GRASS VALLEY, Calif. (LN) — The Eastern District of California granted partial summary judgment against Rise Grass Valley, Inc., finding the company liable under the Clean Water Act for discharging pollutants from its flooded Idaho-Maryland Mine into Wolf C...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of California has narrowed a defendant’s attempt to depose a plaintiff environmental organization under Rule 30(b)(6), ruling that several topics sought premature expert testimony or improperly probed the group’s orga...
A federal judge in California denied CoreCivic’s motion to stay a preliminary injunction governing conditions of confinement at the California City detention center, ruling the private prison operator failed to demonstrate it would suffer irreparable harm f...
A federal magistrate judge denied a plaintiff’s request to extend class certification discovery in her employment lawsuit against Marriott, ruling that her counsel’s failure to file a motion to compel despite repeated warnings and a self-imposed timeline sh...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of California granted an ex parte temporary restraining order against a former account manager who allegedly downloaded 3.5 gigabytes of proprietary data before joining a direct competitor.
A federal judge has approved a $5 million settlement for the three young sons of a Modesto man killed by police, finding the structured payouts and attorney fees fair.
A federal judge in San Jose denied a preliminary injunction to the creator of the Wildfire Aware app, ruling that the term "AWARE" is too weak and crowded to support a trademark infringement claim against a government-focused competitor.
A federal judge in the Eastern District of California approved the distribution formula for the settlement fund action lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association, clearing a final procedural hurdle for payouts to former volunteer coaches.
A federal magistrate judge in California granted Strike 3 Holdings' request to subpoena an internet service provider for a John Doe defendant's identity, but barred the plaintiff from serving the complaint or revealing the subscriber's name until further co...
A federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of California has granted Strike 3 Holdings’ request to bypass standard discovery rules to identify an anonymous BitTorrent subscriber, imposing strict confidentiality protections to shield the defendant fr...
A federal judge in Sacramento approved a $4.3 million settlement for the Sutter Health 403(b) Savings Plan, dismissing the litigation with prejudice and clearing the way for participant distributions.
A federal magistrate judge ordered Octapharma Plasma to produce contact information for all putative class members and payroll data for a 25% sample of employees, rejecting the company’s request for a Belaire-West privacy notice.
A California federal magistrate judge let stand a wrongful-termination claim by a medical social worker who was fired three days after an unforeseeable medical emergency forced her to miss work without two hours' advance notice.
A federal magistrate judge has refused to dismiss a former television-station sales executive's claims that Tribune Media Company fired him because of his stomach cancer diagnosis rather than for legitimate business reasons, sending the case to a jury.
The Eastern District of California has consolidated two wage-and-hour class actions against Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc., adopting the lead case's schedule and directing that all future filings occur under the lead docket number.
A federal judge in the Eastern District of California on Friday issued a preliminary injunction requiring Nexstar Media Group to preserve TEGNA Inc. as a separate entity pending trial, finding DIRECTV and eight states are likely to succeed on their claim th...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of California granted a preliminary injunction halting Nexstar Media Group's acquisition of TEGNA Inc., finding that plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the deal violates Section 7 of th...
A California federal magistrate judge has recommended remanding a disability-discrimination case to state court and awarding the plaintiff attorney's fees after concluding that snap-removal doctrine cannot establish diversity jurisdiction where the plaintif...
A federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of California has curtailed the scope of discovery in a certified class action accusing U.S. Border Patrol of conducting suspicionless stops and warrantless arrests during large-scale immigration enforcemen...