Justices Set Rules For Suits Among Attorneys
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer sued by a client for malpractice may go after the co-counsel who provided the bad advice to recover h...
Gray's Attorney Finds Vindication
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - An attorney for former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray, who is facing ethics charges over mailers sent durin...
Many Unprotectable Similarities May Add Up to Infringement
By Columnist
Focus Column - By David Halberstadter - On June 12, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its most recent decision on t...
PG&E Creditors Can Draw Up Own Plan
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Company's unsecured creditors won approval Thursday to file their own plan to reorgan...
Judge Stays His Controversial Ruling on Pledge of Allegiance
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - In a message signaling the likelihood of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revisiting its ruling that the ...
Inmate Cuffed to Hitching Post Can Sue, Justices Decide
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Condemning treatment "antithetical to human dignity," the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that an Alabama prisone...
Judges May Campaign On Political, Legal Views
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Striking a resounding blow for judicial freedom of speech, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that, once states ...
Court Extends Random Drug Tests at School
By Gina Keating
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court approved random drug tests for many public high school students Thursday, ruling that schools' ...
Entertainment Chair, Devoted Judge Mastered Art of Persuasion
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today in Cathedral City for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Roy M. Carstairs, ...
Fair Play
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By James Grafton Randall - Discovery is not as difficult a task or as complex a matter as some try to make it,...
Court Rightly Stayed True to Facts in 'Tahoe-Sierra' Case
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Forum Column - By Daniel L. Siegel - According to Michael M. Berger, plaintiffs' attorney in Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Coun...
Inmate Cuffed to Hitching Post Can Sue, Justices Decide
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Condemning treatment "antithetical to human dignity," the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that an Alabama prisone...
Court Extends Random Drug Tests at School
By Gina Keating
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court approved random drug tests for many public high school students Thursday, ruling that schools' ...
Police Describe Westerfield's Pornography
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Digital photos of girls being sexually assaulted and of people having sex with animals were recovered from the hom...
Pledge of Allegiance Doesn't Pass Muster, Circuit Decides
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a pair of powerful religious rights decisions, a federal appeals court held Wednesday that the words "under...
CJA Chooses Successor to Connie Dove
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Keenan G. Casady, a judicial administrator in the state and federal courts for more than 25 years, will be the...
'Howling Mob,' 'Thuggery' Denounced by Hastings Board
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Furiously denouncing "political blackmail" by state Sen. John Burton, directors of Hastings College of the Law...
Put It in Writing
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Dicta Column - By Beth A. Schroeder - Law firms are employers, too, and as employers, they get pitches about employee handbook...
Diligence Marks Jurist Who Loved Litigating
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Judge Paul E. Zellerbach admits that one of the reasons he wanted to become a judge is because he's a "control fre...
Part-Time Attorney Wields a Mighty Funny Pen
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - "Pearls Before Swine" - a crisply-drawn line-art cartoon strip featuring a rat, a pig, a zebra and a goat - pr...
Ticket-Fixing May Finish Judge
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Michael E. Platt's days on the bench appeared to be numbered Wednesday...
'Under God' Is Struck From the Pledge
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a pair of powerful religious rights decisions, a federal appeals court held Wednesday that the words "under...
Where Is Nixon Now, When Legal Aid Really Needs Him?
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Forum Column - By Bruce G. Iwasaki - President Bush supports the Legal Services Corp., which allocates funds to 179 locally ru...
Judge Rules Supervisors Violated Brown Act
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors violated the state's open-meetings law on three occasions, a Los Ang...
Attorneys Resign Amid Ethics Investigations
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Two attorneys have resigned the practice of law and another has been suspended, following investigations by the ...
Retired Probate Lawyer Made Jewelry by Hand
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired sole practitioner and jewelry maker James E. Sloan of Los Angeles. Sloan,...
INS Officer Faces Bribery Charges
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted an immigration officer on charges he promised political asylum to two Ch...
Mentors in Firms Can Hinder as Well as Help
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Dicta Column - By Betty Morris - For more than 25 years, I have watched changes taking place in the legal profession. As the l...
Time Transforms Trashy Tabloid From Kleenex for Extraterrestrials Into Newspaper
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Has the National Enquirer transformed itself over the years from a gossip rag into a publication that...
Buyers of Fake Memorabilia Can't Sue eBay
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Visitors to online auction site eBay who purchased autographed baseballs from dealers named "Stan the Man Memora...