• March 6, 2007 | The Recorder

    Religious-School Bonds Squeak By Court

    California Supreme Court Justice Joyce Kennard has defeated Associate Justice Ming Chin in a showdown over public funding for religious schools.Kennard's prize: the majority opinion in

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  • November 7, 2000 | The Recorder

    Judge Breaks Ground With EBay Ruling

    EBay Inc. cannot be sued for auctioning sound recordings over its Web site that may infringe on a copyright, a San Francisco superior court judge ruled on Tuesday.Attorney Randall Ston

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  • December 28, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Calif. High Court Allows Punitives in Contract Case

    The California Supreme Court on Thursday gave businesses a new incentive to be honest by ruling that they could be hit with punitive damages for fraudulently breaching contracts. The 6

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  • December 6, 2004 | The Recorder

    Cutting Litigation Off at the Pass

    Over the course of the last decade, employment cases have increasingly turned into bet-the-company lawsuits with millions (and sometimes tens of millions) of dollars at issue. Plaintiffs have

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  • January 8, 2003 | The Recorder

    Court Mulls When Shareholders Can Sue

    When one of the world's leading ocean freight companies merged with a large competitor in 1995, all looked rosy for stockholders.But a year later, the floor dropped out when the compan

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  • December 18, 2001 | The Recorder

    Oracle Sued for Age Discrimination

    Oracle Corp. and its CEO Larry Ellison are back in court, this time accused of age discrimination and denying $20 million in stock options to an executive.Randy Baker was hired in 1993

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  • April 5, 2006 | The Recorder

    The Out-of-Towners

    In today's highly regulated environment, companies and their directors and officers need to know what laws and standards will be applied to their actions. Even the best-intentioned executives

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  • November 9, 2004 | The Recorder

    Judicial Profile: David Levi

    COURT: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of CaliforniaAPPOINTED: 1990, by President George BushDATE OF BIRTH: 1951LAW SCHOOL: Sta

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  • May 13, 2013 | The Recorder

    Howrey Trustee Targets More Firms

    SAN FRANCISCO — The Howrey estate has slapped three more law firms with unfinished business claims — an important source of recovery for bankrupt firms and a headache for ma

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  • May 13, 2013 | The Recorder

    Howrey Trustee Targets More Firms

    SAN FRANCISCO — The Howrey estate has slapped three more law firms with unfinished business claims — an important source of recovery for bankrupt firms and a headache for ma

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