Compensation for commissioned salespersons is one of the most misunderstood areas of wage and hour law in California. ...

SANTA ANA - Rebuffing the city of Garden Grove, a federal judge has ruled that Buddhists can resume worship services at a form...

I couldn't agree more with Fred Silberberg regarding his Aug. 29 piece ("Courts Have Let Spousal Support Become the Dole of D...

A federal judge made it clear that cheaters never win when he ruled that one of the nation's largest bar exam preparatory comp...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not uncommon for retired Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Norman Spellberg to resort to outright bribery...

FORUM COLUMN - The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board has set the stage to adopt a newly proposed permit directed ...

SAN JOSE - For the third time in six weeks, plaintiffs' attorneys have filed a shareholder derivative complaint against Apple ...

FOCUS COLUMN - In a day and age when actors receiving swag and gift bags have to treat them as income, is there a way to get c...

FORUM COLUMN - Weighing in where millions of ordinary Americans have already dared to tread, a growing number of states and ci...

Kern County Deputy Public Defender Michael Lukehart was watching a trial when he discovered evidence that might have helped on...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge presiding over all the priest sex abuse cases in Northern California has allowed one plaintiff to mi...

Overturning a lower court, the California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against media access to police officer disciplinary ...

WASHINGTON - President Bush has re-nominated several controversial judicial candidates - including two Idahoans for the 9th U....

Public agencies can neither bring private attorney general suits nor be sued under a state antifraud law, the state Supreme Co...

Business disputes on the Internet increasingly lead to intellectual property litigation. In the current environment, where you...

Have your clients committed fraud on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office lately (or not so lately)? Could be! Are you inadver...

During the past six months, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has proposed a series of rule changes that, if adopted, will ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Hispanic National Bar Association's annual convention this week in San Francisco seemed like a good forum ...

When plaintiffs sue over trade secrets they say have been misappropriated, one of the first major hurdles they face is to defi...

Suppose three businesses - BigWidgets, WidgetMart, and WeRWidgets - compete on the Web. They all sell widgets, they all are re...

YouTube has become one of the most popular Internet destinations with the post-Grokster generation, quickly gaining on juggern...

Byron White, one of the longest-sitting Supreme Court justices in history, once observed that a new court is created with the ...

A bit of 'theatrical flair' permeates the courtroom of Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner John T. Rafferty, who us...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that would grant California 50 new judges next year is expected to clear the Legislature by today witho...

The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether cities can be held liable for damages when they ma...

FORUM COLUMN - At the recent oral argument in the California Court of Appeal in a group of consolidated cases on the issue of ...

Ann Althouse's scatter-gun attack on Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's historic decision finding the NSA warrantless surveillance prog...

A state appellate court on Wednesday reaffirmed that noncompete agreements have no place in California employment contracts. ...

FORUM COLUMN - A review of their pronouncements from the bench thus far reveals that the judicial philosophies of Chief Justic...

SACRAMENTO - After soliciting consumer groups to help him lobby legislators, Attorney General Bill Lockyer succeeded in revivi...