A federal appeals court has ordered a trial judge to award Morrison & Foerster reasonable attorney fees for its work in a civil rights case and overturned a sanction against…
A federal jury in Boise, Idaho, decided today that a man convicted of killing four members of a northern Idaho family should be sentenced to death for kidnapping, torturing and…
This spring’s trial of a so-called private investigator to the stars, who was accused of wiretapping courtroom opponents of the well-to-do and celebrity clients for whom he worked, was high-profile.
Mattel Inc. had sought more than $2 billion, including punitives, in the damages phase of a copyright infringement and contractual rights suit against the manufacturer of the…
Two San Diego plaintiffs law firms will earn at least $8 million in fees to drop their backdating lawsuits against Brocade Communications and assist the company’s special litigation committee in…
Lawyers for billionaire and former Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas III, who is facing securities fraud and drug charges in federal court in California, are seeking to put the pregnant wife…
A federal judge in northern California questions whether Stephanie Lenz can prove that Universal Music Corp. acted in bad faith when it demanded that YouTube take down a 29-second Aug 21, 2008 4:10 PM CDT
A federal appeals court has chastised Immigration Judge Thomas Y.K. Fong for cutting short the hearing of a Chinese woman who claimed she was forced to undergo an abortion in…
A federal appeals court has ruled that a federal statute doesn’t bar trial judges from hearing evidence on how names are added to the government’s no-fly list.
People may need a reason to believe in Republican John McCain as the country’s next president, but singer, songwriter and liberal activist Jackson Browne doesn’t want it to be his…
Miles Monroe, the character in the Woody Allen movie Sleeper, knows something about sex machines and the travails of a very modern life. Now, it seems, he has something in…
A federal judge in San Jose, Calif., has refused to approve settlements in two backdating cases without more information about the role of corporate lawyers, including Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &…
Convicted Unabomber Ted Kaczynski has written a letter to a federal appeals court protesting the display of his cabin in a news museum exhibit called “G-Men and Journalists.”
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