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U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Irate Kozinski Seeks Review of Fraud Case
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A securities-fraud ruling by a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel turned into a judicial brawl Tuesday as...
Web Exclusive - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Civil Rights Lawyer Sues Over Skid Row Activist’s Arrest
By Anat Rubinn
Civil rights attorney Carol Sobel filed a federal civil rights lawsuiton behalf of Pete White, co-director of the Los Angeles ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Conference Withdraws Controversial Discipline Rule
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Weeks before a showdown over new rules on disciplining errant federal judges was set to erupt, the 9th U.S. Ci...
A Superior Court jury took less than two hours to find that U.S. District Judge George Schiavelli tumbled on his own accord fr...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Off the Record, on Deep Background: What Does It All Mean?
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Elizabeth Lampert and William-Arthur Haynes - Lawyers and reporters should establish clear ground rules befo...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Disclosures Shouldn't Always Waive Privilege, Judge Says
By Alexia Garamfalvin
SAN FRANCISCO - Fourteen months ago, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer for the Northern District of California ruled that a l...
Focus Column - By Michael D. Weil - Many California courts have issued differing opinions on common law claims that arise from...
Contracts
Court of Appeal Rejects Last-Minute Updates to Contingency-Fee Agreements
By Jim Adamekn
The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Friday rejected a move to use some hastily handwritten updates to a contingency-fee contra...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Weil, Gotshal & Manges Seals $2.4 Billion Purchase of Getty
By Devan Mcclainen
SAN FRANCISCO - Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC reached an agreement Monday with Getty Images Inc. to take the ...
Forum Column - By Helene Wasserman - Employers and employees should adhere to an agreed-on Internet use policy. ...
Government
Stanford Law Professor Decides He Won't Run for Congress
By Alexia Garamfalvin
SAN FRANCISCO - A conversation with a pollster and some close friends convinced Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it would decide whether a federal appeals court was wrong to reverse...
Verdicts
Transgendered Woman, Hospital Settle Breast-Enlargement Policy Dispute
By Rebecca Beyer
SAN FRANCISCO - A Catholic hospital that denied a transgender woman breast augmentation surgery now says it allows the cosmeti...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to a major lower-court patent ruling that made it more difficult for pat...
Web Exclusive - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law...
Los Angeles police Officer Robert Chavez sued the city for discrimination and spent five years in litigation to end up with a ...
The Judicial Council unanimously endorsed the California Supreme Court's proposal to reform the death-penalty appeal process F...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Tortured Logic: Scalia's Remarks at Odds With Constitution
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By John Burton - Justice Antonin Scalia's recent endorsement of the use of torture is antagonistic to the Unite...
Focus Column - By Peter Busch - When a crime is committed using the Internet, issues of personal jurisdiction can become quite...
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - A federal judge's order to disable a muckraking Web site represents an egregious and reaction...
Industry Watch - By Amity Bacon -Trial lawyers get a bad rap from politicians, from corporations and their insurance companies...
Judges and Judiciary
Report Gives Courts Ways to Help Domestic-Violence Cases
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Three years after a state study slammed the justice system's handling of domestic-abuse cases, a new report su...
SACRAMENTO - A commission studying the fairness of California's justice system has recommended increasing compensation for the...
Industry Watch - By Jill Redhage - Chris Hockett, a well-regarded Bingham McCutchen litigator, has jumped ship to head Davis P...
Rejecting defense lawyers' request for leniency, a Riverside County judge sentenced John Heath, 81, to 28 years in state priso...
Web Exclusive - The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Friday rejected a move to use some hastily handwritten updates to a contin...
Longtime San Francisco-based firm Heller Ehrman has lost 16 California partners and laid off 65 administrative staff in the la...
LOS ANGELES - A retired judge in the Inland Empire awarded $9.36 million Friday to a woman whose health insurance company canc...