EFF is stepping into a legal battle between Facebook and aggregator Power Ventures, arguing that Facebook's lawsuit alleging v...
Because of divergent viewpoints about the definition of terrorism, there currently is no internationally agreed upon anti-terr...
Merger talks have fizzled between San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and London's SJ Berwin, according to an e...
Mark Phillips of Goldfarb, Sturman & Averbach says recent cases indicate a new flexibility on the part of courts when deal...
With patents for blockbuster drugs nearing expiration, big pharmaceutical companies are looking beyond the drugs that built th...
On the heels of a scandal over the checkered past of disgraced crime lab technician Deborah Madden, San Francisco District Att...
The California Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to uphold Proposition 209, a controversial 1996 ballot measure prohibiti...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay $27.6 million - billed as one of the largest environmental settlements of its type in U.S. histo...
A Superior Court judge's decision to dismiss a judgment of malicious prosection against Manatt Phelps & Phillips and attor...
Department of Justice attorneys are balking at the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation's proposed $612,000 in damages for warrantle...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer dissented Monday, not in a case, but over the issue of closing the court's front ...
Labor/Employment
Deferential Standard of Review in ERISA Cases Clarified
By Carla Pinedan
Robert McKennon of McKennon|Schindler examines the federal courts struggle over how to apply the deferential standard of revie...
The 5,000 newspaper carriers who landed a $22 million settlement from the Orange County Register last June finally are free to...
Citing a securities fraud ruling from last week, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday vacated a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rul...
Jennifer Chacon of UCI Law discusses potential legal challenges that may be raised by opponents to Arizona's immigration law. ...
Lisa Martens and Alexander Garcia of Fish & Richardson ask whether copyright law can apply to protect various tweets poste...
Is it a conflict of interest for the same lawyers to represent both plaintiffs who were hurt in accidents they claim were caus...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
No Relief for Victims of Green Card Scam
By John Roemer
Three more victims of a corrupt federal immigration official's dealing in bogus green cards must be deported, a 9th U.S. Circu...
In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held Monday that plaintiffs are barred from suing individual federal health care...
O'Melveny & Myers has launched an intensive review of the performance of lateral lawyer hires over the past two years, inc...
May 2, 2010 marked the 50th anniversary of Caryl Chessman's execution in San Quentin's gas chamber. Paul Von Blum of UCLA writ...
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...
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...
Senior vice president, General counsel and secretary for American Apparel Los Angeles ...
Attorney is convicted of possessing child pornography. ...
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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...