A federal class action lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that California prisons follow solitary confinement policies that violat...
Lowe worked for 16 years as a lawyer for insurance companies and 15 years battling them. Now, he's merged two careers into yet...
California Supreme Court
Justices consider de facto life sentences for juveniles
By John Roemer
Sentencing of juvenile offenders got the state Supreme Court's attention on Thursday as the justices heard oral argument in th...
Intellectual Property
Judge hands Google yet another win in case against Oracle
By Craig Andersonn
In a smashing victory for Google Inc. ,a federal judge ruled Thursday that Oracle Corp. -owned elements of the Java programmin...
Learn some tips for effective, legal surveillance, and how to know when you're being surveilled. By Thomas Martin of Martin In...
The prosecutor's suit claims the district attorney's office made "politically motivated" charges that he raped and sodomized a...
Oral arguments in the appeal of actor Don Johnson's $51 million award against the producers of the television show "Nash Bridg...
U.S. Supreme Court
Flood v. Kuhn Part 2: the 40th anniversary of justice versus law
By Michael Leen
Curt Flood's Supreme Court case was the beginning of the end of the Big League's infamous "reserve clause." By Dan Lawton of L...
Sacramento law firm Downey Brand LLP has bolstered its ranks with the addition of three attorneys who represent some of Calif...
California Supreme Court
Justices seem to side with state in battle against insurers
By Fiona Smith
In a case that could have a major financial impact on the insurance industry, the state Supreme Court heard oral argument Wedn...
A Northern District judge has dismissed a pair of shareholder lawsuits against Diamond Foods Inc. and current and former direc...
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Oracle Corp.-owned elements of the Java programming language used by Google in its Android...
A San Quentin death row inmate deserves a new trial for the 1983 murders of two brothers in a San Jose jewelry store because t...
Federal officials have launched a criminal investigation into possible charges of tax evasion and other financial misconduct s...
Jennifer Stisa Granick is returning to Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society as its director of civil libert...
In what could be a significant boost for plaintiffs, a federal judge has indicated he will issue sanctions against Toyota for ...
Secretary and General Counsel Power-One Inc. Camarillo ...
The 9th Circuit recently had an opportunity to interpret Amara regarding summary plan descriptions. By Stephen Harris, ...
Only weeks after the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a decision supporting heavy tariffs on Chinese solar products, Chines...
Real Estate/Development
Baca: defining severance damages in part-takings
By Michael Leen
Following Baca would be inconsistent with the parity between severance damages and benefits defined by earlier decision...
A pair of California newspapers is suing the University of California for not disclosing the names of several police officer...
The state Senate on Wednesday passed a bill in response to a state Supreme Court decision last year that limited reimbursement...
A recent ruling in the Coudert Brothers LLP bankruptcy could provide some timely support for the Heller Ehrman LLP estate in i...
A Los Angeles federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by environmental groups over toxic diesel pollution in California ...
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Oracle's bid to overturn a verdict that Google Inc. did not infringe two patents related...
A roundup of recent action at the U.S. Supreme Court. ...
Entertainment lawyers say there has so far been more talk than action on deals between Hollywood and China. And it may yet be ...
By Steven W. Murray ...