on trying minors as adults is retroactive
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The 3rd District Court of Appeal heard arguments on whether SB1391, which went into effect in 2019 barring DAs from trying min...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Data Privacy
Challenge to NSA’s mass surveillance program is ‘buried in an unmarked grave’
By Craig Anderson
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled in an unpublished opinion that the plaintiffs lack standing because they canno...
Criminal, Government
DAs, victims’ groups try to block good-conduct changes to release felons
By Kamila Knaudt
Representatives of nonprofits Crime Victims United of California and Citizens Against Homicide joined 44 of the state’s distri...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit judge accuses colleagues of going on a 'bizarre and gratuitous frolic'
By Craig Anderson
9th Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke lashed out at his colleagues even after a panel majority reversed themselves to reject a ha...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke lashed out at his colleagues even after a panel majority reversed themselves to reject a ha...
Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Avenatti begins his defense case trying to discredit one of his earliest accuser
By Gina Kim
As he has throughout the trial, suspended attorney Michael J. Avenatti, who is representing himself, tried to show that the cl...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice
Ex-Girardi Keese lawyer objects to expansion of contempt hearing scope
By Henrik Nilsson
An attorney representing the ex-Girardi Keese attorney, Keith D. Griffin, argued that allowing a witness to provide testimony...