On Aug. 31, 2026, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) announced that it is once again issuing Diversity Immigrant Visas (DVs), following a federal court order in Medani et al. v. Trump et al. that halted the government’s December 2025
Author: Luis Blanquez
The class chapters of the Google Play fight are closing. A federal court gave final approval in 2026 to the $700 million settlement resolving the claims of consumers and a coalition of state attorneys general. Small
In Camp v. Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, No. 25-cv-06199-AMO, 2026 WL 2608200 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 3, 2026), Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied Plaintiff’s motion for judgment and
The charges against Mark D. Hanf and Hoai-Nam Chu Phan at the California-based Pacific Private Money Group LLC looked liked a fairly regular investment scheme gone bad, turned into a Ponzi-scheme. They raised capital with the intent of making real
San Francisco is facing three lawsuits in Superior Court (the local trial court) challenging its recent efforts to implement state housing legislation, on different legal theories and from different ends of the NIMBY/YIMBY spectrum. The outcome of any one of
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Mark D. Hanf, the former CEO of Novato, California-based Pacific Private Money Group LLC (PPMG), and Hoai-Nam Chu Phan, the former COO of a PPMG subsidiary, with orchestrating an offering fraud that…
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Mark Cassanego, J. Craig Crawford, Edward Willig, and John McCauley join the firm
San Francisco (August 31, 2026) – San Francisco-based law firm Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP is pleased to announce that attorneys Mark A. Cassanego, J. Craig
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic
Per this recent report, Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic in a Northern California federal court, accusing it of unlawfully downloading and scraping copyrighted songs
