(Subscription required) “The court’s order specifically recognized civility was not just a moral good but an aspect of attorney skill. Ample evidence supports the court’s reduction of the lodestar to account for plaintiff’s counsel’s skill given his incivility toward opposing counsel and the court,” Justice Anne H. Egerton wrote in an Oct. 2 unpublished opinion for the three-judge panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 3.

(Subscription required) Santa Clara County Judge Frederick S. Chung found that the plaintiffs’ attorneys failed to adequately respond to interrogatories from the attorneys for the Garlic Festival — Maureen C. O’Hara and Stephan Choo of Ropers Majeski PC.

(Subscription required) “The evidence for this case not only showed that there was no manufacturing defect, but that the design was robust, safe, and in fact, Autopilot is making our road safer,” said Tesla’s lead attorney in this case, Michael R. Carey of Dykema Gossett PLLC in Minneapolis.

A judge has granted a preliminary injunction preventing water diversions that would dry up the river, requiring sufficient water to provide for fish and keep the Kern flowing in the city. “This is really a reason to celebrate,” said Kelly Damian, a spokesperson for the group Bring Back the Kern. “This is going to have such a positive long-term impact on the city, on the community, on the future for our town.”