California Intellectual Property Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Paul Ricahrd Randall </h2> </center>
Santa Ana, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1349, wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343, and cocealment of money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1956(a)(1)(B)(i). Paul Richard Randall, 67, of Orange, California, along with pharmacist and pharmacy owner Kyrollos Mekail, 38, of Moreno Vall... More...
$ (09-10-2026 - CA)<h2> <center> United States ex rel. Jahr, et al., v. Tetra Tech EC, Inc. </h2> </center>
San Francisco, Californian qui tam lawyers represented the United States in a False Claims Action. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Arthur R. Jahr III, Elbert G. Bowers, Susan V. Andrews, Archie R. Jackson, Anthony Smith, Donald K. Wadsworth, and Robert McLean, former employees and contractors... More...
$ (08-25-2026 - CA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Richard Tillman </h2> </center>
San Jose, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with malicious destruction of government property by fire (arson). Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Richard Tillman, 45, was indicted by a federal grand jury on August 7, 2025. Tillman pleaded guilty to one count of... More...
$ (06-19-2026 - CA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Joyce Turner </h2> </center>
Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining FEMA disaster relief money. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Joyce Turner, 56, of Rosharon, Texas, submitted a fraudulent disaster benefits application to FEMA, falsely claiming she li... More...
$ (06-19-2026 - CA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Victor Hugo Villalobos Almazan and Nayeli Noemi Montoya Rodriguez </h2> </center>
San Diego, California criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with bank fraud. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Victor Hugo Villalobos Almazan and his wife, Nayeli Noemi Montoya Rodriguez, Mexican nationals entered the United States on tourist visas. They posed as legitim... More...
$ (06-18-2026 - CA)<h2> </center> United States of America v. Oladapo Olagbemi </h2> </center>
San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aiding an assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns. Reported by: <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Oladapo Olagbemi, age 72, of San Diego, prepared false Schedules 1, C, and E accompanying his client’s in... More...
$ (06-09-2026 - CA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Tyler Robert Buchanan </h2> </center>
Santa Ana, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. From September 2021 to April 2023, Tyler Robert Buchanan, 24, of Dundee, Scotland, and other individuals conspired to conduct cyber intrusions and virtual currency thefts. The victims and intended victims included interactive entertainment companie... More...
$ (04-19-2026 - CA)<h2> <center> State of California v. Alflya Zuckerman, Rubein Tamrzaian, Valie Muradkhanyan, Ararat Chirkinians </h2> </center>
Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with aggravated white-collar crime, presenting a false insurance claim and destroying insured property. Alfiya Zuckerman, 39, of Valley Village and Ruben Tamrazian, 26, Vahe Muradkhanyan, 32, and Ararat Chirkinian, 39, all of Glendale, were charged with multiple felonies including aggravated white-collar crime... More...
$ (04-17-2026 - CA)United States of America v. Daren Li
Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with International Money Laundering. Daren Li, 42, is a fugitive after cutting off his ankle electronic monitoring device and absconding in December 2025. He was sentenced by United States District Judge R. Gary Klausner, who will determine restitution at a later date. Li pleaded guilty in November 2024 to one... More...
$ (02-17-2026 - CA)United States of America v. Richard Tillman
San Jose, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with malicious destruction of government property by fire (arson). Richard Tillman, age 44, admitted that he intentionally set the fire in order to “make a point to the United States government.” In preparation for the fire, Tillman purchased firelogs and lighter fluid. He then drove to the Post Office with fir... More...
$ (02-16-2026 - CA)United States of America v. Robert Jordan
Sacramento, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. On Oct. 1, 2024, law enforcement officers conducted a traffic stop on a silver Infiniti SUV with no license plates that Robert Jordan, 52, of Stockton, was driving. In the location where the license plates should have been, the SUV instead had a laminated piece of pap... More...
$ (02-09-2026 - CA)The People of the State of California v. Heidy Nickolt Trujillo, Camilo Antonio Aguliar Lara, Sergio Andres Meji-Machuca and Manuel David Ibarra
Ventura, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit commercial burglary and two counts of conspiracy to receive stolen property. Heidy Nickolt Trujillo, 25, Camilo Antonio Aguliar Lara, 31, Sergio Andres Meji-Machuca, 27, and Manuel David Ibarra, 37, were accused of burglarizing a jewelry store and stealing $3... More...
$ (01-21-2026 - CA)<H2> United States of America v. Peter Karasev
San Jose, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged wittwo counts of willful destruction of an energy facility related to two separate bombings of PG&E electrical transformers in late 2022 and early 2023. U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman handed down the sentence. “Peter Karasev’s attacks on critical infrastructure were direct threats to public safety and n... More...
