Alaina Lancaster

November 02, 2020 | The Recorder

A handful of legal services groups claim that a rule issued Oct. 21 violates asylum seekers' constitutional rights and impairs the groups' ability to serve clients in the lawsuit filed Monday in the Northern District of California.

By Alaina Lancaster

3 minute read

October 30, 2020 | The Recorder

"Instead of doing only the bare minimum to support enforcement of anti-discrimination protections, the Trump Administration is going in the opposite direction—obstructing state and local civil rights agencies along the way," said California Xavier Attorney General Becerra in a statement.

By Alaina Lancaster

3 minute read

October 30, 2020 | The Recorder

Developing case law has shown that there are now many potential avenues available for petitioners to show that institution of IPR petitions would be proper despite the existence of an early district court trial date.

By Louis Campbell, Mike Tomasulo and Kevin Boyle

7 minute read

October 29, 2020 | The Recorder

Matthew Borden of San Francisco-based BraunHagey & Borden helped win an injunction that was affirmed at the Ninth Circuit. But Borden says the case isn't over yet.

By Alaina Lancaster

7 minute read

October 28, 2020 | The Recorder

The requested temporary restraining order would have required the ridesharing company to inform all California drivers that it would not use any information it had gathered about how drivers plan to vote on Proposition 22 against them.

By Alaina Lancaster

3 minute read

October 28, 2020 | The Recorder

My uncle has spent 25 years in prison because of California's Three Strike's Law. Advocates of Proposition 20 want to keep him there longer.

By Markie Flores

6 minute read

October 28, 2020 | The Recorder

Cris Armenta of Armenta & Sol in San Diego is representing 15 "conservative" YouTubers who claim the platform violated their contractual and constitutional rights when it removed their content as part of an initiative to clear the cite of QAnon videos and other "harmful" conspiracy theories. Unlike previous content moderations suits that have flopped in the face of Section 230, Armenta says her complaint takes a different approach.

By Alaina Lancaster

8 minute read

October 28, 2020 | Law.com

Does a fresh First Amendment fight have a tactic to survive Section 230?

By Alaina Lancaster

11 minute read

October 26, 2020 | The Recorder

The litigation is the latest to hit Big Tech as some consumers apply more pressure to moderate misinformation and hate speech on social media in the runup to the election, while others call for an end to internet companies' protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

By Alaina Lancaster

3 minute read

October 26, 2020 | The Recorder

In the two separate lawsuits, Uber drivers claim that the company is pressuring them to support Proposition 22 and that its star rating system is discriminatory against nonwhite drivers.

By Alaina Lancaster

4 minute read