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SAN FRANCISCO - The California Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $201,000 to settle a wrongful death suit brought by...

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WASHINGTON - Some new sounds will be floating soon through the Supreme Court's marble halls - the patter of little bare feet, ...

SAN DIEGO - With up to 10 more weeks to come in David Westerfield's trial on charges of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Da...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel appeared sharply divided over how far the government can go to assert national s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two commercial litigators have resigned from Pillsbury Winthrop's San Francisco office to join Latham & Wa...

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The American Civil Liberties Union recently has filed suit against four airlines, chargin...

SACRAMENTO - California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, the state's premiere organization of criminal defense lawyers, has cho...

Gordon Bava, firm co-chairman, led a group of underwriters in their purchase of 4 million shares of Jakks Pacific Inc. for $71...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tirien Steinbach has been awarded a Post-Graduate Berkeley Law Foundation grant to work with the poor in Alame...

Forum Column - By Barry S. Willdorf - The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, "A well regulated Militia, being n...

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