$ (12-18-2025 - CA)The People of the State of California v. Dwight Rhone
San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Rhone is already in custody, and charged with murder in the 2023 death of Bernardo Moreno, 54, whose body was found burning near a freeway. Investigators are searching for human remains on his property.... More...
$ (12-05-2025 - CA)Carlos Pena v. City of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a taking claim.<br> <br> When an armed fugitive barricaded himself inside Plaintiff-Appellant Carlos Pena's print shop, officers of the<br> Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) pursued the armed fugitive inside Pena's store and damaged Pena's property.<br> As Pena acknowledges, the officers acted reasonably and lawfully i... More...
$0 (11-10-2025 - CA)<h1> United States of America v. Cody Holmes, Steven Taylor </h1></h1>
Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Fraud in Public Homelessness Funds, seven counts of bank fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and one count of money laundering.<br> <br> Federal law enforcement today announced the arrest of the former chief financial officer at a downtown Los Angeles-based developer of affordable housing and crimin... More...
$0 (10-16-2025 - CA)<h1> United States of America v. Jonathan Rinderknecht, a.k.a. “Jonathan Rinder,†and “Jon Rinder,†</h1></h1>
Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with destruction of property by means of fire.<br> <br> A former Pacific Palisades resident now living in Florida has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with maliciously starting what eventually became the Palisades Fire of January 2025, one of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles his... More...
$0 (10-08-2025 - CA)<h1> United States of America v. Casey Robert Goonan </h1></h1>
San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Firebombing University Police Car And Attempting To Firebomb Oakland Federal Building<br> <br> Casey Robert Goonan was sentenced today to 235 months in federal prison for committing a series of arsons and firebombings at the University of California, Berkeley and the Oakland federal building in June 2024. Sen... More...
$0 (09-23-2025 - CA)The People of the State of California v. Raymond Lynde
San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.<br> <br> Raymond Lynde, who was convicted by a jury in May of second-degree murder, had just been<br> released from 12-year prison sentence for a string of armed robberies in Orange County when he<br> ambushed Ariel Burquez, 23, outside of an apartment complex in Chula Vista. Lynde stabbed<br> Burquez 28 ... More...
$0 (09-19-2025 - CA)<h1> United States of America v. Andrew Kyle White </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Twice Illegally Landed Airplane on Navy Base, Stole Truck and Damaged Gates P </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> San Diego Man Who Twice Illegally Landed Airplane on Navy Base, Stole Truck and Damaged Gates Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges</... More...
$0 (09-15-2025 - CA)Anna Biani v. Showtime Networks, Inc., et al.
Los Angeles, California intellectual property lawyers represented the parties in a copyrights infringement dispute.<br> <br> The panel held that to state a claim for copyright infringement, a plaintiff must plausibly allege that she owns a valid copyright, and the defendant copied protected aspects of her work. The second prong contains two separate components: factual copying and unlawful appropr... More...
$0 (09-08-2025 - CA)Richard Fox Emmons, Jr. v. Tobias Jesso, Jr.
Los Angeles, California commercial litigation lawyers represented the parties in a landlord and tenant dispute.<br> <br> n April2015, tenant entered into a written lease agreement for the lower level of 2500 Lake View Avenue for $1,000 per month. In 2016, landlord purchased the property.<br> <br> In March 2018, landlord received an order from the city saying the unit he was renting to tenant was ... More...
$0 (08-28-2025 - CA)<h1> United States of America v. Salvador Vega Rendon Jr. </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Sacramento, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Stanislaus County Man Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Possessing Fent... More...
$0 (08-26-2025 - CA)<h1> United States of America v. Robert “Bobby†Salazar </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Sacramento, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with arson of commercial property and arson in furtherance of a felony for directing a motorcycle gang member to set fire to an underperforming restaurant property </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Fresno Restaurant Operator Charged with Hiring a... More...
$0 (08-26-2025 - CA)Lance Hara, f/k/a Vicky Vox v. Netflix, Inc., et al.
Los Angeles, California intellectual property lawyers represented the parties in a Lanham Act case.<br> <br> This case presents a straightforward, but nonetheless novel, question of law: In light of the Supreme Court's<br> narrow decision in Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC, 599 U.S. 140 (2023), does the Rogers test<br> apply to a trademark infringement claim involving an animate... More...
$0 (07-28-2025 - CA)Doctor's Best, Inc. v. Nature's Way Products, LLC
Los Angeles and Glendale, California and Milwaukee, Wisconsin intellectual property lawyers represented the parties in a declaratory judgment and trademark infringement case.<br> <br> Nature's Way owned the U.S. trademark "Nature's<br> Way†for use on its nutritional supplements. Doctor's Best,<br> a competitor, developed a new line of branded supplements,<br> "Nature's Day,†and sough... More...
