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Government, Criminal, Bankruptcy


Paul Paradis, once counsel to the city, was awarded millions in no-bid contracts through his company to fix billing issues, bu...


Criminal


The defendant is accused of breaching the databases of Linkedin, Dropbox and Formspring to steal and sell the login credential...


Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Federal prosecutors can't sentence men for violating U.S. drug laws when they were in compliance with state law, 9th Circuit r...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


Following completion last week of the bar’s assessment of any technical difficulties with the “baby bar” for first-year studen...


Government, California Supreme Court


A federal judge has unsealed records containing the Justice Department’s policies for use of the Classified Information Proced...


San Francisco court not likely to reinstate zero bail despite pleas from DA, public defender, several attorneys and health exp...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


David C. Kiernan, head of litigation for Jones Day’s San Francisco office, argued Sutter Health’s financial status and ability...


Judges and Judiciary


The proposed amendments include the issuance of tentative public admonishment or censure and a rule that would make settlement...


The endowment is named after Richard Bridgford’s late sister, Linda Ray Bridgford, who exemplified the qualities of unconditio...


Law Practice, Government


“We have an intern that’s going to be making an oral argument virtually in front of the appellate court,” said County Counsel ...


U.S. Supreme Court, Administrative/Regulatory


The 5th Circuit ruled only that the single-director structure of the agency, which only allowed the president to fire him for ...


Civil Litigation


A Black couple has sued Nike Inc. for racial profiling stemming from a July 2019 incident in which a store employee accused th...


Government, Civil Litigation


A report by a court-appointed special master investigating a $67 million Department of Water And Power ratepayer settlement sh...


Judicial Watch sued to block SB 826 last year. It claimed the law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitutio...


Judges and Judiciary


The ruling is likely to have far-reaching effects, as cities throughout the state have changed their election systems after be...


Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


U.S. District Judge Beth Freeman whittled down a substantial portion of the proposed antitrust class action, finding the socia...


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


At the heart of the motion are tens of thousands of documents Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP said it tried to pry from the cit...


U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Reversing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled federal employment laws do not appl...


A woman who sued the federal government after she was denied a CARES Act stimulus check because of her immigrant husband lost ...


Civil Rights


A civil rights lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of California alleges wrongful death and excessive police force in arrest...


California Courts of Appeal, Appellate Practice


The 1st District Court of Appeal on Wednesday denied a petition to overturn an Alameda County judge's order requiring potentia...


As the criminal trial of Yevgeniy Nikulin concluded what was expected to be the final day of proceedings Wednesday, the federa...


Immigration


USC’s president said it will join an amicus brief supporting Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...


Civil Litigation


Bayer said Wednesday it agrees with opposing counsel's decision to withdraw part of a $10.9 billion settlement of the Roundup ...


Civil Litigation


It’s a sign of the times that the most surprising aspect of the case is not the large award but that a jury delivered a civil ...


District Attorney Chesa Boudin agreed to the deal and said his office will not seek the death penalty for any case it prosecutes.


Consumer Law


Nestle says class action uses consumer protection law to attack companies for alleged third-party labor practices.


U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property, Administrative/Regulatory


Raising further legal questions about the America Invents Act patent law, a federal appellate court on Tuesday vacated a decis...


Criminal


The judge handling the first federal trial to resume in California slammed prosecutors Tuesday for reconvening a pool of anxio...


Legal Education, Immigration


In its statement Monday, ICE said students in the U.S. on F-1 or M-1 visas, enrolled in schools that offer a combination of in...