Entertainment & Sports
How to legally protect your rights to scripts and film and television ideas
By Karen Natividadn
Make sure that you're not giving away your valuable ideas when making a pitch. By Thomas S. Rubin ...
Solar project developers looking to build on California's farmlands have caused a statewide clash over the development of pr...
Viacom Inc.'s billion-dollar cyberspace copyright infringement suit against Google Inc.'s YouTube video sharing site got new l...
Sedgwick LLP’s Los Angeles office recently hosted a Women’s Forum event that included a tour at the Fashion Institute of Desig...
California Western School of Law Dean Steven R. Smith received the Law Library Justice Foundation’s Bernard E. Witkin “Educato...
New federal regulations for swimming pool access under the Americans with Disabilities Act have heartened some disability righ...
Lytro Inc. General counsel Mountain View ...
Judge Arthur Lew was a crime TV fan as a child. Now, he presides over real crime cases.
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Something's got to give: overlapping antitrust laws create redundant claims
By Karen Natividadn
Overlapping state and federal antitrust laws allow claims to grow exponentially with the number of links in the supply chain. ...
Justices peppered both sides with tough questions Wednesday in a state Supreme Court case over whether charter cities can exem...
Problems with compensation guarantees to partners at Dewey appear to be more widespread than initially reported. The firm is ...
California's three strikes law casts a wide net that has caught an unexpectedly wide range of criminals; it's time to reform i...
A San Francisco federal judge put the brakes on an effort to widen a one-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 101 that runs through an...
Insurance companies in asbestos cases say they've long been excluded from objecting to deals made between defense and plaintif...
Litigation
Gay Northern District law clerk wins administrative appeal over spouse's health benefits
By Jill Redhage
A Northern District law clerk has successfully appealed the denial of health benefits for his same-sex spouse. ...
Intellectual Property
Kerr & Wagstaffe helps Australian client win big settlement
By Craig Anderson
San Francisco-based Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP helped win a settlement of more than $220 million for its Australian government c...
The city of Costa Mesa's charter resolution will not appear on June's primary ballot. ...
Not only might U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy decide the fate of the Obama administration's health care law, th...
It's not always intentional when prosecutors violate their discovery obligations, sometimes they simply fail to do the job rig...
U.S. Supreme Court
Healthcare case could be avenue for high court's view on federalism
By Robert Iafolla
The U.S. Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. could clarify its now-mysterious views on fed...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
In rare move, en banc panel orders mediation in gun show case
By John Roemer
In a highly unusual move in an epic case over Alameda County's disputed right to ban guns on county property, a 9th U.S. Circu...
Superior Court Judge Carol K. Ash has earned much praise for her even-keeled personality.
A roundup of recent real estate deals and the attorneys involved.
A novel medical marijuana case out of Santa Monica centers on the question of whether laboratories may lawfully test the drug ...
Criminal
Admissibility of pre-Miranda silence: silence louder than words
By Michael Leen
Since the reason why someone might choose to be silent is "insolubly ambiguous," it would be wrong to allow a jury to leap to ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court conservative blasts colleagues over gay rights decision
By John Roemer
In a broad attack on gay rights, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' leading conservative on Tuesday accused his liberal co...
Newly introduced legislation in the state Assembly would force all state agencies to relocate to Sacramento by 2025 and mandat...