California

  • June 01, 2026

    Citron Founder Convicted Of Manipulating Stock Prices

    A California federal jury Monday returned a verdict finding Citron Research founder Andrew Left guilty of using his public platform, including tweets, to manipulate the stock prices of a slew of companies, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

  • June 01, 2026

    23andMe Says California Data Breach Suit Evades Ch. 11 Plan

    The bankruptcy plan administrator for the genetic testing company formerly known as 23andMe is urging a Missouri bankruptcy court to shut down a lawsuit recently lodged by California's attorney general that seeks to recoup potentially millions of dollars in statutory penalties for the company's alleged security and disclosure failings stemming from a 2023 data breach. 

  • June 01, 2026

    Fed. Circ. Debates Line Between Extortion And Settlement

    A Federal Circuit panel Monday questioned whether OpenSky Industries LLC should be punished for allegedly extorting VLSI Technology LLC by threatening to challenge its patent, or if any misconduct would be covered under a doctrine meant to protect those petitioning the government.

  • June 01, 2026

    Investors Say Overnight Crypto Founder 'Diverted' $12.5M

    A California federal judge on Monday dissolved a temporary order freezing $12.5 million in crypto at the center of a proposed class action from investors who claim the founder of crypto project Overnight "diverted" funds after promising them a share of control.

  • June 01, 2026

    'We Wouldn't Be Alive' If Talc Could Reach Ovaries, Jury Told

    A University of California San Diego gynecologic oncologist told a California jury Monday in a bellwether trial over claims that Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused three women's deadly ovarian cancer that women and girls "wouldn't be alive" if talc could easily migrate to the ovaries because they'd be dying from sepsis.

  • June 01, 2026

    M.I.A. Says Kid Cudi Fired Her To Boost Tour Ticket Sales

    British-Sri Lankan artist M.I.A. claims in a new lawsuit that American rapper Kid Cudi used controversial statements she made on stage as an excuse to kick her off his tour in an effort to increase ticket sales, costing her a $2.8 million contract with Live Nation.

  • June 01, 2026

    EPA Beats States' $7B Solar Grant Cancellation Suit In Wash.

    A Washington federal judge sided with the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday in a multistate challenge of the U.S. government's cancellation of a Biden-era solar energy grant program, concluding she cannot resolve the dispute because it involves contractual questions that the Tucker Act delegates to the Court of Federal Claims.  

  • June 01, 2026

    Royo Is Healthwashing Keto-Friendly Baked Goods, Suit Says

    Health-forward baked goods company Royo Bread has been hit with a proposed false advertising class action in New York federal court, accusing it of "health-washing" its line of keto-friendly, low-calorie bread, rolls and bagel products by claiming they contain fewer calories than they actually do. 

  • June 01, 2026

    Anthropic Confidentially Files IPO Plans

    Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic announced Monday that it had confidentially submitted a proposed initial public offering to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, just days after it hit a post-money valuation of $965 billion after securing $65 billion of investor commitments in its massive Series H funding round.

  • June 01, 2026

    Boeing, Rolls-Royce Say Claims Still Fail In Osprey Suit

    The Boeing Co., Bell Textron Inc. and Rolls-Royce Corp. are again asking a California federal court to throw out breach of contract and fraudulent concealment claims in a suit over the deaths of five Marines in the June 2022 crash of a V-22 Osprey aircraft, saying the latest amended complaint does not save the claims.

  • June 01, 2026

    Real Estate Co. Opposes CoStar Bid To Pause Antitrust Suit

    A real estate brokerage asked a Virginia federal court to allow proceedings to continue in its antitrust case against CoStar, noting that, although the parties agree that similar cases should be consolidated with the Virginia case, the suit need not be frozen in the meantime.

  • June 01, 2026

    Cere Founder Says Sale Pact Bars $13M Crypto Fraud Suit

    Cere Network's 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.

  • June 01, 2026

    Pet Food Co. Says 'Copy-And-Paste' False Ad Suit Fails

    The maker of Instinct Pet Foods is urging a California federal court to throw out a false advertising suit over alleged artificial preservatives in its products, saying the "serial lawsuit filer" behind the suit failed to properly allege standing or any falsity with "copy-and-paste" claims.

