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This evening on Less than 1: an Orange County judge takes under submission whether the Supreme Court's recent decision narrowing the federal Voting Rights Act could doom a challenge to Huntington Beach's at-large elections under California's own voting rights law — with a UCLA expert warning the state statute could face a very serious constitutional challenge. And: a defense attorney urges a feder...

This evening on Less than 1: Los Angeles city attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto appears to concede defeat as Marissa Roy and John McKinney head toward a November runoff — plus two Bay Area incumbent DAs cruise to early leads in races watched statewide. Also: House Republicans advance a constitutional amendment to cap the Supreme Court at nine justices, and the L.A. City Council moves to delay a state...

This morning on Less than 1: early returns show incumbent Los Angeles city attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto trailing in Tuesday's primary — but thousands of ballots remain uncounted. Also: a federal magistrate judge rules Meta's lawyer communications privileged in the state AGs' case, law professors are found to prefer AI answers to those written by peers, and a California Democrat introduces a bill...

This evening on Less than 1: Irico Group seeks to escape a potential $7 billion default judgment in decades-old cathode ray tube price-fixing litigation — plus a California appeals court reverses a $43 million judgment in a 19-year wage-and-hour class action, and Monday's landmark RJA rulings set off a turf war between the courts and the Legislature. Also: the Trump administration abandons its $1....

This morning on Less than 1: defendants in the Palisades Fire litigation challenge plaintiffs' expanded liability theories — plus a DOJ audit faults the Orange County DA's office over federal victim-services grant oversight. Also: Trump signs an executive order asking AI companies to voluntarily submit models to the government ahead of release, and the White House proposes sweeping new political c...

This evening on Less than 1: the California Supreme Court issues four opinions clarifying and narrowing how courts should implement the Racial Justice Act — plus Judge Dolly Gee threatens to reappoint an independent monitor in the long-running Flores litigation, closing arguments wrap in the Grossman wrongful-death civil trial, and Seagate reaches a $175 million settlement over its ties to Huawei....

This morning on Less than 1: Keker, Van Nest & Peters names R. James Slaughter as managing partner, as closing arguments begin in the wrongful-death civil trial against Rebecca Grossman — plus the Supreme Court asks the Trump administration to weigh in on the Robinhood IPO class action dispute. Also: Anthropic files confidentially for what could be one of the largest IPOs ever, and a California ap...

This evening on Less than 1: the California Supreme Court limits blanket attempts to disqualify judges, ruling courts can now reject bad-faith Section 170.6 motions. Also: a federal magistrate signals she may sanction a bellwether plaintiff in the Uber sexual assault MDL for misleading discovery — and flags possible AI-hallucinated case citations as an additional basis. And: Yolo County opens a pu...

This morning on Less than 1: a federal judge in Los Angeles hears arguments in a proposed class action accusing Spotify of knowingly allowing bot-driven streaming fraud that plaintiffs say artificially inflated Drake's play counts and diluted royalties for other artists. Also: a couple displaced by the Eaton Fire sues their landlords in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging the defendants ch...

This evening on Less than 1: Morgan & Morgan and Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi file a putative class action in Orange County over the GKN Aerospace chemical emergency that forced fifty thousand Garden Grove residents to evacuate — the third lawsuit filed against the aerospace company this week. Also: California Attorney General Rob Bonta sues the company formerly known as 23andMe, alleging it conceal...

This morning on Less than 1: a Colorado venture capital firm sues California over a law requiring firms to report demographic data on the founders they fund, arguing it violates the First and 14th Amendments — plus a federal judge moves to end the court-mandated monitorship of the Oakland Police Department after more than two decades. Also: the Supreme Court rules unanimously that last-mile delive...

This evening on Less than 1: more than two dozen states press claims that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube designed their platforms to fuel adolescent addiction, with an Oakland trial set for this summer — plus a federal judge finds Meta's ad-auction agreements ambiguous enough to let a breach-of-contract suit proceed, and retired appellate Justice Halim Dhanidina is named dean of Western State Coll...

This morning on Less than 1: California moves to dismiss the federal government's lawsuit over its clean car rules for lack of standing — plus the downtown Los Angeles federal courthouse set to be renamed for the Mendez family, whose 1945 desegregation case helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education, a federal judge poised to hear a challenge to California's race-based Black Infant Health...

