A federal judge in San Diego dismissed four of ten claims in a flight attendant’s employment discrimination lawsuit against United Airlines, but granted the plaintiff leave to amend his complaint to cure pleading deficiencies.
A federal magistrate judge in the Southern District of California ordered CMC Steel Fabricators to pay attorneys’ fees and cease wiping devices of departing employees, ruling the company failed to preserve text messages and laptop data relevant to an...
A federal judge in San Diego allowed key civil rights claims to proceed against a police sergeant and the city, ruling that the plaintiff adequately alleged excessive force, retaliation, and evidence fabrication.
A Southern District of California judge ruled that a federally supported health clinic’s failure to safeguard patient data does not trigger federal immunity or removal jurisdiction, sending the putative class action back to state court.
A San Diego federal court found that most of the hours a law firm billed after its opponent ignored interrogatories had no causal link to that specific misconduct.
A San Diego federal court has indicated it will enter partial default judgment for Mexican airline Volaris on trade name claims, but said trademark counts cannot proceed without a description of what the defendant entities actually sell.
A federal judge in San Diego denied in part a motion to dismiss by defense contractor Shield AI, allowing a former employee’s federal whistleblower and military discrimination claims to move forward.
A San Diego federal judge found that Ashlynn Marketing Group deleted its kratom-product blog during active litigation and then watched Wayback Machine archives prove it.
A federal magistrate judge ordered the automaker to turn over thousands of dealer repair records it had withheld in a putative class action alleging spontaneous tire blowouts.
A San Diego federal judge on January 28, 2026 granted Smith Interface Technologies' motion for judgment on the pleadings, striking most of Apple's inequitable conduct and unclean hands affirmative defenses as insufficiently pleaded under the heightened...
A Southern District of California judge has issued an order following a Ninth Circuit remand in Lessin v. Ford Motor Company, directing the parties to address critical Rule 23(b)(3) predominance issues regarding latent defects and fraud-based...
A federal judge has ruled that U.S. Border Patrol agents acted reasonably when they shot and killed a driver who accelerated toward them during an arrest attempt following a high-speed pursuit on State Route 94.
A federal court in San Diego held that a Pennsylvania pharmaceutical company's knowing employment of a California-based remote worker subjected it to specific personal jurisdiction there for employment discrimination and wrongful-termination claims, while...
The Southern District of California granted final approval of a class action settlement resolving allegations that San Diego State University engaged in systemic sex-based discrimination against female varsity student-athletes.
Plaintiffs Elizabeth Cruz and Hilarino Aparicio allege that San Diego police officers killed Imanol Aparicio by continuing to shoot him after he was incapacitated, a result they attribute to the department’s “combat shooting” policy.
A federal judge struck Apple's inequitable conduct and unclean hands affirmative defenses in a patent infringement case, holding that Apple's pleadings failed to satisfy Rule 9(b)'s particularity requirements — though Apple gets one more chance to replead...
A federal judge in San Diego dismissed all employment-discrimination claims brought by a longtime Walmart associate who alleged supervisors bullied him, passed him over for management, and punished him with a job reassignment.
A federal judge conditionally certified a collective action brought by San Diego firefighters who allege the city systematically excluded a paramedic certification bonus from their regular rate of pay when calculating overtime under the Fair Labor Standards...