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NEWS
General News
Monday, March 18, 2024 |
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"There is no grey area for the crimes I committed. It's black and white and I crossed that line," former firm office manager Jairo Tomas Santos wrote the judge. |
General News
Monday, March 18, 2024 |
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Meta has filed a lawsuit against its former vice president, Dipinder Singh Khurana, for allegedly taking confidential documents to a new start-up company. |
General News
Monday, March 18, 2024 |
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The county sued power company PacifiCorp over damages from the 2020 Slater Fire on the Oregon border caused when a rotting tree fell on the company's equipment. |
General News
Friday, March 15, 2024 |
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X Corp.'s legal team argues that users explicitly agreed to the use of their data for advertising in the company's privacy policy and that the case should be dismissed. |
General News
Friday, March 15, 2024 |
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According to the complaint, tire companies began using 6PPD-q in the 1950s to prevent cracking, and the rubber preservative is now found in unsafe concentrations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle watersheds. |
General News
Friday, March 15, 2024 |
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In a speech to the ABA, Paula Blizzard emphasized that she was talking about sending people to "county jail" not "club fed." |
General News
Thursday, March 14, 2024 |
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IA federal judge partially dismissed a similar lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. and its subsidiary GitHub, saying some plaintiffs did not adequately identify specific instances in which their code was used by the defendants. |
General News
Thursday, March 14, 2024 |
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"If litigation materializes, that would be a disaster, because it will involve years if not decades, an untold amount of money and an uncertain resolution at the end of the day," said Robert Glennon, University of Arizona's James E. Rogers School of Law. |
General News
Thursday, March 14, 2024 |
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Cathay Pacific argued the arbitration agreement was binding on a couple that purchased their tickets through a third-party website. |
General News
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 |
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In 2017, the California Supreme Court held that any arbitration clause that bars a plaintiff from seeking public injunctive relief in any forum is unenforceable under state law. |
General News
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 |
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The city attorney's office has stated that there was no violation of the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, because the measure does not affect city employees' working conditions. The union argues that workers will be responsible for testing people for drugs and providing substance abuse support services. |
General News
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 |
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"Bayer has now won three consecutive victories at trial, and 13 of the last 19 cases where judgments were entered at trial, validating the company's strategy of taking cases to trial based on strong scientific and regulatory evidence," said defense attorney Manuel F. Cachan. |
General News
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 |
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Many of the amicus briefs filed this week in support of Grants Pass also argued that the Supreme Court should reverse a 2018 9th Circuit decision that struck down an anti-camping ordinance in Boise, Idaho. |
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 |
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Prosecutors said Linwei Ding moonlighted for one AI company in China while working at Google, then founded his own company. |
General News
Monday, March 11, 2024 |
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Lyft CEO David Risher took responsibility for the blunder, calling it 'an unacceptable error.' |
General News
Monday, March 11, 2024 |
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According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Google Play Store gift cards were the second most popular choice for scammers in 2021. |
General News
Friday, March 8, 2024 |
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The solicitor general's amicus curiae brief cites a 1962 Supreme Court decision that overturned a law making it a crime to be addicted to narcotics, but also asserts that cities and states should have substantial latitude to regulate sleeping or camping in public. |
General News
Friday, March 8, 2024 |
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The recall movement wants DA Pamela Price removed from office due to her progressive approach to prosecuting crimes, which they claim is failing to protect citizens and fueling a crime wave. |
General News
Thursday, March 7, 2024 |
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The case drew many amicus curiae briefs from prosecutors and defense attorneys across the state. |
General News
Thursday, March 7, 2024 |
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The former executives are represented by David L. Anderson, who was U.S. attorney of the Northern District of of California. |
General News
Thursday, March 7, 2024 |
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The city denied him a business license because he doesn't live there. |
General News
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 |
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A complaint says the financial institution sent letters to many fraudulently enrolled customers and unlawfully shifted the burden to dispute the enrollment. |
General News
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 |
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"They were clearly people that were willing and able and completely capable of taking larger cases to trial and dealing with the complexities of a really high-end civil litigation," Burke Strunsky said. |
General News
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 |
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A lack of formality around the agreement between Musk and OpenAI's co-founders and difficulty determining what constitutes "the benefit of humanity" may prove a stumbling block, experts say. |
General News
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 |
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A 2022 report by the Australian non-profit Minderoo Foundation estimated corporate liabilities from plastics litigation to hit $100 billion by 2030. |
General News
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 |
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The nationwide damages could be as much as $2.7 billion. |
General News
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 |
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Musk claims Center for Countering Digital Hate is scouring X (Twitter) for offensive posts to drive away advertisers. |
General News
Monday, March 4, 2024 |
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"This is a textbook example of attorney-client privilege. It is individual at the company, emailing a lawyer providing information and asking, can you assist," said Molly M. Lens of O'Melveny & Myers LLP. |
General News
Monday, March 4, 2024 |
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The justices were curious about why the parties are fighting so hard – for three years now – about whether an arbitrator or court should decide who should hear their dispute. |
General News
Monday, March 4, 2024 |
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The plaintiff, a fashion designer, claims that Girardi and her assistants, as well as U.S. Secret Service agents and American Express, conspired to wrongfully prosecute him. The ruling allows him to proceed with his claims. |
General News
Friday, March 1, 2024 |
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The plaintiffs have not sufficiently proven that there was a widespread practice of sexual assault and exploitation at the prison, according to the Justice Department. |
General News
Friday, March 1, 2024 |
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Some legal professionals wonder if changes to the Code of Civil Procedure to allow for more alternative methods of service are in order. |
General News
Friday, March 1, 2024 |
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A district court judge accused federal prosecutors of misleading the 9th Circuit and a magistrate judge to effect the rearrest of a man whose indictment had been dismissed. |
General News
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 |
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case, filed by Grants Pass, Oregon, on April 22, challenging a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that that city's ordinance violated the Eighth Amendment. |
General News
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 |
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The plaintiffs' claims against Zuckerberg are based on personal statements, not his actions as a corporate officer, the plaintiffs' attorneys said. |
General News
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 |
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Attorney General Rob Bonta agreed the state will bide by a 2023 federal court order that leaves the tribes dealing directly with the federal government. Several other tribes could soon also escape state regulation. |
General News
Friday, March 15, 2024 |
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Gov. Gavin Newsom also appointed 14 superior court judges in 10 counties. |
General News
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 |
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A proposal by Assemblymember Vince Fong (R-Bakersfield) will declare that NDAs "covering bill negotiations with public officials are contrary to public policy and public trust, and therefore, not enforceable." |
General News
Monday, March 11, 2024 |
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A magistrate judge wrote last month that "Californian courts have not limited the application of inverse condemnation to public entities." |
General News
Friday, March 8, 2024 |
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There's much left to be clarified when it comes to the Racial Justice Act, but commentators are split over whether that job should fall to the courts or legislators. |