Paul Elias

December 06, 2012 | Legaltech News

The epic $1 billion patent fight between the world's top two smartphone makers resumes Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California when Apple and Samsung again square off over rights to vital technology.

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September 23, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Trendy clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has agreed to make religious accommodations to its policy governing employees' appearance as part of a settlement of discrimination lawsuits filed in California.

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December 03, 2010 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - An attempt to oust a liberal judge from hearing a landmark gay marriage case in California ended Thursday almost as quickly as it began.Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request that he recuse himself from the Proposition 8 case because he is married to Ramona Ripston, who plans to retire in February as head of the American Civil Liberties Union's Southern California office.

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September 17, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - A federal judge on Monday tossed out a lawsuit filed by California that sought to hold the world's six largest automakers accountable for their contribution to global warming.In its lawsuit filed last year, California blamed the auto industry for millions of dollars it expects to spend on repairing damage from global-warming induced floods and other natural disasters.

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August 28, 2012 | Legaltech News

Apple gave a federal judge a list of eight Samsung Electronics Co. products it wants pulled from shelves and banned from the U.S. market -- all are smartphones, including popular Galaxy models.

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May 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - A nonprofit digital library has successfully fought an FBI attempt to seize information about one of its users, and is calling on other groups to challenge government agencies attempting to obtain online customer information without a judge's order.The FBI presented the San Francisco-based Internet Archive with a national security letter in November asking for a library patron's records.

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January 24, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - Employers can fire workers found to have used medical marijuana even if it was legally recommended, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday.The high court upheld a small Sacramento telecommunications company's firing of a man who flunked a company-ordered drug test. Gary Ross held a medical marijuana card authorizing him to use the drug to treat a back injury sustained while serving in the Air Force.

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April 02, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - A federal judge on Friday tossed out new Bush administration rules that gave national forest managers more discretion to approve logging and other commercial projects without lengthy environmental reviews.U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled that the government failed to adequately consider the effects the rules would have on the environment and neglected to properly gather public comment on the issue.

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September 01, 2011 | Daily Report Online

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September 09, 2010 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - A sharply divided federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program that flew terrorism suspects to secret prisons.The complaint was filed by five terrorism suspects who were arrested shortly after 9/11 and say they were flown by a Boeing Co.

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