A judge approved a contentious sale of the rights to the "Terminator" franchise to a hedge fund Wednesday, ending a multi-mill...
Water pumping out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is expected to be cut beginning today to protect the delta smelt f...
As more companies market their businesses to take advantage of growing consumer demand for earth-friendly products, legal batt...
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Although attorneys for the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians were able to convince a Sacramento Superior Court judge recently th...
The city of San Diego's curfew, prohibiting minors from being out and about between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. - with a f...
The Obama administration tapped California attorney Matthew Bogoshian as the Environmental Protection Agency's new deputy assi...
Entertainment & Sports
Hedge Fund Wins Rights to Storied 'Terminator' Franchise
By Jean Luc Renault
In a surprise outcome, a hedge fund won the rights to the "Terminator" franchise in a bankruptcy auction Monday night, beating...
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. filed five separate lawsuits in one day against defendants who allegedly sold pirated version...
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Proposals to reform the nation's overworked immigration system were among the highlights of the American Bar Association House...
The former chief financial officer of an Orange County hospital pleaded guilty Tuesday to paying illegal kickbacks for homeles...
The state's judicial watchdog agency has launched disciplinary proceedings against a Placer County Superior Court judge, accus...
Hector Villagra, director of the Orange County office of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, has been a...
Telecom giants secured immunity from Congress for their alleged participation in the government's Terrorist Surveillance Progr...
Sacramento's largest law firm, Downey Brand, is expanding westward, opening an office in San Francisco with two environmental ...
Lonny Zilberman of Wilson Turner Kosmo concludes his list of six employment issues small and start-up businesses should know. ...
Bruce Smyth of Charlston, Revich & Wollitz addresses the challenging issue of spoliation of evidence, where outcomes befor...
A Republican senator from Alabama has lifted a controversial hold on more than 70 executive branch nominations, including the ...
LOS ANGELES - In an effort to improve efficiency, the Division of the State Architect is developing a program to transfer its ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Ninth Circuit Upholds Strip Searches For All Prisoners
By Laura Ernden
Breaking with its previous rulings, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of routine s...
Daniel Garrie of ARC and Yoav Griver of Zeichner Ellman & Krause advise companies on information management principles to ...
Robert McKennon of McKennon|Schindler analyzes Montour v. Hartford Life & Accident, one of the 9th Circuit's most s...
Defendants can get a good deal in Judge Brett G. London's misdemeanor arraignment court.
Law Practice
Defections From Large to Small Firms Expected To Continue
By Rebecca U. Cho
As client discontent with billing rates reached new heights in the economic downturn, some big-firm lawyers responded in recen...
Lawyers are warned to be on the lookout for a new phishing campaign, Red Condor, a Northern California-based security provider...
A Swedish man indicted last year for hacking into the computer systems of San Jose-based Cisco Systems Inc. and NASA may be pr...
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