Edvard Pettersson

6 days ago | courthousenews.com | Edvard Pettersson

LOS ANGELES (CN) — An environmental advocacy group prevailed in its legal challenge to a 2023 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service not to list two species of Joshua trees as threatened. U.S. District Judge Wesley Hsu in a tentative decision granted WildEarth Guardians' motion for summary judgment that the federal agency's decision was "arbitrary and capricious" in violation of the Endangered Species Act.

6 days ago | courthousenews.com | Edvard Pettersson

Girardi's attorneys asked for a continuation after their client was taken to an emergency room from the memory care facility where he lives. LOS ANGELES (CN) — An evidentiary hearing set for Thursday to determine whether disgraced plaintiff attorney Tom Girardi is mentally fit to serve time in prison was delayed after the 85-year-old was admitted to the hospital for liver dysfunction.

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Edvard Pettersson

The prosecution against Liming Li is part of the efforts by the federal government's Disruptive Technology Strike Force to prevent hostile countries from illicitly acquiring sensitive U.S. technology. LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Southern California software engineer was sentenced on Thursday to one year and one day in federal prison for stealing his employer's proprietary technology, which prosecutors claim he used to market his own business to a China-based company.

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Edvard Pettersson

LOS ANGELES (CN) — A 23-year-old man from Wisconsin was sentenced to 44 months in federal prison for his part in a week-long "swatting spree," in which he and his collaborators made bogus 911 calls and recorded through hacked door security cameras as armed police descended on unsuspecting residents. Kya Christian Nelson, of Racine, Wisconsin, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles where he had been charged with conspiracy and unauthorized access to protected computers.

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Edvard Pettersson

A rare straight three years of average snowfall or better in the mountains means it's statistically more likely that a dry year isn't far off. (CN) — For the third time in as many years, snowfall in California's Sierra Nevada mountains stood at or above average as the rainy season comes to a close, giving the state a further reprieve from the severe drought conditions that have plagued the West Coast in recent decades.