U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Coming Soon, To a Court Near You?
By John Roemer
Say cheese, litigators. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wants to put cameras in federal trial courts. ...
Litigation
At the Center of Controversy Over Dole Foods Bananas Pesticide Cases, a Specialist in 'Accidentes'
By Cortney Fieldingn
Juan J. Dominguez pays handsomely to have his larger-than-life image plastered on the sides of public transit vehicles through...
Winston & Strawn lawyers detail an established body of federal law that recognizes and enforces international commercial a...
D. Gregory Valenza explains the responsibilities of employers during an outbreak like the swine flu. ...
As irksome, dubious - even downright unreadable - as spam advertising e-mail messages might be, they are not fraudulent, a Los...
Litigation
Rare Verdict for Policy Holder In Insurance Coverage Dispute
By Jason W. Armstrong
In what a plaintiffs' lawyer called a rare judgment, a San Bernardino County Superior Court jury Thursday found that State Far...
An Irvine-based "foreclosure-prevention" law firm has sued two giant lenders for telling borrowers the firm is defrauding them...
Mill Valley-based mediator Charlotte M. Venner said she tries to help her clients reach closure in what can be the most diffic...
Government
DOJ Asks Judge to Dismiss States' Investigations Into Wiretapping
By Rebecca Beyer
U.S. government attorneys argued in a federal court Thursday that five state investigations into the Bush administration's war...
Members of California's Hispanic legal community want to make sure President Barack Obama doesn't overlook their favorite cand...
Real Estate/Development
Arbitrator Cuts Some Slack to Developers in Down Economy
By Mindy Farabeen
An arbitrator has barred the foreclosure sale of an 82-unit, mixed-use, waterfront condominium development, citing the "imposs...
California Supreme Court
Justices Let Verdict Stand Despite Faulty Jury Polling
By Laura Ernden
Object now or forever hold your peace. The California Supreme Court affirmed that long-standing maxim of good lawyering Thursd...
Latino legal groups are lobbying hard for President Barack Obama to appoint one of their own to the U.S. Supreme Court for the...
Federal judge Thelton E. Henderson was set to deliver the keynote speech at a San Francisco conference organized to discuss cu...
James Pooley, a Palo Alto-based partner at Morrison & Foerster, has been nominated by the Obama Administration to become t...
Law Practice
Closing Argument Heard in 1st Northern District Capital Trial in 60 Years
By Rebecca Beyer
Even if Dennis Cyrus Jr. murdered three people, he wasn't part of an organized criminal enterprise as prosecutors claimed so h...
Procedural and substantive unconscionability must be present to justify the refusal to enforce a contract or clause based on u...
As Congress considers hearings on the financial meltdown, columnist Martin Berg wonders: What would Ferdinand Pecora do? ...
Nearly two years after it was abruptly shuttered, the Terminal Island Federal Detention Center sits idle. Its future use is un...
Perspective
Clean Water Act Will Be Crucial to Addressing Ocean Acidification
By Sara Libbyn
The Clean Water Act will be crucial in saving the Oceans' smallest creatures, writes Miyoko Sakashita. ...
A real estate brokerage firm can proceed in its $10 million lawsuit against Bingham McCutchen over the firm's role representin...
Small businesses, who are urging the California Supreme Court to reduce the amount of damages available for violations of the ...
"Cap and trade" may not be the solution to greenhouse gas emmissions, writes Don Willenburg. ...
A San Francisco federal judge Wednesday ruled that Shartsis Friese will get its day in court in a professional negligence suit...
Few family law judges have their own Wikipedia entry, and fewer still are newly elected. But San Francisco County Superior Cou...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Drops Case to Avoid Political Backbiting
By Jason W. Armstrong
A Riverside judge accused of making biased rulings against prosecutors because of an alleged political ambition to run against...
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In San Diego, city attorney and county counsel will share resources to curb costs for outside lawyers. ...