/california?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: California Copyright 2025 ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵ. en-US Mon, 07 Jul 2025 23:22:32 +0000 /california/articles/2361896?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361896 The California Supreme Court has ordered the disbarment of a San Francisco lawyer who authorities say overcharged an elderly trust account client with advanced dementia, finding that he "repeatedly failed to uphold the most basic duties of an attorney" and is "unfit to serve as a member of the bar." Mon, 07 Jul 2025 22:38:11 +0000 /california/articles/2361485?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361485 A D.C. federal judge said nonprofit groups failed to show that the Trump administration acted beyond its authority when it decided to end or take over Justice Department programs that previously tapped them to provide legal services to immigrants. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 22:25:15 +0000 /california/articles/2361826?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361826 An attorney for Citron Research's founder, short-seller activist Andrew Left, urged a California federal judge Monday to dismiss the federal government's "absurd" criminal securities fraud case against Left, arguing that it's an unprecedented effort to criminalize free speech.  Mon, 07 Jul 2025 21:17:25 +0000 /california/articles/2361487?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361487 A California resident has accused River Valley Loans and some business leaders allegedly associated with the company — including the son of TV host Dr. Phil — of operating a predatory lending scheme involving the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe to make short-term, small-dollar loans with illegally high interest rates. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 21:16:35 +0000 /california/articles/2361173?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361173 The social media addiction multidistrict litigation against the biggest tech companies and a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding state medical malpractice lawsuit requirements are among the cases injury and malpractice attorneys will be following closely in the second half of 2025. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:55:21 +0000 /california/articles/2361769?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361769 Etsy flouts privacy laws by illegally sharing website visitors' information with third parties through the surreptitious use and deployment of tracking pixels created by Google, Meta, TikTok and Microsoft for behavior profiling and real-time digital ad bidding auctions, according to a proposed class action filed last week in California federal court.  Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:46:53 +0000 /california/articles/2360433?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2360433 As far back as late 2023, when a broad cross-section of former college athletes was certified as a class to sue the NCAA for unpaid name, image and likeness compensation, all parties involved have known that the eventual settlement of its claims would repair just one specific broken part of the college sports ecosystem. With the $2.78 billion settlement designed to provide money to past, present and future athletes going into effect on Tuesday, legal experts still wonder how and when enough will be done to set right the scales that went unbalanced for decades. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:41:22 +0000 /california/articles/2361830?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361830 Federal officials told the Ninth Circuit on Monday that a Phoenix-based church that reached an agreement with the government to use the psychedelic ayahuasca in religious ceremonies was not entitled to more than $2 million in attorney fees. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:50:06 +0000 /california/articles/2361781?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361781 A California federal judge has trimmed SpaceX's suit alleging the California Coastal Commission wrongly tried to block its plan to increase rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base, saying the reworked complaint adequately alleges some, but not all, of the purported harms the company faces. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:36:43 +0000 /california/articles/2361612?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361612 A Goodwin Procter LLP intellectual property partner who earlier this year co-founded a coalition of BigLaw attorneys challenging the Trump administration's attacks on law firms has jumped to King & Spalding LLP. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:35:57 +0000 /california/articles/2361711?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361711 A Missouri bankruptcy judge on Monday refused California's request that genetic testing company 23andMe Holding Co.'s $305 million Chapter 11 sale be tabled while the Golden State seeks an appeal. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:16:35 +0000 /california/articles/2361510?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361510 An artificial intelligence-powered weather simulation startup has sued a rival company in California federal court, claiming a consultant took its source code and used it to found the competitor. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 18:21:13 +0000 /california/articles/2361724?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361724 Epic Games Inc. on Monday voluntarily dropped Samsung from the Fortnite game-maker's latest California federal antitrust suit in light of the parties' settlement, resolving allegations the phone maker colluded with Google to circumvent an order forcing Google to open Android phones to Play Store competition. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:58:16 +0000 /california/articles/2359480?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2359480 Recent legislative efforts to expand the Family and Medical Leave Act reflect workers' growing demand for work-life balance, but as federal proposals continue to face significant hurdles, states have stepped in, creating a labyrinth of leave laws and compliance headaches for multistate employers, say attorneys at FordHarrison. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:03:16 +0000 /california/articles/2361181?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361181 The Trump administration maintained that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's guidance on probationary federal employees was lawful, telling a California federal judge the OPM did not order agencies to carry out a mass termination of these workers despite the claims of unions representing them. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:41:50 +0000 /california/articles/2361787?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361787 The Procter & Gamble Co. permanently beat a proposed class action alleging that it omits the presence of organic fluorine in its Tampax products, after a California federal judge again rejected the plaintiff's testing method for detecting forever chemicals, ruling Monday that the latest iteration of the suit continued to rest on flawed testing. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:33:42 +0000 /california/articles/2361476?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361476 Music executive Armen Boladian has asked a Florida federal court to sanction funk legend George Clinton, saying he was raising issues already adjudicated in their decades-long series of legal disputes. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:06:28 +0000 /california/articles/2361685?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361685 A Washington federal judge on Monday granted class certification to plaintiffs with registered Amazon Alexa devices in a suit alleging the devices recorded and stored their conversations, and he denied class certification to those plaintiffs who did not have registered devices. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:55:14 +0000 /california/articles/2361188?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361188 An airline worker with ties to American Airlines who is accused of stalking and terrorizing passengers likely used generative artificial intelligence in filings he submitted after defaulting in a federal lawsuit, which include "phantom cases and nonexistent case law," a Connecticut judge has said in a ruling that nevertheless sets aside the defendant's default. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:30:56 +0000 /california/articles/2361557?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /california/articles/2361557 Johnson & Johnson health tech unit Biosense Webster has asked a California federal court to throw out Innovative Health's $442 million trial win in a case accusing Biosense of conditioning product support for its cardiac mapping systems on the purchase of cardiac catheters.