A federal appeals court has overturned the arson convictions of a Caltech grad student accused of torching and vandalizing 125 SUVs, ruling the trial judge wrongly barred evidence of the…
An individual allegedly unconstitutionally detained as a material witness under a post-Sept. 11, 2001 anti-terrorism policy implemented by ex-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft can sue the nation’s former top law…
The former managing counsel for Toyota Motor Sales USA has filed a lawsuit against his former employer alleging the automaker destroyed evidence in hundreds of rollover suits, leading to his…
Federal authorities had warrants authorizing the seizure of steroid-test results for less than a dozen Major League Baseball players. But, in “an obvious case of deliberate overreaching by the government…
A federal appeals court has overturned the backdating conviction of the former CEO of Brocade Communications, saying the trial of Gregory Reyes was tainted by a prosecutor’s untrue statement to…
Hoping to show that Heller Ehrman was insolvent as early as 2007, creditors of the dissolving law firm are arguing that some $24 million in pension contributions were fraudulent transfers…
Unbeknownst to her California law firm, a longtime office administrator gave herself a $30,000 annual pay raise and better benefits by altering records on its computer, stealing some $1.3 million…
Two fired in-house lawyers who claim they were fired for raising questions about possible securities fraud at their employer may pursue their lawsuit as a result of a federal appeals…
A federal judge in San Francisco gave preliminary approval today to a plan by the Social Security Administration to pay $500 million to settle a class action brought on behalf…
Corrected: President Obama has nominated a lawyer known for her ERISA expertise and a federal judge from Pennsylvania for spots on two federal appeals courts.
A federal appeals court has refused to toss a lawsuit by a 50-lawyer personal injury law firm that claims another two-lawyer law firm used its copyrighted website content.
Upholding a preliminary injunction issued by a federal court in western Washington state, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has told two onetime counsel for Hagens Berman…
To comply with constitutional standards for the treatment of prisoners, California should release 43,000 inmates over the next two years, a special panel of three federal judges has ruled.
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