Thursday, February 2, 2023
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Friday, January 20, 2023
Thursday, January 19, 2023
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Thursday, February 2, 2023 |
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Including taxes and fees, the Judicial Performance Defense Insurance program cost about $970,000 during the 2017-18 fiscal year. It rose to $1.3 million in 2020-21 and $1.5 million in 2021-22. According to documents provided by the Judicial Council, the policy costs $1.8 million in the current 2022-23 fiscal year and will rise to an estimated $2.1 million in the coming 2023-24 fiscal year. |
Thursday, February 2, 2023 |
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The committee's report urged against wholesale structural changes to the state's judicial disciplinary body. |
Thursday, February 2, 2023 |
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Plaintiffs claimed Amazon's quotas discriminated against older workers because the hourly quotas are so high they cause all sorts of injuries and other problems for warehouse workers and it is plausible to infer older workers are at higher risk of those harms. |
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 |
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Tesla former executives testified about their confidence Elon Musk could secure funding to take company private. |
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 |
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Jennifer L. Keller used a racial slur in questioning a rapper about music lyrics. |
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 |
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"It's chaos. The government agencies, in an effort to help, have created complete chaos. Nobody really knows what's going on or what the rules are," said David DiJulio, managing partner with DiJulio Law Group, which specializes in real estate matters. |
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 |
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"I would expect the various gun rights groups to probably argue that it's a violation of the Second Amendment — it's an infringement on their right to own guns — because it imposes some significant new requirements on gun ownership," commented Jeremy K. Robinson, an appellate attorney at Casey Gerry Schenk Francavilla Blatt & Penfield LLP in San Diego. |
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 |
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California argued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' policy change does not go far enough and allows ghost gun sellers and manufacturers to bypass common sense gun safety regulations in the Gun Control Act, causing the state fiscal and other harms. |
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 |
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"The CARE Act does not invest in housing or services," said Nubyaan S. Scott, a staff attorney at Disability Rights California. |
Friday, January 27, 2023 |
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City Attorney David Chiu said Monday that U.S. District Judge Donna Ryu's Dec. 23 order doesn't make clear what "involuntarily homeless" means, and therefore hinders the city from complying with the precedent set in Martin v. City of Boise. |
Friday, January 27, 2023 |
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In the latest antitrust broadside against Google, the U.S. Justice Department seeks to break of digital advertising business. |
Friday, January 27, 2023 |
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In dismissing the latest iteration of the complaint, U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson found that the plaintiffs had failed to plead factual details proving that the company knowingly misled shareholders about sexual discrimination allegations and investigations in SEC filings. |
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 |
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The brief backs Google in a case from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concerning whether the tech giant is entitled to the protections afforded by the statute with regard to liability for third-party recommended content that appears on social media platforms. |
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 |
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The case was filed by Placer and El Dorado counties, saying that last year's 2022 Mosquito Fire, which damaged 78 structures and dozens of homes, broke out because the utility had not properly maintained its power lines. |
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 |
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Counsel for Microsoft called into question the validity of the plaintiffs' desire to enjoin the purchase in the initial motion to stay; arguing that it is redundant given a pending FTC matter with the same aims. |
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 |
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Glenn, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne counties will be the first to try, sharing $2.8 million to implement programs underway by Oct. 1. Gov. Gavin Newsom also announced recently that the Los Angeles County court will work with the county to implement a CARE Court plan by Dec. 1. |
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 |
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Kaiser is seeking to bring the dispute into arbitration and said SEIU inappropriately refused to participate in that process. |
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 |
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Thursday's proceedings in Santa Clara County dovetailed with the company filing an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in an upcoming case where the court will decide whether social media companies should be protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act for content their algorithms suggest to users. |
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 |
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"We're very pleased to have the continued support of Sen. [Richard] Roth in putting forth that bill seeking to get additional judgeships for not only the Inland Empire but all of the under-resourced courts throughout the state," said Riverside County Superior Court Presiding Judge Judith C. Clark. |
Monday, January 23, 2023 |
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What Musk did could not be fraud, Alexander B. Spiro of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP stated, because in real fraud cases, when the truth is revealed the stock drops, but in this case the stock rose. Moreover, he added, Musk and Tesla's board did not sell any stock to profit from the supposed fraud, a usual motive for such an act. |
Monday, January 23, 2023 |
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"We accept CAL FIRE's determination that a tree falling into our power line caused the 2020 Zogg Fire," Lynsey Paulo, director of marketing and communications for PG&E, said in an email after the first of what may be a two-week preliminary hearing. "However, we believe PG&E did not commit any crimes." |
Monday, January 23, 2023 |
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The San Jose Unified School District stripped the club of its official status after concluding the club violated its anti-discrimination policy. |
Friday, January 20, 2023 |
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Twitter may regret winning arbitration ruling, plaintiffs' lawyer says |
Friday, January 20, 2023 |
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Attorneys with the Joseph Saveri Law Firm recently filed a complaint on behalf of artists who say their work was used to train the AI software without their consent. |
Friday, January 20, 2023 |
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The case concerns data transmission patents used in Wi-Fi chips. But as important as the case is to the university and technology companies, the Supreme Court — if it grants review — may resolve whether and how defendants can challenge a patent's invalidity. |
Thursday, January 19, 2023 |
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Attorneys for employers say such clauses are standard, particularly for large companies like Twitter, but employee attorneys said those sent out last week may violate California law. |
Thursday, January 19, 2023 |
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Ruling less than two hours after a hearing in her courtroom, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne W.L. Chang ruled in favor of a group of restaurant owners carrying a referendum to block a new law designed to raise fast food workers' pay. She wrote that the "petitioners have demonstrated a very high likelihood of success on the merits." Chang added there was "very little harm to the respondents" in delaying implementation of AB 257. |
Thursday, January 19, 2023 |
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The judges are trying to determine how to evaluate various California firearms laws under the Supreme Court's new standard, adopted last June in its first major firearms ruling in years. |