California ranked second in the latest listing of "Judicial Hellholes," an annual report from the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) that tracks real-time disadvantages to defendants by civil court judges across the U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO – A consumer claims a business selling automotive parts does not disclose the health hazards of certain chemicals on its products per state law.
The magazine U.S. News and World Report has been ranking law schools for 23 years. And in those 23 years, there is only one law school that has reigned supreme: Yale Law School.
LOS ANGELES – Two Italian companies allege a Tarzana business and individual continued to sell their products after an agreement between the parties was terminated.
LOS ANGELES — The State Bar Court of California recently sentenced Berkeley attorney Eric Martin Sippel, 55, to one year of probation for failure to comply with the minimum continuing legal education hours required to keep his license in good standing.
BERKELEY, Calif. — About four years ago, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California Melinda Haag filed a lawsuit threatening to confiscate the land owned by Nahla Droubi on which a marijuana dispensary sat and operated, citing a violation of federal law but not California law, because it was located within 1,000 feet of two preschools.
BERKELEY, Calif. — A recently dismissed lawsuit against Berkeley Patients Group ended a three-year legal battle by the federal government to close Berkeley’s oldest marijuana dispensary.
OAKLAND – A group of civil-rights organizations has filed suit against the California Department of Transportation, charging that the agency violates the rights of homeless people with its ongoing series of sweeps and targeted raids.
