Nov 05, 2024
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Lawyer, Who Might Become a Defendant, Can’t Represent Himself

The State Bar of California adopted its Rules of Professional Conduct (CRPC) to regulate the behavior of lawyers who would be subject to discipline for willful violations. When a lawyer threatened to use the personal, confidential information he had obtained in a previous case against a former client who was... Read More »

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CA Supreme Court Rules Physician Group Can Sue Aetna for Unfair Competition

This week, the California Supreme Court ruled that organizations may have standing to sue under California’s Unfair Competition Law. The decision re-opened a lawsuit brought by the California Medical Association against Aetna for alleged anti-competitive conduct. The case titled California Medical Association v. Aetna Health of California, Inc. concerned the... Read More »

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Jury Orders J&J to Pay Cancer Patient $18.8M in Baby Powder Lawsuit

A jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $18.8 million to a California man who said the company's popular talc-based baby powder caused him to develop cancer. Twenty-four-year-old Emory Hernandez Valadez filed his lawsuit last year in California state court against the pharmaceutical and consumer manufacturer accusing it of... Read More »