“Ripple” was a low-end fortified wine produced by E & J Gallo Winery that was popular in the United States, particularly in the 1970s and that’s how many people know the term. But blockchain firms Ripple and R3 have decided to raise a fortified glass together and put an end to an ongoing legal dispute concerning tokens. In […]
When you’re a kid, you have all sorts of different dreams and ideas about what you want to be when you grow up. For California Reps. Jeff Denham and Devin Nunes, clearly, it was to be a farmer. After all, they do say they’re farmers, and that’s how they’re going to be described on this fall’s California […]
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif, will retain its ownership rights to two large-scale paintings of Adam and Eve by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder after an 11-year legal dispute with a descendant of the Dutch artist. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the sixteenth-century works were purchased by the Jewish, Amsterdam-based […]
According to the LA Times, about 100 years ago, Annette Abbott Adams became the first female U.S. district attorney in San Francisco. It was just one of her many firsts in the field of law: the first female assistant attorney general of the United States, the first appointed to the California appellate court and the […]