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Trial is expected to begin this month for a man charged with making bomb threats after authorities learned of a Facebook post ...


Environmental


A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that Central Valley officials are not doing enough to prevent dairy operations from poll...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


An Hispanic man convicted in 1983 for the murders of a Mojave couple cannot win a reversal even though the prosecutor dismisse...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A Contra Costa County Superior Court judge is under fire from the state Commission on Judicial Performance for allegedly influ...


A small Delaware patent holding company was awarded $30 million - plus potential royalties - by a Virginia federal jury Tuesda...


Law Practice


Law library tries new funding tack

Nov. 7, 2012
By Alexandra Schwappach

The new San Diego Law Library Partnership Program offers businesses the opportunity to host educational programs and receive o...



Court rejects cable bundling class action

Nov. 7, 2012
By Jean Yung

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a class-action suit against big media companies over the industry practice o...


Labor/Employment


The Brinker decision has helped plaintiffs' attorneys hone their allegations against three particular employer behaviors: auto...


Law Practice


Six attorneys joined Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP late last month in its San Diego and Del Mar Heights offices...


Government


After roughly nine months of stalled negotiations, 265 disgruntled employees at San Francisco County Superior Court have reach...


Government


Probation agency addresses problems

Nov. 7, 2012
By Henry Meier

Reinforcements are on the way for the embattled Los Angeles County Probation Department.


Government


Lawyers tepid about Super PAC donations

Nov. 6, 2012
By Kevin Lee

This election cycle, California lawyers are choosing to give legally limited donations directly to candidates and political pa...


If you ask your lawyer to obtain your foreign bank records, your lawyer generally can't be forced to hand them over to the IRS...


Education


Paper sues school district for evaluation data

Nov. 6, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

For now, districts should be permitted to continue efforts to use data-driven analysis to evaluate teachers without the inform...


California Supreme Court


The court reinstated the conviction of a man who killed his son in the process of "play wrestling" with him. It was the second...


California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court justices needed less than 20 minutes to decide, unanimously, to compel an Arizona group to identify th...


Government


SF court, employees reach contract agreement

Nov. 6, 2012
By Saul Sugarman

Employees at San Francisco County Superior Court have reached a contract agreement that included several concessions from cour...


In back-to-back arguments Monday over who owns the 80-year-old Superman character — DC Comics or the two comic strip writers w...


Corporate


General counsel across the country are taking new measures to bring down costs, according to a survey released Monday by Altma...


Mergers & Acquisitions


DealMakers

Nov. 6, 2012
By David Ruiz

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


Venture capital-backed U.S. companies have begun to share more "key metric" data, according to a report last week by Wilson So...


Intellectual Property


Apple-Google patent trial dismissed

Nov. 6, 2012
By Rachelswan

A district court judge in Wisconsin made good Monday on her threat to cancel an anticipated trial between Apple Inc. and Googl...


Corporate


TCW sale to Carlyle may end in court

Nov. 6, 2012
By Ben Adlin

A federal judge in Los Angeles intends to delay the high-profile acquisition of investment management firm TCW Group Inc. by p...


Law Practice


Legal sector posts gains, according to latest jobs report

Nov. 6, 2012
By Alexandra Schwappach

Intellectual property work continues to be in high demand throughout California and the nation.


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


Arizona's unusually restrictive abortion law got a hostile reception Monday at oral argument before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court...


Government


Judges, judicial branch staff and trial courts craft document urging vendors to bid to replace courts' aging filing systems.


The federal appeals court today will hear oral arguments on the never-ending fight over who owns the 80-year-old superhero. ...


Labor/Employment


Social media case fails to draw clear lines

Nov. 6, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

While the result was positive for employers, the board failed to draw clear lines as to what speech is and is not protected. B...


Law Practice


Deal with conflicts from the get-go

Nov. 5, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

Assisting proposed business partners to avoid conflicts is a service that is in increasing demand, particularly from a corpora...


Family


Reimagining custody

Nov. 5, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

Child abandonment is a crime, but abandoning custodial rights is not. In fact, such irresponsible parents cannot even be held ...