U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court Throws Out Headscarf Suit
By John Roemer
A devout Muslim woman forced to remove her headscarf in public while in custody at the Orange County Superior Court cannot sue...
A five-year legal battle over tens of millions of dollars owed to film and television writers took one step closer to a resolu...
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke at the annual gala dinner of the Southern California chapter of the Associati...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Thomas Emerges As Serious Contender
By John Roemer
Circuit Judge Sidney Runyan Thomas of Montana, whom President Barack Obama interviewed at the White House last week as a poten...
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A request by state law enforcement officials to establish a new account for the state's trial courts that would be used exclus...
Though he didn't work for the company, a private contractor recently won a nearly $4 million verdict against Union Pacific Rai...
A well-known Los Angeles immigration attorney has been barred from practicing law for one year after immigrants filed complain...
Allen Wilkinson and Reza Torkzadeh say tort reform affects the most seriously injured victims, those most in need of and deser...
Even if you have a good handle on employee characterization issues, there's always more to learn. 10 tips that you should know...
After 10 years, D. Stephen Antion returned to private practice to help Katten Muchin Rosenman grow its corporate business in L...
While bankruptcy is a stark reality for some, many troubled companies have the option to execute a general assignment for the ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Campaign Finance Law Undercut
By Lawrence Hurleyn
Citing January's blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Friday ...
While the state tries to appeal a prison population reduction order to the U.S. Supreme Court, it lost a separate but related ...
A case that could bring billions of dollars to school districts across the state is heading back to Los Angeles Superior Court...
As Friday's deadline approached for positions on the steering committee guiding the consolidated litigation stemming from Toyo...
The trustee of a bankrupt real estate development company has accused O'Melveny & Myers and one of its top partners of hel...
Find who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings at the state's law firms, legal organizations and...
Former defense attorney Mark E. Johnson disarms with his fair and folksy demeanor as a busy Riverside County Superior Court J...
With near-record demand for patent-related services, patent prosecutors may be in demand but movement between firms is limited...
An iPhone prototype found in a Silicon Valley bar is providing work for a growing number of Bay Area attorneys. ...
Los Angeles County illegally discharged pollutants into waters in and around Surfrider Beach, a federal district court judge r...
Another legal battle over whether Google's AdWords advertising program infringes trademarks has come out in the Mountain View-...
Patent holding company Parallel Networks LLC scored a victory against Silicon Valley technology giant Oracle Corp. in a federa...
Less than two years after launching his own litigation boutique focusing on arbitration and regulatory enforcement law, Brando...
San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is discussing a merger with the elite London-based "silver circle" law ...
An appellate court justice scolded attorneys at Dechert Thursday for filing a massive 8,000-page appendix to their civil appea...