Authors: Rebecca Kutlow and George C. Harris The Norton Law Firm’s litigation practice includes representation of plaintiffs harmed through constitutional violations by government officials. It has represented wrongfully convicted clients in two recent cases, one of which resulted in a $15 million settlement and one in which the defendants’ appeal of the district court’s denial of […]
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In Olson v. County of Grant, 127 F.4th 1193 (9th Cir. 2025), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held, as a matter of first impression, that the plaintiff’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when one law enforcement agency shared her cellphone data with another law enforcement agency without any warrant, consent or suspicion […]
Read MoreThe Norton Law Firm is pleased to announce that five of the firm’s partners have been named to the 2025 Northern California Super Lawyers list and six attorneys have been named to the 2025 Northern California Rising Stars list. Each year no more than five percent of lawyers in California are selected for inclusion in […]
Read MoreBy George C. Harris and Emily Kirk This update to our August 2024 blog, “Ninth Circuit En Banc Review of Personal Jurisdiction Over Internet-Based Businesses: the ‘Expressly Aimed’ Requirement,” analyzes the April 21, 2025 en banc decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversing the district court’s dismissal of Brandon Briskin’s complaint in Briskin v. […]
Read MoreThe Norton Law Firm has secured a landmark fees award in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case on behalf of Marc Cohodes, a prominent stock-market analyst and short-seller who has spent much of his career exposing frauds at publicly traded companies. Mr. Cohodes’s team was led by Leah Judge and George C. Harris. The federal court awarded Cohodes […]
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