Magistrate Judge Hixson grants in part Mixedbread AI’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, dismissing AI startup co-founder Julius Lipp’s conversion and California Penal Code § 496 claims under the economic loss rule, while leaving the breach-of-contract counts intact.
Judge Breyer adopts a magistrate’s report and recommendation dismissing pro se plaintiff Chikodi Chima’s second federal lawsuit against 26 defendants — lawyers, social workers, police, financial institutions, and the City and County of San Francisco — arising from a state-court child custody dispute
Magistrate Judge Tse declines to tax costs against Vincent Bryant — an unhoused plaintiff now in a vegetative state after being shot in the face by Berkeley police — applying all five Ninth Circuit factors that justify departing from the Rule 54(d)(1) presumption favoring the prevailing party.
Judge Orrick grants summary judgment for Comerica Bank on its acceleration of a $5.9 million commercial real estate loan to Alexander Group, LLC, holding that the loan documents are unambiguous and that Alexander Group triggered acceleration by missing payments and failing to provide required corpor
Judge Illston transfers a Social Security ALJ’s disability-accommodation suit against the SSA Commissioner to the Central District of California, where the plaintiff’s assigned hearing office is located, applying the federal-employee venue provisions of Title VII and the Rehabilitation Act and the c
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.