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General News Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Supreme Court appears to sanction direct listings Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote that the securities law "requires a plaintiff to plead and prove that he purchased shares traceable to the allegedly defective registration statement."

General News Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Wait for FTC, judge tells gamers trying to stop merger Kathleen J. McMahon of Joseph Saveri Law Firm LLP said the plaintiffs still want to go forward with the depositions now because if the FTC decides to allow the merger to proceed in its current iteration, counsel wants to have the depositions on hand so the case can proceed quickly.

General News Tuesday, June 6, 2023
San Francisco sued over race, gender based free cash program Mayor London Breed defended the idea of a race based guaranteed income program in a news release when she announced it in September 2020.

General News Monday, June 5, 2023
PG&E to pay $50M to settle Zogg fire claims, criminal case dropped The settlement followed a setback for the district attorney's office when Shasta County Superior Court Judge Daniel E. Flynn tentatively dismissed the bulk of the remaining 11 criminal charges against PG&E, including all of the felonies.

General News Monday, June 5, 2023
Legislature passes bipartisan bills to tame Ticketmaster On Wednesday, a unanimous California Senate passed SB 829, which would bar ticket vendors from demanding exclusive contracts with concert venues.

General News Thursday, June 1, 2023
Grand jury faults Sacramento's response to homeless The report pointed to other areas of the state with successful cooperation between local governments — though "success" often means a local homeless population that is growing more slowly than the statewide average.

General News Thursday, June 1, 2023
State Bar Court will not reinstate discipline charges against former director. A State Bar Court review panel on Friday affirmed a February ruling that dismissed with prejudice most discipline counts stemming from 2014 allegations as time barred against the State Bar's former executive director, Joseph Dunn.

General News Thursday, June 1, 2023
Judge preserves suit by doctor who lost license after 'Varsity Blues' The petitioner, Dr. Gregory O. Colburn, was sentenced to eight weeks in prison in April 2022. He claims that the California Medical Board improperly disciplined him as a "convicted physician, who is not incarcerated for a felony" and "effectively ended his career" by revoking his license this year.

General News Wednesday, May 31, 2023
EPA water jurisdiction limited by Supreme Court "In sum, we hold that the [Clean Water Act] extends to only those 'wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies that are waters of the United States in their own right,' so that they are 'indistinguishable' from those waters," Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote for the majority.

General News Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Kohl's ceramic planters alleged to contain toxic chemicals The lawsuit was filed under the California's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, which was passed by voters as Proposition 65. The statute has been a lightning rod for criticism by defense attorneys.

General News Wednesday, May 31, 2023
California continues to brace against red states Lawmakers and NGOs fight red states over abortion, civil rights

General News Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Sonos, Google fight for patent judgment while jury deliberates Sonos, an audio products manufacturer, alleged that Google clearly infringed on their patents when developing its wireless audio devices like Google Home and Chromecast Audio. The company asked the court for $90 million in damages, which was cut down from $3 billion after Senior U.S. District Judge William Alsup narrowed the case.

General News Tuesday, May 30, 2023
State's new gun restrictions law challenged in US court The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a Connecticut-based organization, said in an 80-page complaint that the bill willfully conflicts with existing laws and the judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court, specifically its decision last year in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen.

General News Tuesday, May 30, 2023
'Common use' gun dispute appears destined high court In a brief filed Monday over an Oregon ban of large capacity magazines, attorneys for gun rights groups said the law should be blocked due to the Supreme Court's June 2022 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen,

General News Friday, May 26, 2023
New CJA head to push for more remote proceedings Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Erica R. Yew, elected the next president of the California Judges Association will push for more use of technology in all types of interactions.

General News Friday, May 26, 2023
Nippon Chemi-con must pay Avnet electronics company $89.2M A federal jury in San Francisco found that Nippon Chemi-con violated antitrust law by conspiring to set prices for aluminum and tantalum capacitors, damaging Avnet.

General News Friday, May 26, 2023
Proposal would speed CEQA administrative record preparation "An immense amount of time is wasted during the litigation while a petitioner prepares a record and seeks discovery on the record. This will indeed save time and expedite litigation," said Tina A. Thomas, of counsel with Downey Brand.

