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NEWS
General News
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 |
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America has seen this movie before: President Donald Trump, who imposed stiff tariffs Monday on imported steel and aluminum, did so once before, in 2018. |
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025 |
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Paul and William Dietrich, Solano County landowners, insist they never conspired to inflate prices and accuse Flannery Associates of using litigation as leverage to force a sale. Flannery, backed by tech billionaires, has spent over $800 million acquiring land to build a planned city but faces legal and political hurdles. |
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025 |
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The ruling follows a U.S. Supreme Court decision that found plaintiffs must prove they purchased shares traceable to the allegedly misleading registration statement. The decision is a major win for direct listings, a growing alternative to traditional IPOs. |
General News
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 |
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Credit card debt is weighing on many Americans. |
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025 |
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San Francisco and Santa Clara County sue President Trump over an executive order targeting sanctuary cities, alleging federal coercion and unconstitutional commandeering of local law enforcement, with potential loss of billions in funding. |
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025 |
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A judge dismissed personal trademark claims against OpenAI's CEO and president but allowed the lawsuit against the company to move forward in a dispute with tech entrepreneur Guy Ravine over AI naming rights. |
General News
Monday, February 10, 2025 |
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A California walnut farmer and a German investment group compete for lead plaintiff in a Super Micro class action, raising questions about investment patterns and plaintiff suitability. |
General News
Monday, February 10, 2025 |
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President Donald Trump denounced California's bullet train for the project's delays and rising costs on Tuesday, and said his administration would investigate how billions of federal and state dollars have been spent. |
General News
Monday, February 10, 2025 |
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Patterson & O'Neill, after legal victories forcing Los Angeles to approve housing permits, open a new office in LA to tackle the city's housing crisis after recent wildfires. |
General News
Friday, February 7, 2025 |
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LA city attorney targets Blueground US Inc. and two individuals, accusing them of price gouging after the wildfires, alleging price hikes over 50%. Legal actions include criminal and civil complaints to curb exploitation during the emergency. |
General News
Friday, February 7, 2025 |
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Dozens of lawsuits have been filed against Southern California Edison over its suspected role in the Eaton Canyon wildfire that devastated Altadena. As cases continue to be stayed and assigned to Judge Laura A. Seigle, one firm moved swiftly to secure a temporary restraining order to prevent the destruction of key evidence. |
General News
Friday, February 7, 2025 |
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Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, a Swedish tech firm that helps consumers defer payment on purchases, has repeatedly talked up the amount of work his company has automated using generative AI. |
General News
Thursday, February 6, 2025 |
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Judge disallowed gold as an investment, declared Evergreen Ministries a sham, and placed four neglected Northern California cemeteries under state control due to alleged mismanagement and financial schemes by a Vallejo businessman. He said creating the religious organization was meant to save property tax for the cemeteries. |
General News
Thursday, February 6, 2025 |
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The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and the United Farm Workers are seeking to intervene in a lawsuit challenging California's farm worker unionization laws. At stake is the certification of a union at Wonderful Nurseries LLC, as well as the legality of a 2022 law that made it easier for farm workers to organize. |
General News
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 |
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College athletes, including NFL players Brevin Jordan and Anthony Gould, sued the NCAA and five conferences for antitrust violations, claiming restrictions on compensation are anticompetitive, after opting out of a $2.5 billion settlement. |
General News
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 |
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If you were planning to use your tax refund to buy the paper version of inflation bonds, you're out of luck: That option has been eliminated. |
General News
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 |
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A law firm involved in a class action against Martinez Refinery might include a recent explosion in its lawsuit, citing toxic emissions affecting 40,000 residents. Health and property damages are central to the claims. |
General News
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 |
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An Alameda County judge said she is disinclined to award 33% of an $800,000 settlement fund as attorney fees in a wages and hours PAGA case against Peet's Coffee. |
General News
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 |
