U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Logjam Persists In Eastern District Docket
By John Roemer
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California has been crushed by a wave of cases that even judges say has sp...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Lawsuit Accuses S.F. Hospital of Unfair Billing
By Evan George
San Francisco General Hospital has become the latest in a string of facilities accused of illegally 'balance billing' insured ...
A recent Supreme Court decision invites plaintiffs and prosecutors to up the stakes in a wide variety of cases by alleging RIC...
Judges and Judiciary
House Approves First Impeachment of a Federal Judge in 20 Years
By Robert Iafolla
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the House of Representatives impeached a federal judge for high crimes and misdemeanors...
The California Supreme Court ruled against the state's powerful teachers' unions Thursday, saying they aren't entitled to use ...
The U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday that allegations of age-based employer bias must meet a higher evidence standard than wha...
Bernard Wolfsdorf, who won asylum from South Africa, is a new leader for immigration lawyers.
A recent appellate case should remind lawyers that sometimes, adhering to formal statutory requirements is not optional, write...
Multinational companies should implement codes that set forth what behavior is unacceptable, writes Stephen J. Hirschfeld.
One of the biggest ticket items pending in the bankruptcy of San Francisco law firm Heller Ehrman has yet to be resolved: whet...
Law Practice
With End in Sight for Consent Decree, a Fragile Hope for Oversight
By Greg Katzn
As the Department of Justice and the City of Los Angeles seek to leave behind an eight-year consent decree, the police departm...
A sharply split U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that prison inmates have no constitutional right to review DNA evidence, mar...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Health Lawyers Look for Clues to Reform Effort's Winners, Losers
By Evan George
As health care reform jumped to life this week, with both Congressional hearings and appeals by President Barack Obama pushing...
Facebook Inc.'s multi-country litigation against German social networking site StudiVZ Ltd. for allegedly copying the look and...
For two California lawyers fighting to get federal employee benefits for their same-sex spouses, including 9th Circuit staff a...
The Legislative Budget Conference Committee officially signed off Tuesday on a plan that includes closing the state's courts o...
A Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld a decades-old policy that bars Los Angeles police officers from acting as immigration ag...
The private company charged with providing protection at the nation's federal courts begun an internal investigation this week...
Law Practice
L.A. County Prosecutors' Union Must Restore Officer Elections, Judge Rules
By Greg Katzn
A Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld a decades-old policy that bars Los Angeles police officers from acting as immigration ag...
While AIG has sparked public outrage for handing out millions in bonuses to its top executives, its insurance underwriters cla...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
No Benefits for Posthumously Conceived Child
By John Roemer
Can a child conceived in vitro with sperm extracted from a corpse receive Social Security benefits for being the surviving off...
Getting rid of some seriously flawed criminal justice policies would help alleviate the state's budget crisis, writes Jeffrey ...
A decision involving water transfers in Florida, will likely have a profound impact on California's water supply and delivery ...
For big firms, client conflicts create a murky area for issues of legal malpractice liability, write Scott B. Garner and Isabe...
A Superior Court judge on Wednesday formally dismissed two high-profile damages suits against Dole Food Co. Inc., months after...
The nation's cash-strapped immigration courts are struggling to keep pace with a surge in new cases that resulted from ramped-...
A federal jury handed down a verdict late Tuesday awarding San Francisco law firm Shartsis Friese more than $1.3 million for m...
A former aide to accused Orange County Ponzi mastermind Danny Pang says a payment was made to Los Angeles-origin legal powerho...
Placer County Superior Court's former Court Executive Officer John Mendes is not only facing accusations of taking nearly $500...
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