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Immigration, Government


Attorneys wary of turnabout on student visas

Jul. 15, 2020
By Winston Cho

The Trump administration's 11th hour withdrawal of a policy that would have forced international students to leave the country...


Civil Litigation


The plaintiffs failed to show they were in a zone of danger. Nor did they show any physical manifestation of their emotional d...



Lee R. Feldman

Jul. 15, 2020
By Lisa Churchill



Tamara S. Freeze

Jul. 15, 2020
By Lisa Churchill


Legal Education, Immigration, Education Law


The rule had been eased at the outset of the coronavirus, but last week U.S. immigration authorities said students would have ...


Criminal, California Supreme Court


The 1967 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations Treaty was invoked, which says foreign nationals arrested abroad must be advi...


Law Practice


Murphy & McGonigle open first West Coast office

Jul. 14, 2020
By Kamila Knaudt

Financial services law firm Murphy & McGonigle PC opened its first West Coast office in San Francisco on Tuesday.


Obituaries, Constitutional Law


Marc Angelucci, 52, was found unresponsive from gunshot wounds at his San Bernardino County home Saturday evening and the sher...


But the judge allowed the rocket engine manufacturer to continue with allegations the insurer violated the Unfair Competition ...


Immigration, Government


DOJ loses effort to tie grants to immigration help

Jul. 14, 2020
By Craig Anderson

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel handed San Francisco and California a victory Monday in their lawsuit against the U....


California Supreme Court


Face mask fight fails at state high court

Jul. 14, 2020
By Gina Kim

California Supreme Court declines to take up Alameda County judge’s face mask order.


Data Privacy, Civil Litigation


A proposed class action alleges LinkedIn programmed its mobile application to spy on users by reading and diverting sensitive ...


Native Americans, Environmental & Energy


Group challenges Native Americans’ wind power project

Jul. 13, 2020
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The 25- to 38-year lease covers construction of 60 turbines, each 586 feet tall, on tribal land about 70 miles east of San Die...


Immigration, Education Law


Challenging the U.S. government's decision to revert to a requirement that international students take some in-person classes,...


Criminal, Civil Litigation


The suit by Singleton Law Firm APC seeks a permanent injunction restraining the police department from using public funds to p...


California Supreme Court


Absent high court guidance, “trial courts and litigants are left with a patchwork of inconsistent procedures,” the appellant a...


Government, Criminal, Bankruptcy


Paul Paradis, once counsel to the city, was awarded millions in no-bid contracts through his company to fix billing issues, bu...


Criminal


The defendant is accused of breaching the databases of Linkedin, Dropbox and Formspring to steal and sell the login credential...


Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Federal prosecutors can't sentence men for violating U.S. drug laws when they were in compliance with state law, 9th Circuit r...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


Following completion last week of the bar’s assessment of any technical difficulties with the “baby bar” for first-year studen...


Government, California Supreme Court


A federal judge has unsealed records containing the Justice Department’s policies for use of the Classified Information Proced...


San Francisco court not likely to reinstate zero bail despite pleas from DA, public defender, several attorneys and health exp...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


David C. Kiernan, head of litigation for Jones Day’s San Francisco office, argued Sutter Health’s financial status and ability...


Judges and Judiciary


The proposed amendments include the issuance of tentative public admonishment or censure and a rule that would make settlement...


The endowment is named after Richard Bridgford’s late sister, Linda Ray Bridgford, who exemplified the qualities of unconditio...


Law Practice, Government


“We have an intern that’s going to be making an oral argument virtually in front of the appellate court,” said County Counsel ...


U.S. Supreme Court, Administrative/Regulatory


The 5th Circuit ruled only that the single-director structure of the agency, which only allowed the president to fire him for ...


Civil Litigation


A Black couple has sued Nike Inc. for racial profiling stemming from a July 2019 incident in which a store employee accused th...


Government, Civil Litigation


A report by a court-appointed special master investigating a $67 million Department of Water And Power ratepayer settlement sh...


Judicial Watch sued to block SB 826 last year. It claimed the law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitutio...