In a Bind
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James Acret - Licensing laws are anathema to libertarians. The Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman...
Three New Cases Assist With Defense of Section 17200 Suits
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Litigation - By Matthew G. Ball - In the last five months of 2002, state appellate courts decided three cases t...
Trial Begins in Partnership Dispute
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Brian Lysaght did not mince words describing to a Malibu jury the behavior of Debra Pole and William Fitzgerald ...
First Night Court Session Takes Place Since Cuts
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - It's a quarter to five on Tuesday evening and, as thousands of commuters are settling in for another arduous freew...
Daily Journal Staff Writer Wins Statewide Award
By Jeff Berg
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Daily Journal staff writer Stefanie Knapp has been honored by the California Teachers Association fo...
Veteran PD Named to Head OCC
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Police Commission on Thursday named longtime deputy public defender Kevin Allen as interim ...
Defendant's Attack on DA Adds to His Term
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - An alleged gang member was convicted Thursday of assaulting a prosecutor but acquitted of attempted murder in a ...
State Lets Reversal Stand
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The state attorney general's office has decided not to challenge the reversal of the double-murder conviction...
Trevor Law Group Acted Out Of Greed, State Bar Contends
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Trevor Law Group filed hundreds of unfair competition lawsuits against small-business owners out of greed, not i...
Colleagues and Friends Reminisce About O'Hern
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick O'Hern, who handled government contracts and other transactional work as deputy chief counsel for Law...
LexisNexis to Publish California Case Law
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Breaking with 150 years of tradition, state officials announced Thursday that they have hired LexisNexis to p...
The Report on Los Angeles County's Juvenile Halls
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Justice found that Los Angeles County's three juvenile halls are in violation of numerous...
The Power of Judge Kozinski's Pen
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in San Diego got what they wanted earlier this year when a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Unum Plaintiff Won't Retry His Case After Punitives Cut
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco lawyer says the U.S. Supreme Court forced him to junk his plan to challenge a judge's $25 mil...
Court to Sample 'Napa' Wine Statute
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to step into the long-running battle over what constitutes Napa...
Delayed Notice May Not Result in Coverage Loss
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Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Most insurance policies contain provisions requiring that an insured notify...
Look Closely
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The pending nomination of Carolyn Kuhl to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals raises i...
Party Relationships Make ADR Suited to Entertainment Cases
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard S. Reisberg - To understand the entertainment industry's approach t...
Messinger Memorial Date Set
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial for the late Sheldon Messinger, a UC Berkeley administrator and retired Boalt Hall faculty member ...
Publication of Ruling Rebuking Jurist Wins Praise
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Family-law experts Wednesday praised the decision to publish an appellate court ruling rebuking a family-court c...
Council OKs Some Campaign Reforms
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday on some provisions aimed at limiting independent campaign spending b...
Hastings Students Resort to Bake Sales to Fund Journal
By Tyler Cunningham
Reporter's Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - Academic journals are not easily born. That's particularly true right now: Budgets...
Ex-Partners Cut Ties to Brobeck As Trial Begins
By John Ryan
MALIBU - Two former partners have abandoned their unified defense with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison against $30 million in ...
State's 'Most Unsafe' Courthouse Will Live
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - For decades, the aging downtown San Bernardino courthouse has been a cramped, crowded eyesore, with its crack...
S.F. Appeal Court Double-Clicks on Web Defamation Case
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking on a major cyberspace case, a state appellate panel appeared divided Wednesday over allowing defamatio...
Pre-Arrest Life of Accused Double Agent Proves She Is Superwoman
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Just thinking about the hectic pre-arrest life of accused double agent Katrina Leung of San Marino ma...
Mahony Visits Priest Abuse Protesters
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - During their Holy Week vigil outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, alleged survivors of clergy sex ab...
Childhood Memories Sustain Judge on Court
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The chambers of Sacramento Superior Court Judge Talmadge R. Jones are like a museum of Western cultural artifacts...
Protocol Simplifies Registration Process in Foreign Countries
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column Intellectual Property By Robert B. Burlingame On March 28, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued proposed ...
Judicial Limbo
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Forum Column By Andrew W. Schwartz and Bill Higgins In Chevron USA Inc. v. Lingle , 02-15867, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...