Law Enforcement, Welfare Agency Tussle Over Access to Fingerprints
By Matthew Heller
SAN LUIS OBISPO - For San Luis Obispo County sheriff's investigators, the digitized images of a welfare applicant's fingerprin...
PG&E Judge Chooses the Middle Road
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. need not file a lawsuit to prove that much of the state's authority over the comp...
Tarnished Shield
By Columnist
On March 3, 1999, a middle-aged African-American man named LaFrance Hamilton was bicycling near his home, when he was stopped ...
More Discord Over Jerry's Guitars
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The legal battle over Jerry Garcia's famed guitars will play out in court after all, after settlement talks co...
Small States Have Too Much Influence in Electing Senators
By Columnist
Basic principles of parliamentary procedure hold that a majority decides but that a minority has a right to be heard and that ...
Judge Rejects Furrow Victim's Suit
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed better security at the North Valley Jewish Community C...
PG&E Judge Chooses the Middle Road
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. need not file a lawsuit to prove that much of the state's authority over the comp...
Brosnahan Is Retained to Defend U.S. Man Fighting With Taliban
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent San Francisco trial attorney James J. Brosnahan will represent John Walker Lindh, the 20-year-old fo...
Ease Limits on Practice, Panel Urges
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Lawyers should be able to practice law in another jurisdiction to serve a client on a temporary basis without bei...
Board OKs Contracts Over Officials' Objections
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Over the objections of the Public Defenders Association and the Deputy District Attorneys Association, the Board o...
Senators Say Tribunal Talks Are Wasting Precious Time
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans are complaining that hearings on the Bush administration's controversial new anti-terrorism le...
Remand Roulette
By Columnist
You've obtained a significant win for your client - the Court of Appeal has reversed the dismissal that your opponent obtained...
Media Fights to See Executions
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court wrestled Tuesday with the First Amendment question of whether the news media should ...
Long Beach Court May Get New Look
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $1.1 million contract with GKK Corp. for desig...
Pomona Valley Lawyer Led Legal Community
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIMAS - Services have taken place for Raymond G. Lamb, a prominent Pomona Valley lawyer and community leader. Lamb died Th...
Veteran Judge Says Police Scandal Opened His Eyes
By Tamara Scott
VAN NUYS - For Judge John S. Fisher, a former prosecutor and son of a Los Angeles police officer, the Rampart scandal was an e...
Marin Charges Prosecutor With Assault
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County authorities dropped plans Tuesday to take an assault allegation against a San Francisco prosecuto...
9th Circuit Will Reconsider Inmate's 'Right to Procreate'
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Tuesday that it will reconsider a controversial decision that gra...
Court Considers Press's Monitoring of Executions
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court wrestled Tuesday with the First Amendment question of whether the news media should ...
Unlikely Friendship Changes Lives
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - It's not too often lacrosse helps to save someone's life. But that's what happened, at least for a time, in the ...
GOP Senators Say Tribunal Talks Waste Precious Time
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans are complaining that hearings on the Bush administration's controversial new anti-terrorism le...
Tarnished Shield
By Columnist
On March 3, 1999, a middle-aged African-American man named LaFrance Hamilton was bicycling near his home, when he was stopped ...
Remand Roulette
By Columnist
You've obtained a significant win for your client - the Court of Appeal has reversed the dismissal that your opponent obtained...
Small States Have Too Much Influence in Electing Senators
By Columnist
Basic principles of parliamentary procedure hold that a majority decides but that a minority has a right to be heard and that ...
Procopio Cory Acquires San Diego Firm
By Toni Vranjes
SAN DIEGO - Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch has agreed to acquire the Carlsbad-based firm of Lodge & Heller in an e...
'Pregnant Penguin' Pilfers Soapy Product
By Columnist
Now, this was a thief of the first magnitude. First magnitude for the amount of times he got caught, not first magnitude for t...
Orange County Judge Pleads Not Guilty to Child Porn Charges
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of possessing child...
Lifers Foevermore
By Columnist
As of the end of September 2001, nearly 7,000 people were serving sentences of at least 25-years-to-life in prison because of ...
Money Crawl
By Columnist
As we begin to recover from the recent terrorist attacks on our country, many law firms find it difficult to concentrate on co...
Newspaper Wins Suit to Unseal Names In Bribe Case
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The public can learn the identity of two mystery figures allegedly involved in the case of convicted felon and...