Lawyers who won $183,000 for the family of a man who died in 2005 after being Tasered dozens of times by Salinas, Calif., police have now been awarded $1.4 million…
As evidence recently made public in the Barry Bonds case makes clear, excluding blood tests that allegedly show he took steroids is key to his trial strategy in a federal…
Two federal judges on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have required payment of health insurance benefits to same-sex spouses of lawyers employed by the U.S. government.
An insurance company that had refused to pay out on a $10 million life policy after actor Heath Ledger’s death from a drug overdose, contending that it might have been…
A Stanford Law School graduate who reportedly pursued a lucrative nonlegal (and illegal) career to help cover the cost of her student loans has avoided prison but will serve a…
A federal appeals court has ruled that Taco Bell—and not its ad agency—is responsible for paying $42 million in damages and interest to two cartoonists who claimed the fast-food giant…
Tenants have complained about blighted views, possible fire safety issues and, in at least one apparent contract-based claim, an adverse effect on their business. But, at least for now, so-called…
There’s no question that Davis Wright Tremaine won a civil rights victory for a Seattle parents group by fighting all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court the local school…
A former assistant Santa Clara County, Calif., prosecutor is facing six felony charges for allegedly helping a client launder money through attorney fees paid to her trust account.
Thomas Mundy isn’t a lawyer. But he says he’s filed 150 lawsuits over the past 18 months, seeking to enforce a federal law that requires businesses to be wheelchair-accessible.
In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed today by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, the agency says an upscale California seaside community is violating constitutional law and the Americans…
Judges on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared testy this week as they considered a colleague’s refusal to order a new trial because of a witness’s…
A former career FBI agent pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington, D.C., today to illegally accessing information in the agency’s computers and passing it on, via actress Linda Fiorentino,…
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