WASHINGTON - Democratic senators excoriated the Bush administration's Environmental Protection Agency Thursday over its refusa...
When artist Chris Moreno and her husband, California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno, became the primary caretakers of a d...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Drug-Test Data On Ballplayers Must Go Back
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - In a setback for the government's probe into sports steroid use, a federal appellate court reversed course wit...
When they met five years ago, Jayne Fleming was a second-year associate, and Raul Aktanov was a young political refugee, fight...
Government
Jury Doesn't Buy SEC's Case Against Financial Commentator
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles rejected all but a thin portion of the Securities and Exchange Commission's case a...
The University of California will have to pay at least $40 million for drastically hiking fees for thousands of students - inc...
Jay Leno, NBC Studios and a group of fellow comedians settled their federal copyright-infringement lawsuit against Brown and a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Food safety activists and environmentalists Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging a federal decision to relax ...
Olympic gold medal sprinter Justin Gatlin has appealed a four-year doping suspension that bars him from defending his 100-mete...
Forum Column - By Tim Keller - The 9th Circuit should uphold an Arizona education program that gives parents more control over...
Focus Column - By Joanne Lichtman and Gil Keteltas - California is paving the way for climate-related tort litigation - cases ...
Real Estate/Development
The Book Stops Here: Firm Known for Real Estate Treatises
By Devan Mcclainen
CBS Outdoor, the nation's largest outdoor advertiser, could choose any number of prominent law firms to do its real estate wor...
SACRAMENTO - Expressing dissatisfaction with the progress of improving medical care in California's prisons, a U.S. judge on W...
Government
Feinstein Seeks Court Review of Suits Against AT&T, Verizon
By David Houstonn
WASHINGTON - With the Senate due to take up a controversial surveillance bill today, Sen. Dianne Feinstein is attempting to na...
A plan to blanket the state of Israel with the first-ever nationwide electric-car network faces many hurdles, but a $200 milli...
Moving from associate to partner is not the sure thing it used to be, legal experts say. Today's young lawyers need more than ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Transfers Two Cases, Raising Hopes for the Defense
By David Houstonn
SAN JOSE - Two rulings by federal District Judge John Ward of the Eastern District of Texas this month raise the question of w...
Law Practice
Jay Wheeler (1947-2008): Attorney Was Known for Winning Verdicts, Mentoring Talent
By Pat Broderick
SAN DIEGO - Trial attorney Jay Wheeler loved a good joke, hated dishonesty and would push his young litigators to center stage...
LOS ANGELES - The protracted battle between two contentious figures in Los Angeles' federal bar continues, with a beleaguered ...
Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee and Matthew N. White - When settlement negotiations grind to a halt, plenty of techniques are av...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Atlanta-based labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins is opening in San Francisco to handle an upsurge ...
Focus Column - By Paul V. Carelli IV - An amendment to the Tort Reform Act has implications for anyone considering filing a se...
Letter to the Editor - The rules governing punitive-damages awards should be upheld in order to protect consumers and hold cor...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a broad new attack on a pioneering California consumer warning law, industry lawyers asked the federal Food...
SAN FRANCISCO - A prominent Silicon Valley businessman who sat on several corporate boards and started his own semiconductor c...
WASHINGTON - In another blow to shareholders of disgraced energy giant Enron Corp., the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected...
Tom Kuhnle is the first out-of-county lawyer to serve as president of the Santa Clara County Bar Association. His office at Bi...
Immigration
Under Pact, Vietnamese Green-Card Holders May Be Deported
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - A new agreement allowing U.S. officials to deport undocumented Vietnamese immigrants to their homeland is also e...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Unified School District's general counsel is leaving his post for a vice chancellor position at ...
California Supreme Court
Justices to Consider Riverside Court Case Overflow Policy
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - The state Supreme Court will consider a controversial Riverside County Superior Court policy that limits which typ...