A lawyer’s defamation claims against an ex-client who went online to accuse him of a “horrific fraud” can move forward, a San Francisco judge has ruled. Judge James McBride said Elliott Blumberg crossed the line in essentially accusing malpractice lawyer William Gwire of a crime.

A federal judge denied attorney fees on Wednesday to a wireless industry group that won a partial injunction against a San Francisco ordinance requiring cellphone retailers to disseminate information about potential health risks.

For the second time in five months — and this time for good — a San Francisco federal district court judge has tossed Samsung’s antitrust claims against Panasonic over a patent licensing deal involving secure digital memory cards.

With collections slowing and contingency fee cases back East not showing much immediate promise, Howrey’s trustee is pushing to set San Francisco collections litigator Joel Adler loose in the case. Adler earned high marks recently for bringing $6 million into the Heller estate.

In a tentative ruling, San Francisco federal district court Judge William Alsup threw out “a significant portion” of a damages report by Oracle’s expert in a patent and copyright infringement suit against Google, warning that the expert might not get another chance to revise his $1.16 billion estimate.