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Latest News in California
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May 01, 2025
NCAA Coaches Get Initial OK For $49M Wage-Fix Deal
A California federal judge granted preliminary approval Wednesday to a group of roughly 1,000 Division I volunteer baseball coaches for their settlement under which the NCAA would pay $49.5 million to resolve their proposed antitrust class action challenging a since-repealed "uniform wage fix" bylaw.
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May 01, 2025
Worker Can't Ring Own Class's 'Death Knell,' Calif. Panel Says
A former construction company employee can't appeal an order denying his class certification motion in a putative wage and hour class action, a California state appeals court has ruled, finding it does not qualify under the so-called death knell doctrine because Private Attorneys General Act claims remained active when he appealed.
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May 01, 2025
Unlockd Tells 9th Circ. Google Harms Ad Market Competition
A defunct advertising app that alleged Google's decision to boot it from the Google Play Store harmed market competition for digital advertising asked the Ninth Circuit to reinstate its claims, arguing Wednesday the lower court wrongly concluded that eliminating a "nascent competitor" in a large market didn't rise to antitrust injury.
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May 01, 2025
WhatsApp Trial Judge Bars NSO's 'Outlandish' IP Theft Claim
A California federal judge presiding over a damages trial over how much Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices ruled Thursday NSO's counsel violated multiple pretrial orders, finding corrective instructions are warranted and barring counsel from making the "outlandish" claim Meta Platforms' spyware-attack remediation was trade secret theft.
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May 01, 2025
2 Firms To Co-Lead Block Investor Suit Over Cash App
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP will represent a proposed class of investors in a suit alleging Jack Dorsey's fintech company Block Inc. created a "haven for criminal and illicit activities" on its Cash App and Square payment platforms despite touting its anti-money laundering protocols.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- California Attorney General’s Office
- California Department of Business Oversight
- California Department of Insurance
- California Department of Transportation
- California Environmental Protection Agency
- California Public Utilities Commission
- Department of Consumer Affairs
- State Controller’s Office
- ENFORCEMENT
- Investigations and enforcement actions by state and federal prosecutors
- Food safety actions
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- Antitrust litigation
- Class actions
- Environmental suits
- Labor and employment issues
- Intellectual property cases
- Product liability and consumer protection disputes
- Securities disputes
- Bankruptcy proceedings
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures involving California companies
- Real estate deals
- PROFILES
- Nominations, appointments, and elections of judges and agency officials in California
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of California judges, litigators, and firms
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- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
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