A federal judge Monday refused to release $28 million of $47 million in attorney fees to Joseph M. Alioto in the mega-lawyer-fee battle between Alioto and a company that lent him money to press on with a major antitrust case. …
The U.S. Senate confirmed by a voice vote Monday the nomination of Michael J. McShane, an Oregon state court judge with a criminal defense background, to a federal judgeship in Oregon. McShane, 52, has served on Oregons death penalty panel…
Environmentalists lost efforts to have Monsanto Co.’s genetically-altered Alfalfa declared a “plant pest,” and thus subject to federal regulation. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court decision approving the Dept. of Agriculture’s unconditional…
Wells Fargo must pay $203 million to customers charged excessive fees under the bank’s practice that multiplied overdraft fees by depleting the account as fast as possible, a federal judge said this week. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the…
California’s Northern District Court will have its second Judge William H. Orrick on the bench. The U.S. Senate confirmed the hard-fought nomination of Orrick III by a vote of 56-41 Wednesday. Orrick, 60, is the son of the late William…
In mid-April we wrote that a three-judge appellate panel appeared to struggle during arguments with the potentially far-reaching implications of a constitutional challenge to California’s ban on gay conversion therapy. It appears they are still struggling. The 9th U.S. Circuit…