$0 (07-19-2025 - CA)United States of America v. Rami Ghanem
Laguna Niguel and San Diego, California criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with exporting military equipment from the United States to Lybia including acquiring, transporting, and use of surface-to-air missiles in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2332g.<br> <br> After undercover federal agents conducted a sting<br> operation in which Defendant Rami Ghanem sought to<br> export mi... More...
$0 (07-17-2025 - CA)<h1> United States of America v. Joseph Huffaker </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit extortion, extortion, conspiracy to falsify records in a federal investigation, falsifying records in a federal investigation, conspiracy to impersonate a federal officer, and impersonating a federal officer. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><... More...
$0 (07-11-2025 - CA)United States of America v. Ryan Beau Patrick Barry
Los Angles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with several counts of possession with intent to distribute the narcotics found in his car and apartment under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(i); and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g... More...
$0 (06-17-2025 - CA)<h1> United States of America v. Antonietta Nguyen </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Embezzling Over $9 Million From Company </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former CFO Of Sf Seafood Wholesaler Convicted For Embezzling Over $9 Million From Company</h2></center></b></b></center></b><br> <br> A federal jury yesterday con... More...
$0 (06-13-2025 - CA)Chong Pak v. Claire Dixon
Oakland, California civil litigation lawyers represented the parties in a commercial lease dispute.<br> <br> Plaintiff Chong Pak owns a warehouse property at 2825 West Street in Oakland. He filed this action against one James Koch, alleged to be a commercial tenant of the property with a three-year lease. Pak alleged that in violation of the lease and local law, the property was being used for re... More...
$0 (05-19-2025 - CA)<h1> United States of America v. Deanniah Hogan, Delvonne Dashon Johnson, Keandre Lowe, Zenalyn McIntre, Katrina Woods </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Fraudulent Claims Seeking FEMA Funds for Wildfire Disaster Relief </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> 5 Defendants Arrested on Complaints Alleging They Submitted Fraudulent Claims Seeking FEMA Funds for Wildfire Disaster Relief</h2></ce... More...
$0 (04-25-2025 - CA)<h1> United States of America v. Tony’s Auto Center </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegally Auctioning a Servicemember's Car During Deployment </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Chula Vista Towing Company Agrees to Settle Allegations That It Illegally Auctioned a Servicemember's Car During Deployment</h2></center></b><... More...
$0 (04-23-2025 - CA)Bathsheba A. Stevenson v. County of Solano
Solano, California, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a governmental tort claim slip and fall theory.<br> <br> Stevenson filed her lawsuit on December 13, 2019, alleging a dangerous condition of public property. Stevenson claims she fell at the Vallejo John F. Kennedy Library on November 7, 2018. She states a library employee offered to assist her in getting up, but Stev... More...
$0 (02-24-2025 - CA)<h1> United States of America v. Carey Alice Hernandez </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with destruction of a building by means of fire, witness tampering and making false statements. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Woman Sentenced to 70 Months in Prison for Burning Down Local Business </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center><... More...
$0 (02-21-2025 - CA)Gretchen Haist and Beth Kuhl v. Carol Maust and Laura Labair </CENTER>
Bad Axe, Michigan civil litigation lawyers represented the parties in a probate and trust property dispute.<br> <br> Gretchen Haist and Beth Kuhl, filed a combined complaint and petition requesting that respondents-appellees, Carol Maust and Laura LaBair, be examined about trust property pursuant to MCL 700.1205(1), and trust assets that were improperly distributed and should be returned pursuant ... More...
$0 (02-04-2025 - CA)<h1> United States of America v. Anthony Farrer </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former Owner of 'Timepiece Gentleman' Luxury Watch Consignment Store in Beverly Hills Sentenced to Nearly 6 Years in Federal Prison </h2></center></... More...
$0 (01-31-2025 - CA)<h1> United States of America v. Peter Tripp Akemann </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Culver City Man Agrees to Plead Guilty to Recklessly Crashing Drone into Super Scooper Firefighting Aircraft During Palisades Fire</h2></center><... More...
$0 (01-31-2025 - CA)The Peopple of the state of California v. Angela Heers
San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.<br> <br> M.W. owns and lives on a multiacre property in Oceanside, some of which he rents out to F.R. to run a plant nursery. Heers works for M.W. on the property and lives in a room in M.W.'s house. Heers and F.R. were not on good terms with each other. In July ... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - CA)Town of Apple Valley v. Apple Valley Rancho Water, et al.
San Bernardino, California condemnation lawyers represented the parties in an eminent domain action.<br> <br> The Town of Apple Valley (TAV) sought to condemn via eminent domain a private water utility system. In November 2015, TAV passed two resolutions of necessity (RON) to acquire the water system, which was then owned by Carlyle Infrastructures Partners and operated by Apple Valley Ranchos Wa... More...
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