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Civil Litigation


Plaintiffs’ attorney Bruce Wagman of Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP in San Francisco said, “Our goal is to increase acce...


Civil Rights, Health Care & Hospital Law, Intellectual Property


Senior U.S. District Judge Marilyn L. Huff in San Diego refused to dismiss the case, finding that the federal safe harbor prov...


Antitrust & Trade Reg., Civil Litigation


When asked by the judge overseeing the trial between the two companies if he understands how other apps would be affected if A...


Law Office Management, Law Practice


Former IRS chief counsel joins Gibson Dunn in LA

May 5, 2021
By Henrik Nilsson

Michael J. Desmond, who helped push through regulations for the 2017 federal tax cut, said he joined Gibson Dunn because of it...


California Supreme Court, Real Estate/Development


The Monday decision by the state Supreme Court limited the use of a motion of quash summons and affirmed a 1st District Court ...


Judges and Judiciary


The public meeting follows five closed meetings that the work group has held since December. As of Tuesday, the work group has...


Government, Real Estate/Development


Until July 1, 2025, AB 255 would require a commercial landlord to conduct a “good faith” negotiation with tenants who present ...


California Supreme Court, Criminal


The court’s 146-page opinion by Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye concluded that Sandi Dawn Nieves deserves a new penalty d...


Civil Litigation, Education Law, Technology


New funds don’t help students from closed schools, a motion from Public Counsel and Morrison & Foerster LLP argued.


Law Office Management, Law Practice


Kara Baysinger joined the San Francisco office of Willkie Farr as co-chair of its insurance regulatory group.


Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law


Attorneys for the other drug companies facing deceptive marketing allegations in California have repeatedly stressed the need ...


The lawsuit, filed by Kyle R. Petersen of Loeb & Loeb LLP, argues that California law forbids edible cannabis products fro...


Law Practice


Elissa D. Miller of SulmeyerKupetz APC, who was appointed to handle the firm's finances in January, filed a series of motions ...


Antitrust & Trade Reg., Civil Litigation


Epic Games detailed an alleged decadelong scheme by Apple to create a closed marketplace for its apps. Apple portrayed itself ...


Last June, the city and county struck a deal to provide 6,700 beds for those living near freeway ramps, overpasses and underpa...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


After Tradeline Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., an Indian cotton company, lost its antitrust lawsuit against J.G. Boswell Company and J...


Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


In a five-page filing late Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert D. Rees of the Northern District of California argued former...


Civil Litigation, Military Law


The U.S Court of Appeals for Veteran Claims’ ruling not only requires the department to allow future appeals, but allows past ...


SB 447, opposed by medical and business organizations, passed the state Senate 21-9.


In a unanimous opinion, a panel led by Justice Gail R. Feuer of the 2nd District Court of Appeal reinstated the appellant DA i...


State Bar & Bar Associations


“From 2015 through 2020, case processing times for the investigative phase of attorney discipline cases increased by 56%, and ...


Government, Immigration


The interim policy adopted by President Joe Biden’s administration appears intended to limit conflicts with immigrant advocate...


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy


“Electric trucks, solar, electric cars, electric shuttles, this needs to be the new normal for the freight industry moving fo...


Government


Attorney General Robert Bonta announced a new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council within the California Department of Jus...


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy


Senior U.S. District Judge William H. Alsup of the Northern District of California recommends PG&E to consider all it kno...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Environmental & Energy, Government


The ruling, by a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel, will almost certainly doom the use of the pesticide, chlorpy...


Criminal


The bills, which passed the Public Safety Committees in the Assembly and Senate, will likely be a test of the Democrat-control...


Criminal


DA Summer Stephan said she considered the public safety threats criminal street gangs pose but decided that the permanent natu...


“Courts in New York, California, and around the country have rejected the argument that ‘loss of use’ of property caused by ci...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


Unless there’s a “substantial reduction,” U.S. District Judge William Alsup warned he will appoint a special master to determi...