Transactions
Tech Companies Start Gobbling Ad Firms to Bolster Internet Positions
By Jason Songn
Deals Column - By Jason Song - Want to see a feeding frenzy? Look no further than Silicon Valley, where the heavyweights are...
Focus Column - By Mark Labaton - How the courts in securities litigation define scheme liability by so-called “gatekeepers” co...
Forum Column - by Cary Lowe - For some USC students who tried to demonstrate against university purchases of sweatshop-produce...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer suing the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles said the judge overseeing the sexual-abuse litigati...
Technology & Science
Winging It: Tech Coast Angels Boosts Los Angeles Deals Market
By Jason Songn
LOS ANGELES - If the Northern California mergers-and-acquisitions market is like speed dating - watch Google and Yahoo elbow e...
Amadou Diouf, an immigrant from Senegal, was forcibly drugged by federal immigration agents who were attempting to deport him ...
SAN FRANCISCO - What do English footballers and music publishers have in common? They have teamed to file a class action again...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Reversing Itself, 9th Circuit Will Hear Asylum Cases
By John Roemer
In a crackdown on immigrants two years ago, Congress told foreign asylum-seekers they could no longer file habeas-corpus appea...
Thomas C. Falls, supervising judge of Pomona's East District, sees his job as making the lives of the other judges easier. ...
Judicial Profile
Veteran Appellate Jurist Does Not Water Down His Rulings
By John Roemer
During Harry E. Hull Jr.'s nine years as a justice on the 3rd District Court of Appeal, he has dealt with significant and cont...
Signaling a push to address issues facing minority groups within the legal community, the Bar Association of San Francisco has...
U.S. Supreme Court
High Marks: Same-Day Record Pleases Supreme Court Buffs
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Call it a renaissance year for U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. For the first time, the court posted free, sam...
LOS ANGELES - Three veteran judges are set to retire this month from the Los Angeles County Superior Court. ...
Forum Column - by Don A. Ernst - The latest study claiming to rank so-called “anti-business” state legal systems is another af...
Industry Watch - By Anne Marie Ruff - Ricardo J. Soto has moved from the state Office of the Secretary of Education to the San...
California Courts of Appeal
Panel Tosses $3 Million Libel Judgment Against Newspaper Publisher
By Jim Adamekn
SAN BERNARDINO - A state appeals court Friday tossed out a $3 million libel judgment against a Hesperia-based newspaper publis...
Prosecutors in San Diego won't fight an appellate court ruling that found they buried evidence that could have cleared a murde...
Government
Schwarzenegger Taps New Chief for Office of Administrative Law
By Jim Adamekn
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Susan Lapsley, an adviser on elections policy to the former secretary of...
Industry Watch - By Max Follmer - LOS ANGELES - Squire, Sanders & Dempsey snagged veteran litigators Steven A. Lamb and Do...
Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - LOS ANGELES - Perkins Coie's Los Angeles office has added complex commercial litigator Dona...
Forum Column - By John H. Sullivan - The rant from the plaintiffs' bar about the latest bad news on the fairness and reasonabl...
Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - We may never know who murdered Biggie or Tupac, but it looks like one front in...
Judges and Judiciary
Civil-Liberties Attorney Was Union and Democrat Activist
By Sarah Mcclure
A memorial service will take place May 20 at Paso Robles City Hall for attorney Paul M. Posner, a key figure in the state's un...
Focus Column - By Bernard S. Kamine - A legislative change and an appellate opinion together mean the changed-conditions claus...
Industry Watch - By Bobbi Murray - LOS ANGELES - Veteran construction litigator Stuart J. Einbinder has joined the commercial ...
In what may be the first of many claims against the Los Angeles Police Department stemming from the May 1 immigration rally, a...
After months of legal wrangling, the Securities and Exchange Commission has invoked a rarely used power and filed a subpoena e...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Suit Can Use RICO Against Marketing Ploy
By Amelia Hansenn
A federal appeals court Friday reinstated a class action against Microsoft and Best Buy, saying the case could go forward unde...
On the Move
Letter to the Editor - I am offended not so much by John C. Eastman's anti-abortion article on April 30 as by the Daily Journa...