It’s called the Builder’s Remedy, which says cities can’t reject affordable housing projects based on their local zoning rules if they don’t have a state-approved Housing Element in place. A Housing Element is a state-required plan outlining how a city can …
The California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to uphold a four-year-old ballot measure that classifies Uber and Lyft drivers as independent contractors rather than as employees. In a win for ride-hailing companies, the decision ends a yearslong legal …
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order to state agencies to adopt policies to evict homeless encampments came a month after the Supreme Court gave California and other states the green light to ban people lacking shelter options from camping on public property.
The California Supreme Court yesterday abrogated the rule, created by case law, that a party who had contractually agreed to binding arbitration must, in order to skirt it based on a purported waiver by the other side, show prejudice if forced to litigate …
(Subscription required) A State Bar Court judge found there is "clear and convincing evidence" that the agency's former executive director Joe Dunn misled the bar's Board of Trustees over the use of bar funds. She recommended punishment …
Through no fault of their own, thousands of children every year must be moved from their homes for their own safety by social workers or law enforcement. They lose everything they’ve ever known all at once—family, friends, teachers, pets and belongings— …
Meta and Snap, insofar as they are in the business of mining and monetizing users' data, can't hide behind the Stored Communications Act to avoid turning over posts and communications to the defendant in a murder case.
(Subscription required) As the Los Angeles County Superior Court reopened with fits and starts Tuesday following a ransomware-attack-caused closure, lawyers encountered both crowded hallways and eerie quiet depending on the courthouse location—as well as …
Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered California state officials on Thursday to begin dismantling thousands of homeless encampments, the nation’s most sweeping response to a recent [U.S.] Supreme Court ruling that gave governments greater authority to remove homeless …
The 1.4 million California drivers for ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft and food-delivery companies DoorDash and Instacart can be legally classified as independent contractors rather than employees after the state Supreme Court Thursday unanimously upheld …
“It’s a program that has helped many, many Californians,” Shelley Curran, administrative director of the Judicial Council, said in remarks July 12. Since the 2019 launch, about 177,000 people have filed MyCitations requests to cut their fines by an average …
The attack was detected Friday and doesn’t appear to be related to the CrowdStrike software update that paralyzed Windows computers around the world and affected governments, airlines and other agencies last week, court officials said.
A state appeals court panel Tuesday rejected a former Marina del Rey resident’s bid for re-sentencing in a triple-murder case that included the June 2001 shooting deaths of two brothers who would have inherited $380,000 from their late mother, who was a …
A man accused of murdering his brother might be granted access to postings by the deceased on social media that are now not publicly available but are stored by the providers of the services—but the subpoenaed materials must be turned over to the judge, …
The son of Italian immigrants, Edward Panelli was urged at an early age to become a lawyer. His judicial career spanned every level of California's judiciary and concluded with a career as a neutral. Jul 22, 2024
(Subscription required) "I am grateful to the countless court staff who worked tirelessly over the past 96 hours since the attack was first detected to bring many of our network systems back online and ensure the largest trial court in the nation is …
Committee members will consider existing and growing AI use cases across these industries—including the range of benefits and potential risks the technology poses—and the hurdles to adopting the technology.
The California Supreme Court yesterday elaborated upon its 1968 decision in Dillon v. Legg in which it held that a person who witnesses a personal injury to a close relative has a cause of action for negligent infliction of emotional distress, declaring in …
The state bar’s board of trustees on Thursday authorized officials to finalize and execute a $8.25 million, five-year contract with Kaplan Test Prep to develop bar exam questions. That means California—which has the second-largest number of bar examinees …
A ransomware attack has shut down the computer system of the largest trial court in the country, officials with the Superior Court of Los Angeles County said. The court disabled its computer network systems upon discovery of the attack, and it will remain …
