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The recent killing of a 32-year-old woman in San Francisco, allegedly by an undocumented immigrant who had been convicted of seven prior felonies and deported five times from the United States -- but who was staying in the city under its "sanctuary" policy -- has many people looking in different directions to decide who other than the accused killer may have been responsible for his being free at the time of the murder, despite an...

One of the hardest parts of dealing with a personal injury is the sense of uncertainty: How long will recovery take? What will it cost? Will your health insurance be enough to cover it? What if you have to miss work? When a brain injury is involved, these questions can take on even more seriousness. These injuries can often require significant and long-term medical treatment. A traumatic brain injury can result in loss ability to...

Generally under California law an owner or occupier of land owes a duty of reasonable care toward others who are on the property; a failure to exercise such reasonable care to avoid foreseeable injury can result in the owner or occupier becoming liable under the legal theory of premises liability.Owners and occupiers of property have over the years tried different legal defense theories to avoid being held liable in premises liability cases. One such theory...

Any negligence-based lawsuit will ultimately need to answer questions of actual and proximate causation among the parties involved, including whether the plaintiff was also negligent in some way. When there are multiple defendants, such as in a multi-vehicle car accident, their respective share of fault must also be allocated. How this is done brings up the issue of comparative fault. Read on to learn more and if you have any questions, speak with a qualified...

Before former Olympic athlete then-Bruce and now-Caitlyn Jenner became known for undergoing sex change surgery, she became perhaps better known this year for a fatal multi-car accident that took place in February, in which a vehicle that Jenner was driving apparently rear-ended another car which itself had just rear-ended a third car. The impact by Jenner's vehicle apparently not only caused the original rear-end collision to happen a second time, it also allegedly sent the...