Bar Groups Lobby Against Court System Budget Cuts
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - In the face of looming staff layoffs and courtroom closures, bar groups around the state have begun a coordin...
Dechert Said to be Keen On Oppenheimer Office
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, the Minneapolis firm that raised eyebrows in February by publicly shopping...
Supreme Court Employee In Court Over Job
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury Wednesday began hearing testimony in a suit brought by the former head librarian for the...
Commissioner Lends An Ear to Defendants
By Xenia Kobylarz
OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court Commissioner Geoffrey N. Carter has heard all kinds of excuses from motorists trying t...
Court Remands Case on Screeners' Citizenship
By Susan Mc Rae
By Susan McRae Nevada Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court in Los Angeles declined Tuesday to rule on w...
'Strader' Provides New Means To Attack No-Contest Clauses
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Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of Strader , 2003 DJDAR 3988 (Cal. Ap...
Whither Privacy?
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Forum Column - By Terry Francke - By now, most of us are aware that the acronym SLAPP stands for "Strategic Lawsuits Against P...
Referee: Deadhead Killings Trial Fair
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A death row inmate convicted of a double murder in Berkeley in 1985 has failed to convince an Alameda County S...
Court Finds Dad, Son Entitled to More Services
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Helping build bridges between estranged family members may be one of the hardest jobs there is. And Alvin R. Sr....
Gunmakers Go Bankrupt After Trial
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County trial judge dismissed the jury Tuesday in the final phase of a $51 million firearms product ...
Jury Convicts Man for Lewd Acts
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Rejecting a defense attorney's contention that a man sucking the toes of preteen boys was not lewd behavior, a jur...
Assembly Approves Homeowners Bill
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Californians who are members of homeowners' associations would have a greater say in how their delegates adopt or...
The Hundred Acre Web
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - A referee will hear a high-profile dispute between Marvel Characters and Sony Pictures Entertainment over the lu...
E*Trade Suit Gets New Life As Judge Asks For Evidence
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Cupertino company found to have been the victim of trade-secrets misappropriation will get a chance to block onli...
Padres Score $11.9 Million Win
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Lloyd's of London will pay the San Diego Padres $11.9 million in settlement of a Superior Court lawsuit over a den...
L.A. Superior Court Asks Jurors To Donate Back Their Jury Fees
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Faced with additional budget cuts in the next fiscal year, the Los Angeles Superior Court is asking jurors to co...
New Policy Eventually May End Some Law Clerks' Jobs
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Law clerks hired by the Los Angeles Superior Court after July 25, 2001, may be out of a job in the coming years ...
Panel Remands Case on Screeners' Citizenship
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court in Los Angeles declined Tuesday to rule on whether lawful noncitizens are eligible to wo...
Doctrine May Provide Avenue To Appeal Interlocutory Orders
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Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Federal civil practitioners are aware of the severe limitations on imme...
Law-Bending for Bush
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Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - We now can put aside President Bush's Pantagruelian antics and his sanctimonious, born-agai...
Assembly Approves Homeowners Bill
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Californians who are members of homeowner associations would have a greater say in how their delegates adopt or ...
Inmate Goes Free As DA Forgoes Trial
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - State prison's revolving door will spin no longer for Glen "Buddy" Nickerson, who after 18 years of confineme...
Two Face Time for Street Racing
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court jury Monday declined Monday to find two street racers guilty of second-degree murder but did con...
Shotgun Nets Felony Charge for Attorney
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - Attorney Hilmer Ula Jarboe Jr. has been charged with three misdemeanors and a felony after his near-fatal shootin...
Towed Cars' Owners Lose Hearing-Delay Fight
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Handing a victory to California municipalities, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that local governments do not hav...
Tribe Can't Use Civil Rights Statute to Assert Immunity
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An Inyo County Native American tribe can't sue under a federal civil rights statute for an alleged violation of...
Double Jeopardy Is Expanded
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court opened the door slightly Monday for criminal defendants to challenge retrials, b...
Circuit Allows Suzuki to Sue Magazine for Bad Review
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - In a blow to free speech protections and consumer interests, a federal appeals court refused Monday to reconside...
Supreme Court Sets Stage for 2003-04 Term
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for the 2003-04 term, in which the court will take on Washington state...
Ripple Effect of Jayson Blair Scandal Soaks West Coast Journalists
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Thursday, the Los Angeles Daily Journal ran three corrections on Page 2 regarding the Washington, D.C...