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...
Sanderson v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s biological opinion on the pesticide malathion was arbitrary because it relied on flawed usage data and species range estimates, vacating key parts of the agency’s jeopardy...
Pesticide Action Network North America, et al v. Williams et al
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...
USA v. Pokorny
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.
Nazemian et al v. NVIDIA Corporation
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...
People of the State of California v. Kraft Heinz Company et al