Panel to Focus on Operational & Fundraising Issues On Thursday February 11, 2010 Conifer Securities will host a panel discussion at the The City Club of San Francisco starting at 3pm.  For more information, please see the flyer on the Conifer website.  I’ve also posted more information on ...

En Banc 9th Rules Strip Searches of Inmates Constitutional :: Bull v. San Francisco (pdf)

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld San Francisco's policy of strip-searching arrestees without individualized suspicion they were concealing contraband. The opinion is here. "The record reveals a pervasive and serious problem with contraband inside San Francisco's jails, as well ...

San Francisco - Today a federal appeals court rejected a government claim of "lobbyist privacy" to hide the identities of individuals who pressured Congress to grant immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the government's warrantless electronic surveillance of millions of ordi ...

The recession might not be as bad as it was, but tell that to all those people out there who can't find jobs or are facing this type of government action (in the most progressive of all cities): From Heather...

A very interesting and important decision, in Bull v. City & County of San Francisco (en banc). Because it’s 6–5 on the merits (Judge Graber joined the majority as to qualified immunity, but agreed with the dissent’s underlying constitutional argument), and because it appears to deepen a circui ...

Yesterday, four entities affiliated with major San Francisco landlord CitiApartments and its owners, the Lembi family, filed for chapter 11 protection in the Northern District of California. The four entities are Hermann Street DE, LLC; LRL Citi Properties I DE, LLC; Trophy Properties I DE, LLC; a ...

"[W]e conclude that San Francisco's policy requiring strip searches of all arrestees classified for custodial housing in the general population was facially reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, notwithstanding the lack of individualized reasonable suspicion as to the individuals searched." So hold ...

The recession might not be as bad as it was, but tell that to all those people out there who can't find jobs or are facing this type of government action (in the most progressive of all cities): From Heather...

In our January 19, 2010 post, we examined Chacon v. Litke, Case Nos. A122026 & A123889 (1st Dist., Div. 2 published Feb. 8, 2010), which was unpublished at the time. This decision established that the lodestar analysis was the presumptive method for gauging special fee-shifting provisions, ...