  • June 01, 2026

    Justices Seek Feds' Input On Robinhood Investor Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to weigh in on a dispute between trading app operator Robinhood and investors who sued over the company's $2.1 billion initial public offering, as the high court considers whether to hear the case.

  • June 01, 2026

    Insurer Wants Law Firm's Subpoena Nixed In Malpractice Suit

    New Jersey state court lacks jurisdiction to unilaterally enforce a subpoena a U.S.-based law firm filed against a Canadian insurance company, the insurer has argued, seeking to avoid what it called an overly broad demand for information amid a policyholder's negligence suit against a trio of American law firms.

  • June 01, 2026

    M&A Atty, Others Deny Roles In BigLaw Insider Trading Ring

    Fifteen defendants, including an ex-Goodwin Procter LLP associate, pled not guilty Monday to participating in an insider trading scheme involving confidential deal information stolen from some of the largest U.S. law firms.

  • June 01, 2026

    Lugano OK To Hand Over Insurance For Lost $10.5M Diamond

    Jewelry house Lugano Diamonds on Monday secured a Delaware bankruptcy judge's tentative approval to transfer an insurance policy to a creditor that consigned the debtor a diamond worth $10.5 million that later went missing.

  • June 01, 2026

    Epstein Becker Adds 6 Manatt Phelps Litigators

    Epstein Becker Green has added six litigators experienced in commercial and healthcare matters who previously worked for Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP in its Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C., offices, the firm announced Monday.

  • June 01, 2026

    Atty-Client Privilege Shields Bias-Testing Data In Workday Suit

    Workday won't be required to hand over bias-testing data in a suit claiming the company's artificial intelligence-powered software unlawfully discriminated against job applicants, after a California federal judge ruled that the information is protected by attorney-client privilege.

  • June 01, 2026

    Justices Won't Eye Burden Of Notice For Immigration Hearings

    The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't review a Ninth Circuit decision requiring the federal government to take additional steps to notify noncitizens of immigration hearing dates when their original notices initiating removal proceedings return unread in the mail.

  • May 29, 2026

    Real Estate Recap: Data Centers, SEC, Law Firm Leasing

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including insights into the tireless lives of data center attorneys, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's proposal to ease capital formation in public markets, and the two-year low in U.S. law firm leasing.

  • May 29, 2026

    Skechers Seeks To Boot Wash. Anti-Spam Suit To Arbitration

    Two Washington shoppers behind a proposed class action accusing Skechers USA Inc. of sending false and misleading marketing emails must take their claims to arbitration, the footwear brand told a Seattle federal court Friday.

  • May 29, 2026

    Barclays Enabled Concierge Sex-Trafficking Ring, Suit Says

    A California woman has filed a proposed class action against Barclays and its former CEO James "Jes" Staley, claiming that the bank and Staley facilitated and enabled a criminal enterprise tied to a luxury concierge company that trafficked, abused and exploited vulnerable young people.

  • May 29, 2026

    Defamation Litigation Roundup: 'The Rip,' Lively, Justin Sun

    In this month's review of defamation fights, Law360 details a suit by a pair of Miami-Dade police officers over a movie starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck that they said makes them seem like sleazy cops, as well as a case by a Trump family-backed cryptocurrency firm against Justin Sun.

  • May 29, 2026

    Motorola Solutions' Plate Readers Violate Calif. Law, Suit Says

    Chicago-based Motorola Solutions Inc. operates an automatic license plate reader system in California without implementing state-required security measures that promote data usage transparency and prevent unauthorized information disclosure to federal and other non-state agencies, two Golden State residents claim in Illinois state court.

Expert Analysis

  • NY's Tax On 2nd Homes Compounds Residency Tax Risks

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    New York’s recently enacted surcharge on high-value second homes reflects a nationwide legislative trend of using the residency tax framework more aggressively, which brings new considerations for business owners who maintain a residence while asserting domicile elsewhere, says Mark Parthemer at Glenmede.

  • Calif. Ruling Lowers Bar For Health Data Breach Claims

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    The California Supreme Court's ruling in J.M. v. Illuminate Education offers protection for non-healthcare companies that maintain health-related data but also adopts a new and more plaintiff-favorable standard for breach of confidentiality that companies maintaining any health-related data should address, say attorneys at Cooley.

