Paul Elias

February 24, 1999 | Law.com

It took the U.S. Supreme Court all of about 12 hours Wednesday to reverse the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and allow the gas chamber execution of an Arizona inmate.

By Paul Elias

1 minute read

February 15, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - Prison time appeared to be looming for two San Francisco Chronicle reporters who refused to divulge who leaked them secret grand jury documents from the BALCO steroids investigation.Then the source finally stepped forward.But it wasn't until the FBI got a tip more than two years after the leak that the case began unraveling.

By Paul Elias and David Kravets

6 minute read

February 15, 2010 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - Warren Jacobs was desperate when he received a "robo-call" promising to help him stave off foreclosure of his home near Dallas.The father of six had lost his construction job, lacked health insurance and couldn't pay bills for his 17-year-old daughter's cancer treatment, let alone his mortgage.

By PAUL ELIAS

5 minute read

November 25, 2009 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - Solicitor General Elena Kagan asked for an unprecedented reconsideration of an appeals court ruling that government agents illegally seized drug-testing samples and records of baseball players who allegedly tested positive for steroids in 2003.Kagan and 22 lawyers from the Justice Department and U.

By PAUL ELIAS

4 minute read

August 04, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - When Abbott Laboratories Inc. hiked up the price of a popular AIDS drug by 400 percent in 2003, executives prepared for the inevitable public relations hit, but assured themselves the backlash would be brief.Nearly five years later, the accusations against Abbott are still flying.The North Chicago, Ill.

By PAUL ELIAS

5 minute read

January 12, 2010 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - Testimony in a groundbreaking legal challenge to California's same-sex marriage ban resumes Tuesday with testimony from two Ivy League historians who will discuss the nation's experience with matrimony and anti-gay discrimination.The trial, which began Monday, is the first in a federal court to decide the constitutionality of state bans on gay marriage.

By LISA LEFF and PAUL ELIAS

5 minute read

February 28, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - An effort at damage control has snowballed into a public relations disaster for a Swiss bank seeking to crack down on a renegade Web site for posting classified information about some of its wealthy clients.Documents from Bank Julius Baer containing information about several bank clients, including San Diego venture capitalist Jonathan Lampitt, were posted last month on Wikileaks.

By PAUL ELIAS

5 minute read

August 13, 2010 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - The federal judge who overturned California's same-sex marriage ban has more bad news for the measure's sponsors: he not only is unwilling to keep gay couples from marrying beyond next Wednesday, he doubts the ban's backers have the right to challenge his ruling.Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R.

By LISA LEFF and PAUL ELIAS

5 minute read

March 02, 2009 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - Baseball's home run king is jobless and apparently unemployable. His once peerless Hall of Fame credentials are tainted. Now, on the eve of resolving criminal charges that he lied under oath about performance-enhancing drugs use, the government has thrust Barry Bonds into a legal nether world with no end in sight.

By PAUL ELIAS

5 minute read

February 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By PAUL ELIAS

5 minute read