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Conceptually, scrubbing carbon from the state's economy, particularly transportation and utility sectors, has enjoyed broad popular support. But as the self-imposed deadline looms, specific strategies to reduce emissions are encountering resistance as Californians feel their real world impacts. |
General News
Monday, February 3, 2025 |
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Federal prosecutors challenged Hewlett Packard's $14B Juniper acquisition, signaling continued aggressive antitrust enforcement under President Donald Trump. Both companies plan to defend the deal, highlighting a competitive WLAN market. |
General News
Monday, February 3, 2025 |
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A complaint against Alaska Air claims the airline systematically underpays flight crew by failing to compensate for time spent on the ground between flights and rounding work hours in its favor. The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, seeks restitution for potentially hundreds of affected employees in California, alleging violations of wage laws and unfair labor practices. |
General News
Monday, February 3, 2025 |
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Parents beware. The money-lusting billionaires in Silicon Valley who, through social media, have already caused unprecedented child suffering -- including depression, eating disorders, suicide, drug-related deaths, invasions of privacy and sex trafficking -- they have unleashed a new horror. |
General News
Friday, January 31, 2025 |
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Trumpologists -- those who specialize in deciphering President Trump -- generally advise examining his actions rather than his words. |
General News
Friday, January 31, 2025 |
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A judge chided the San Francisco City Attorney's team for excessive discovery in a flood damage lawsuit, setting a trial date to ease the plaintiffs' burden. |
General News
Friday, January 31, 2025 |
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A new class action accuses Amazon of secretly tracking and selling California residents' sensitive location data through its advertising software. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, claims that Amazon's software development kit (SDK) operates as a "backdoor" to siphon user data without consent, violating state privacy laws. |
General News
Thursday, January 30, 2025 |
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LinkedIn seeks dismissal of a class action lawsuit claiming the company's Insight Tag illegally collected medical data from CityMD patients, arguing the claims are repetitive and meritless. |
General News
Thursday, January 30, 2025 |
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At this moment, California faces two crises: horribly destructive and deadly wildfires in Los Angeles County and fears that President Donald Trump will either deny federal relief or use it as leverage to force California to change its policies. |
General News
Thursday, January 30, 2025 |
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Five plaintiffs dropped their lawsuits against Mead Johnson and Abbott Laboratories on Monday in a case involving claims that baby formula products increased health risks for premature infants. The litigation, part of a nationwide series of lawsuits, faces ongoing challenges over deadlines and document production. |
General News
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 |
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Tax season opened Monday, and the IRS announced that it has expanded its free online system for filing 2024 returns directly with the federal government. |
General News
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 |
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Attorney General Rob Bonta will join federal officials Tuesday to announce a Sacramento Regional Human Trafficking Task Force. While Democrats emphasize existing exceptions in California's sanctuary laws for serious crimes, Republican lawmakers, led by Assembly Member Kate Sanchez, are pushing legislation to expand exemptions for human traffickers and enhance coordination with federal authorities. |
General News
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 |
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Apple seeks lawsuit dismissal, arguing no medical proof exists for hearing loss from Amber Alerts via AirPods Pro. They claim the theory is novel and unsupported by science. |
General News
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 |
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If you're looking for a new reason to be nervous about artificial intelligence, try this: Some of the smartest humans in the world are struggling to create tests that AI systems can't pass. |
General News
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 |
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A judge kept alive British beverage company Diageo's claim that San Francisco's tax on alcohol - in addition to the state tax - is preempted but otherwise dismissed much of the company's case. |
General News
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 |
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Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Robinhood LLC have renewed their motion for class certification, alleging the trading platform misled users about its reliance on payment for order flow, which they claim led to inferior stock trade prices. |
General News
Monday, January 27, 2025 |
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President Donald Trump's energy agenda calls for drilling more oil and gas, something that could take years. But he took other actions last week that could more quickly affect the way the country prepares for and adapts to climate changes driven by the burning of fossil fuels. |
General News
Monday, January 27, 2025 |
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Justices ruled that landowners cannot divide an East Oakland lot into multiple parcels, reversing an appellate court decision and siding with a deputy city attorney who warned of "rogue development" across the state. |
