The long-awaited Senate Finance version of the health care reform plan bars illegal immigrants from participating in new insur...
Thomas Klein, a Greenberg Taurig LLP shareholder, says assignment provisions must be limited to inventions using protected tra...
Even as it faces a court order to reduce its prison population by 25 percent to improve inmate mental and medical care, the st...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Diagnostic Test is Patentable, For Now
By David Houstonn
A diagnostic test to calibrate the proper dosage level of drugs used to treat gastrointestinal diseases is patentable under cu...
Entertainment & Sports
'Viva La Vida' Lawsuit Lives No Longer in Federal Court
By Jean Luc Renault
A lawsuit brought by guitarist Joe Satriani against the band Coldplay over musical similarities between his 2004 song, "If I C...
California's governor issued an executive order Tuesday setting the nation's toughest target to boost renewable energy use in ...
Marc Harris, a top white-collar criminal lawyer and recent member of the executive committee in Mayer Brown's Los Angeles offi...
Nearly a year after the Daily Journal first reported serious problems at a downtown Los Angeles Street basement facility used ...
While two groups filed a motion this week to intervene in a federal lawsuit they believe threatens Caltrans's Disadvantaged Bu...
Elan Melamid of California State University of Northridge says restoring funds to children services is not enough.
Daily Journal unveils new web site to Board of Directors ...
Law Practice
Day After Abrupt Exit From Intel, Sewell Turns Up at Apple
By David Houstonn
Bruce Sewell left Intel Corp. abruptly Tuesday to take the general counsel position at Apple Inc. He starts work Monday. ...
A federal judge has overturned the conviction of a man who spent 23 years on death row for killing two Grateful Dead fans in B...
Starbuck's shift supervisors and baristas to share tips in communal container, which are left for the benefit of all those inv...
Certified Family Law Specialist Robert J. Nachshin comments on increasing the exposure of child abductions. ...
BigLaw could learn lessons from the famously unsuccessful corporate conglomorates of the '60s and '70s, writes Edwin B. Reeser...
Although clean tech law is the "new kid on the block," it is here to stay and lawyers should start learning now, writes Michae...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Publishing Policy Challenged
By Laura Ernden
The latest in a series of court challenges to a California court policy allowing unpublished opinions appears to be doomed. ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Bankrupt Debtors Can't Keep Cars
By John Roemer
Individuals who file for bankruptcy protection are more likely to end up hoofing it or taking the bus as a result of a court d...
Appellate: Combining a Love of Language and Law ...
The impact of snitching deals has undermined the credibility and accountability of our justice system, writes Alexandra Natapo...
In an attempt to save money, the federal judiciary announced Tuesday that magistrate judges in large courthouses like a propos...
Securities
White Collar Cases Falter For U.S. In San Francisco
By Christian Berthelsenn
As the Obama administration selects a new U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, the choice will be closely watched. After bad review...
Anthony P. Capozzi explains why a statewide court closure plan was the only rational option. ...
Yuri Mikulka heads the litigation practice at Zuber & Taillieu. She said as companies shrink their numbers of outside coun...
Litigation
Prop. 8 Supporters Subpoena Activist Who Revealed Contributors
By Evelyn Larrubian
In its continuing efforts to protect the identity of those who bankrolled the campaign to pass Proposition 8, lawyers for The ...
Rick Frenkel, the former in-house Cisco Systems Inc. attorney who wrote an anonymous blog in 2007 accusing two Texas attorneys...
As practiced today, the taking of privately owned land to revitalize cities remains an unlearned lesson, writes Gideon Kanner...
Do citizen journalists have the same obligations and protections as traditional media outlets, wonder David Wotherspoon and Ch...
Criminal
Film Executives May Be Headed to Jail Over Bribery Conviction
By Jean Luc Renault
Two West Hollywood film executives are facing prison time after being convicted of bribing a Thai official, in what may be the...