California

  • March 21, 2025

    DC Circ. Won't Halt Revamp Of Public Safety Spectrum

    The D.C. Circuit has denied requests from two sheriffs' groups and the San Francisco transit system to delay the Federal Communications Commission's order revamping the 4.9 gigahertz spectrum band, which is heavily used by public safety organizations.

  • March 21, 2025

    Buyers' Gripe Is With Timber Sector, Not Charmin, P&G Says

    A false advertising lawsuit accusing Procter & Gamble of overhyping the forest-friendly bona fides of Charmin toilet paper should be dismissed, the company told a Washington federal judge, arguing that the buyers' suit is misdirected at P&G when their actual disappointment is with the "forestry industry."

  • March 21, 2025

    Ex-Jefferies Employee Says Age Bias Led To Termination

    Investment bank Jefferies LLC has been sued by a former assistant vice president who alleged he was fired under the pretext of working from home too much and that he was actually a victim of age discrimination.

  • March 21, 2025

    Mexican Citizen Stole $1M From Fruit Wholesaler, Feds Say

    The U.S. Department of Justice announced a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment against a Mexican citizen residing in California for allegedly defrauding a fruit wholesaler out of over a million dollars and falsifying his employment documents.

  • March 21, 2025

    How King & Spalding Helped LGBTQ+ Vets Win Back Benefits

    More than a decade after the U.S. Department of Defense repealed its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which kept LGBTQ+ troops in the closet, veterans who were kicked out for their sexual orientation have continued to suffer the effects of a scarlet letter placed on their discharge papers.

  • March 21, 2025

    1st Circ. Affirms Hold On Education Dept. Teacher Grant Cuts

    The First Circuit on Friday kept in place a Massachusetts federal judge's temporary block on $250 million in cuts to teacher training grants that were targeted by the Department of Education over their ties to diversity initiatives.

  • March 21, 2025

    Aerospace Co. Workers' 401(k) Suit Lacks Details, Judge Says

    An aerospace technology company dodged a proposed class action Friday alleging its employee retirement plan was loaded with costly and underperforming investment options, with a California federal judge finding the workers leading the suit needed to provide more information about supposedly comparable plans.

  • March 21, 2025

    Unlockd To Take Google Antitrust Battle To 9th Circ.

    Defunct advertising app maker Unlockd is hoping the Ninth Circuit will revive its antitrust suit accusing Google of allowing the then-up-and-coming business to build a reliance on Google platforms and then cutting it off once it became a threat.

  • March 21, 2025

    Littler Selects Longtime Calif. Litigator To Lead Fresno Shop

    Labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson PC has tapped a longtime litigator to be the new head of its office in Fresno, California.

  • March 21, 2025

    Musk Atty Spiro Evading Subpoena, Twitter Investors Say

    A class of investors suing Elon Musk over allegations he tried to smear Twitter to lower the price of his $44 billion acquisition of the site says one of Musk's Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP attorneys and close advisers has refused to accept service of a subpoena to be deposed and should be served by alternative means.

  • March 21, 2025

    4th Circ. Revives TM Fight Over 'Westmont' Retirement Homes

    A Virginia federal court incorrectly concluded that there could be no likelihood of confusion between two companies that operate retirement communities with the name "Westmont" because they are on opposite sides of the U.S., the Fourth Circuit said in remanding the case and ordering a more comprehensive analysis on potential consumer confusion.

  • March 21, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Cravath, Paul Weiss, Cooley

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Google acquires Wiz, QXO Inc. acquires Beacon Roofing Supply, and the Boston Celtics are bought by a group led by private equity firm co-founder William Chisholm.

  • March 21, 2025

    Gov't Backs GEO To Have Full 9th Circ. Mull $23.2M Wage Row

    A Ninth Circuit panel disregarded Congress' wishes when it ordered the GEO Group to pay $23.2 million because it needed to pay detainees in a work program under Washington state's minimum wage, the government said, backing the company's bid for rehearing.

  • March 20, 2025

    Judge OKs $51.75M Clearview AI Deal Despite AG Objections

    An Illinois federal judge Thursday granted final approval to Clearview AI's $51.75 million settlement resolving multidistrict litigation challenging the company's practice of automatically collecting biometric facial data online, rejecting objections from 22 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia.

  • March 20, 2025

    Trump Rescinds Paul Weiss Order After Firm Strikes Deal

    President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he will rescind an executive order suspending security clearances held by Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP employees after the law firm agreed to not adopt DEI hiring practices and to provide $40 million worth of pro bono services to support administration initiatives.

  • March 20, 2025

    'Careless People' Author Can Testify In Meta Addiction MDL

    Meta Platforms Inc. on Thursday failed to block the deposition of the former executive behind the tell-all memoir "Careless People," with a California magistrate judge giving plaintiffs the green light to depose her in multidistrict litigation over social media platforms' allegedly addictive designs.

  • March 20, 2025

    Nippon Calls Consumer Suit Over US Steel Merger 'Baseless'

    Nippon Steel Corp. has urged a California federal court to throw out a consumer suit over its blocked $14.9 billion merger with U.S. Steel Corp., calling it yet another "in a long line of baseless lawsuits" over a merger of public companies that they have "no standing to challenge in the first place."

  • March 20, 2025

    Media Matters Says X Can't Restrict Dispute To Texas

    A nonprofit media watchdog wants to preserve its California federal lawsuit challenging social media site X's efforts to pursue defamation claims in Texas federal court, telling a Texas federal judge that X failed to adequately argue for an anti-suit injunction.

