A decision is expected in June, and will be of great interest to the biotech and personalized medicine industry. By Jason G. H...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Accused drug smuggler must be retried because of instruction error
By John Roemer
Federal prosecutors must pay a price when they destroy evidence before a criminal trial, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals p...
Government
Bill will give more teeth to State Bar in catching unauthorized practitioners of law
By Paul Jones
A bill to endow the State Bar with more power to pursue unauthorized practitioners of law unanimously passed the state Assembl...
The controversial rule improperly required employers to post information about workers' rights under the National Labor Relati...
A San Diego Superior Court judge has given the initial green light to an $8 million class action settlement over an allegedly ...
Government
Legislator says mental health reform would address prison overcrowding
By Hamed Aleazizn
Expanding California's mental health care resources could go a long way toward tackling the state's prison overcrowding proble...
San Francisco litigator Allan J. Joseph died Tuesday morning after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 75. ...
Two college admission and test-preparation services, Elite of Los Angeles Inc. and San Diego Testing Services Inc., last week ...
The Howrey LLP estate publicly declared its support for the Heller Ehrman LLP estate in a court filing late Monday over the tr...
A requirement that at least 40 percent of graduates from State Bar-accredited law schools pass the bar exam is constitutional ...
Stakeholders were caught off-guard by a Wednesday announcement by Gov. Jerry Brown that he'll pursue significant reforms to P...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court debates how government agencies must analyze project impacts
By Fiona Smith
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case that could have far-reaching consequences for how government agen...
Litigation
Judge, with Star Trek references, sanctions plaintiff's lawyers in porn copyright litigation
By Henry Meier
In his 11-page order, Judge Otis Wright said Prenda Law principals John Steele, Paul Hansmeier and Paul Duffy, along with the ...
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Life in Cold War Germany was only a brief stop on Judge Dale Fischer's inevitable path to law.
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The Federal Trade Commission unanimously voted this week to move forward with implementation of a rule further restricting the...
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