3902 ABA Journal California articles.
Proceedings have been delayed in a California misdemeanor case in which the defense is claiming that police brutalized their client with a stun gun during his arrest at a shopping…
Aug 16, 2007 9:01 PM CDT
Internet-based reporters caught up in the Hewlett-Packard pretexting scandal have filed suit against the computer maker claiming invasion of privacy.
One Associated Press reporter and three CNet.com reporters, all of…
Aug 16, 2007 4:53 PM CDT
A bill being considered in the California legislature attempts to regulate checkbook journalism and private investigators who pay for confidential information.
The legislation, AB 920, would make it a misdemeanor…
Aug 16, 2007 4:08 PM CDT
Plaintiffs attorneys were awarded about $81.5 million in attorney fees yesterday following settlement of a case that alleged price fixing of DRAM computer chips.
The money will be split among…
Aug 16, 2007 11:54 AM CDT
A federal magistrate has ordered former lawyers for Qualcomm Inc. to appear in court later this month to face possible misconduct sanctions stemming from their roles in a cell phone…
Aug 15, 2007 4:09 PM CDT
A self-proclaimed pedophile who was the subject of an unusual injunction earlier this month was arrested twice yesterday.
Initially, Jack McClellan, 45, was arrested yesterday afternoon on suspicion of violating…
Aug 14, 2007 5:15 PM CDT
A book by O.J. Simpson that reportedly contains a hypothetical account of how he might have murdered his former wife, Nicole, if he had actually done so, will soon be…
Aug 13, 2007 8:18 PM CDT
A single foreclosed home in Southern California is part of a much bigger story.
It’s emblematic of what went wrong in the U.S. subprime mortgage industry, leading to turmoil in…
Aug 13, 2007 4:20 PM CDT
All charges have been dropped against a U.S. Marine lawyer who was accused of dereliction of duty for not conducting a more aggressive investigation of the deaths of 24 civilians…
Aug 9, 2007 6:58 PM CDT
San Diego’s city attorney has filed a malpractice suit against Willkie Farr & Gallagher. It claims that the high-powered New York City-based law firm overbilled and exceeded the scope of…
Aug 9, 2007 5:16 PM CDT
A Southern California judge has issued a temporary restraining order preventing a Texas plastic surgeon from selling, distributing or disseminating a 1994 videotape of breast augmentation surgery he performed on…
Aug 9, 2007 4:24 PM CDT
It isn’t the kind of precedent that attorneys learn about in law school. But the media circus surrounding Paris Hilton’s brief stint in the slammer earlier this summer shows that…
Aug 8, 2007 11:28 PM CDT
In a case seen by some as representing the flip side of the disastrous prosecution of former members of the Duke University lacrosse team for a rape they didn’t commit,…
Aug 7, 2007 6:12 PM CDT
Snakeskin is the hot material for designer handbags this fall. But a California law banning the sale of products made from pythons means that the some of the hottest accessories…
Aug 6, 2007 5:54 PM CDT
Despite having had to cover Hurricane Katrina, the worst U.S. disaster in the history of insurance, carriers are earning record profits. One reason why is that many don’t pay claims…
Aug 3, 2007 8:47 PM CDT
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