Jonathan Dickstein and his wife formed a dummy company that purported to provide educational services to their autistic son. Instead, prosecutors say they funded their upscale lifestyle. The school district and insurance companies caught wind, $400,000 later.
After a long trial and long jury deliberations, the tech licensing giant comes out with nothing instead of $4 billion.
For San Francisco’s Presiding Judge Katherine Feinstein, it may not all have been worth it.
Terry Bowman leaves her firm, where she presented cops accused of crimes, for her old stomping grounds in San Jose.
The laser-maker’s lawyer says this case is classic David v Goliath.
Even though he maybe didn’t raise enough money and maybe should’ve prosecuted some corrupt cops, San Franciscans voted to keep appointed District Attorney George Gascon on the job.
After reading that his client accused him of committing a “horrific fraud,” an S.F. legal malpractice attorney filed a 60+ page complaint.
Members of both sides of the bar are mystified by the court’s seeming lack of reason, and have called for a slower move toward change, led by a committee of themselves.
When OPD and other agencies fired tear gas, rubber bullets and sound grenades at Occupy Oakland protesters, lawyers say they broke a promise made in 2003 to the ACLU and federal court to keep a lid on the violent tactics.
A former city administrator said then-Mayor Ron Dellums fired her because she’s a woman. A jury disagreed, in 40 minutes.
