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The state Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether a former Bay Area man who is dying of an asbestos-related cancer can sue a company that employed his uncle, who used to come home with his clothes covered in asbestos dust. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A car owner who uses a motor vehicle, their own or someone else's, is covered by insurance under California law for any resulting injuries. But what about a passerby who comes across a car accident, carries an injured passenger out of the vehicle, and in doing so, makes the injuries worse? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The family of Ted Agu - the 21-year-old Cal football player who died after being escorted with breathing trouble from an all-team training run in February - sued the University of California on Tuesday and said his death could have been prevented if trainers had remembered that Agu had sickle cell trait, recognized his symptoms and immediately stopped his workout as protocol required. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The family of Ted Agu - the 21-year-old Cal football player who died after being escorted with breathing trouble from an all-team training run in February - sued the University of California on Tuesday and said his death could have been prevented if trainers had remembered that Agu had sickle cell trait, recognized his symptoms and immediately stopped his workout as protocol required. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Los Angeles Dodgers were partly responsible for the 2011 beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow, a jury ruled Wednesday in awarding the Santa Cruz man $18 million from the team and the two men who attacked him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Los Angeles Dodgers were partly responsible for the 2011 beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow, a jury ruled Wednesday in awarding the Santa Cruz man $18 million from the team and the two men who attacked him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a former Bay Area service station owner to seek additional damages from Ford Motor Co. for exposing him to brake-lining asbestos that has afflicted him with terminal cancer. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A licensed contractor will offer an unusual defense to extraordinary charges of manslaughter brought against him in the carbon monoxide deaths of two South Bay men in a Truckee cabin that he had worked on: The true culprit was a nesting animal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The FBI's shutdown of a Bay Area-based website that became a go-to marketplace for prostitution is once again raising questions about how far online operators can go in claiming immunity from the actions of third-party customers - a cornerstone of online innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The FBI's shutdown of a Bay Area-based website that became a go-to marketplace for prostitution is once again raising questions about how far online operators can go in claiming immunity from the actions of third-party customers - a cornerstone of online innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A San Francisco couple who said their family was destroyed when an Uber driver struck and killed their daughter urged lawmakers Wednesday to increase auto insurance requirements for ride-sharing companies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Environmental advocates seeking to curb Chevron's plans to modernize and expand its Richmond oil refinery have sued Bay Area air-quality regulators, claiming they approved construction based on outdated reports that understated the plant's greenhouse gas emissions and the pollutants it would spew into surrounding neighborhoods. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Federal prosecutors have notified Pacific Gas and Electric Co. that they will bolster charges against the company next month beyond the dozen counts the utility now faces in connection with the gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people in San Bruno, company officials say. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A state appeals court has upheld more than $300,000 in damages for a Hayward truck driver who was fired after complaining about having to lift a heavy tractor-trailer gate that had caused back injuries to him and other truckers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When a Californian is unjustifiably killed by police, the victim's family members can seek damages under federal law for the pain their relative suffered before death, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An Alameda County jury awarded more than $14 million to a Richmond woman who suffered a broken back when the AC Transit bus she was riding in went over a speed bump in San Pablo. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The family of a 26-year-old San Francisco man who was shot dead by a neighbor after mistakenly trying to enter his apartment in the middle of the night called Wednesday for a murder charge, saying the killer did not need to use deadly force. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The family of a 26-year-old San Francisco man who was shot dead by a neighbor after mistakenly trying to enter his apartment in the middle of the night called Wednesday for a murder charge, saying the killer did not need to use deadly force. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Concord man was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and two other felonies Friday after his three pit bulls fatally mauled his 2-year-old stepgrandson in the garage of their Concord home in 2010. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bloggers are entitled to the same First Amendment protections as traditional journalists in libel suits, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The parents of a Saratoga girl who killed herself after photos of her alleged sexual assault were texted to classmates share responsibility for the death, according to a legal filing by attorneys for one of several teenage boys being sued by the parents. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A judge issued a final ruling Tuesday ordering three paint companies to pay the state $1.15 billion to remove lead paint from interior surfaces of pre-1978 homes in 10 California cities and counties, including San Francisco, Alameda and San Mateo counties. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Berkeley woman who lost her legs when she fell through a gap on a railway platform in Austria and was hit by a train can sue the state-owned railroad for damages because it lost its government immunity through ticket sales in the United States, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A federal appeals court has refused to dismiss a suit by a San Francisco limousine driver who said a city parking control officer followed him out the door of a fast-food restaurant after a shouting match, then pepper-sprayed and punched him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Tens of thousands of soldiers who were exposed to chemicals during decades of weapons tests by the Army and the CIA are entitled to up-to-date information from the government on the possible health risks they face, a Bay Area federal judge has ruled. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The family of a Berkeley resident bludgeoned to death last year outside his home, allegedly by a mentally disturbed man, has resolved its wrongful-death lawsuit against the city after police agreed to tell people calling for help that officers might be delayed, the family's attorney says. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

