The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday to add two permanent seats to the bankruptcy bench in the Eastern...
Even though he spent his last three years on the bench as a full-time settlement judge, Alexander H. Williams III insists he's...
Rosner, Barry & Babbitt argues that some auto dealerships have been illegally backdating their rewritten sales contracts, ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Unpaid Fines Can Strip Former Inmates of Voting Rights
By John Roemer
States can deny former prison inmates the right to vote until they pay court-ordered restitution fines, a 9th U.S. Circuit Cou...
DC Comics has drawn on four-year-old material that was already raised in court in an effort to undercut a lawyer and clients s...
U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger in Fresno ordered more water to flow from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River delta to farms an...
In one of what's likely to become a flood of lawsuits against BP over the Gulf Coast oil spill, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & B...
San Diego-based Phage Pharmaceuticals Inc. and parent company, New Technologies Holding Pte. Ltd. of Singapore, acquired subst...
President Obama showcased his support for California clean technology Wednesday, visiting the construction site of a major sol...
Los Angeles officials signed off on a settlement Wednesday that allows several dozen tenants of the 60-year-old Lincoln Place ...
Michael Abraham and Eric Barko of BartkoZankel discuss India's efforts to determine what foreign firms may or may not do on ma...
A hearing to consolidate state court lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. over unintended acceleration led to accusations of fo...
Law Practice
Using Declarations to Obtain Or Defeat Class Certification
By Carla Pinedan
Whether you represent plaintiff or defendant, evidence from putative class members may be critical at the class certification ...
In a major victory for Irvine-based Vizio Inc., a federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the company successfully redes...
It may be up to a jury to decide whether Google fired a 54-year-old engineer due to age discrimination, the California Supreme...
What if someone could put sensors on your head to determine what information your brain holds? Well surprise, it can be done, ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Billboard Ban Upheld by 9th Circuit
By John Roemer
Los Angeles officials' battle to ban supergraphic signs and huge freeway billboards took a turn in the city's favor Wednesday ...
Grover Cleveland's new book provides real-life examples to guide law school graduates and new lawyers on how to thrive early i...
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a preliminary inquiry of Apple's iTunes service, which is the dominant player in t...
James Wong visits the opening of the World Expo in Shanghai featuring 246 pavilions, 3,500 performers and attended by celebrit...
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, marred by shrinking profits and contraction in recent years, will join forces with U.K.-bas...
U.S. Supreme Court
Arbitration Case Could Guide Future Class Actions
By Lawrence Hurleyn
When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed earlier this week to hear a California case concerning cell phone contracts, the future of ...
Two law firms have committed to remain in the downtown Los Angeels area for at least 10 more years.
Alan H. Packer, at a residential development in San Ramon, represents builders in construction defect cases. ...
Francisco P. Briseño, the senior judge on the Orange County Superior Court, has won plaudits for his patience with defendants ...