Federal judge mulls restraining order request from autonomous trucking...
SAN DIEGO (CN) — In a hearing on Monday in a case relating to self-driving trucks, trade secrets and China, things got complicated fast. “Well I’m tired,” said U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez...
View ArticleFederal judge blocks overseas move by autonomous trucking company
SAN DIEGO (CN) — After mulling it over for a day, a federal judge in San Diego granted a temporary restraining order to prevent a company that develops self-driving freight truck technology from...
View ArticleNinth Circuit considers California’s assault weapons ban
SAN DIEGO (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel in Pasadena on Wednesday heard arguments in a long running case challenging the legality of California’s decades-old ban on semi-automatic weapons, and whether...
View ArticleVolunteers take early-morning survey of San Diego homeless
SAN DIEGO (CN) — It’s 5 a.m., before most lights are on in the neighborhood, but a trio of volunteers have been snaking up and down the strip malls and alleyways of San Diego’s Talmadge community for...
View ArticleHard kombucha brewery still faces false advertising class action, judge rules
SAN DIEGO (CN) — Claims that a brewery deceives its customers by marketing its line of alcoholic canned kombucha beverages as healthy remain in play in a deceptive marketing class action, though a...
View ArticleFeasting sea otters help reduce erosion, study says
SAN DIEGO (CN) — After nearing extinction, sea otters are returning to California’s Monterey Bay — and they’ve brought their appetites. That’s great news not just for the otters, but also for the...
View ArticleJudge permanently blocks California ammo background check law
SAN DIEGO (CN) — A federal judge in San Diego permanently blocked California from enforcing a law requiring background checks every time a gun owner wishes to buy ammunition. Filed in 2018, the case...
View ArticleJudge advances excessive force claims against cop who killed San Diego man
SAN DIEGO (CN) — An excessive force lawsuit brought by the family of a man fatally shot multiple times by a San Diego County Sheriff’s deputy in 2022 will move forward after a federal judge on...
View ArticleLightning from volcanoes could have jump-started life on Earth, new study says
(CN) — Volcanoes aren’t just awe-inspiring emblems of the power and fury of nature: They may also have played a key role in fostering life on Earth, according to a new study published in the...
View ArticleSan Diego amends surveillance tech rules
SAN DIEGO (CN) — After a second vote, the San Diego City Council on Tuesday approved sizable changes to municipal laws regulating the use of surveillance technology by law enforcement and a public...
View ArticleFeds pushed to protect Sierra Nevada red foxes
(CN) — The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Department of the Interior on Thursday to grant the little-known Sierra Nevada red fox protection under the Endangered Species Act....
View ArticleCalifornia gun owners take privacy fight over purchase data to Ninth Circuit
SAN DIEGO (CN) — A group of California gun owners told a Ninth Circuit panel on Friday that a law allowing the state to share personal information about people who buy guns with firearms violence...
View ArticleNurse found not guilty in San Diego jail death, jury deadlocked for doctor
SAN DIEGO (CN) — A jury in San Diego County found on Friday a nurse at the county’s women’s jail not guilty of involuntary manslaughter after she left a woman, who later died, on the floor of her...
View ArticleUncontrollable artificial technology could lead to catastrophe, according to...
(CN) — Researchers, scientists, companies and governments across the world should stop developing artificial intelligence because it can’t be safely controlled. And if we don’t — apocalypse awaits,...
View ArticleCharges dropped against doctor in San Diego County jail death
SAN DIEGO (CN) — After a jury deadlocked on involuntary manslaughter charges against a San Diego County jail doctor who treated a woman who later died in her cell, prosecutors asked the judge to...
View ArticleAsylum-seeking moms claim they were expelled to Mexico a day after giving birth
SAN DIEGO (CN) — U.S. Border Patrol agents drove infants as young as one day old and their asylum-seeking mothers from a San Diego County hospital to the U.S.-Mexico border and forcefully expelled...
View ArticleJudge blocks California law allowing suits against gunmakers
SAN DIEGO (CN) — A federal judge in San Diego has for now blocked a California law allowing residents and local governments to sue businesses that manufacture, sell and market guns and accessories...
View ArticleSan Diego sues developers over contaminated soil in local landfill
SAN DIEGO (CN) — The city of San Diego is suing a local developer after it says the developer dumped contaminated soil in a local landfill. The complaint, filed on Thursday in San Diego Superior...
View ArticleCalifornia housing lawsuit making ‘political statement,’ Huntington Beach says
SAN DIEGO (CN) — The city of Huntington Beach argued in a San Diego courtroom on Friday that California is trying to make a “political statement” with their request to kickstart the approval of...
View ArticleE-commerce ‘experts’ agree to pay nearly $22 million in case brought by...
SAN DIEGO (CN) — Three men who promoted themselves as e-commerce experts will pay nearly $22 million per the terms of a stipulated order in a suit in brought by Federal Trade Commission. Roman Cresto,...
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