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Zynga Rival Fires Back in Trade Secret Suit
Publication Date: 2013-04-18
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Online game maker Kixeye Inc. and its lawyers at Goodwin Procter have a message for bigger, better-known rival Zynga Inc.: Your secrets aren't worth stealing.

July 01, 2002 |

Why We Can't Tear Our Eyes Away From the Dog-Maul Case

Noting the public obsession with San Francisco's dog-mauling case, Terry Diggs wonders what role law played in stimulating a cultural spectacle. The facts of the case emerged in a format that critics have called the most coercive of all -- a genre that preys on our attraction to the forbidden, speaks to our darkest anxieties and exhorts us to the complete abdication of reason.
7 minute read
November 05, 2001 |

Circuit Says Three Strikes Can Be Cruel

5 minute read
March 08, 2007 |

Justices Grill Lawyers on Meal-Break Law

State law lets workers claim money for having skipped lunch breaks, but whether the cash is compensation to employees or punishment for mean bosses determines how far back a claim can go.
4 minute read
June 19, 2006 |

On the Move

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3 minute read
June 14, 1999 |

Culture Clash

When it comes to L.A. legal demographics, the longstanding clichi is that downtown attorneys practice no-nonsense law in somber, businesslike atmospheres. Contrast that with the stereotype of those Armani-clad Westsiders with their laid-back, free-wheelin' approach to lawyering.
11 minute read
February 15, 2001 |

Our 'Giant' President

Four befuddling weeks into the Bush administration, Americans seem entirely uncertain who the president is. But the president's identity has never been separable from his home state, says San Francisco attorney Terry Diggs. No one can understand George W. Bush without understanding modern Texas, and no one can genuinely understand Texas without being a Texan. For the rest of America, there's "Giant."
8 minute read
November 02, 2001 |

9th Circuit Says Three Strikes Can Be Cruel

The case of Leandro Andrade, who was given a 50-years-to-life sentence after he was twice caught shoplifting and had three prior burglary convictions, brought California's Three Strikes law into sharp relief for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Writing for a three-judge panel, Judge Richard Paez invoked the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment in overturning the sentence.
5 minute read
September 27, 1999 |

GM Settles Latest Liability Case

A week before a tumultuous courtroom showdown was to begin, General Motors lawyers and their longtime adversary, James E. Butler Jr., settled their latest high-stakes product liability case. Butler confirms the case of Bampoe-Parry v. General Motors settled for a confidential amount. Settlement talks were renewed late Wednesday after a conference with Fulton State Court Judge M. Gino Brogdon.
4 minute read
March 03, 2000 |

Gray's Way or the Highway?

California Gov. Gray Davis kicked over a hornet's nest called the California judiciary with his comments this week that his judicial appointees should resign if they can't "implement my vision" on such issues as the death penalty. Now, he's trying desperately to repair the damage. Davis touched off a similar firestorm in July when he told a newspaper that the state Legislature's job was to "implement my vision."
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