General News Thursday, May 25, 2023
Gamers lose bid to enjoin Microsoft-Activision merger U.S. District Judge Jacqueline S. Corley said that the gamers did not adequately show they will suffer "immediate irreparable harm" should the deal go through before a merits decision.

General News Thursday, May 25, 2023
FTC sides against Google in fight over tracking children The FTC amicus brief was written in response to a query from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asking if the commission wanted to weigh in. The appellate court is considering whether to grant en banc review of a three-judge panel's decision in favor of the plaintiffs.

General News Thursday, May 25, 2023
Colorado River deal ends litigation threat – for the moment "The caveat is that the states and the bureau has kicked the can down the road for a while, until the end of 2026, which is going to be here before we all know it," UC Davis School of Law Professor Richard M. Frank said.

General News Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Governor lays out steps to speed up CEQA litigation Gov. Gavin Newsom announced an executive order and said he would introduce a package of trailer bills designed "to accelerate critical infrastructure projects across the state."

General News

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

State Bar board still wants another paths to licensure

After two years, 19 meetings and hundreds of hours of analysis, the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of the Bar Exam established by the Supreme Court in 2021 was unable to agree on alternate pathways to licensure. So it submitted to the board a plan to make changes in the bar exam, and the board passed that on to the Supreme Court on an 11-0 vote.

General News Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Justices unaware bar didn't always apply suspended attorney rule The California Supreme Court found out about this more than 32-year-old practice on Jan. 31, in a letter from State Bar Court Presiding Judge Richard Honn, and on Friday ordered the practice to end by Sept. 1, except in rare cases.

General News Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Does Silicon Valley have a friendly Supreme Court? Legal experts said the decisions, in cases against Twitter Inc., Alphabet-owned Google LLC, and Meta Platforms Inc. are especially important because the Supreme Court — in a per curiam vote — passed on an opportunity to put limits on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

General News Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Bar agrees to send 2 'snitch rule' alternatives to Supreme Court The State Bar Board of Trustees on Thursday agreed to send two alternatives to the Supreme Court that would implement a requirement for attorneys to report each other's misconduct.

General News Tuesday, May 23, 2023
State seeks end to monitoring of prisons for solitary confinement compliance "This case should be over," Deputy Attorney General Sarah M. Brattin said. "Nearly eight years ago this statewide class action settled and CDCR ended its practice of housing inmates in security housing units indefinitely based solely on gang status."

General News Monday, May 22, 2023
Uber counsel's answer to suit denied as a 'laundry list' The plaintiff's counsel, Kyle R. Tracy of Tracy Law PC, filed the lawsuit saying Uber allowed its drivers to discriminate against her "on dozens of occasions" by refusing to give her a ride due to her use of a service animal to get around.

General News Monday, May 22, 2023
Twitter wants ex-employees' lawsuit moved to Delaware "Plaintiffs ignored a critical term within the merger agreement: the mandatory forum selection clause, which requires that all disputes arising out of the merger agreement or the transaction contemplated by the merger agreement proceed exclusively in the federal or state courts of Delaware," Eric Meckley of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP argued.

General News Monday, May 22, 2023
$71M investor settlement is equal to Nutanix's raised funding "We believe it is a fair settlement and great result for investors," said plaintiffs' attorney James E. Barz, partner with Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP.

General News Friday, May 19, 2023
No superior court can review utility commission actions Judge Richard B. Ulmer issued his ruling in a lawsuit brought against PG&E by Winding Creek Solar LLC, an alternative energy company that has tried to compel PG&E to enter into a 20-year purchase agreement for the solar energy it produces under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act.

General News Friday, May 19, 2023
Former Apple employee accused of trade secret theft flees to China Charges in his case and four other cases were unsealed Tuesday as the Department of Justice unveiled a new multiagency unit, The Disruptive Technology Strike Force, created to protect critical American technology or data from theft by hostile nations.

General News Friday, May 19, 2023
FTC uses novel antitrust theory against Amgen-Horizon merger The agency's objection is not the same as the usual policy concerns concerning mergers. Instead, the FTC worries that Amgen will offer rebates on two blockbuster Horizon drugs, used to treat thyroid eye disease and chronic refractory gout, to keep competitors out of the marketplace.