WASHINGTON - A Senate vote is scheduled today on U.S. Court of Federal Claims nominee Victor J. Wolski, who has been strongly...
SAN JOSE - In a major victory for the lead paint industry, a Santa Clara County judge Tuesday tossed out a lawsuit filed by B...
Intellectual Property
Champagne Toast Unlikely At Gathering On Indicators
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - To hear the U.S. government tell it, the Europeans want to take away your trusty green can of Kraft Parmesan ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Harry Wartnick, a pioneer in asbestos litigation, died Monday after a long history of heart problems...
SANTA ANA - As the mother of a teenager who soon will drive and with the memory of her own spotty record during her youthful ...
LOS ANGELES - Officials said Tuesday they are seeking lesser charges against alleged high-powered Mexican drug lords in an ef...
SACRAMENTO - Stepping up efforts to curb alleged abuses of California's unfair business practices law, state Attorney General...
SAN DIEGO - Elaine is a woman with a past. And it almost cost her her job. The child-care worker in San Diego ran afoul of th...
VISTA - When Steven R. Denton became a Superior Court judge two years ago after decades as a civil litigator, he was assigned ...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Developments and advances in fertility s...
Forum Column - By Mary L. Smith - The U.S. Supreme Court just reaffirmed that equal opportunity in higher education remains ce...
LOS ANGELES - A doctor who says he lost his medical practice as a result of a television expos can sue the station for secretl...
SAN FRANCISCO - Expenses and fees for attorneys and consultants in the Pacific Gas & Electric Company topped $100 million ...
WASHINGTON - The Senate will vote today on a motion to allow for a final up-or-down vote on a nominee for the U.S. Court of Fe...
SACRAMENTO - In a ruling that prevents some claims by unlicensed contractors injured on the job, the California Supreme Court ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has upheld a $20,000 verdict against Alameda County and controversial former probation...
SANTA ANA - The Orange County Register was slapped with a class action Monday alleging that the newspaper company classifies i...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jet-Crash Victims' Families Settle for $11.7 Million
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The families of three of the 18 people who died in a 2001 charter jet crash in Aspen agreed Monday to a last-min...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Judge in Pot Case 'Looking for a Hook' to Help Collective
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal judge sympathized with the operators of a Santa Cruz County cooperative seeking an injunction to grow med...
Entertainment & Sports
Lawyer's Motion to Withdraw From Pooh Case Is Official Secret
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - It may be a cold, blustery, nasty, very expensive day in Winnie the Pooh Litigation Land before the n...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Monday to reconsider political asylum for an unmarried Chinese couple who fled ...
SAN LUIS OBISPO - Attorney James McKiernan is taking a novel approach in an attempt to obtain compensation for the death of a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - When the judge's gavel fell last December, it resolved the fight over the ball. When the auctioneer's gavel fe...
Forum Column - By Reid Alan Cox - The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken, and according to a five-justice majority in Grutter v....
It's not every day that your client is the California Supreme Court. But Nancy Pritikin of San Francisco's Littler Mendelson r...
In another massive biotechnology deal, Biogen Inc. and Idec Pharmaceuticals Corp. have agreed to merge in a multibillion-dolla...
Sean Kneafsey has left Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman to get in at the ground level of Los Angeles' Palmer & Lombardi. Kne...
Australian bank Macquarie Infrastructure Group has closed a $773-million financing deal that paves the way for construction to...
FAIRFIELD - Solano County Superior Court Judge R. Michael Smith has a knack for details, and he uses it both in the courtroom ...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In what is being called one of the largest office leases in the Inland Empire during the past two years, St...