Health Care & Hospital Law, Labor/Employment
Labor commissioner: Groceries didn’t give COVID sick leave
By Jessica Mach
Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower issued $447,836 in citations against Bodega Latina Corp., which owns 52 El Super grocer...
Administrative/Regulatory, Data Privacy
FTC might seize tech companies’ algorithms
By Winston Cho
FTC chief technologist Erie Meyer said Tuesday that the commission will also consider corporate restructuring, bans and other ...
Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy
San Francisco school historic murals saved for now
By Craig Anderson
Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo ruled the school board “ignored CEQA in pursuit of a predetermined result” and or...
Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice
Paralegal testifies Michael Avenatti’s law firm was in financial distress periodically for 4 years
By Gina Kim
Over the objections of the disgraced lawyer, his former employee guided jurors through a financial ledger that showed client m...
Civil Litigation, Litigation & Arbitration, Technology
Facebook content moderators’ lawyers secure $15.6M in fe
By Winston Cho
San Mateo County Superior Court Judge V. Raymond Swope approved the deal brokered by the Joseph Saveri Law Firm that will prov...
Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law
Students sue universities over COVID rules
By Gina Kim
On Monday, two students at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles sued to block the university’s requirement that all stud...
Law Office Management, Law Practice, Mergers & Acquisitions
O’Melveny & Myers adds Silicon Valley tech M&A expert
By Gina Kim
Bradley Finkelstein, with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for 20 years, joined O’Melveny & Myers as a partner in S...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Litigation, Criminal
China-owned companies not immune from criminal charges
By Craig Anderson
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected a bid by Pangang Group Co. Ltd. and its affiliates to dismiss a criminal ...
Civil Rights, Health Care & Hospital Law
Long-term COVID symptoms may count as disabilities
By Jessica Mach
By reducing ambiguity over whether long COVID qualifies as a disability, Monday's federal guidance could help strengthen affli...
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment
PwC didn’t retaliate against auditor, court says
By Winston Cho
U.S. Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse in San Francisco found that Mauro Botta, a former senior manager, was lawfully terminated de...
Criminal, Government
Another city votes no confidence in DA, after urging by his deputy
By Kamila Knaudt
Before the Cerritos’ council passed the resolution 4-1, Deputy District Attorney John McKinney, who is among a group of deputi...
Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy, Government
Attorney general opposes activist intervention in Prop 65 suit
By Malcolm Maclachlan
In her June 20 motion, New York-based attorney Aide Poulson argued the court should let Penny Newman intervene because the sta...
Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, Government
San Francisco agrees to pay $8M after vacated murder conviction
By Winston Cho
The city said the settlement is not based on proven misconduct or a finding of factual innocence, but on the difficulty of ret...
California Courts of Appeal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary
Retired judge shouldn’t have decided Jolie v. Pitt case, panel says
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“ … Just because it is no longer criminal for a temporary judge to receive compensation from private parties doesn’t mean it’s...
Civil Litigation, Securities, Technology
Coinbase investors say it lied about need for cash
By Winston Cho
An investor claimed in a lawsuit that the company failed to disclose that it “required a sizable cash injection” and was “susc...
Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Government
Lake County prosecutor can amend religious discrimination lawsuit
By Jessica Mach
In the complaint filed by Wendy Musell, a sole practitioner and of counsel to Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams LLP, Senior Deputy Dis...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Constitutional Law, Education Law
Private school parents COVID suit not moot, panel says
By Craig Anderson
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Daniel P. Collins, rejected the state’s argument that the case by private school paren...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar takes over practice of deceased attorney with 14 client complaints
By Malcolm Maclachlan
According to the bar petition, James L. Miller had messaged his clients that he was seriously ill and closing his practice, bu...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Intellectual Property
Jury gives Plexxikon $178M in patent battle with Novartis
By Winston Cho
A Novartis spokesman acknowledged that the company infringed on Plexxikon’s patents for skin cancer drugs and that it might ha...
Bankruptcy, Civil Litigation
Attorneys drop Girardi from case, proceed against his wife and others
By Blaise Scemama
Personal injury attorneys Philip Sheldon and Robert Finn worked closely with Girardi to litigate and settle cases under fee sh...
Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Avenatti cross-examines paraplegic former client
By Gina Kim
On the day federal authorities charged the disgraced lawyer with stealing client money, he showed up at a former client’s hous...
Civil Litigation
Wisk Aero loses early fight in self-driving air taxi trade secrets case
By Craig Anderson
U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick of San Francisco rejected Wisk Aero LLC’s bid for a preliminary injunction, writing the ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar trustees name new committee members and leaders
By Nicole Tyau
A total of 36 people were either reconfirmed, changed positions or were added as members.
Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law
Plaintiffs urge all states to agree to $26B opioid deal, California case nears end
By Blaise Scemama
“If we don’t get the critical mass of the states, we’re done; this deal fails,” said Joseph F. Rice of Motley Rice LLP.
Administrative/Regulatory, Government, Labor/Employment
Former US attorney named to investigate EDD fraud
By Kamila Knaudt
McGregor W. Scott of King & Spalding LLP will head the state’s investigation of last year’s massive unemployment fraud.
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary
Most state judges oppose informal bias committees
By Jessica Mach
The support among judges for eliminating the recommendation clashes with the views of some attorneys, who say there should be ...
Government
Talk show host wins place on recall ballot, tax returns unneeded
By Winston Cho, Malcolm Maclachlan
During a brief hearing in Sacramento County Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon, Judge Laurie M. Earl said the election rule...
Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Avenatti delivers full-throated defense in client fraud trial
By Gina Kim
Keenly aware that he was giving the most important — and perhaps final — performance of his legal career, Michael J. Avenatti ...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Litigation & Arbitration
2 firms announce $37.3M settlement of medical kickback case
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“It settled essentially on the eve of trial,” said Justin T. Berger, a partner with Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP in Bur...
Civil Litigation, Community News, Law Practice, Legal Education
UCI launches center to combat misinformation, promote free elections
By Nicole Tyau
Founders Richard L. Hasen and David Kaye said the unfettered growth of digital media and the spread of misinformation made the...