Magistrate Judge Hixson denies the motion to dismiss filed by Judang Team LLC, Perfeos LLC, Jot & Journeys, and their Florida-based founder Antonio Jose Liévano in Meta’s suit alleging an interconnected deceptive advertising scheme that improperly obtained advertising credit lines from Meta.
Magistrate Judge Illman grants the County of Del Norte’s motion to dismiss claims arising from a 2022 vehicular accident on a Del Norte road, holding that plaintiffs failed to comply with California Government Claims Act presentation requirements before suing the County and that estoppel does not ex
Judge Lin dismisses Psynergy Enterprise Developments LLC’s suit against Italian Arabian-horse training center Capecci Arabian Training Center and its principals for lack of personal jurisdiction, holding that the agreement at issue contains no forum-selection clause and the Italian defendants did no
Judge Freeman dismisses pro se plaintiff Sergey Firsov’s claims against Qatar Airways arising from June 2025 schedule changes on his San Francisco-Almaty itinerary, holding that the Montreal Convention preempts his state-law theories and that his federal Convention claim is inadequately pleaded.
Judge Freeman grants in part and denies in part Bayer Healthcare’s motion for review of the Clerk’s taxation of costs in this private antitrust suit, restoring portions of the $1.2 million bill of costs Bayer originally sought as the prevailing party.
Judge Orrick grants summary judgment to individual Cemex defendants and partially to Cemex on after-acquired-evidence grounds related to undisclosed mental health issues on Mr. Sample’s DOT certification, while letting the harassment and hostile-work-environment claims against Cemex proceed.
Judge Gilliam grants in part and denies in part WSP USA Group Insurance Plan’s motion to dismiss transgender plan member Andi Cox’s ERISA challenge to denial of facial gender-affirming surgery, holding her central claims survive while granting WSP’s motions to seal and to incorporate exhibits.
Magistrate Judge DeMarchi denies Owner.com’s motion to dismiss ChowNow’s Lanham Act and California state-law claims for lack of standing and lets most of the substantive claims proceed in this competitor false-advertising and trademark dispute among restaurant-technology platforms.
Magistrate Judge Lee denies plaintiff John Thornhill’s motion to remand his California wage-and-hour class action against McLane Foodservice, Inc., finding that McLane has met its burden to show more than $5 million is at stake under the Class Action Fairness Act.
Judge Breyer enters a third federal pre-filing order against pro se serial litigant Kuang-Bao Paul Ou-Young, requiring him to obtain advance leave of court before filing further in propria persona suits against the U.S. District Court Clerk of Court Mark Busby or any employee of the U.S. Attorney’s
Judge Gilliam remands a putative class action against Delta Dental of California to San Francisco Superior Court for lack of Article III standing, after Delta Dental removed the case based on the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act and immediately moved to dismiss for lack of standing — a
Judge Gilliam dismisses Divyang Ved’s derivative suit on behalf of Spain Fitness Ventures, LP for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, holding that the limited partnership is the real party in interest under Ross v. Bernhard and that its New Jersey citizenship — through Ved as a New Jersey limited p
Judge Martínez-Olguín dismisses with prejudice the freestanding actual innocence claim in Maria Moore’s federal habeas petition challenging her California first-degree murder conviction with special circumstances, holding that the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet recognized a free-standing innocence c
Judge Chen dismisses pregnancy and race discrimination claims against two individual UPS managers, Renee Rea and Omar Parra, holding the First Amended Complaint contains insufficient specific factual allegations to state claims against them while leaving the FEHA, Title VII, and IIED claims against
Judge Donato grants summary judgment for Maximus Grisso and remands the SSA’s denial of his Title II disability insurance benefits, holding that the administrative law judge erred at step two of the five-step sequential evaluation by finding Grisso’s fibromyalgia not a severe impairment.
Judge Lin grants Apple’s motion to stay Telcom Ventures’ patent infringement suit over Apple Pay features pending Patent Trial and Appeal Board inter partes review of two of Telcom’s asserted patents, applying the three-factor framework from PersonalWeb Technologies v. Apple.
Magistrate Judge Cisneros remands a foreclosure-following unlawful detainer action to Alameda County Superior Court for the second time and partially grants attorney’s fees against the pro se removing tenant, holding the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act provides a federal defense, not federal-q
Judge Chesney grants the County of San Mateo’s motion to dismiss and grants in part the dismissal motion of jail medical contractor Vituity in a § 1983 wrongful-death action over the in-custody fentanyl-withdrawal death of Anthony Harding at the Maguire Correctional Facility, while affording leave t
Judge White grants final approval of a class action settlement against Equity Residential resolving claims that its Standard Late Fee (5% of monthly rent, minimum $50) charged to California tenants from October 29, 2022 through April 30, 2024 was unlawful, awarding $430,000 in attorneys’ fees and a
Magistrate Judge Beeler dismisses with prejudice the Title VII and ADEA claims of a 40-year-old Thai-American job applicant who repeatedly applied to Google for driver and management positions, holding he failed to exhaust administrative remedies, and dismisses his § 1981 discrimination claim with o
Magistrate Judge Beeler compels Alclear (the parent of the Clear airport-screening service) to arbitrate the California Labor Code claims of a former San Francisco International Airport ambassador, finding that the company’s Clear Hub electronic transcript proves she signed the arbitration agreement
Judge Breyer denies a pro se plaintiff’s preliminary injunction and dismisses her federal suit asking the Northern District to compel the Contra Costa Superior Court to hear her custody motions, suspend child support, and invalidate her vexatious-litigant designation, applying domestic-relations abs
Judge White certifies for Ninth Circuit interlocutory appeal two questions arising from his earlier denial of Meta’s motion to dismiss in a putative class action alleging Facebook failed to combat scam advertisements: whether Meta’s Terms of Service and Community Standards impose an affirmative anti
Magistrate Judge DeMarchi denies remand of a putative class action by Nixplay digital-photo-frame customers, holding that complete diversity exists between the plaintiffs and Nixplay, Inc. (Delaware/U.K.) and Creedon Technologies USA, LLC (Hong Kong via its sole member), even though defendants’ init