Cheryl Miller

1 week ago | law.com | Cheryl Miller

A Santa Barbara County judge has accepted a severe public censure and will step down from the bench later this year after reaching an agreement with the state's judicial discipline agency. Superior Court Judge Michael Carrozzo was facing a disciplinary trial and possible removal from office on charges that he moonlighted as an attorney for a judicial secretary, a woman he would later marry.

1 week ago | law.com | Cheryl Miller

California's Supreme Court will weigh the future of "headless" PAGA actions, a strategy some litigants use to keep Labor Code lawsuits out of arbitration. The high court late Wednesday ordered review, on its own motion, of Leeper v. Shipt, a case out of the Second District Court of Appeal's Division One.

1 week ago | law.com | Cheryl Miller

Who Got The Work J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.

1 week ago | law.com | Cheryl Miller

As California's Supreme Court weighs a lawsuit seeking to expand the use of electronic courtroom recording, court reporters have taken their fight against the practice to the Legislature. The union representing many court-employed stenographers is sponsoring AB 882, which would temporarily allow limited electronic recording in courtrooms.

2 weeks ago | law.com | Cheryl Miller

California state lawmakers killed a bill Tuesday that would have allowed victims of climate-change-fueled natural disasters to sue the oil industry for damages. The Senate Judiciary Committee rejected SB 222 by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco after heavy opposition from oil companies, business lobbies and labor groups representing oil and gas industry workers drove many of the majority Democrats on the panel to vote no.