Magistrate Judge Beeler resolves four discovery disputes in Oracle’s trade-secret suit against Procore over construction-payment software, holding that Oracle’s 174-file disclosure is sufficiently particular, financial discovery extends beyond Procore Pay, and Procore must search text messages on em
Judge Chen awards Food & Water Watch and its co-plaintiffs $5,263,705 in attorneys’ fees and $496,745 in costs after their landmark Toxic Substances Control Act trial verdict on water-fluoridation risks against EPA, applying San Francisco complex-litigation lodestar rates and a 1.3x multiplier
Judge Donato grants summary judgment for Alameda County and jail medical staff in a pretrial detainee’s § 1983 case alleging denial of pain medication (Gabapentin) and interference with legal mail, holding that providing Cymbalta and a documented treatment course met the objective deliberate-indiffe
Judge Martínez-Olguín dismisses a putative wage-and-hour class action by a public-transit bus driver, holding that his California Labor Code claims are preempted by Section 301 of the LMRA because the CBA between MV Transportation and Teamsters Local 315 triggers the statutory exemptions for unioniz
Judge Martínez-Olguín grants MV Transportation’s motion for judgment on the pleadings in the parallel PAGA action by the same WestCAT bus driver, holding that the Section 301 preemption analysis applies just the same to a PAGA representative action as it does to a class wage-and-hour suit.
Judge Breyer dismisses with prejudice a pro se plaintiff’s second-round constitutional suit attacking the NLRB’s denial of a 2021 labor grievance, holding that there is no waiver of sovereign immunity, no private right of action under the Tenth Amendment, and no Bivens remedy in this novel context.
Judge Lin denies remand in a Song-Beverly suit over a 2019 GMC Sierra, applying the majority Ninth Circuit rule that a vague lemon-law complaint without vehicle-value allegations does not start the 30-day removal clock and finding the amount in controversy easily exceeds $75,000 once the willful-vio
Judge Gilliam declines interlocutory review of a Bankruptcy Court ruling that the PSLRA’s automatic discovery stay does not shield non-party Directors and Underwriters from third-party subpoenas served by claimants in the PG&E bankruptcy, even though the Directors and Underwriters are also defe
Judge Tigar dismisses with prejudice a pro se plaintiff’s sweeping claims that her prompts to ChatGPT created trade secrets and copyrights that OpenAI then commercialized in its Study Together, Deep Research Agent, and ChatGPT Agent features, holding that none of the claims plausibly states a basis
Judge Gilliam denies a pro se TRO that would have blocked a January 6, 2026 sheriff’s sale of plaintiffs’ Pennsylvania home, holding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine likely strips the court of jurisdiction to invalidate the underlying state-court foreclosure judgment, and warning the litigants — who