Covid Court Ops, Judges and Judiciary, Law Practice
San Diego Court back to normal today, other courts opening
By Craig Anderson
In an announcement Monday afternoon, the San Diego County Superior Court said, "Public access will generally revert to prepand...
Demetria Graves knows divorces affect whole families, approaches cases as a peacemaker.
Commissioner Evan Kitahara has often used a new law to grant diversion.
Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law
After $15 million judgment, cryogenic tank maker faces more suits over loss of eggs and embryos
By Winston Cho
A federal jury in San Francisco found that Chart Industries was mostly responsible for the accident that caused the loss of eg...
Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law
Judge gets several 1,000-page motions from opioid trial plaintiffs
By Blaise Scemama
After hearing the people’s case in chief during a seven-week virtual bench trial, Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wil...
Law Practice, State Bar & Bar Associations
Mixed response to bar’s plan to audit high-dollar trust accounts
By Henrik Nilsson
The bar is under criticism for failing to discipline plaintiffs’ lawyer Thomas V. Girardi, who is now accused of stealing mill...
Government
3 ex-prosecutors are favorites for US attorney in Central District
By Craig Anderson
Attorneys familiar with the vetting process say they do not know when President Joe Biden will nominate top prosecutors in the...
Legal Education, State Bar & Bar Associations
Fewer people took February bar exam, more passed
By Henrik Nilsson
The report released Wednesday showed that 3,098 people took the exam in February, compared to 4,205 in February 2020, but 1,15...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Immigration
Immigration court should have relied on woman’s torture claim, 9th Circuit says
By Blaise Scemama
The decision culminates a three-year legal saga, in which Delfina Soto Soto spent more than two years in an immigration detent...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Labor/Employment
Freelance journalists tell circuit AB 5 changes don't solve their problems
By Jessica Mach
Amendments to California’s worker classification law didn’t apply to all freelance writers
Civil Litigation, Technology
Judge leans to YouTube’s preemption defense in child data gathering suit
By Blaise Scemama
Proposed class action alleges the company deceptively gathered children’s data for targeted marketing.
Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, Labor/Employment
Lawyers and judge mull how to allege Uber’s rating system is racist
By Jessica Mach
The proposed class action was dismissed once for being “sparse and poorly drafted”
California Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Criminal, Government
Justice Liu asks Legislature to review life without parole for under 25s
By Kamila Knaudt
In a statement filed Wednesday concurring with the high court’s denial of review in the case of a man convicted of two murders...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Constitutional Law, Government
California appeals federal judge’s striking of assault gun ban
By Gina Kim
Attorney General Rob Bonta said he will also ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stay Senior U.S. District Judge Roge...
Civil Litigation
9th Circuit extends stay on order to clear LA homeless camp
By Gina Kim
The appeal stems from a sweeping 110-page preliminary injunction U.S. District Judge David O. Carter issued in litigation brou...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice
Girardi case leads bar to impose reforms on its discipline system
By Henrik Nilsson
In making the announcement, the trustees appeared to acknowledge what critics have long said was a history of bar investigator...
Civil Litigation, Technology
Fall 2022 trial date in Facebook case illustrates backlog
By Winston Cho
U.S. District Judge James Donato moved the trial, which was supposed to start in December, to next September at the earliest. ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Leah Wilson returns as State Bar executive director
By Henrik Nilsson
Wilson is to start on July 12. She returns to the bar after 18 months as a senior director at the consulting firm Resource Dev...
Podcast host Howard Miller talks with leading tax expert Robert Wood on California tax proposals.
The one time highflying plaintiffs' lawyer made a rare appearance in court Wednesday.
Civil Litigation, Government
Pot businesses challenges Sacramento fee based on alleged harm
By Malcolm Maclachlan
After California voters legalized recreational use of pot with Proposition 64 in 2016, the city imposed a 1% fee on the gross ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice
Dentons calls former partner’s forgery claim ‘utter fabrication’
By Blaise Scemama
Represented by Paul D. Murphy of Murphy Rosen LLP, former Dentons partner Jinshu “John” Zhang said he was fired after demandin...
Administrative/Regulatory
FTC split on MoviePass settlement signals conflict over powers
By Winston Cho
Commissioner Noah J. Phillips argued that the commission dramatically reinterpreted the claim to expand liability.
Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property, Technology
Music publishers sue Roblox over song uploads
By Gina Kim
Roblox sued by music publishers of pop artists for copyright infringement
The three-year project resulted in kits ranging from three to 30 years old being tested, and one suspect being charged in a se...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Labor/Employment
Gig worker challenge gets 9th Circuit hearing
By Jessica Mach
Shannon Liss-Riordan, a partner at Lichten & Liss-Riordan, PC who has brought many misclassification claims against gig co...
Government, Judges and Judiciary
Other states ahead of California in judicial nominees
By Craig Anderson
In California, meanwhile, no judge has been nominated for three 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacancies or 19 district cou...
Icon to junior faculty, prolific writer was a UC Hastings dean
Law Practice, Legal Education
Legal incubators train lawyers for the unrepresented
By Kamila Knaudt
The Bay Area Legal Incubator, which launched in 2014, is one of 10 in California and 70 in the U.S. and four other countries, ...
Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
LA city attorney wants suit over billing case dismissed
By Blaise Scemama
The civil rights suit filed by water customer Antwon Jones, who, along with over a million overbilled ratepayers filed the cla...