When a deluge of phone calls and letters began insisting that Nancy Taylor owed nearly $2,000 on a Sears account, the San Jose, Calif., resident fought to protect her excellent…
After news late last week that the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation had decided to consolidate nearly 200 lawsuits against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. before a single federal…
A California judge called during a court hearing yesterday for the San Francisco district attorney to dismiss hundreds of drug cases, unless and until doubts about the evidence created by…
A California judge has been admonished, in part because he hugged a defendant in open court after he had arraigned her on a charge of stabbing her boyfriend.
A disastrous series of childbirth issues that left Abbie Dorn in what some describe as a vegetative state with no possibility of recovery has now moved on, legally, from the…
An unusually liberal worker’s compensation system in California, as far as professional athletes are concerned, made the New York Times this week when the wife of…
A California Court of Appeal majority has crafted what Legal Blog Watch is calling the “dangerous quadriplegic” doctrine, citing a 22-year-old newspaper article about a disabled…
Yelp will allow users to see which reviews are removed from its consumer-rating website after three class action lawsuits claimed businesses were extorted into buying advertising.
Charged last year with attempted extortion over his handling of a civil harassment case, a prominent Southern California lawyer has now been indicted, along with his client, for allegedly trying…
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