A Superior Court judge's decision to dismiss a judgment of malicious prosection against Manatt Phelps & Phillips and attor...
Department of Justice attorneys are balking at the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation's proposed $612,000 in damages for warrantle...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer dissented Monday, not in a case, but over the issue of closing the court's front ...
Labor/Employment
Deferential Standard of Review in ERISA Cases Clarified
By Carla Pinedan
Robert McKennon of McKennon|Schindler examines the federal courts struggle over how to apply the deferential standard of revie...
The 5,000 newspaper carriers who landed a $22 million settlement from the Orange County Register last June finally are free to...
Citing a securities fraud ruling from last week, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday vacated a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rul...
Jennifer Chacon of UCI Law discusses potential legal challenges that may be raised by opponents to Arizona's immigration law. ...
Lisa Martens and Alexander Garcia of Fish & Richardson ask whether copyright law can apply to protect various tweets poste...
Is it a conflict of interest for the same lawyers to represent both plaintiffs who were hurt in accidents they claim were caus...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
No Relief for Victims of Green Card Scam
By John Roemer
Three more victims of a corrupt federal immigration official's dealing in bogus green cards must be deported, a 9th U.S. Circu...
In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held Monday that plaintiffs are barred from suing individual federal health care...
O'Melveny & Myers has launched an intensive review of the performance of lateral lawyer hires over the past two years, inc...
May 2, 2010 marked the 50th anniversary of Caryl Chessman's execution in San Quentin's gas chamber. Paul Von Blum of UCLA writ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court Throws Out Headscarf Suit
By John Roemer
A devout Muslim woman forced to remove her headscarf in public while in custody at the Orange County Superior Court cannot sue...
A five-year legal battle over tens of millions of dollars owed to film and television writers took one step closer to a resolu...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Thomas Emerges As Serious Contender
By John Roemer
Circuit Judge Sidney Runyan Thomas of Montana, whom President Barack Obama interviewed at the White House last week as a poten...
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A request by state law enforcement officials to establish a new account for the state's trial courts that would be used exclus...
Though he didn't work for the company, a private contractor recently won a nearly $4 million verdict against Union Pacific Rai...
A well-known Los Angeles immigration attorney has been barred from practicing law for one year after immigrants filed complain...
Allen Wilkinson and Reza Torkzadeh say tort reform affects the most seriously injured victims, those most in need of and deser...
Even if you have a good handle on employee characterization issues, there's always more to learn. 10 tips that you should know...
After 10 years, D. Stephen Antion returned to private practice to help Katten Muchin Rosenman grow its corporate business in L...
While bankruptcy is a stark reality for some, many troubled companies have the option to execute a general assignment for the ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Campaign Finance Law Undercut
By Lawrence Hurleyn
Citing January's blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Friday ...
While the state tries to appeal a prison population reduction order to the U.S. Supreme Court, it lost a separate but related ...
A case that could bring billions of dollars to school districts across the state is heading back to Los Angeles Superior Court...