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April 2021 Central District of California Covid Updates Covid-19 Update: Effective March 22, 2021, all Courthouses of the Central District of California are open to persons with court business and subject to all posted restrictions. Hearings in emergency civil matters and criminal matters may proceed in court at the discretion of the assigned judge. Hearings in other matters will continue to proceed by video and telephonic conference.  There are still no civil or criminal jury trials, but the Court has… Read more

Antitrust And Unfair Competition Law E-Brief, News and Notes: April 2021 Read more

Antitrust Division, US DOJ Richard A. Powers Named Acting Assistant Attorney General On February 8, 2021, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Powers was designated Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. Health Care Staffing Company and Executive Indicted for Colluding to Suppress Wages of School Nurses, March 30, 2021A federal grand jury in Las Vegas, Nevada, returned an indictment charging VDA OC LLC (formerly Advantage On Call LLC), a health care staffing company, and Ryan Hee, a former… Read more

Over the last several months I have heard several presentations by Richard Powers, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice, addressing the protocol of interactions between counsel representing parties and the staff at the Antitrust Division. Read more

The Federal Trade Commission filed an administrative complaint and authorized a federal court lawsuit to block Illumina’s $7.1 billion proposed acquisition of GRAIL, Inc. Read more

In a recent order, Judge Anne-Christine Massullo of the San Francisco Superior Court granted a motion for preliminary approval of Sutter Health’s $575 million settlement in the long-standing antitrust class action intended by the UFCW & Employers Benefit Trust (UEBT) and the State of California, UFCW & Employers Benefit Trust v. Sutter Health, et al., Case No. CSG 14-538451 (Cal. Sup. Ct. San Francisco. Read more

Recent Family Law Cases
[Opinions available at: http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions-slip.htm] Read more

As businesses become more reliant on technology, when found litigating in California, businesses will find that a larger share of potentially relevant evidence is digital or electronically stored information (“ESI”). Read more

Lawyers are not strangers to online criticism and are faced with a unique set of ethical concerns when evaluating the proper response to online posts that are uncomplimentary, inaccurate, or untrue. Read more

Today’s collaboration data landscape is almost unrecognizable to what it was in the recent past. Read more