No criminal charges will be filed against San Francisco firefighters in the death of a 16-year-old survivor of the Asiana Airlines crash who was run over by at least one fire truck near the wreckage, prosecutors said Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

No criminal charges will be filed against San Francisco firefighters in the death of a 16-year-old survivor of the Asiana Airlines crash who was run over by at least one fire truck near the wreckage, prosecutors said Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Moraga School District has agreed to pay $1.8 million to a former student who accused a science teacher of sexually abusing her, officials said Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two suspects could face murder charges in an odd case in which their alleged accomplice in a San Mateo home-invasion robbery was shot and killed by a resident during a chaotic gunbattle, police said Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Three years ago a Concord boy wandered alone into his garage, where he was set upon by three pit bulls owned by his step-grandfather. Before an adult could intervene, 2-year-old Jacob Bisbee was fatally mauled, with severe wounds to his face and a nearly severed left arm. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Before you hop into one of those ride-sharing cars that are all over San Francisco's streets, take a moment to consider a few implications. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A convicted drug offender has been charged with special-circumstances murder in connection with a botched Alameda store holdup in which an off-duty sheriff's deputy wounded him and killed a second suspect. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The parents of a 21-year-old camp counselor who was killed by a falling tree in the Sierra foothills campground last month filed suit Wednesday, blaming their daughter's death on slipshod inspections by Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s tree-management contractors and an arborist. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A group of former college football players can sue Redwood City company Electronic Arts over the use of their images in video games, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A group of former college football players can sue Redwood City company Electronic Arts over the use of their images in video games, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Chinese university professor seriously injured in the July 6 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 has sued the carrier in federal court - thanks to a quirk that makes him one of the few Chinese or South Korean citizens on the flight able to bring a potentially lucrative case in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A federal judge has ruled in favor of a Red Bluff (Tehama County) family that sued the federal government for the death of a 9-year-old boy who was crushed by a trailside wall in Lassen Volcanic National Park in 2009. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Lawsuits against BART police officers involved in the 2009 incident that left Oscar Grant shot to death will go forward after a federal appeals court declined Tuesday to grant the officers immunity as law enforcement agents. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A federal judge says an insurgent health care union can sue Kaiser Permanente for allegedly making illegal payments to hundreds of members of the rival Service Employees International Union for campaigning in two representation elections. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In a case that could affect many low-paid home-care workers in California, the state Supreme Court has left intact a ruling allowing a caretaker to sue Sonoma County after her disabled client failed to pay her. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A contractor for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. agreed Thursday to pay $45 million in connection with a Sierra Nevada wildfire that federal authorities said was ignited by workers who left cigarettes burning during a break from clearing vegetation around PG&E power lines. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An Alameda County woman's terminal cancer, more than half a century after she was exposed to asbestos in her husband's work clothes, has led to a $27.3 million jury verdict against the manufacturer of the insulation her husband installed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A state appeals court has reinstated a damage claim by a woman who fell and was injured while attending a Fairfield city program for fragile senior citizens, ruling that such programs can't require participants to give up the right to sue for negligence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Lawsuits filed over how new construction projects in cities look, how much noise they generate and the increases in traffic they create could be restricted under a major bill that is beginning to take shape at the Capitol. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Students at an Oakland helicopter pilot school that folded in 2008 can't sue a bank for relief from unpaid loans and must take their cases to arbitration, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The chief executive officer and a pressroom manager of a San Francisco printing shop have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the 2008 death of a pregnant worker who was crushed by a creasing machine, prosecutors said Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A federal magistrate has dismissed a suit by a man in a wheelchair who was shot and wounded by San Francisco police after he stabbed an officer and then threw a knife - either at the officers or into the ground, according to conflicting testimony. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A message for income tax season, courtesy of a federal appeals court: If the filing deadline is approaching and your accountant says you've gotten an extension, double-check. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A San Mateo County prosecutor who was arrested and chained to a jailhouse wall for allegedly trying to pass a bad check at a Bank of America branch in San Francisco - a charge that turned out to be groundless - not only cannot sue the bank, she must pay $50,000 to the financial giant in attorneys' fees, a federal appeals court says. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]