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A class action suit against Skilled Healthcare resolved in a negotiated settlement of $62.8 million, after Skilled failed to meet legally-mandated minimum staffing levels at its California facilities over a period of years.

When Mohamed Ali Samantar came to the United States from war-torn Somalia in 1997, he hoped to live quietly in retirement in suburban Virginia. But thanks to a little-known San Francisco human rights group, the former Somali official instead became the focus of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court human rights case.

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.