Bill Essayli lost his acting U.S. attorney title. Does it matter?
Celine Castronuovo and I talked to several former prosecutors—including a fmr Los Angeles first assistant—about what’s next: news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/e...
Court-appointed specialists who aid defense lawyers are cutting costs & refusing assignments after 4 months of unpaid work.
W/ no end in sight to the shutdown, lawyers are telling courts they can't get the experts their clients need. w/ @maiaspoto.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Edison opened applications today for Eaton Fire survivors to get rebuild $$ and other damages in exchange for agreeing not to sue.
Read here about their updated offer, which continues to offer a flat $10k for smoke-damaged standing homes news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/e...
Bill Essayli was disqualified from his role as acting US attorney in the Central District of California but can still supervise prosecutions as first assistant.
"The court shares Defendants’ concern that this result appears to ‘be little remedy at all.'" news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/e...
Hundreds of Eaton Fire survivors have organized to demand Edison International strengthen its compensation program for those impacted by the wildfire.
"We need to be seen as actual human beings and not numbers, not just another tragedy."
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/e...
Los Angeles's US attorney Bill Essayli’s pattern of yelling at career attorneys to pursue MAGA-aligned cases despite their warnings of insufficient evidence has contributed to an exodus, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social and @maiaspoto.bsky.social report
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Nearly six months out from the Los Angeles area wildfires, toxic smoke damage is still making it hard for some victims to move on. Investigations and lawsuits are mounting against insurers.
My latest on California's mounting insurance and climate crisis: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Our deep dive into newly disclosed data shows online retailers largely get the biggest payouts in deals cut with cities to share sales tax revenue, but car dealers have the most deals. And fleet fuel companies are making out pretty well, too. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...
Thanks for sharing, Laura!
I reported on the future of the bar exam: news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/s...
"I want people in this situation to know they can push back,” former Allred, Maroko & Goldberg client Ashley Kostial said.
“Going into mediation, having a settlement, having an NDA, doesn’t have to be further trauma for the victim.” news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/g...
As the Trump administration’s deportation efforts ramp up, unions are increasingly on the frontlines with workers in protest despite limited options and evolving court precedent.
Elias Schisgall and I looked at rapid response, bargaining efforts: news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
This was around 8 am at the federal building in Santa Ana CA before Michael Avenatti’s resentencing—National Guard is stationed outside and said they’ve been here all night, and windows are boarded up
Ex-lawyer Tom Girardi, who stole millions of dollars from clients, gets seven year prison sentence for wire fraud.
He made his victims "feel that the entire legal system was on his side," Judge Staton said. "And they were not wrong." news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/t...
The California Bar systematically failed to provide accommodations on the February bar exam, violating the rights of test takers with disabilities, a coalition of disabled examinees said in a letter. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...
We looked at the contracts between the California Bar and the vendor that used ChatGPT to write bar exam questions:
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/a...
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
New: Tom Girardi, the ex-lawyer who stole millions from his clients, is hospitalized for 'liver dysfunction' on eve of key hearing to determine whether he's medically fit for a prison sentence: news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/t...
California State Bar Executive Director Leah Wilson to retire in July, after bar exam takers called for her resignation over February test disaster news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...
ChatGPT was used to develop 29 of 200 California February Bar Exam questions, the State Bar said in a new report to state justices.
They want the Supreme Court to approve a score boost after the test broke down in February.
No paywall: news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...
L.A. residents trust their state trial court more than any other arm of government, but they're mixed on whether the court is doing a good job news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
New: The Orange County, Calif. judge who shot and killed his wife in August 2023 was found guilty of second-degree murder after a retrial. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...
NEW Businessweek feature: The US gives permission to pay people with disabilities below minimum wage. Biden tried to end program. Employers urging Trump preserve it say they've gotten private signals he will.
Based on 1000s of pages of records & 150 interviews: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
New: A California State Bar lawyer who worked on admissions left the agency last week. It's the first departure of a high-ranking staff member involved in the chaotic February 2025 Bar exam. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...
Rep. Darrell Issa targeted Marbury v. Madison at a Federalist Society conference, saying it’s time to consider whether to “rein in” the 1803 decision at the core of judicial power.
His bill to limit district judges’ injunction power gets a floor vote in days
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/r...
Orange County Judge who texted staff "I just lost it. I just shot my wife" on night of her death gets a mistrial.
He argued it was an accident. The jury deliberated for almost two weeks and was hung at 11-1 in support of a second-degree murder conviction. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...
The Orange County, Calif. judge who shot his wife and texted his staff, “I just lost it. I just shot my wife,” clearly murdered her, a prosecutor told a jury Wednesday, asking them to use common sense. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...
Orange County Judge Julian Bailey bullied people of color/women in his courtroom at least 10 times since 2014, new report says
After complaints he tried to influence a prosecutor who saw outbursts, asking her privately if she thought he was racist & sexist
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...
Ninth Circuit case law is squarely on the side of San Francisco and Santa Clara, which sued the Trump administration to protect their immigration “sanctuary” policies, legal scholars told me
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After the Supreme Court weakened a key piece of the Voting Rights Act, voting discrimination cases are not just harder to bring to court but dramatically so, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis and experts who examined the findings. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/v...
