Her commitment to serve the public fairly means U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn Turchin doesn't go easy on those who appear befo...
A Texas federal judge on Monday ordered a case filed by a Florida-based patent holding company transferred to San Jose instead...
Former Central District U.S. Attorney Andrea Ordin is slated to become Los Angeles County's top lawyer this week. ...
The Administrative Office of the Courts received approval on Monday to pay for five new courthouse projects -in El Dorado, Kin...
Two whistleblowers formerly employed by the University of Phoenix reached a $78.5 million settlement Monday on a lawsuit alleg...
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Activists will argue before a Court of Appeal today that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger overstepped his authority when he slashed ...
Although San Francisco Superior Court has tried to avoid serious cutbacks by freezing open positions and travel, the $14.3 mil...
A judge refused to overturn Broadcom's $118 million settlement with shareholders over stock option backdating, despite defense...
A former entertainment lawyer who helped arrange a tax shelter for media mogul Haim Saban has pleaded guilty to federal tax ev...
The State Bar gave administrators at unaccredited East Bay Law School a second chance late last week, granting them six month...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Foster Care Homes Underfunded
By John Roemer
California is short-changing kids in foster care group homes by paying only 80 percent of what federal law requires, a 9th U.S...
Rick Rayl and Rick Friess of Nossaman analyze Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida, which the U.S. Supreme Court heard on D...
Michael Cypers and Joshua Stokes of Crowell & Moring say new decisions post-In re Tobacco II provide fertile grounds to re...
Letter to the Editor
Article on the AOC's Compensation Practices Was Misleading
By Sharon Liangn
William Vickrey, Administrative Director of the Courts, defends state and court compensation measures taken by the AOC. ...
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Veteran advocate Joseph McCarthy, a healthcare professional for 29 years, explains the Veterans Affairs' pension process in hi...
Sean Murray of Knobbe Martens delves into the Federal Circuit's shift in approach to the forum non conveniens analysis in pate...
Mikhail Reider-Gordon and Michael Spindler of Capstone Advisory Group say bribery scandels in media and entertainment has spar...
The State Bar has cleared the former lawyer of accusations he lawyer improperly divulged internal company information during s...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court to Review Text Messages in Employee Privacy Case
By Lawrence Hurleyn
A swat officer claimed he had an expectation of privacy that would prevent the city from retrieving sexually explicit texts he...
Manuel A. Ramirez, presiding justice of the 4th District Court of Appeal, focuses on the 'real people behind the issues.'
In a sweeping decision, a federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the criminal and civil fraud cases against two former Broadcom ex...
Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Los Angeles ...
Kenyon immigrant Sylvester Owino is still behind bars five years after he was locked up and four months after an appeals court...
TechCrunch, the influential Silicon Valley blog led by attorney Michael Arrington, sued Singapore-based Fusion Garage over an ...
Citing First Amendment protections, A unanimous appellate panel rejected demands for disclosure of the Yes-On-8 campaign's int...
California Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno and his wife, Christine, adopted their 14-year-old niece Friday. They've bee...
Two UC Berkeley law students aim to create awareness of the human rights implications of climate change as they join thousands...
A federal appeals court Washington, D.C. handed a victory to air regulatory officials Friday, rebuffing an industry group's bi...