On August 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California issued a significant ruling in Personal Care Products Council v. Bonta, striking down California’s Proposition 65 (“Prop 65”) cancer warning…
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/ Constitutional Law, Toxic Torts
California’s Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, also known as Senate Bill (SB) 54, continues to move forward toward full implementation with the issuance of new guidance documents…
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/ Environmental Law
No one sets out in business to fail, but despite our best efforts, this sometimes occurs. The reasons are multiple and varied: Sometimes there is a change in the industry and the business has not been able to evolve to meet the…
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/ Bankruptcy
California’s Proposition 65 (“Prop. 65”) requires businesses to provide warnings for any products that contain certain levels of chemicals determined by the State of California to cause cancer or reproductive harm. Prop. 65 is…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Environmental Law, Labor & Employment Law
Starting October 1, 2025, California’s Civil Rights Department (CRD) will roll out new regulations on Automated Decision-Making Systems (ADMS). If your reaction is “What in the heck is that?”—congratulations, you're in the…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
On June 30, 2025, Wolfspeed, Inc.— a key player in the semiconductor and power device manufacturing space — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. While the semiconductor sector has generally seen growth, Wolfspeed’s strategic filing…
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/ Bankruptcy, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (“BAP”) has held for the first time that neither sovereign immunity nor the Younger abstention doctrine constrain bankruptcy courts from enjoining State governmental disciplinary…
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/ Bankruptcy, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In the three months since our previous post about major California businesses being targeted with a Proposition 65 (“Prop. 65”) Notice of Violation (“NOV”) for allegedly exposing California customers to Bisphenol S (BPS) in…
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/ Consumer Protection, Environmental Law, Toxic Torts
The 2025 tax bill extends and expands the tax benefits to taxpayers that have capital gain and invest an amount equal to the realized gain to acquire an interest in a “Qualified Opportunity Fund,” which in turn invests in…
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/ Taxation
This seminar will cover the beneficial provisions in the new tax bill applicable to real estate, including:
- the immediate deduction of the cost of fixtures (subject to certain limits)
- the ability to immediately deduct…
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/ Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Taxation
This client alert provides a summary of the major provisions of the new tax bill. To make this extraordinarily complex bill somewhat understandable, we have left off several details and simplified the discussion, so it is…
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/ Education Law, Taxation, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
On June 30, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two budget bills that contained the most significant reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in decades, effective immediately. These changes create an…
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/ Environmental Law, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
On July 1, the California Department of Resources, Recycling, and Recovery (CalRecycle), a California agency tasked with implementing the state’s sustainability laws, released its latest draft of regulations for California…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law
On July 1, 2025, minimum wage increases will go into effect in certain cities and counties in California. In the City of Los Angeles, the minimum wage will increase from $17.28/hour to $17.87/hour. For hotel employees at hotels…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
Beginning on July 1, 2025, temporary and permanent domestic workers (housecleaners, caregivers, and gardeners) employed by companies in California will be covered by state workplace Cal/OSHA safety and health laws. These changes…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
