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A teenage girl is in a permanent vegetative state after she was hit by a car in this marked crosswalk in Millbrae. The civil lawsuit that followed showed Caltrans was paying lip service to results of studies of crosswalk safety going back nearly 40 years.

Bronchiolitis obliterans (”popcorn lung”) has been linked to diacetyl, used in butter flavoring. But substitutes for diacetyl may be causing problems as well.

Attorneys Raymond Paul Johnson and Cory Lee trace “sudden unintended accelerations” back three decades and detail the current problems facing Toyota.

The UC Irvine School of Law attracted national attention by offering free tuition to its inaugural class, making it the most selective law school in the country before even earning accreditation.

The Food and Drug Administration may be in the early stages of shedding its paper tiger image, after a recall that the FDA triggered against the makers of a popular line of weight-loss products sold under the Hydroxycut brand.

A 28-year-old mother of three died as a result of taking part in a radio station water-drinking contest. This is the story of the resulting wrongful death suit that has forced the radio industry to take a different attitude towards dangerous stunts.

Penelope, a 26-year-old lawyer in her first job out of law school, learned first-hand an unintended consequences of newly enacted federal legislation cracking down on credit card companies: Credit card companies are taking aim at consumers.