Subject: Trials

• District Attorney Files Criminal Charges Against Supervisor Ed Jew

  June 12, 2007

• ADA Lawsuit Factory in SF

  July 25, 2007

• CNET/H-P Suit: Good Personal Privacy v. Bad Personal Privacy VIolator

  August 16, 2007

• Alleged S.F. Road Warrior Omeed Popal to Face 35 Felony Counts

  January 8, 2008

• Ka-Ching!

  March 5, 2008

• Smashing Pumpkins File Lawsuit Against Virgin Records

  March 25, 2008

• Marjorie Knoller case inches forward

  April 11, 2008

• Leader of Down Below Gang blames PTSD for killings

  February 18, 2009

• Ka-Ching!

  The Guardian hits the jackpot — but don't count the money yet, Bruce.

  March 12, 2008

• Gus Fallay Beats Bribery Rap, Wants Old Job Back at SF Department of Building Inspection

  January 16, 2008

• Frankovich: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Disables Wheelchair Access Attorney

  September 26, 2007

• Wheelchairs of Fortune

  July 25, 2007

• Amazonian Quagmire

  Big Oil, the rainforest, and sticky legal issues are stuck in a San Francisco courtroom

  November 15, 2006

• Let It Bleed

  Prosecutors' reluctance to charge murder suspects in S.F. leaves alleged killers on the street, flush with bravado

  January 18, 2006

• Tilting at Political Windmills

  Some people, like attorney Paul Melbostad, just don't know when to quit. Bully for him.

  January 4, 2006

• Split Decision

  Republicans want to break up "the 9th Circus," the San Francisco-based liberal federal appeals court. Whose side are you on?

  December 7, 2005

• Bait and Snitch

  Lying under oath, threatening witnesses, revealing the names of federal agents -- it's just another day on the job for one of the DEA's paid drug informants

  November 23, 2005

• Harsh Judgment

  An epic child-custody case, pitting California against Texas, takes another twist when an appeals court labels the proceedings "nonsense"

  June 19, 2002

• Soft Firm

  Too often, the S.F. law firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein strikes settlements that give the firm millions of dollars in legal fees -- and its class action clients too little

  May 29, 2002

• Law of the Bungle

  Sara Jane Olson's attorney would like to say a few words about how her San Francisco co-counsel handled the high-profile case

  December 26, 2001

• Law and Borders

  Prosecutors, judges, governors, a sex offender, and a woman with a penchant for poor judgement entangle California and Texas in an epic child custody war with two sure losers -- aged 7 and 9.

  November 14, 2001

• The Dilemma of Sara Jane Olson

  With an October trial in the offing, prosecutors had every intention of proving that Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson was a domestic terrorist who helped plant bombs under police cars 26 years ago.

  September 19, 2001

• Old Wounds

  News reports about the lawyers whose dog killed Diane Whipple have stirred unpleasant memories among a few of their former clients

  March 14, 2001

• Killer, Junkie, Liar, Thief...

  ... so why not lawyer? How our political elite tried and failed to get a law license for sister-killing Eben Gossage.

  August 23, 2000

• Slave Wages

  Those forced to labor for Japan in World War II are now suing in California courts

  July 5, 2000

• Officer Down

  Steve Landi was a hero at 101 California and a cop to his bones. Why is the SFPD trying so hard to get rid of him?

  June 7, 2000

• "Fairfield Wives" Saga Continues

  Mormon doctor's conviction for sexual penetration with foreign object upheld; allegation of juror misconduct headed for court

  January 26, 2000

• South to the Future

  Mexican Families to File Class Action Lawsuit Against U.S. Drug Consumers

  December 8, 1999

• Pirates at the Dock

  Sony, Electronic Arts sue, alleging Bay Area residents were part of international video game piracy ring

  September 15, 1999

• WEB PREVIEW

  Pirates at the Dock

  Sony, Electronic Arts sue, alleging Bay Area residents were part of international video game piracy ring

  September 8, 1999

• Smoke and Mirrors

  Hype over the Laguna Honda bond issue hides some ugly facts

  September 1, 1999

• Drug Warfare

  A Marin pharmacist sticks up for the little guys, and gets run over

  May 12, 1999

• Cothran

  May 12, 1999

• Cothran

  October 7, 1998

• Midway to Nowhere

  September 16, 1998

• Trial by Liar

  The snitches mumbled, stumbled, equivocated, and perjured themselves The jury found Bernard Temple -- the man prosecutors believed to be a bloodthirsty assassin for drug dealers -- not guilty of murder.

