Litigator Gregory Evans announced Thursday he has left Milbank Tweed to start a boutique, and taking prominent clients Nike an...
Women's night and a golf store, a "chicks for free" concert and a men's discount on haircuts are just some of the events that ...
One of the most distinctive features of the U.S. Supreme Court's just completed term was the justices' unusual willingness to ...
Corporate
Insider Trading Inquiry Targets Ballplayers, CEO in Merger
By Gabe Friedmann
A federal grand jury is investigating a series of stock trades that took place weeks before two healthcare companies merged in...
A federal jury in Riverside found that the Walt Disney Co. owes $269 million to the British developers of the game show "Who W...
Judge Rose Hom brings a calming demeanor to her Compton court. She attributes that to her devotion to martial arts among other...
After more than four years litigating a state secrets case against the federal government, Jon B. Eisenberg, of Oakland's Eise...
Actor Don Johnson's company persuaded a jury that three companies involved in the production and syndication of the TV show ch...
The federal environmental regulators on Wednesday designated the 51-mile Los Angeles River a "traditional navigable water" pro...
Companies in a massive price fixing case involving thin film transistor-liquid crystal display panels want a federal judge to ...
Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, continued his streak as a feeder to U.S. Supreme Court cl...
Deputy Director Jocelyn D. Larkin will take the top post at the Berkeley public interest law firm. Former executive director B...
The children of legendary artist Jack Kirby are moving their copyright claim to several of his characters to a New York venue....
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States are grappling with how to respond to a U.S. housing agency decision that froze a popular renewable energy program first...
A potential class of Blockbuster subscribers has won the right to proceed with their antitrust claims against Wal-Mart and Net...
A lawyer for six Nicaraguans who claim pesticides made them sterile accused Dole Food Co. Wednesday of exploiting a judge's co...
Has President Barack Obama lost his way when it comes to the war in Afghanistan? Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of L...
Perspective
Spectrum Crunch: Land Use Obstacles To the Broadband Revolution
By Sharon Liangn
Michael Shonafelt and Rich Grimes address concerns regarding the strain on our wireless infrastructure as the revolution in mo...
Prior to Brown v. Board of Education, the Mendez family won a ground-breaking lawsuit against school districts requirin...
Perspective
The Rise of 'Professional Objectors' In Class Action Settlements
By Sharon Liangn
Dealing with professional objectors isn't easy. Brian Kabateck and Alfredo Torrijos of Kabateck Brown Kellner explore mechanis...
A federal judge said it was "probably drug money" police took from the Sinaloa, Mexico man but it violated U.S. seizure laws. ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Scam Artist Can't Claim Privilege
By John Roemer
An appellate panel ruled that a man who used a bogus health insurance company to bilk $20 million cannot use attorney-client p...
Plaintiffs' lawyers that saw a $1 billion verdict against Bank of America evaporate at the state Supreme Court will get anothe...
Cross Pointe Apartments, a 244-unit luxury apartment community on the border of Brentwood and Antioch, traded hands recently.
In a rare media interview, controversial plaintiff's lawyer Juan J. Dominguez bashed a judge's finding and ongoing allegations...
Jim Brown asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday to reinstate a lawsuit accusing video game publisher Electron...
A federal appeals court panel upheld a $6.5 million verdict in a patent infringement case against San Jose-based Cisco Systems...
A jury must decide whether actor Don Johnson's production company is entitled to more than $100 million in profits from the hi...
Environmentalists announced a settlement with federal air regulators Tuesday over claims the government failed to update rules...