  • Your Next Litigation Hold Should Cover AI Chat Logs

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    The Delaware Chancery Court’s recent decision in Fortis Advisors v. Krafton to treat a CEO’s artificial intelligence chats as substantive evidence is being read as a discovery warning to litigators, but there is a second duty-to-preserve lesson that is especially pertinent to in-house counsel, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

  • Musk-OpenAI Verdict Shows Value Of Early-Stage Governance

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    A California federal court's ruling last week in Musk v. Altman preserves the status quo at OpenAI, but signals to the technology industry at large that courts will not relitigate the governance decisions of early-stage organizations on a founder's competitive timetable, surfacing questions that will outlast the litigation, says attorney Alan N. Walter.

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    Studying Foreign Languages Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.

  • 6th Circ. Ruling Highlights Split On Labor Cost Depreciation

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    The Sixth Circuit's recent decision in Schoening Investment v. Cincinnati Casualty throws into relief the fine lines of courts' varying interpretations of whether a commercial property insurer may justifiably depreciate labor costs to determine the actual cash value of damage, says Nabila Rahim at Zelle.

  • 6th Circ. Ruling Broadest So Far In Wave Of Habeas Decisions

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    The Sixth Circuit’s recent opinion in Lopez-Campos v. Raycraft provides the most developed structural reasoning among rulings in a widening circuit split over mandatory detention after undocumented entry into the U.S., and supplies immigration practitioners a template for due process arguments in favor of habeas relief, says Kemal Hepsen at Mandamus Lawyers.

  • And Now A Word From The Panel: An MDL Realignment

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    With seven multidistrict litigation proceedings initiated so far this year, a review of venue locations suggests a shift away from the East Coast, a seeming reversal of last year's swing in that direction, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.

  • 'Anderson Method' Ruling Shows Copyright Limits In Fitness

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    The Ninth Circuit's ruling in Tracy Anderson Mind and Body v. Megan Roup, finding that sequences of exercises developed and recorded by Tracy Anderson were not copyrightable choreographic works, is a reminder that even highly creative fitness programming can fall outside the scope of copyright protection, says Meredith Bobber Strauss at Michelman & Robinson.

  • 2nd Circ.'s Cantero Redo Complicates Mortgage Escrow Issue

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    The Second Circuit's recent decision in Cantero v. Bank of America reflects the absence of definitiveness in mortgage escrow preemption jurisprudence, leaving lenders to navigate conflicting state rules and pricing challenges amid a deepening circuit split, say attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell.

  • Looking Beyond Calif. Climate Laws As NY Bills Advance

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    California's climate disclosure legislation has made emissions and risk reporting a practical reality — and now that New York is working on its own climate disclosure bills, companies must confront a future in which compliance systems will need to be ready for multiple states' reporting regimes, says Thierry Montoya at FBT Gibbons.

  • 5 Rules In 10 Weeks: Inside Genius Act's Implementation Blitz

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    Regulators have proposed five Genius Act rules in a striking span of 10 weeks, building a stablecoin framework that, with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency at its operational center, will shape oversight and force issuers, banks and fintechs to take action as deadlines approach, say attorneys at Cahill.

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    NY Times Word Puzzles Make Me A Better Lawyer

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    Every morning I let The New York Times humble me with word games, which offer a chance to recalibrate my brain before the day's chaos arrives and remind me that a solution — whether to a puzzle or employment law issue — almost always exists once I find the right angle, says Amy Epstein Gluck at Pierson Ferdinand.

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    Law School's Missed Lesson: Diagnose Before Arguing

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    Law school often skips over explicitly teaching students how to determine what kind of problem a case presents before they commit to a particular doctrinal path, which risks building arguments that are internally coherent but externally misaligned, says Melanie Oxhorn at Kobre & Kim.

  • Becoming The Biz-Savvy GC That Portfolio Companies Need

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    Candidates for general counsel roles at private equity-backed portfolio companies should prioritize proving their sector-specific experience, commercial judgment and ease with uncertainty — and attorneys hoping to be candidates in five to 10 years should start working on those skills now, says Dimitri Mastrocola at Major Lindsey.

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