Technology & Science
With New Blog, City Attorney Zaps San Diego's Newspaper
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - It's like an old-fashioned newspaper war, but only one side is a newspaper. The other is a blog by San Diego City ...
I am writing in response to the front-page article "Panel Tosses Conviction of Carjacker; Prosecutor in L.A. Withheld Evidence...
SAN FRANCISCO - There was no happy hour Wednesday for an heir to the Schlitz beer fortune who's serving a 265-year prison sent...
Despite the formidable efforts of cable news producers, newspapers and radio talkmeisters, evidence mounts that trial by media...
Los Angeles County attorney Tania Whiteleather worked hard for her client, Whitney Ford. But because she did it for love, she...
Civil Rights
Supreme Court Sidesteps Important Treaty to Let Convictions Stand
By David Minkown
A United States Supreme Court ruling in a criminal case involving two foreign nationals raised a fundamental question of inter...
Large Firms
As Law Firms Aim to Increase Business, Alumni Programs Snowball
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - Although Eric Gaynor left Latham & Watkins' Los Angeles office in 1999, the attorney continues to work with ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Property Owners, Be Wary of 'Imminent Peril'
By David Minkown
Over the past decade, property owners could be forgiven for becoming a little complacent after a trilogy of favorable Californ...
LOS ANGELES - While Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley likes to talk tough about cracking down on public corrup...
WASHINGTON - When it comes to Hurricane Katrina litigation, no one has set his sights higher than Los Angeles attorney Pierce ...
The Schwarzenegger administration must arbitrate a beef with the prison guards' union over how to conduct employment negotiati...
LOS ANGELES - The latest police tactic to get the homeless off the streets of Skid Row is to arrest people for the unauthorize...
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Greta Fall combines pleasantness and control to make all in her courtroom comfortable a...
Government
Judge Blocks Logging in Sequoia Forest-- Feds 'Trampled Environmental Laws,' Court Says-- 'Monument Plan'
By Gabe Friedmann
In companion rulings Tuesday, a federal judge in San Francisco blocked the U.S. Forest Service from carrying out a plan for ex...
SAN JOSE - Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jose Velasquez defended himself Monday against misconduct charges, saying he t...
LOS ANGELES - Globalization has led to the outsourcing of factories and service centers to other countries, but several law fi...
Labor/Employment
Supreme Court Confirms Doctrine of At-Will Employment
By David Minkown
By Arthur A. Hartinger and Jesse J. Lad The California Supreme Court has been faced with numerous controversies regarding...
SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco opened its new jail last week, it was legal history in the making. ...
Judges and Judiciary
U.S. Justices Will Give Guidance on Excluding Expert Testimony
By David Minkown
By David M. Axelrad and Mary Christine Sungaila In "Will State Supreme Court Shift Balance of Power Between Judges and Ju...
Judges and Judiciary
Fascination With Language Finds Malapropism Spilled on the Page
By David Minkown
I enjoy words, so I liked the story entitled "Fascinated by Language" by Anat Rubin (Daily Journal, August 15). ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for the Roman Catholic bishop of San Diego filed a motion Monday seeking to make public the names of 1...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cooley Godward Will Join Hands With Kronish Lieb
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - After years of speculation surrounding Cooley Godward's search for a merger partner, the firm has tied the kno...
Judges and Judiciary
2nd District Opinion Faults Judge for 'Variety of Reasons'
By John Roemer
Nobody's perfect, but sometimes judges' flaws go too far. Conceding that "an error-free trial exists more in imagination than...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Puts Pacific Gas Judge on Bankruptcy Panel
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - Dennis J. Montali, the U.S. bankruptcy judge who presided over the reorganization of the Pacific Gas & Ele...
Intellectual Property
Judge to Wait to See FTC Remedy in Rambus Case
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN JOSE - A federal judge on Tuesday postponed the last phase of a patent infringement complaint filed by Rambus Inc. against...
A police officer failed to knock and announce himself before he walked into a Pittsburg home to arrest a juvenile drug dealer....
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Denies He Had Financial Interest in Two Cases' Litigants
By Amelia Hansen
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Harry Pregerson defended himself Tuesday against allegations that he had a financial...
Corporate
In and Out: Firms at Both Ends of the Private Equity Pipeline
By Rick Kennedyn
Two recent deals in California show companies at opposite ends of the private equity pipeline, one entering with high hopes an...
Civil Rights
9th Circuit Was Wrong to Let School Censor Student's T-Shirt
By David Minkown
By Michael Oberst It is axiomatic in a country that values and protects the right of free speech and academic freedom that ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In its ongoing cost-benefit study of the state's drug courts, an advisory committee to the Judicial Council of...