U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar denied a motion to dismiss charges against David Brooks Pokorny, ruling that a series of emails threatening to skin Senior U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer to death constituted unprotected "true threats" rather than...
A federal judge ruled that Lowe's ERISA disability plan can invoke North Carolina law to sidestep a California statute that would have voided the insurer's discretionary authority.
A federal judge ruled that an arbitrator — not the court — must decide whether a class action accusing Figma of misusing intellectual property to train its AI products belongs in court at all.
A Northern District of California judge held that the patents describe a desired result rather than any specific technical method for achieving it.
Apple asked a federal judge to grant summary judgment on all four remaining retaliation and wrongful-termination claims brought by former employee Ashley Gjovik, arguing that undisputed evidence shows she was fired for leaking confidential Face ID...
A federal magistrate judge blocked an arbitration demand against the Guidiville Rancheria of California, ruling the tribe did not clearly waive its sovereign immunity to let an arbitrator decide jurisdictional issues.
A federal judge dismissed NVIDIA’s vicarious infringement defense in a class action alleging the chipmaker trained AI models on pirated books, though contributory infringement claims survive.
A federal judge allowed an equal protection claim alleging racial profiling by a San Jose police officer to proceed, while dismissing municipal liability claims against the city.
A federal judge in California granted a preliminary injunction blocking a former co-founder from using proprietary mortgage technology he allegedly cloned for his own company.
A California consumer says the infomercial giant ran a perpetual "76% OFF" sale on its website that was never actually a sale.
A San Francisco federal judge refused to dismiss a putative class action alleging the ad-tech company silently harvested location, device, and identity data from a dating app for gay individuals without users' knowledge.
A federal judge tossed Andrew and Tristan Tate's deplatforming lawsuit against Meta without leave to amend, finding their contract claims rested on quoted policy language that does not actually appear in the documents they attached to their own complaint.
A California lemon law firm managing roughly 10,000 active cases is about to lose its second and final partner, leaving a single managing attorney to oversee a docket that a federal judge described as reflecting a systemic breakdown in professional...
A California federal judge expanded an existing injunction to block three major federal departments from imposing grant conditions on municipal plaintiffs who sued the Trump administration.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued a pretrial order bifurcating the trial in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and requiring Musk to file a verified waiver regarding his request for disgorgement directed to the nonprofit.
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred Old Forge School District v. Meta Platforms, Inc. et al to the Northern District of California, expanding the sprawling social media addiction MDL to 343 cases.
A federal court in San Francisco granted Apple Inc leave to file an early summary judgment motion arguing Neonode Smartphone LLC’s patent is invalid for lack of written description.
Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. of the Northern District of California has denied two procedural motions filed by plaintiffs in a putative class action seeking to enjoin Capital One’s acquisition of Discover, ordering the case closed or judgment entered for...
Judge Jon S. Tigar granted California’s motion to remand a consumer protection and public nuisance suit against major food manufacturers, holding that the state—not San Francisco—is the real party in interest for diversity jurisdiction purposes.
Judge Noël Wise has terminated the pending class certification motion in the SVB Financial Group securities litigation without prejudice, requiring plaintiffs to refile after a scheduled motion to dismiss against KPMG is resolved.