SACRAMENTO - A climate change bill that greatly expands public prosecutors’ power passed on a 5-2 vote in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee on April 20.
SAN FRANCISCO – An Illinois consumer is suing a pharmaceutical company alleging that it did not warn consumers about the purported side effects of a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction.
SAN FRANCISCO – The California Supreme Court has granted a shallow breath of life to foreclosed homeowners in a recent ruling that could pull financial institutions into litigation.
OAKLAND – After eight years, a window of opportunity opened last month in Jewel v. NSA, a Fourth Amendment case involving the seizure of AT&T customers’ data by the National Security Agency.
SAN FRANCISCO – A California nonprofit group that is assembling a statewide comprehensive database of patient health care information has hired its first full-time general counsel as the organization takes on more participants and adds new services in a bid to make the state’s health care system more efficient.
SAN FRANCISCO – Two Castro Valley residents are suing a car manufacturer over allegations of fraud, accusing it of installing "defeat devices" in its vehicles to temporarily pass emissions tests.
SAN FRANCISCO — In a case that involves an individual, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, and a laundry company, a notice of removal of civil action to federal court was filed.
SAN FRANCISCO – Two individuals and a pension plan are suing another individual and two companies that deal with construction and installation for a complaint under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has dismissed a complaint
filed by a group of SeaWorld customers suing the marine life theme park,
alleging it “deliberately concealed” its unethical treatment and
conditions of its captive orca whales.