This evening on Less than 1: Quinn Emanuel ordered to pay three million dollars in sanctions after a special master found a pattern of misconduct spanning an entire litigation team — plus the Erika Girardi lawsuit over alleged Girardi Keese fund transfers dismissed on the eve of trial, the DOJ suing UCLA over its handling of antisemitic harassment following October 7th, and why cybersecurity may b...

This morning on Less than 1: three personal injury firms join forces to pursue claims against GKN Aerospace over the Garden Grove chemical emergency that placed up to 50,000 Orange County residents under evacuation and shelter-in-place orders — plus AI-generated filings straining federal courts, overseas military voters losing a key fax lifeline, and questions emerging about an AI tool being teste...

This evening on Less than 1: twenty women sue San Francisco County Jail over alleged cross-gender strip searches and body-camera filming in violation of the sheriff's own policies — plus federal legislation backed by Uber that could limit rideshare liability for crashes and assaults, five Newsom appellate picks confirmed despite rare public opposition, Berkeley Law's sweeping new ban on student AI...

This morning on Less than 1: Prologis fights to undo an $8.8 million odor verdict as plaintiffs say the post-trial motions are just relitigating what a jury already decided — plus AT&T sues California to drop its copper landline obligations, the Trump administration moves to take equity stakes in quantum computing firms, and California joins a multistate suit challenging new federal loan restricti...

This evening on Less than 1: Apple takes its App Store fight to the Supreme Court, challenging both a contempt ruling and the scope of a nationwide injunction won by Epic Games — plus Google argues a $32.5 million patent verdict can't stand without expert testimony the trial judge threw out, L.A. settles with a short-term rental company over wildfire rent-gouging, and Disney faces a class action o...

This morning on Less than 1: the Supreme Court revives a multibillion-dollar suit against four cruise lines over confiscated Cuban port facilities, Governor Newsom signs an executive order preparing California for AI-driven job losses, and San Diego County agrees to overhaul medical and dental care across its jails — plus the Court dismisses a closely watched death penalty case on intellectual dis...

Tonight on Less than 1: California AG Rob Bonta seeks more money to keep fighting the Trump administration, George Cardona is reappointed State Bar chief trial counsel, Cal State agrees to a $12 million harassment settlement, and seven Jewish UCLA faculty join the DOJ's antisemitism suit against the UC Regents — plus California air-taxi rivals Joby and Archer trade lawsuits. Stories mention in tod...

This morning on Less than 1: Palisades fire plaintiffs allege new discovery violations by California State Parks, and Blank Rome reunites a public-private partnership team with two new partners in Los Angeles -- plus L.A. County's post-fire rent-gouging ban heads toward expiration after supervisors decline to extend it, and a Bay Area customer sues Fashion Nova over early-morning marketing texts....

Tonight on Less than 1: Snap, TikTok, and YouTube settle with the first bellwether plaintiff in the social media addiction MDL -- leaving Meta to face trial next month -- and the Pac-12 and Mountain West reach a tentative deal in their realignment fight; plus a Second District panel revives an Unruh Act suit against a former law professor, L.A. County votes to launch its first ethics commission, a...

This morning on Less than 1: a state judicial commission publicly admonishes an L.A. Superior Court judge over voir dire remarks about jurors' English skills, and UCLA faces a demurrer hearing in Pasadena's suit to enforce the Rose Bowl lease -- plus San Francisco's public-bank push, the Supreme Court letting Medicare drug-price negotiations stand, and a new SCOTUS grant on Title IX's reach into t...

Tonight on Less than 1: the SEC scraps its 1972 "no-deny" settlement rule, Kirkland faces a disqualification bid over pre-suit talks with a prospective plaintiff, and a Skid Row voter-registration scheme draws federal charges — plus the death of O.J. Simpson trial witness Mark Fuhrman, a right-to-repair suit against John Deere, and the Trump administration's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund....

On Less than 1 this morning: Palisades Fire plaintiffs accuse the state of withholding "smoldering roots" texts that they say show the fire reignited from an earlier blaze, and a court orders Huntington Beach to pay escalating fines for defying California's Housing Element Law — plus LA's new dashboard ranking the city's most problematic rental properties, California's fast food council goes a yea...