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Latest News in California
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June 13, 2025
McDonald's Inks Confidential Deal In $10B Race Bias Suit
McDonald's has reached a confidential settlement with film and television executive Byron Allen's companies resolving a $10 billion suit claiming the fast food chain discriminates against Black-owned media companies in its advertising expenditures, according to an announcement made Friday.
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June 13, 2025
9th Circ. Allows ConocoPhillips Project To Proceed, For Now
The Ninth Circuit on Friday held that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management must reconsider a small part of its approval for the controversial ConocoPhillips Willow oil and gas project, though it stopped short of vacating existing approvals for the Arctic energy development and allowed the project to proceed.
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June 13, 2025
State Dept. Layoffs Still Violate Injunction, Judge Says
A California federal judge said Friday that planned staff reductions at the State Department would violate her injunction blocking President Donald Trump's executive order directing layoffs at federal agencies, saying she's not persuaded by the government's assertion that the department's reorganization was underway before the order.
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June 13, 2025
Social Media Addiction MDL Judge Picks Bellwether Trial Pool
A California federal judge on Friday narrowed the pool of cases set for the first bellwether trials in sprawling multidistrict litigation by school districts and personal injury plaintiffs over claims social media is addictive, choosing six bellwether school districts in Maryland, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, North Carolina and Arizona.
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June 13, 2025
Stewart Releases Flood Of Discretionary Denial Decisions
The acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director issued more than a dozen discretionary denial decisions on Thursday and Friday, where she ruled largely in favor of the challenger, made clear that challenges to young patents have a huge advantage and brought in a denial based on assignor estoppel.
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
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- 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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