Northern District U.S. Attorney Melinda L. Haag has picked a chief for her newly organized special prosecutions and national s...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Hospice Reimbursement Ruling Upheld
By Rebecca Beyer
A 9th Circuit panel upheld a ruling striking down a regulation capping hospice reimbursements for Medicare beneficiaries but c...
Keyes & Fox LLP Oakland ...
The final toxic tort lawsuit brought by purported Nicaraguan banana workers against Dole Food Co. has been dismissed. ...
Leaving unresolved issues in a settlement limits your ability to file an appeal. By James C. Martin and Adam M. Forest of Reed...
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Los Angeles ...
A Los Angeles judge ordered the release Tuesday of a man who has spent the past 20 years in prison for the 1991 drive-by shoot...
Litigation
Home Improvement: When There's An Accident, Who's at Fault?
By Alexander Phersonn
Homeowners who hire unlicensed contractors risk incurring liability in the event of an accident. By Gary A. Watt of Archer Nor...
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Palo Alto ...
California has a long history of allowing official proponents to defend their ballot measures in court, Proposition 8 sponsors...
Foley & Lardner LLP Palo Alto ...
Bankruptcy filings in the Central District of California skyrocketed by 42 percent during fiscal year 2010, the largest rate o...
Winston & Strawn LLP Los Angeles ...
Three years after the justices' oil stock holdings derailed an appeal pending at the state Supreme Court, their portfolios rem...
Everything the Nazis did was legal under the German justice system and German judges went along completely, a panel of experts...
Reed Smith LLP San Francisco ...
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Los Angeles ...
Perspective
What’s Ahead for Subsidies and Support for Renewable Energy in the US?
By Alexander Phersonn
The energy renewal industry faces an uncertain future due to competition and a still lagging economy. By Edward W. Zaelke of C...
The prestige of California's law schools remained largely intact over the past year in the eyes of U.S. News & World Repor...
Salvador Dali's set pieces caused controversy during the filming of 1945's "Spellbound," and are causing new controversy in a ...
Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP Los Angeles ...
Environmental
'Blowin in the Wind’ — the Controversy Over Clean Energy
By Alexander Phersonn
The state has decided that having alternative sources of energy is important even with the potential costs. By Stephen T. Holz...
Best Best & Krieger LLP San Diego ...
A multimillion dollar verdict for a woman whose wealthy boyfriend gave her herpes could be headed to the state Supreme Court, ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Ruling Reversed on Headscarf Removal
By Rebecca Beyer
A courthouse holding facility is covered by the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, an en banc panel of the ...
Our first list of the top 25 clean tech lawyers in California. ...
The two billionaire co-founders of Broadcom have agreed to transfer $26 million each in vested stock options to the company's ...
State water authorities have ordered Shell Oil. Co. to undertake a massive cleanup of Carson's Carousel neighborhood, a quiet ...
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP Los Angeles ...
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Socrates P. Manoukian can be unpredictable, some say, but his mind is always turning o...