SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Rivkin Jr. & & Elizabeth Price Foley, The Wall Street Journal) The post The morning read for Tuesday, Oct. 15 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Judge Michelle Friedland of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Thursday affirmed a district court decision as part of a nearly 30-year-long case regarding the rights of disabled prisoners.

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 22, 2023

September 1, 2023: TILA Disclosures re Index Rates; California Garnishment ; Minnesota Debt Collection December 1, 2023: Bankruptcy December 31, 2023: Utah Data Privacy Musings by Diane Consumer legal protections are rare. – Diane L.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 16, 2022

Supreme Court today finds a rule stated by the California Supreme Court eight years ago is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act. Related: California Supreme Court addresses class action and representative action waivers in Iskanian. denial, Supreme Court’s Iskanian opinion could still get SCOTUS review.

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JURIST

JULY 21, 2021

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision on Monday rejecting an environmental challenge to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 12, 2023

The Daily Journal today named the recipients of its annual California Lawyer of the Year award. Three of the cases resulted in Supreme Court opinions. One of the three CLAY award Supreme Court decisions is Guardianship of Saul H. 5th 93 — “ Missed break premiums count as wages, State Supreme Court rules.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The petition for reconsideration was brought by Delilah Diaz, a California woman who was convicted of transporting drugs into the US after the government presented expert testimony to disprove Diaz’s claim that she did not know she was carrying drugs.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 11, 2021

But, as John Myers reported in the Los Angeles Times last month, partly because it would be only the second gubernatorial recall to make the ballot in California’s history, “[t]here is very little set in stone” about the election’s logistics. They might not even be citable. (Cf.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2021

The lower court citing Supreme Court precedents in Lathrop v. State Bar of California rejected Taylor’s challenge. The court disagreed and affirmed the lower court ruling stating: Our cases are clear that we may not disregard Supreme Court precedent unless and until it has been overruled by the Court itself.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Solicitor General has criticized a divided California Supreme Court decision that interpreted federal law so as to increase the amount of a rental subsidy for certain families. The Supreme Court’s August 2020 decision in Reilly v. Marin Housing Authority (2020) 10 Cal.5th

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Patently O

JUNE 17, 2022

And the Federal Circuit is thwarting patentees (and innovation) by sending infringement cases away from patentees’ chosen courts in Texas to places that are friendlier to defendants, such as the Northern District of California. As the table below shows, from 2008 through 2021, the Federal Circuit granted 32.0% of the time.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 31, 2022

Our Labor & Employment Group reviews a California Supreme Court decision that makes it more difficult for employers to dispose of whistleblower retaliation claims.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

David Carrillo, the executive director of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law, joined the Maddy Institute ‘s The Maddy Report for an in-depth discussion of the California Supreme Court. Video here.)

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 29, 2024

In support, Sheetz argued that the Supreme Court’s decisions in Nollan v. California Coastal Comm’n , 483 U.S. The trial court rejected Sheetz’s claim, and the California Court of Appeal affirmed. 825 (1987), and Dolan v. City of Tigard , 512 U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 5, 2023

Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to a California animal welfare law that requires pork sold in the state to come from humanely raised pigs. According to the Court, the law did not violate the dormant commerce clause in regulating the pork industry outside California. We decline that invitation.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 1, 2025

One prohibits the facility from making any discharge that contribute[s] to a violation of any applicable water quality standard for receiving waters, while the other provides that the City cannot perform any treatment or make any discharge that create[s] pollution, contamination, or nuisance as defined by California Water Code section 13050.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 27, 2025

This blog post discusses Local Law 154, unpacks Judge Abrams decision, and ends with a refresher on California Restaurant Association v. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, held that EPCA preempted a Berkeley ordinance that prohibited natural gas piping in new buildings. California Restaurant Association v.

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Law 360

JUNE 1, 2022

asked a California federal judge to reconsider his decision in February not to limit Live Nation Inc.'s s COVID-19 business interruption suit to its $1 million annual communicable disease coverage, arguing that recent state appellate court decisions make the law clear. Factory Mutual Insurance Co.

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Mondaq

APRIL 18, 2022

Jen Rubin, chair of Mintz's ESG practice group, looks at the recent California court decision striking down the state's law mandating corporate board seats for underrepresented communities.

