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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies via videoconference before a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust in Washington, D.C. Wednesday.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies via videoconference before a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust in Washington, D.C. Wednesday.
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General News
Friday, June 9, 2023 |
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| Former law professor John Eastman will stand trial later this month on charges he helped to foment an effort to overturn the presidential election results. | |
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Friday, June 9, 2023 |
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| Promosome LLC claimed in the Tuesday filing that its scientists showed Moderna proprietary information related to increased mRNA protein expression, but Moderna declined to license it. | |
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Friday, June 9, 2023 |
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| BioMarin was accused of misrepresenting to investors that the Food and Drug Administration was going to approve its new drug, valrox, and when it would be approved. | |
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Thursday, June 8, 2023 |
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| "I think it's important when we're talking about housing, we're not just talking about development, we're talking about affordability," said state Sen. Aisha Wahab. | |
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Thursday, June 8, 2023 |
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| "It would severely undermine the statutory purpose of mediation confidentiality, which is to encourage the resolution of disputes by promoting a candid and informal exchange between participants," said Joanna Barron, executive vice president of ADR Services Inc. | |
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General News
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 |
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| According to the Automatic Renewal Law, a consumer can recover a full refund of service charges that were automatically renewed by a company without affirmative consent of the consumer and the value of those services are deemed an "unconditional gift to the consumer." | |
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General News
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 |
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| Senior 9th Circuit Judge Richard R. Clifton wrote for the majority that Enigma's allegations are sufficient to state a claim. | |
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General News
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 |
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| The question is whether a Delaware corporation's forum selection clause forecloses derivative complaints in federal court filed as violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. | |
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General News
Monday, June 5, 2023 |
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| 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." | |
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General News
Monday, June 5, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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General News
Monday, June 5, 2023 |
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| Mayor London Breed defended the idea of a race based guaranteed income program in a news release when she announced it in September 2020. | |
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General News
Thursday, June 1, 2023 |
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| The complaint filed Friday uses similar arguments to ones used for a coffee byproduct — and uses the same attorney to make them. The case is the latest event in a recent surge of activity around the nearly 40-year-old Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, known also as Proposition 65. | |
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General News
Thursday, June 1, 2023 |
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| At the heart of the matter is a report cited in the complaint from the San Francisco Department of Health in June 2019 that "alleged that 23 patients … were the victims of systemic abuse from at least 2016 to January 2019, including physical abuse, verbal abuse, violations of privacy, chemical restraint and other wrongful conduct." | |
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General News
Thursday, June 1, 2023 |
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| The case concerns a Nicaraguan citizen who became a legal permanent resident of the United States in 1990 and then was twice convicted of trafficking cocaine. | |
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General News
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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General News
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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General News
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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General News
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 |
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| "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. | |
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General News
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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General News
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 |
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| Lawmakers and NGOs fight red states over abortion, civil rights | |
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General News
Friday, May 26, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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Friday, May 26, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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Friday, May 26, 2023 |
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| 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, | |
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Thursday, May 25, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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Thursday, May 25, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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Thursday, May 25, 2023 |
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| "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. | |
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General News
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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General News
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 |
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| "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. | |
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General News
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 |
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| 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." | |
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General News
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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General News
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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General News
Monday, May 22, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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General News
Monday, May 22, 2023 |
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| 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. | |
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Monday, May 22, 2023 |
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| "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." | |