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Latest News in California

  • July 20, 2026

    Microchip Co. Will Pay $13M To End Merger Severance Fight

    A microchip maker will pay more than $13 million to settle a long-running class action alleging it illegally shut down a severance program following a 2016 merger, according to terms of the proposed deal filed in California federal court.

  • July 20, 2026

    BREAKING: Court Pauses Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal

    A California federal court issued a temporary restraining order on Monday, preventing Paramount Skydance from moving ahead with its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery as state enforcers challenge the deal.

  • July 20, 2026

    Top Gov't Contracting Cases To Watch In The 2nd Half Of 2026

    Federal courts in the latter half of 2026 are expected to decide if the Trump administration overstepped by designating Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security and whether the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions pass constitutional muster, potentially affecting the government's ability to tackle fraud.

  • July 17, 2026

    Wealth Management Co. To Pay $1.85M In SEC's Scam Case

    A California federal judge has ordered a purported wealth management company and its managing member to pay $1.85 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission stemming from a pair of fraud schemes, including one involving an elaborate ruse invoking ties to the wealth of the royal family of Qatar.

  • July 17, 2026

    9th Circ. Tosses Child Sex Abuse Conviction Over Bad Search

    A Ninth Circuit panel threw out the conviction of a man who pled guilty to recording himself raping his 7-year-old daughter in Washington, saying Friday that officers discovered the videos on his computer after going beyond the bounds of an unrelated search warrant.

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