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JURIST

MARCH 28, 2022

Ross concerns Proposition 12 , a California regulation mandating certain space allowances for pigs. do not satisfy the space allowances, they may not sell pork in California. After the Ninth Circuit ruled against the council, it appealed to the Supreme Court. National Pork Producers Council v.

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Mondaq

JUNE 7, 2022

A California state appellate court recently upheld the trial court's decision in The 2009 Metropoulos Family Trust v. Franchise Tax Board that nonresident shareholders of an S corporation source gain.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 24, 2024

Those on the wrong end of Supreme Court decisions are often disappointed, disgruntled, annoyed, and/or angry. However, there are appropriate and inappropriate ways to criticize a court opinion. I know this from personal experience. Several times over, in fact.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A new pilot program in Santa Clara County, California hopes to tackle the problem of repeat offenders by simply keeping them in jail longer, reports Ian Cull for NBC Bay Area. McKeown believes it will keep repeat offenders in jail longer, and prevent them from committing more crimes. The pilot program runs through the end of the year.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 10, 2023

You might type “privacy law in California.” In the examples I saw, for instance, its suggestions included “How California Is Shaping the Future of Privacy Laws in the US” and “From Silicon Valley to Hollywood: The Impact of California’s Privacy Law on Businesses.”

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

When it found the trial court didn’t need to reevaluate the defendant’s sentence in People v. Salazar under legislation enacted after the sentencing, the Court of Appeal said, “The Goddess of justice is not wearing a black arm-band today weeping for the California Constitution. ” ( People v.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This means that issues decided at the district or administrative court level can be binding on all other courts: district courts, administrative courts, appellate courts, and even the Supreme Court. District court decisions are not binding precedent because they are at the bottom.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision Monday approving a class settlement between Google and 18 named plaintiffs involving its “Street View” technology. This settlement was approved by the District Court for the Northern District of California in 2020.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A recent California state appeals court decision greenlights the California Privacy Protection Agency's enforcement of California Consumer Privacy Act regulations, which may speed up compliance requirements around new regulations, so businesses considering use of artificial intelligence, for instance, may want to assess their ability to comply with (..)

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Representative and individual claims brought under California's Private Attorneys General Act are inseparable when it comes to arbitration, a legal organization told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, backing Lyft's challenge to a California state appellate court's decision preserving a former driver's representative claims.

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Law 360

AUGUST 27, 2024

s bid to arbitrate some claims that its Bluetooth trackers are dangerous because they empower stalkers asked the parties at a hearing Tuesday to brief her on the effect of a recent California appellate court decision regarding arbitrability.

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Law 360

AUGUST 9, 2024

If upheld, a California state appellate court's decision — finding that Gilead is liable for delaying commercialization of a safer HIV drug to maximize profits on another drug — threatens to undermine long-standing rules of corporate law and exposes companies to liability for decisions based on sound business judgment, says Shireen Barday at Pallas. (..)

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Aereo finally lost a court decision. This is the first case that Aereo itself has lost, also winning a favorable decision from a District Court in Boston which essentially followed the Second Circuits reasoning (see our summary of the Boston decision here ).

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Monday rejected an appeal over a district court decision approving a class settlement between Google and 18 named plaintiffs. This settlement was approved by the District Court for the Northern District of California in 2020.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, ruled Tuesday that the city of Oakland, California, cannot sue Wells Fargo for violating the Fair Housing Act (FHA) because the city did not adequately show proximate causation. The court’s decision reverses the prior decision of its three-judge panel.

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Law 360

MAY 6, 2022

A California federal judge considering whether to approve Walmart's $35 million deal over allegedly inaccurate wage statements asked the retailer Friday to brief him about adding language tailored to a recent state appellate court decision that would limit the settlement's release.

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At the Lectern

MAY 26, 2023

He writes on his Election Law Blog about one document in those papers — a 2004 memo to Justice Stevens from his then-clerk (and current California Supreme Court Justice) Leondra Kruger. The memo recommended that Stevens vote to deny certiorari of the Colorado Supreme Court decision in Colorado General Assembly v.

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Law 360

JUNE 21, 2024

Catch up this week with coverage on where California's Private Attorneys General Act stands as a proposed ballot measure call for repealing the law two years after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Viking River, major takeaways from a pair of recent rulings on the U.S.

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