U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Judges Debate Unpublished Opinions
By John Roemer
9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski isn't shy about his deep dislike of a new federal courts rule allowing lawyers to cite u...
A Superior Court Judge on Thursday ordered prosecutors to provide defense lawyers with hundreds of additional pages of documen...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Local and global forces are driving some law firms to shift their tax practices out West. ...
President Barack Obama has nominated Edward DuMont, a partner at WilmerHale and a Washington, D.C.-based appellate specialist,...
Law school students have a lot of confidence in their employment prospects after school but could hardly say the same of their...
Accounting firm Hood & Strong sued labor and employment law firm Jackson Lewis for professional malpractice Monday in San ...
Haitian musician Marc Antoine Joseph, 29, will get another chance to stay in the U.S., the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals r...
By the time the 2009 tax season is over this month, a Web-based application run by the Legal Aid Society of Orange County like...
The Bar Association of San Francisco's tax-controversy clinic matches volunteer lawyers from the area with poor people whose I...
Even if you don't have to pay taxes, you can still get in hot water with the tax collector. Just ask the Service Employees Int...
The Santa Clara County Bar Association has named two minority members to its judicial vetting committee to satisfy critics who...
Medical device companies hoping to tie up a competitor's products in federal court may now have to rely on new legal tactics. ...
Benihana Inc. and its subsidiary, RA Sushi, have been sued in Los Angeles Superior Court for the death of a woman stemming fro...
The agency that handles court-ordered child support services for nearly 2 million families across California has proposed remo...
Nomi Stolzenberg of USC Law School says the belief that religion has ceased to be a relevant factor in judicial appointments i...
Michael Kiely and Claudia Gutierrez of Sheppard Mullin say Recovery Zone Facility Bonds may not provide the economic stimulus ...
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi called on Mayor Gavin Newsom Wednesday to provide more lawyers to deal with the lega...
The peculiarities of tax cases often make them harder to settle than commercial disputes, Robert Steinberg of ADR Services Inc...
Perspective
As Death Penalty Cases Fade, L.A. County Pays to Buck the Trend
By Carla Pinedan
The rise in death sentences in Los Angeles County couldn't come at a worse time, write Natasha Minsker and Ramona Ripston of t...
If you're worried that a large refund check will increase audit exposure, Robert Wood of Wood & Porter discusses situation...
A battery of dismissals of subprime and credit-crisis related shareholder class actions is sending a wave of fear through the ...
There's another side of CPA types, a human side, filled with wit, intrigue, heroics and, yes, even a sense of humor, that ofte...
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court Nomination For '10th Justice' Would Be Rare
By Lawrence Hurleyn
If Elena Kagan replaces Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court, as many expect, she would join a select group of ...
The children of a legendary comic book artist hit a roadblock Wednesday in their efforts to reclaim partial ownership of sever...
The proposed class action claims same-sex couples' exclusion from a tax-shielded long-term care insurance program is unconstit...
Are the special taxes residents pay to finance debt issues for new public services and infrastructure, known as Mello-Roos bon...