Bloomberg Law(September 25, 2025)– A California federal judge granted preliminary approval of Anthropic PBC’s $1.5 billion settlement to resolve authors’ copyright class action over the AI company’s downloading of millions of pirated books. Judge William Alsup said the settlement is “fair” and acknowledged potential complications with the claims process given the number of stakeholders. Lawyers … Continued
Reuters (September 25, 2025)– A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, according to the authors’ representatives. The proposed deal marks the first settlement in a string of lawsuits against tech companies … Continued
Los Angeles Times (September 8, 2025) — Despite a court loss and sanctioning by state regulators, California’s home insurer of last resort continues to deny smoke damage claims from the January wildfires — even when toxic substances have been found in homes, according to a Times review of denial letters. The California FAIR Plan Assn. … Continued
Law360 (May 21, 2025) — An Oregon jury held Wednesday that PacifiCorp must pay roughly $50 million to 10 victims of the state’s 2020 Labor Day wildfires, bringing the total damages verdicts in the class action against the Berkshire Hathaway-owned utility to $385 million as more bellwether trials are expected to play out throughout 2025. … Continued
Above The Law (April 17, 2025)– Stanford just announced that their 2L On-Campus Interviewing (OCI) is scheduled from May 5 to 9. That’s not a typo. That means that OCI—the key moment in top law students’ paths where they secure that 2L summer job that leads to an offer after graduation—is happening before students have started their … Continued
Los Angeles Times (April 10, 2025)– Kathleen Jordan, her husband and young daughter, consider themselves fortunate. They not only managed to flee to safety from the Eaton fire, but the family’s Altadena home somehow escaped the flames, even though their chicken coop and detached storage units burned, like many homes on their street. But three … Continued
Law360 (February 11, 2025)– A victim of the recent devastating Eaton Fire in Altadena has told a California state judge that Southern California Edison and its attorneys should face sanctions for allegedly concealing efforts to reenergize electrical transmission lines while the blaze was still burning last month. The argument came in a reply brief filed … Continued
Law.com (February 11, 2025)– Plaintiffs’ firm Edelson PC has threatened sanctions against Southern California Edison and its lawyers for re-energizing transmission lines… Read more here.
Bloomberg Law News (February 11, 2025)– Edison International‘s Southern California utility likely damaged key evidence of its power lines in Eaton Canyon, even as its lawyers told a state judge in Los Angeles the evidence was being preserved, lawyers suing the utility said. A regulatory filing revealed that transmission lines in Eaton Canyon were … Continued
Los Angeles Times (February 11, 2025)– Attorneys representing several Altadena residents who lost homes in the Eaton fire are asking a judge to sanction Southern California Edison, alleging that, by secretly re-energizing transmission lines, the utility may have altered key evidence showing how the deadly fire started. “SCE altered the very transmission lines in Eaton … Continued
