Frustrated with the how the Federal Communications Commission handles regulatory inquiries, local government associations have...
Shareholder lawsuits against Chinese companies involved in reverse mergers have exploded in the U.S. during the last year, but...
The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday narrowly approved a power purchase agreement for PG&E to buy electr...
After world travels, advice from a mentor led Judge Steven A. Mapes to the bench.
Litigation
Judge rules suit against hedge fund accounting firm can proceed
By Amy Yarbroughn
Lawyers representing two investment management company executives notched a win in court Wednesday that will allow their fraud...
Seizing on the momentum of protests nationwide against corporate greed, a California teachers union is in talks with other lab...
Criminal
Admission of video evidence: Justin Bieber’s face is worth a thousand words
By Genevieve Knollen
Does being able to recognize Justin Bieber from a video make you an expert witness? By Richard La Fianza and Frank Loo of the ...
Trusts & Estates
4th District shields trustees of revocable trusts from liability
By Karen Natividadn
When do remainder beneficiaries have standing to sue a trustee of a revocable trust? By Megan Ferkel Earhart of Goldfarb, Stur...
The state's long-standing policy is that individuals should be free to take their talents anywhere. By Ken Leur of Ervin Cohen...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Investigation into physician-owned distributors continues
By Sharon Liangn
Physician-owned distributors of medical devices comes under Congressional scrutiny. By Vince Farhat and Maria T. Currier of Ho...
Perspective
Addressing the funding crisis facing our nation’s largest court system
By Sharon Liangn
Our third branch of government is at grave risk of defaulting on the promise of justice. By Jeffrey Selbin of UC Berkeley Scho...
A reader responds to "Forget the glass ceiling, take the elevator up." ...
The state Supreme Court announced Wednesday it will hear oral arguments Nov. 10 in a case that will determine the fate of rede...
The San Francisco City Attorney's Office this week secured settlements in two cases that will require defendants to pay the ci...
The proponents behind Prop. 8 are headed to federal court today in an effort to force Secretary of State Debra Bowen to remove...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Convicted defense contractor may get a second chance
By John Roemer
A key figure in a bribery scandal involving a congressman in San Diego may get another chance to contest his conviction, a 9th...
Thousands of U.S. citizens have been arrested under a controversial federal immigration enforcement program that disproportion...
Criminal, Constitutional Law, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal
State justices take up DNA collection case
By Laura Ernden
The state Supreme Court has agreed to review whether it's constitutional to collect DNA samples from anyone arrested for a fel...
A leading environmental transaction attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has left to open a San Francisco office...
A San Francisco federal judge on Wednesday vacated the Halloween trial date of Oracle Corp.'s Java-related copyright and paten...
A final settlement appears imminent in a business litigation case that was once estimated to be one of the largest nationwide ...
Environmental groups are suing two major railway companies alleging they are failing to control toxic diesel pollution from th...
Government
Committee considers cutting courthouse construction projects
By Laura Ernden
Local officials traveled from across the state Wednesday to ask court leaders to spare their courthouse construction projects ...
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP plans to open an office in Moscow to serve high net-worth clients who do business in...
Judge Joyce M. Cram works closely with elders.