GUEST COLUMNS
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Senate Bill 2 eliminates the good cause requirement for the issuance of said permit to carry, and whose counterpart version in New York's Sullivan Law was struck down by the Court in Bruen.
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Music's biggest star can teach some lessons to the defense bar.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Implementing a statewide training program within schools across California can potentially save hundreds to thousands of victims.
Friday, September 15, 2023
Vermont Law School decided to build a wall of acoustic panels just two inches in front of the mural, but not touching the mural. They did this because of something called the Visual Artists Rights Act, or VARA, which protects an artist's rights of attribution and integrity in particular works, such as murals. Under VARA, the owner of a mural can't simply paint over, modify, or destroy the mural, at least not without satisfying several requirements.
All California employers should be aware of updated regulations for the use of criminal history in hiring decisions, many of which went into effect Oct. 1.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
It is disquieting to think of courts keeping someone with substantial public support from running for president, let alone a former President of the United States. That seems profoundly anti-democratic. Shouldn't the people -- or at least the Electoral College -- get to decide who will be president? But this fails to recognize that the Constitution is inherently anti-democratic, including in determining the qualifications for federal office.
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Lawyers can use this time of year to evaluate their internal procedures and take steps to reduce risk.
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
The tragic downing of Flight 007 came at the height of the Cold War. For many years, courts in the United States, including here in California, oversaw the litigation filed by surviving family members. These courts were responsible for helping the victims achieve some semblance of justice.
Many taxpayers spend hours itemizing deductions without realizing that the standard deduction is often a better choice, which some tax preparation companies don't highlight to encourage paid options.
Thursday, August 31, 2023
On Aug. 24, Lawrence Caplan filed what may be the first federal civil lawsuit against Donald Trump under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. It may be the lawsuit that disqualifies him from a potential second term.
International Rights Advocates recently filed a complaint with the United States Court of International Trade to force the Biden Administration to halt the importation of Ivorian cocoa beans due to child labor violations, under section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930.
Monday, August 28, 2023
With rideshares, the safety ratings should set most riders' minds at ease. However, that does not mean that one should not be prepared if an accident should occur.
The case threatens the FDA's regulatory authority and could lead to established, safe medications being challenged simply because they are politically contentious.
Proposed rules pending consideration by the California Supreme Court are premised on the concept that advocacy for a client does not require incivility and that the First Amendment allows for regulation of civility.
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar
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NEWS
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General News
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 |
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| The action adds to the wave of litigation Meta Platforms has faced over the October 2021 rebranding from its original name, Facebook Inc. The word "Meta" is widely used by technology companies. | |
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General News
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 |
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| "I am taking immediate action to implement lasting changes that will make Californians safer through a stronger, sustainable insurance market," Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said. But critics are watching how changes will affect homeowners. | |
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General News
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 |
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| "My commitment to you is not that there won't be a new crisis or there won't be some trouble on the horizon, but rather that as a board and a staff, we will continue to strive in the direction of change," said new State bar Board of Trustees Chair Brandon Stallings. | |
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General News
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 |
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| The defendants asserted in filings that the class lacks commonality because of "the substantial differences in the value (if any) of the name, image and likeness rights of student-athletes." | |
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General News
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 |
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| The approved changes to California Rules of Court, Rule 9.22, now require the agency to report a list of the delinquent attorneys twice per year instead of annually. | |
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General News
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 |
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| "I am disappointed that the court concluded that denying the world access to public information is in the public interest as long as it can be couched as a right of publicity claim," wrote Stanford Law professor Mark A. Lemley. | |
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General News
Monday, September 25, 2023 |
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| Matthew D. Pearson of Baker & Hostetler LLP emphasized in the demurrer that Congress' intended to preempt lawsuits such as this when it passed the Airline Deregulation Act almost 50 years ago and said the breach of contract claim was added to keep the lawsuit in court. | |
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General News
Monday, September 25, 2023 |
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| District Attorney Thien Ho announced in July that he had opened an investigation to determine whether Sacramento could be held accountable for creating a public nuisance by failing to administer city ordinances like clearing the sidewalks and providing legal, emergency spaces for homeless people. | |
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General News
Monday, September 25, 2023 |
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| Judge Michael Begert, who is presiding over the CARE Court in San Francisco, made clear in an informational meeting for social workers Monday night that participation will be free of coercion. | |
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General News
Friday, September 22, 2023 |
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| The two men were targeted because they were both over 50, complained about ongoing illegal practices, tried to form a union and were discriminated against, said Chambord Benton-Hayes of Benton Employment Law. | |
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General News
Friday, September 22, 2023 |
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| San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Rita F. Lin was once a litigator at Morrison & Foerster LLP. | |
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General News
Friday, September 22, 2023 |
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| The under-construction Sacramento County downtown courthouse will be named for retired Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye and the appellate courthouse in Santa Ana will be named for the late Cruz Reynoso, a former Supreme Court justice. | |
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General News
Friday, September 22, 2023 |
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| Most of the cities' litigation has been combined before Senior U.S. District Judge James V. Selna in the Central District of California, who will consider the automaker's motion to dismiss the case because the wave of auto thefts was sparked by TikTok videos. | |
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General News
Thursday, September 21, 2023 |
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| "The Air Force taught me that successful leaders act decisively, cultivate an overarching vision, and influence people to accomplish the mission consistent with that vision," Lt Col. Nana Knight explained. | |
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General News
Thursday, September 21, 2023 |
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| The state is seeking compensation for the tens of billions of dollars it says has been spent to address climate change and the future money it will need to spend. | |
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General News
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 |
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| Employment attorneys say they do not expect SB 699, which will go into effect Jan. 1, to block out-of-state employers from heading to court to prevent workers from taking similar positions with California companies. | |
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General News
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 |
