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Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment


“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

Aug. 24, 2021
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


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

Aug. 24, 2021
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


"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


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

Aug. 23, 2021
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


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


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 prosecutors to make Eagan Avenatti LLP servers available to Michael Avenatti to look for potentially missing fina...


Data Privacy, International Law


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, which owns various online dating services including OkCupid, PlentyofFish, and Tinder, is not a party in either case. H...


Community News, Legal Education


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


Although several steps remain before the proposal currently in the works in the Paraprofessional Program Working Group reaches...


California Supreme Court, Torts/Personal Injury


The high court overturned a decision by the 2nd District Court of Appeal.


Education Law, Health Care & Hospital Law


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


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


Robert H. Tyler, a partner with Tyler & Bursch LLP, argued Newsom violated his duty under the Emergency Services Act. He s...


Civil Litigation


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


The move by Robert L. Wernli Jr. from Sheppard Mullin’s office in San Diego, where he was a special counsel, and most recently...


Judges and Judiciary, Obituaries


Colleen Toy White, 1944-2021

Aug. 19, 2021
By Nicole Tyau

Community courts champion aided veterans, mentally ill, addicts


Appellate Practice


Brief says appellate attorneys fear objecting to delays

Aug. 19, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Because appellants’ attorneys aren’t objecting, public interest gives him standing to challenge alleged slow decision-making b...


Civil Litigation, Government


“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


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


A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled in an unpublished opinion that the plaintiffs lack standing because they canno...


Criminal, Government


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 Lawrence VanDyke lashed out at his colleagues even after a panel majority reversed themselves to reject a ha...


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


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


An attorney representing the ex-Girardi Keese attorney, Keith D. Griffin, argued that allowing a witness to provide testimony...