9th Circuit restores $25.7M EchoSpan verdict • Newsom names 3 new judges • Pasadena sues UCLA over Rose Bowl • Teamsters defend CA labor laws • $38M Bayer deal approved • LAFLA gala raises $1.25M for legal aid

Edison doubles payouts in Eaton Fire settlement • Judge fines Alston & Bird $10K over juror LinkedIn search • 12 states challenge HP–Juniper merger • Judge Kuhl lets social media firms keep key defenses

Judge Lawrence Riff advances $4B LA County sex abuse settlements • SF judge weighs forcing bar to aid public defense amid lawyer shortage • Santa Ana pays $550K in clinic zoning suit • LA Judge Ronald Kaye heads to Spain on rare sabbatical

Bonta clears OpenAI deal • Kennedy recalls meeting Putin • Diocese insurers clash

Trustees sue to recover $3.1M from Girardi scheme, Seyfarth team joins PwC spinoff, ExxonMobil challenges CA climate laws, Coinbase seeks venue change, Villanueva loses $1.7M fee bid

UC forced to release DOJ settlement proposal, State Supreme Court rejects reduced sanctions for attorneys, Judge pushes AI in social media addiction MDL, LA Courts partner with Stanford & UCLA for reforms

Record $34 million verdict in Amphastar crash • L.A. fights judge’s homeless monitor order • 9th Circuit split over Trump’s Guard deployments • Green groups sue over whale deaths • Authors take Apple to court over AI training

Newsom names 12 new judges • Possible pay freeze for California judiciary • SF court to release defendants amid defender shortage • VW wins OC lemon law case • Parris Law lands $77M verdict.

SF court to release jailed defendants without lawyers • Judge orders 41 firms to probe Uber case leak • L.A. battery project overturned • MGA appeals punitive damages ruling • $6M CSU harassment verdict • Trinity Co. judge censured

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram’s Adam Mosseri & Snap’s Evan Spiegel ordered to testify in social media addiction trials • Jury sides with Disney in Rockmond Dunbar vaccine suit • 9th Circuit revives inmate’s excessive-force case