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| "I actually have felt that this is a good example of how a case ought to be handled," said Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Illston. "It doesn't happen that often." | |
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General News
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 |
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| Without acknowledging fault or liability Google agreed to change its privacy practices for California users, including disclosing whether their location information is being used by advertisers. | |
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General News
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 |
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| The Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America sued the EPA, saying it failed to consult about the effects of almost 400 pesticide ingredients on multiple protected species. | |
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General News
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 |
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| SB 331 requires family court judicial personnel to make "appropriate custody decisions" that prioritize child safety and well-being that are culturally sensitive and appropriate for the involved communities. | |
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General News
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 |
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| The justices agreed to hear the case, which claimed that San Francisco County Superior Court was holding hundreds of defendants past their statutory deadlines for trial. | |
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General News
Monday, September 18, 2023 |
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| Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch wrote that enforcing the arbitration agreement would be "substantively and procedurally unconscionable." | |
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General News
Monday, September 18, 2023 |
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| "We are concerned the commissioner will try to produce emergency regulations that allow companies to unreasonably pump their premiums based on black box models and passing on their reinsurance costs," said Jamie Court of Consumer Watchdog. | |
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General News
Monday, September 18, 2023 |
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| The judge found that the putative nationwide class of users failed to state a claim and many of their claims were time-barred because they failed to satisfy the burden to plead fraudulent concealment of the alleged misconduct to extend the statute of limitations. | |
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General News
Friday, September 15, 2023 |
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| Elon Musk's attorneys have argued that it was Twitter's former board of directors who agreed to pay Wachtell Lipton's $90 million fee, as the firm was working for them and against him. | |
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General News
Friday, September 15, 2023 |
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| In an opening merits brief filed Monday, Scott A. Kronland of Altshuler Berzon LLP argued that the initiative's corporate backers erred by proposing an initiative statute instead of a constitutional amendment. | |
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General News
Friday, September 15, 2023 |
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| The fresh complaints are the latest development in the ongoing legal question over whether AI programs are inappropriately gathering information. | |
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General News
Thursday, September 14, 2023 |
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| "Grubhub has not established that the plaintiff lacks statutory standing to pursue PAGA penalties for delivery drivers who suffered Labor Code violations during times other than the four months the plaintiff drove for Grubhub," U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley wrote. | |
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General News
Thursday, September 14, 2023 |
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| Katherine Feinstein — who claims to have procured power of attorney over her mother's affairs on July 23 — first initiated litigation against the trustees on the accusation that they were not making trust distributions to the 90-year-old U.S. Senator in order to maximize the benefit to Blum's three daughters. | |
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General News
Thursday, September 14, 2023 |
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| The deal will increase the minimum wage to $20 an hour with an annual consumer price index increase in April, a compromise compared to the possible $22 an hour workers could have gotten under Assembly Bill 257, signed into law last year. | |
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General News
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 |
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| The company formerly known as Twitter seeks to invalidate the state law under the First Amendment, the federal Constitution's dormant commerce clause, and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. | |
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General News
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 |
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| The problem appears to be greater than too few judge positions. There are currently 100 vacant trial court positions in California, two in Riverside County and six in San Bernardino County. | |
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General News
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 |
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| The Trump policies, adopted in December 2020, were intended to speed up deportation proceedings and give more control to the head of the U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office of Immigration Review. | |
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General News
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 |
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| Google's counsel, Zachary P Hutton of Paul Hastings LLP, argued the request is too broad because it constitutes 77,000 employees' proprietary data and falls outside of the relevant limitations period. | |
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General News
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 |
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| Plaintiffs' colead counsel Derek W. Loeser of Keller Rohrback LLP and Lesley E. Weaver of Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP said 17.7 million claims were validated for record case. | |
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General News
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 |
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| Mobile home parks have long been considered one of the few lower-cost housing options in the state, and one disproportionately serving older residents. | |
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General News
Monday, September 11, 2023 |
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| After the recusal by a Judicate West discovery referee, Cooley LLP wants three discovery orders vacated, including an order compelling their client to produce further discovery. | |
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General News
Monday, September 11, 2023 |
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| he case will return to U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu, who ruled in December 2022 that homeless plaintiffs would likely prevail in their claim that San Francisco is violating their Eighth Amendment rights "by imposing or threatening to impose criminal penalties against homeless individuals for 'sitting, sleeping, or lying outside on public property' without giving them the option of sleeping indoors." | |
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General News
Monday, September 11, 2023 |
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| Lawyers for Google, the putative class of 21 million consumers, and the State of Utah told U.S. District James J. Donato that the settlement is subject to approval by 52 attorneys general and Alphabet's board of directors. | |
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General News
Friday, September 8, 2023 |
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| Stuart G. Gross of Gross Klein PC argued that Tesla failed to meet its burden of establishing the consumers clearly and unmistakably agreed to arbitrate their parts and repair services claims. | |
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General News
Friday, September 8, 2023 |
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| Gov. Gavin Newsom, who as San Francisco mayor sponsored a successful ballot initiative in 2010 that restricted sitting or lying on sidewalks citywide, said recent court rulings blocking anti-camping ordinances were "insane." | |
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General News
Friday, September 8, 2023 |
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| "There are public sector positions that pay in excess of what judges make. Some deputy DAs make more money than judges," said Yolo County Judge David Rosenberg, president of the California Judges Association. | |
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General News
Friday, September 8, 2023 |
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| U.S. District Judge Susan Illston dismissed the plaintiff's claim related to infringement of other sites' data and also denied ByteDance's motion to compel arbitration. | |