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July 08, 2026
Authors suing Meta Platforms Inc. will have to wait to appeal a judge's order that the tech giant's use of their works to train its Llama large language model was fair use, as the judge decided Wednesday to wait until the issue can be presented along with other cases in a "tidy package."
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July 08, 2026
Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight LLP announced Wednesday a longtime federal prosecutor and former executive counsel at energy equipment company GE Vernova has joined the firm's San Diego office as a partner.
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July 08, 2026
Sheppard announced today that the firm has added an experienced intellectual property attorney focused on life sciences as a San Diego area-based partner, a day after announcing the addition of two Chicago-based transactional partners.
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July 08, 2026
Federal bank regulators rightly denied a golden parachute payout of more than $450,000 to a former Wells Fargo executive who was found responsible for significant problems that led to a consent order against the bank a decade ago, a California federal judge ruled.
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July 08, 2026
Nearly 540,000 Bank of America account holders who sued over out-of-network fees they were charged for balance inquiries made at 7-Eleven ATMs asked a California federal judge on Tuesday for his final approval of a $2.25 million class settlement, bringing the years-long litigation closer to its end.
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July 08, 2026
After announcing their intent to merge last December, leaders from Winston & Strawn LLP and Taylor Wessing LLP embarked on a "listening road show" to help guide the visual identity of the new firm. They saw an opening to stand out from other major law firms.
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July 08, 2026
A federal judge ruled that a California telehealth company cannot escape a misclassification lawsuit on venue grounds but ordered the case moved to South Carolina where the physician plaintiff lives and works.
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July 08, 2026
A California judge said the U.S. Department of the Interior can remove hundreds of horses from a 200,000-acre protected habitat after determining that an Indigenous nation's efforts to block the endeavor fail because evidence proves the tribe didn't respond to the federal agency's repeated attempts to consult with it.
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July 08, 2026
The city of Boston said Wednesday it has joined the sweeping multidistrict social-media-addiction litigation against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat.
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July 08, 2026
Handa Pharmaceuticals and Intas Pharmaceuticals are wrongly trying to bring to market drugs that would compete with Exelixis Inc.'s blockbuster cancer pill Cabometyx before patents on the medication expire, according to a new lawsuit in Delaware federal court.
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July 08, 2026
A coalition of 46 states announced Wednesday that Cash App parent company Block Inc. will pay $45 million in a multistate settlement to resolve claims it misled users on the safety of its payment app and failed to protect them from fraud.
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July 07, 2026
A California federal judge on Tuesday sentenced two former executives of a telehealth company who were convicted of operating a $100 million scheme to illegally distribute Adderall over the internet, fining them $1 million each and giving the founder six years in prison.
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July 07, 2026
Meta said Monday that California and three other states are seeking more than a trillion dollars in penalties in their upcoming August trial in the multidistrict social-media-addiction litigation, based on sweeping, "unmoored" calculations.
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July 07, 2026
Rohit Chopra, a former member of the Federal Trade Commission and current head of a new California agency, has urged the FTC to reject X Corp.'s attempt to be released from an enforcement order stemming from data privacy violations, arguing that such a "pardon" would expose its users to further fraud and abuse.
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July 07, 2026
A coalition of 21 states and the District of Columbia took the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development back to court on Tuesday over the Trump administration's renewed effort to restrict funding for programs that provide permanent housing and support services to homeless people.
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July 07, 2026
The Ninth Circuit seemed hesitant Tuesday to unblock a 2-year-old California law that prohibits employers from punishing workers for skipping what are commonly known as captive audience meetings in which companies convey views about political or religious topics, with two judges suggesting that the statute infringes on employers' free speech rights.
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July 07, 2026
A retail marketing manager for a high-end maker of cannabis vape products, Puffco, claims she was subjected to daily race- and gender-based harassment, functionally demoted after taking medical leave and then retaliated against after complaining to HR, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County court.
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July 07, 2026
A California federal judge overseeing an antitrust litigation accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines has asked for evidence showing that the consumers bringing the case have standing.
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July 07, 2026
Truck drivers denied overtime under a Fair Labor Standards Act carveout for interstate commerce urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to find they're entitled to the pay, saying that they drove only within California and that their employers' "predictive model" order fulfillment system doesn't qualify their deliveries as interstate commerce.
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July 07, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior is fighting a bid by the National Parks Association to block a decision to renew gold mining within the Mojave National Preserve, telling a California district court that the group's delay in challenging the action undermines its effort to establish harm.
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July 07, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission heard from lobbyists more than 140 times in June, with AT&T at the front of the pack hoping to convince the agency to preempt California rules that the telecom giant says are hindering network modernization.
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July 07, 2026
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has added a former Reed Smith LLP mergers and acquisitions star to chair its West Coast Mergers & Acquisitions Practice at its Menlo Park, California, office, where he brings deep experience handling complex mergers, cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, stock investments, consolidations and more.
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July 07, 2026
The makers of the 2016 independent horror film "Terrifier" were able to shake an actress' claim that nude images of her were illegally circulated but couldn't persuade a judge to throw out her claims for breach of contract and acting in bad faith.
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July 07, 2026
Procter & Gamble misleads consumers of its Crest Pro-Health toothpastes by failing to convey that the ingredient sodium lauryl sulfate can damage gum and mouth tissue and trigger inflammation — "the very conditions" the products are marketed as mitigating, a proposed class action alleges in California federal court.
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July 07, 2026
A data annotation company accused of using private recordings collected by Meta's smart glasses to train artificial intelligence models is not entitled to insurance coverage, a Travelers unit told a California federal court, saying the company's policy bars coverage for the wrongful collection of protected personal information.