General News
Monday, January 27, 2025 |
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San Francisco judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss gender pay discrimination lawsuit, allowing class action and PAGA claims to proceed for 12,000 female employees. |
General News
Friday, January 24, 2025 |
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Angry residents blamed Karen Bass for the fires not just in Pacific Palisades, which is part of her city, but Altadena, which isn't. |
General News
Friday, January 24, 2025 |
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Google seeks dismissal of Epic Games' antitrust lawsuit, claiming no involvement in Samsung's auto blocker feature that limits app downloads to Google Play and Galaxy Store. A case hearing is set for April 3. |
General News
Friday, January 24, 2025 |
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The Justice Department is threatening to prosecute state and city officials who refuse to help the Trump administration carry out its immigration agenda, a provocative move that will reignite President Donald Trump's first-term fight with liberals over "sanctuary" policies. |
General News
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 |
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A group of investors led by Elon Musk has made a $97.4 billion bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, according to two people familiar with the bid, escalating a yearslong tussle for control of the company between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. |
General News
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 |
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Open government advocates argue that Elon Musk's unelected influence mirrors the closed-door decision-making that doomed Hillary Clinton's health care changes. Will history repeat itself, or will this case chart a new course? |
General News
Monday, February 10, 2025 |
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Marqeta Inc. shareholders filed a lawsuit against CEO Simon Khalaf and other executives, claiming "gross mismanagement" caused a 42.5% stock drop after undisclosed regulatory risks surfaced in Q3 earnings. |
General News
Friday, February 7, 2025 |
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The lawsuit, led by the Center for Biological Diversity, claims federal agencies failed to account for environmental impacts and ignored public input. |
General News
Thursday, February 6, 2025 |
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LinkedIn's founder may be the first litigation funder to be deposed before a trial he has funded. Fox Corp. has filed a discovery petition seeking details on Hoffman's $25 million funding of Smartmatic's $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster. |
General News
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 |
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The new measure, backed by Mayor Daniel Lurie and state Sen. Scott Wiener, would give law enforcement greater authority to cite and penalize illegal resellers while protecting legitimate vendors. |
General News
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 |
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In a ruling watched by many religious organizations, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc panel said the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did not commit fraud by using tithes for a commercial property investment |
General News
Monday, February 3, 2025 |
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Attorneys for Anthropic PBC and authors presented a tutorial on the AI model Claude to a federal judge in San Francisco, focusing on copyright infringement claims related to training data use. |
General News
Friday, January 31, 2025 |
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Judge Ursula Jones Dickson was selected as Alameda County's new DA after Pamela Price's recall. Dickson, a former prosecutor, will serve until 2026, focusing on public safety and community trust. |
General News
Thursday, January 30, 2025 |
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A San Francisco judge has postponed a decision on a motion to add a co-representative to a Private Attorneys General Act lawsuit against Adecco USA. The case, connected to claims of unlawful speech restrictions at Google placements, hinges on an appellate ruling in a related matter. |
General News
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 |
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has called for a return to a narrower scope of agency oversight, warning that expanded disclosure mandates risk burying material information in responses to special interest demands. Speaking in San Diego, Peirce urged revisions to shareholder proposal thresholds and cautioned against politicizing capital markets. |
General News
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 |
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California's withdrawal of a contested emissions waiver for clean truck rules highlights a strategic retreat to navigate ongoing legal challenges. Experts anticipate a surge in climate litigation, with the state's zero-emission vehicle mandates and other clean air regulations at the center of political and legal disputes. |
General News
Monday, January 27, 2025 |
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Consumers sue Apple, claiming its Watch bands contain harmful PFAs, contradicting health claims. The lawsuit highlights increased chemical absorption during exercise, with Apple acknowledging PFAs but planning their phase-out. |
General News
Friday, January 24, 2025 |
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At a Sacramento conference, Sen. Tom Umberg pushed back on claims that Proposition 36 enforcement would burden local governments, stating it's a state responsibility. Health experts warned of potential underfunding and the need for tailored approaches to addiction treatment, as debates over the measure's implementation continue. |