Disbarred in1988 after he was convicted and sentenced to prison for felony theft from a client, Marvin Earl “Toby’’ Alback got his law license reinstated a little over a decade…
A Nevada personal injury lawyer accused of settling cases to his clients’ detriment has taken a plea, on the eve of a second trial in a federal “honest services” medical…
Annoyed by an automatic e-mail contacts-sharing feature in the new Google Buzz social network unveiled for Gmail users last week, a second-year student at Harvard Law School expressed her frustration…
Plaintiffs attorneys from nearly two dozen law firms are asking a federal court in California to consolidate litigation throughout the country over alleged defects in Toyota automobiles into a single…
The claimed sexual orientation of the federal judge overseeing the so-called Prop 8 case is a nonissue, writes Erwin Chemerinsky in an opinion column in the Advocate.
A federal judge’s ruling last month that Stephanie Enyart must be allowed to use screen-reader software when taking the Multistate Bar Examination might not be the final answer for the…
Responding to the first of at least 41 class action lawsuits alleging sudden acceleration issues in its automobiles, Toyota Motor Corp. has asked a federal judge in Los Angeles judge…
In a 6-5 decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that San Francisco’s process for strip-searching thousands of new jail inmates over a 21-month period is constitutional.
Three women wrestlers at the University of California at Davis scored a major victory today at the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed a federal district…
A photographer in Washington state seemingly has an interesting fair-use argument to make concerning his photograph which, as he describes it, depicted “a woman dancing” on a public artwork in…
Former Justice Department lawyers Jay Bybee and John Yoo are likely to be relieved by a forthcoming report that concludes they exercised “poor judgment” in legal memos authorizing harsh interrogation…
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