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Amy Keating will be overseeing all aspects of Mozilla’s legal work and affairs, including commercial contracts, licensing, pri...


Government, Judges and Judiciary, Civil Litigation


CJP and state auditor near settlement of legal dispute

Aug. 21, 2018
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The long-running legal dispute between the Commission on Judicial Performance and the state auditor could be nearing its concl...


Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh blasted plaintiffs’ counsel during a June hearing for overbilling in the Anthem data breach cl...


Government, Civil Litigation


A plaintiff’s witness who testified that racially polarized voting did not occur in a previous voting rights case testified Mo...


Law Practice


Archer Norris to dissolve in October

Aug. 20, 2018
By Erin Lee

Archer Norris announced it will dissolve by October, citing economic difficulties.


Civil Rights, Law Practice


Attorneys R. Rex Parris and Marcellus McRae have met before, facing off in the Santa Monica voter discrimination case, faced o...


Criminal, Civil Litigation


A lawsuit seeking an injunction to prevent the state from carrying out any executions until all aspects of the process are mad...


Criminal, Environmental & Energy


After two days of closing arguments, jurors will finally decide if Texas based oil company, Plains All American Pipeline, was ...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice


The school welcomes its largest ever first-year class to campus this fall


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Litigation


Claiming litigation has forced her to live on a “pauper’s income,” the widow of John Steinbeck’s son indicated Thursday she’s ...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Constitutional Law, Criminal


A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Friday revived a lawsuit by a woman who was wrongly convicted and served 17 years...


Government, Labor/Employment


Several bills of importance to the #MeToo movement survived a legislative deadline in Sacramento last week. But potentially tr...


Civil Litigation


A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge denied a preliminary injunction Friday to a group of petitioners who allege the City...


Criminal, Environmental & Energy


Not long into closing arguments in the trial of a pipeline company charged with criminal negligence in a 142,000-gallon oil sp...


California Supreme Court, Immigration


Court eases immigration of minors claiming abuse

Aug. 17, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

The state Supreme Court set limits Wednesday as to how far state courts must go in consulting parents of abused alien minors ...


Criminal, Government


A bill aimed at increasing the transparency of peace officer personnel files passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee Thur...


Administrative/Regulatory, California Supreme Court, Environmental & Energy


The state Supreme Court rejected a challenge by Monsanto Co. to review California’s decision to list the main chemical in its ...


Government, Immigration


Sessions curtails continuances in immigration court

Aug. 17, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

Immigration judges must take into account if a case also proceeding outside of immigration courts is likely to succeed before ...


Civil Rights, Government


Little by little, defense attorney Marcellus McRae has sought to reveal the information a plaintiff’s historian didn’t present.


State Bar & Bar Associations


James Fox will step down as a State Bar trustee to assume his new post.


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


The question of whether employers are required to provide seating to a class of cashiers heads to trial for the first time on ...


California Courts of Appeal, Government


Can California legislate its way out of a $331 million court-ordered debt? That’s what plaintiffs in a long-running legal case...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judges and Judiciary


The chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took the unusual step of publishing a judicial misconduct order recen...


In Recess


Visual Aid

Aug. 17, 2018
By Skylar Dubelko

David Ulich’s films examine controversial moments in the history of Olympic competition.


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


A U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals panel remanded a $7.3 million infringement award against Apple Inc. Thursday, finding ...


California Courts of Appeal, Family


An appellate court has determined that a trial court miscalculated an award of spousal support by improperly accounting for ta...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Constitutional Law


A federal civil lawsuit seeking damages for the 2016 police shooting of a Sacramento man has evolved into a complicated standi...


Government, Immigration


A judge granted class certification to nearly 2,000 Cambodians with criminal records who claim they were unfairly subjected to...


A San Francisco County Superior Court jury’s finding that Monsanto Co.’s massively popular weed killers caused a dying man’s c...


Criminal, Government


A county counsel attorney has been selected to provide oversight at the Mendocino public defender’s office, according to count...