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June 09, 2026
Counsel for a family that lost two children in a car crash urged a jury Tuesday to add $21 million in punitive damages to last week's $176 million compensatory verdict against a philanthropist and a former Major League Baseball pitcher found responsible.
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June 09, 2026
A California federal magistrate judge refused Tuesday to give Uber more time to produce data to the Federal Trade Commission in litigation alleging the ride-hailing company dupes consumers into its paid subscription service, saying during a hearing that Uber "has been in nonstop violation" of the court's April 10 data production deadline.
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June 09, 2026
A group of writers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou, will have to pursue their claims of copyright infringement against Anthropic, Apple, Google, Perplexity AI, Nvidia and xAI in separate lawsuits, a California federal judge ruled, siding with the tech giants.
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June 09, 2026
Sunday App, a restaurant payment platform that lets diners pay for meals through a QR code, has been blindsiding consumers by hiding a mandatory platform fee "until the last possible moment" in the payment process, alleges a proposed class action lodged in California state court.
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June 09, 2026
Phillips 66 employees who reached a $12.5 million settlement to resolve their wage-and-hour class action over unpaid don-doff time and missed breaks have asked a California federal judge to grant their attorneys' request for about $4.17 million in fees, highlighting the work they've spent in the eight-year litigation on a contingency basis.
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June 09, 2026
The Ninth Circuit directed a district court on Tuesday to vacate an order that forced a former UPS driver to arbitrate her wage claims against the shipping solutions chain, saying the lower court committed "clear error" by refusing to determine the basis for its authority to compel arbitration.
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June 09, 2026
The Ninth Circuit agreed Tuesday to take the rare step of having a larger panel rehear a copyright dispute over Kat Von D's Miles Davis tattoo, vacating a ruling that upheld the celebrity tattoo artist's trial win.
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June 09, 2026
Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will start requiring users to verify their employer before they can trade on certain markets, and will further implement features allowing users to directly report suspicious trading activity.
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June 09, 2026
Agensys Inc. filed a trade secret misappropriation suit in California federal court Tuesday against a U.S.-based cancer research firm and two alleged Chinese affiliates, claiming they stole confidential information for oncology antibodies developed at Agensys and that the theft was "willful and malicious."
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June 09, 2026
A former engineer at Elon Musk's xAI claims he was fired after repeatedly raising concerns about safety, discriminatory bias and other risks associated with the artificial intelligence company's chatbot Grok, according to a lawsuit lodged Tuesday in California state court.
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June 09, 2026
A California federal judge ordered Stanford Medicine hospital not to disclose medical information belonging to trans adolescents who received gender-related care in response to a Texas grand jury subpoena, and blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from taking further steps to obtain their patient records.
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June 09, 2026
Two California courts last week largely sided with environmentalist groups that challenged the city of Santee's approval of a local 3,008-unit housing project, ruling that the proposed project's approval violated state laws.
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June 09, 2026
The Fourth Circuit revived Tuesday a lawsuit from a former biopharmaceutical company employee after finding that he'd sufficiently backed his claim for vicarious liability against Gilead Sciences Inc., but refused to draw a co-worker back into the case.
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June 09, 2026
Bank of America is asking that several classes of unemployment benefit cardholders be decertified in multidistrict litigation over its handling of California unemployment benefit cards during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that new evidence of ongoing benefits fraud has made the case impossible to try as a class action.
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June 09, 2026
OnlyFans subscribers on Tuesday urged the Ninth Circuit to revive a proposed class action alleging unlawful subscription auto-renewals, arguing California courts have jurisdiction over the platform's U.K. parent company because it auto-renews thousands of Golden State subscriptions and generates $400 million from the state annually.
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June 09, 2026
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Tuesday found that Micron Technology Inc. failed to prove a Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. integrated circuit patent was invalid, the latest episode in a patent fight between the companies spanning the board and federal court.
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June 09, 2026
A group of 13 bestselling authors suing Meta have asked a California federal judge for permission to appeal his decision holding that it was fair for Meta Platforms Inc. to train its artificial intelligence system with their copyrighted material without consent, saying there's already been divergent rulings on the novel question.
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June 09, 2026
Biotechnology company Grail Inc. was hit with a proposed investor class action alleging that it misled investors about the likelihood its cancer screening blood test would demonstrate effectiveness in a clinical trial, which the public learned in February was unsuccessful.
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June 01, 2026
Cere Network's co-founder and others targeted in a $13 million suit over a purported cryptocurrency fraud scheme involving the decentralized data cloud platform have asked a California federal judge to send the dispute to arbitration in San Francisco.
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June 09, 2026
Class members claiming headrests in several Dodge and Jeep vehicles can spontaneously deploy with a potential to cause serious injury accused automaker FCA on Monday of using arbitration claims to delay a federal court trial that has been pending for six years.
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June 09, 2026
Buchalter PC announced Monday that an experienced intellectual property attorney with a background in electrical and computer engineering has joined the firm's San Francisco office as a partner from Lowenstein Sandler LLP.
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June 09, 2026
Collectors Holdings Inc. is looking to toss a proposed class action over its purchase of two rival trading card grading companies, telling a California federal court that the acquisitions were made to meet demand, not maintain a monopoly.
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June 09, 2026
Whole Foods Market forced workers to perform duties during meal breaks, manipulated time records to underpay wages, and blocked employees from leaving the premises during rest periods, according to a lawsuit brought in California state court.
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June 09, 2026
A California federal judge on Monday trimmed some privacy claims in a suit alleging Arby's', Jimmy John's', Dunkin's and Sonic's website cookie banners falsely promise to remove trackers but allowed the plaintiffs' fraud claims to proceed, finding it's enough for them to plead they declined cookies but were tracked anyway.
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June 09, 2026
A proposed class of grill users is suing Nexgrill Industries Inc. in California federal court, alleging that it waited years to issue a recall over a dangerous defect in its wire grill brushes and that the recall is itself inadequate to address the issue.