(Subscription required) All four encouraged lawyers to avoid unnecessary conflict, to focus their presentations on what judges need to make their decisions and to remember the end goal is to get their case settled or tried.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to place on hold a dispute over California's standards for vehicle emissions and electric cars even as President Donald Trump's administration considers policy shifts that touch upon pending litigation at the nation's highest judicial body.

A judge says a Bay Area journalist acted innocently and legally in reporting that a tech executive had been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, even though his arrest record had been sealed by police – which, under California law, makes it illegal to disclose the content of the sealed document.

The Sixth District Court of Appeal has held that an employment arbitration agreement providing that the proceedings would be administered under the rules established by JAMS—the world’s largest private arbitration service—was not unconscionable for failing to allow for necessary prehearing third-party discovery, saying the applicable guidelines must be interpreted broadly to allow the arbitrator to order the depositions the plaintiff seeks.