SAN FRANCISCO - A superior court judge has granted agribusiness giant Monsanto a judgment notwithstanding verdict (JNOV) in its dogged pursuit to overturn a $289 million landmark verdict against the company over its production of popular weed-killer Roundup.
SAN FRANCISCO – A Table Bluff Rancheria cigarette shop owner has won a reversal from an appeals court regarding an Unfair Competition Law (UCL) claim in a case over cigarette sales filed by the state.
SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth District recently ruled that a class-action lawsuit filed against Kroger over claims of misleading labels on bread crumbs can move forward.
SAN FRANCISCO – Attorneys for Led Zeppelin are heading back to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to defend the band in copyright lawsuit over the song "Stairway to Heaven" after an appeals court ruled that the district court erred in jury instructions in the case.
SAN FRANCISCO – A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Sept. 26 reversed part of a lower court's regarding arbitration between American Airlines, an employee and a union.
SAN FRANCISCO – Defendant Symantec’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit concerning the alleged defects of a computer software security program was granted in part and denied in part by Judge Edward M. Chen of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California on Sept. 21.
SAN FRANCISCO – Judge Joseph C. Spero of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California denied the motions in a dispute between two software companies in which both companies asked for judgment on the pleadings.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — A stay on a suspension handed down against Glendora attorney Craig Ronald Triance about a year ago could be lifted following a recently announced California State Bar Court recommendation.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) – Colorado attorney James Cotter Ruh, who resigned from the bar in California in 2015, may be reinstated following a recently announced California State Bar Court recommendation.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) – Attorney Homer Lynn Harris may have his disciplinary probation revoked and be suspended for two years following a recently announced California State Bar Court recommendation.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) – Poway attorney Davide Golia, who was disbarred after he pleaded guilty to a bank fraud charge more than five years ago, may be reinstated to the bar in California following a recent California State Bar Court recommendation.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Las Vegas attorney Nelson Lee Cohen, admitted to the California bar imore than 27 years ago, faces possible disbarment by default following a recently announced California State Bar Court recommendation over two counts of misconduct.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) – San Diego attorney Matthew Bartley Butler, who reportedly now lives in the Bay Area, faces possible disbarment by default following a recently announced California State Bar Court recommendation for violating rules of professional conduct in three separate client matters.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) – Long Beach attorney Gaurav D. Datta faces possible disbarment by default following a recently announced California State Bar Court recommendation over alleged misappropriation in a trust account matter.
SAN FRANCISCO – A California appeals court has upheld a ruling ordering the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians to pay a contractor for attorney's fees.