  January 14, 1998

• The Great Bank Thievery

  The city and state say the Bank of America stole hundreds of millions -- even billions -- of dollars from the government. But didn't San Francisco finance officials know what was going on? And shouldn't B of A executives be under criminal investigation?

  December 31, 1997

• Splendor in the Court

  How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

  December 10, 1997

• Let's Make Appeal

  UCSF-Stanford merger challenged directly in appellate court

  November 12, 1997

• Will the Soul-Jacker Go Free?

  State prosecutions against alleged gang assassin appear to disintegrate

  May 21, 1997

• Fatal Attraction: Illicit Affair Allegedly Behind 2006 SF Infanticide

  Three years ago Linda Woo, then 40, woke her two children, wrapped them in blankets, and placed them inside a Subaru Outback owned by a man who had recently broken off a six-year-affair with her. Also in the car had been placed a lit barbecue grill -- which Woo had bought along with a carbon monoxide meter -- after she'd researched how to commit suicide by breathing charcoal fumes. When the trio were found a short time later, Olive Woo Murphy, age 3, petite with dark wavy hair, was dead. Linda

  April 17, 2009

• Waste Case History

  October 23, 1996

• Where Crime Pays

  Is the DA's Office bungling the biggest pollution case in Bay Area history?

  October 23, 1996

• The Grid

  August 28, 1996

• Does Pleading Guilty to a Drug Charge Injure Immigrant's 'Good Moral Character'? Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Says No.

  The San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that the government cannot use an illegal immigrant's expunged guilty plea to a simple drug offense as evidence of bad moral character in deportation proceedings. Jesus Romero came to the United States from Mexico when he was 10 years old in 1988. He pleaded guilty to a first-time drug possession offense a decade later, yet the judge deferred judgment against him pending his completion of a rehabilitation program. According t

  June 12, 2009

• Thanks For Staying In San Francisco Levi's! Here's a Lawsuit.

  Is that a lawsuit in your pocket? On the very day iconic San Francisco-born dungaree empire Levi Strauss said it was staying put in the city, the company received a legal kick in its 501s several hundred miles down the road. On July 13, a class-action lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles against J.C. Penney and Levi's concerning the pants company's subsidiary, Dockers. The plaintiffs claim harks to a 2007 cross promotion in which customers who bought $125 worth of Dockers at Penney's during Father's

  July 16, 2009

• Disgruntled Showbiz Parents File Suit Against Kiddie Talent Agency

  ...But not for free​Not everyone can have the glamorous life of Lindsay Lohan or Macaulay Culkin. A mob of angry parents this week filed a federal class action lawsuit in San Francisco district court claiming  a talent agency called Be Productions -- which used to have an office location in Emeryville -- unlawfully charges for its services, publishes misleading information on its brochures and Web site, and, most importantly, didn't make their kids into stars. The lawsuit claims that Be P

  August 19, 2009

• S.F. taxpayers may be struck with the legal tab for a failed Ingleside murder case

  September 23, 2009

• Lawsuit Says Sony PS3 Needs to Update Its Updates

  ​In a federal class action lawsuit filed in the San Francisco court Friday, thousands of Sony PlayStation 3 video game owners who downloaded a required software update claim that instead of helping the system run better, the update caused their system to crash -- and actually damaged hardware in some cases. Sony first released the update, called "Firmware 3.0," in September, claiming it would add "a number of great new features," none of which included complete system failure.The lawsuit also

  October 5, 2009

• Jury Convicts Attempted Murderer Despite Disappearance of Victim Allegedly Scared Off By Private Investigator

  ​A San Francisco jury convicted Phil Pitney, 19, of attempted murder Thursday, even after the victim he shot at was a no-show for the entire trial -- apparently because he was threatened by the defense attorney's investigator.The Chron reported last week that Steve Vender, a private investigator working with defense attorney Eric Safire, had called Ladarius Greer, 21, on the eve of the trial and threatened that he would be arrested if he showed up for trial. The victim played police the i

  October 29, 2009