A federal judge in San Francisco allowed a former sales specialist’s age discrimination claim against Dun & Bradstreet to proceed to trial, ruling that a jury could infer the company’s reorganization was a pretext for firing him because of his age.
A federal judge in San Jose approved an emergency motion allowing a plaintiff to serve an anonymous cryptocurrency fraud defendant by sending a non-fungible token to the defendant's digital wallet addresses.
A Northern District of California magistrate judge ruled that Apple’s product roadmaps do not automatically qualify for the highest level of confidentiality protection, rejecting the company’s attempt to shield strategic planning documents under a "Source C...
A federal magistrate judge on Wednesday narrowed a subpoena xAI served on OpenAI, limiting the scope of documents the AI company must produce regarding its hiring of former xAI employee Xuechen Li, who is accused of stealing trade secrets.
A Northern District of California judge denied motions to exclude expert testimony on functionality and secondary meaning in BuzzBallz’s trade dress infringement suit against MPL Brands, allowing key evidence to reach the jury or decide summary judgment.
A federal judge in San Francisco certified a nationwide class of investors in a securities fraud case against Alphabet Inc. and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, allowing the case to proceed to trial on allegations that Google’s advertising auctions favored the Fac...
A federal court rejected a former executive's claim that bank-owned life insurance premiums should be included in her retirement benefits calculation, denying her request to reconsider a summary judgment that excluded nearly $0.29 million in premiums.
A Northern District of California judge dismissed a products liability lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, ruling that plaintiffs failed to plead when their mother was exposed to Risperdal or discovered her cancer, leaving cla...
A federal judge in San Francisco denied Southwest Airlines’ motion to decertify three classes of flight attendants alleging the carrier unlawfully denied disciplinary point reductions to employees who took family and medical leave, but granted plaintiffs le...
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that a pro se musician failed to plausibly allege that YouTube users had a reasonable chance of seeing his original composition before uploading allegedly infringing tracks, dismissing the case with leave to amend.
A Northern District of California judge dismissed a consumer class action against the herbal tea maker, ruling that a plaintiff must allege specific facts explaining how she was injured by unlawful labeling, not just assert she paid more.
A federal judge denied competing scheduling requests from The Foundry and Adobe in their trademark dispute, criticizing both sides for failing to act with urgency.
A federal magistrate judge in the Northern District of California ordered Cangrade to produce its settlement agreement with third-party Paylocity but rejected requests for related negotiation documents, ruling they were not proportional to the needs of the...
A federal judge in California dismissed a former employee’s state-law overtime claim against Levi Strauss & Co., ruling the Labor Management Relations Act preempts the suit because the worker is covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
A federal judge in the Northern District of California granted an ex parte temporary restraining order against anonymous registrants of two domain names that hosted websites mimicking the investment firm Fisher Investments, citing risks of consumer phishing...
A federal judge approved a settlement requiring the Oakland Unified School District to grant Child Evangelism Fellowship NorCal equal access to school facilities under the First Amendment.
A Northern California federal judge appointed two investors with the largest alleged losses as lead plaintiffs in a securities class action accusing Picard Medical of facilitating a social media pump-and-dump scheme.
A federal magistrate judge in San Jose allowed core excessive force and failure-to-intervene claims to proceed against four officers and the city in a civil rights lawsuit, but dismissed a California Bane Act claim against three of those officers for failin...
A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco limited the number of data sources plaintiffs may demand from Google LLC to 1,424, ruling that the plaintiffs' initial selection of more than 7,000 sources was disproportionate to the needs of the case.
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that PHH Mortgage’s privacy policies did not provide blanket consent for the secret sharing of users’ individualized financial data with third-party trackers, allowing key privacy and wiretap claims to proceed.