  • March 20, 2025

    9th Circ. Judge Takes Aim At Calif. Gun Ruling On YouTube

    A Ninth Circuit judge on Thursday took to YouTube to issue a dissent over the court's decision to ban in California all high-capacity magazines for weapons, a move that several of his fellow judges lamented as "wildly improper" and said they needed to address "lest the genre proliferate."

  • March 20, 2025

    LA Hit With Sanctions Request In Encampment Sweep Lawsuit

    Homeless residents accused the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office of hiding documents they requested in their suit challenging the constitutionality of encampment sweeps, asking a California federal court for case-ending sanctions for the second time in two weeks.

  • March 20, 2025

    'Epic Self-Own': Lively Says Baldoni Libel Suit Hikes Damages

    Blake Lively urged a New York federal judge on Thursday to toss Justin Baldoni's claims that she defamed him with sexual harassment allegations, saying the law prohibits such retaliatory libel suits and that he has committed an "epic self-own" that will put him on the hook for additional damages.

  • March 20, 2025

    Calif. Panel Doubts Byron Allen's $100M McDonald's Suit

    A California appeals panel expressed skepticism Thursday at an attempt by Byron Allen's television companies to revive their $100 million lawsuit accusing McDonald's of lying in a 2021 pledge to spend more advertising money on Black-owned media.

  • March 20, 2025

    State AGs Want 11th Circ. Redo Of FCC Robocall Reg Ruling

    Attorneys general from more than half the states and Washington, D.C., are urging the full Eleventh Circuit to reverse a panel decision that nixed a federal rule restricting the use of comparison shopping sites to generate robocall leads.

  • March 20, 2025

    Mariah Carey Gifted Legal Win In 'Christmas' Song IP Suit

    A California federal judge on Wednesday tossed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Mariah Carey and others over her song "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and sanctioned the two songwriters who sued for filing a summary judgment motion with "frivolous legal arguments" and "irrelevant and unsupported statements of fact."

  • March 20, 2025

    9th Circ. Won't Renew Consumers' Amazon 'Buy Box' Suit

    A Ninth Circuit panel has declined to revive a consumer antitrust suit against Amazon, ruling on Thursday the plaintiffs have failed to show they were injured by the e-commerce company's practices incentivizing third-party sellers to use its logistics services with the "Buy Box" feature.

Expert Analysis

  • SEC Motion Response Could Reveal New Crypto Approach

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    Cumberland DRW recently filed to dismiss the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement action against it for the unlawful purchase and sale of digital asset securities, and the agency's response should unveil whether, and to what extent, the Trump administration will relax the federal government’s stance on digital asset regulation, say attorneys at O'Melveny.

  • What Calif. Bill Could Mean For Battery Energy Storage

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    A newly proposed bill in the California Legislature would place major restrictions on the development of battery energy storage system projects in the state — but with Gov. Gavin Newsom's strong support for clean energy technology, the legislation will likely face significant obstacles, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.

  • 3 Ways Trump Can Nix SEC's Climate Disclosure Rules

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    Given President Donald Trump's campaign statements and agency appointments, it's likely that his administration will try to annul the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's climate disclosure rules, but his options for doing so present unique opportunities and challenges, with varying levels of permanence and impact, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

  • Perspectives

    Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines

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    KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.

  • Zuckerberg's Remarks Pose Legal Risk For Meta Amid Layoffs

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    Within days of announcing that Meta Platforms will cut 5% of its lowest-performing employees, Mark Zuckerberg remarked that corporations are becoming "culturally neutered" and need to bring back "masculine energy," exposing the company to potential claims under California employment law, says Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law Center.

  • Perspectives

    DC Circ. Cellphone Ruling Upends Law Enforcement Protocol

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    The D.C. Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Brown decision, holding that forcibly requiring a defendant to unlock his cellphone with his fingerprint violated the Fifth Amendment, has significant implications for law enforcement, and may provide an opportunity for defense lawyers to suppress electronic evidence, says Sarah Sulkowski at Gelber & Santillo.

  • Reg Waiver Eases Calif. Rebuilding, But Proceed With Care

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    California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order suspending some environmental review and permitting requirements for the reconstruction of homes and businesses damaged by recent wildfires may streamline rebuilding efforts, but will require careful navigation of the evolving regulatory landscape, says Gregory Berlin at Alston & Bird.

  • The Post-Macquarie Securities Fraud-By-Omission Landscape

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    While the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 opinion in Macquarie v. Moab distinguished inactionable "pure omissions" from actionable "half-truths," the line between the two concepts in practice is still unclear, presenting challenges for lower courts parsing statements that often fall within the gray area of "misleading by omission," say attorneys at Katten.

  • AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex

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    Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.

  • A View Of The Shifting Insurance Regulatory Landscape

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    Attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland explore how the Federal Insurance Office's climate report, the new presidential administration and the California wildfires might affect the insurance regulatory landscape.

  • When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law

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    In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Engaging With Feds On Threats To Executives, Employees

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    In an increasingly polarized environment, where companies face serious concerns about how to protect executives and employees, counsel should consider working with federal law enforcement soon after the discovery of threats or harassment, says Jordan Estes at Gibson Dunn.

  • The Risk And Reward Of Federal Approach To AI Regulation

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    The government has struggled to keep up with artificial intelligence's furious pace, but while an overbroad federal attempt to adopt a more unified approach to regulating AI poses its own risks, so does the current environment of regulatory uncertainty, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering

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    Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and enhance innovation, and how neurodivergent attorneys can navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with disclosing one’s diagnosis.

  • Top 10 Healthcare And Life Sciences Issues To Watch In 2025

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    Under the new Trump administration, this coming year may benefit some healthcare and life sciences stakeholders, while creating new challenges for others amid an increasingly complex regulatory environment, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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