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.”
Although prosecutors sought probation for a former name partner at a California entertainment law boutique, a federal judge gave Richard Purtich a two-month sentence yesterday for helping another law firm…
Two assistant U.S. attorneys told a judge on Friday that they are facing ethics probes for encouraging an ex-assistant sheriff to secretly record his onetime boss, former Orange County Sheriff…
Some 30 friends and family members attended a Tuesday sentencing hearing for a former Billings, Mont., attorney, supporting the man they knew as a devoted family man and warmhearted community…
A federal judge in California has refused to grant a mistrial because of a juror’s disparaging comments about a CEO’s Iranian ethnicity in a copyright dispute over Bratz dolls.
The annual judicial conference held by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is getting lots of attention in the legal press because of high-profile figures who canceled…
Corrected: After a five-year legal saga – in which he lost his job as one of Silicon Valley’s top investment bankers, was convicted of obstruction of justice on charges that…
An anonymous donor who has offered to post bail for a jailed California businessman can’t do so unless he’s willing to reveal his name, a federal judge says.
Updated: So-called spam king Robert Soloway was sentenced this week to 47 months in prison by a federal judge in Seattle, for sending out a slew of fraudulent e-mail messages…
A railroad company has settled with the government for a record $102 million in a case over a 2000 wildfire in a forest north of Sacramento, Calif., that was especially…
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