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Amber S. Finch (L) and Jessica Gopiao (R) of Reed Smith. Courtesy photos Hurricanes are supposed to be a Florida problem. For decades, homeowners along the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic seaboard have lived with the annual ritual of hurricane season: boarding up windows, reviewing evacuation routes, and, crucially, pulling out their insurance policies to figure out what is and isn’t covered when a storm makes landfall.

California Superior Court, San Francisco. Credit: S. Todd Rogers/Law.com A state appellate court on Tuesday declined to dive into the broad reaches of a debate over taxpayers’ standing to sue over court delays, finding the circumstances that spawned the original lawsuit no longer exist. The First District Court of Appeal held that the issue at the heart of Raju v.

Allison Kendrick (L) and David Lassen (R), partners at McGuireWoods. Courtesy photos McGuireWoods has recruited former Boeing lawyers to its aviation litigation and product liability practice in Seattle, the firm announced Wednesday. David Lassen joins McGuireWoods as a partner after four years at Boeing, where he co-managed product liability litigation for the company's civil and military programs before departing in June.

Flock camera. Credit: Sebastianc/Adobe Stock Automated license place readers are emerging as a new privacy battleground for litigation nationwide and overwhelmingly in one specific state, experts say. There is no current federal law regulating the technology, but Washington, D.C., and two dozen states have laws on the books pertaining to the automated license plate readers (ALPRs), according to the New York University Law School's Policing Project.

Walmart's Great Value Refined Avocado Oil. Photo for reference only. Courtesy photo Class actions are piling up accusing food companies of falsely marketing their products as made with pure avocado oil in the wake of a study showing that many avocado oil products contain other oils, underscoring the risks of making strong, highly specific product claims. Law.com Radar recently picked up two such lawsuits in federal courts.

Perkins-Coie-Sign Ashurst Perkins Coie is facing a lawsuit in the state of Washington over its former representation of now-defunct real estate investment fund iCap Enterprises, alleging the firm aided and abetted fraud. While Ashurst Perkins Coie is the named defendant in the complaint, the allegations are solely against Perkins Coie, as they occurred prior to the closing of Perkins Coie's trans-Atlantic merger with Ashurst in November 2025.

Kings County Superior Court Judge Kendra Weber. Courtesy photo State prosecutors on Monday charged a Kings County judge with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter following a collision that occurred one year ago outside the city of Lemoore. The one-paragraph complaint filed in Kings County Superior Court against Judge Kendra Weber said only that the jurist, appointed by Gov.

A photograph submitted with the criminal complaint against Nathaniel McGuire showing the damage that law enforcement described as caused by an improvised explosive device that detonated outside a courtroom in a Santa Maria courthouse on Sept. 25, 2024. Image from court documents A Santa Maria man has agreed to plead guilty to detonating a bomb in a Santa Barbara County courthouse in 2024, according to an agreement with prosecutors filed in the U.S. District Court for California’s Central District.

Gov. Gavin Newsom at a press conference announcing Rob Bonta as his pick for Attorney. Photo: Jason Doiy/Law.com California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the most robust legislation regulating children's artificial intelligence chatbot and social media use in the U.S. to date on Thursday. The bills could prove to be a national blueprint for children's online safety amid a recent slate of watershed state-led actions targeting Big Tech's alleged harms to minors. AB 1709, which goes into effect on Jan.

Q&ALitigation Suh has discovered that the skills required to succeed on the racetrack are remarkably similar to those needed in the courtroom. 5 minute read September 14, 2026 at 01:30 PM Maurice Suh of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Courtesy photo During the week, Maurice Suh represents some of the biggest names in sports, handling high-stakes disputes for elite athletes, teams, and global brands, including winning landmark matters on behalf of Nike and Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles.