Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - The year 2005 will go down in history as a year of major highs and major lows. Unfortuna...
LOS ANGELES - Charles Pereyra-Suarez loves a good mix - a mix of ethnicities, places, jobs, languages, names and, especially, ...
LOS ANGELES - A retired lawyer and investor accused of receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks from the class-action power...
Verdicts
Officer Wins $1.6 Million From Riverside Police in Bias Lawsuit
By Peter Zuckerman
RIVERSIDE - A police officer won $1.6 million from the Riverside Police Department in a discrimination lawsuit claiming racist...
SAN FRANCISCO - A property owner's cooperation with a state pollution agency wasn't enough to constitute public notice of a cl...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas K. Herman remembers his early days as a prosecutor in the late 19...
Judges and Judiciary
No Questions About Movies for Court Nominee, A Baseball Fan
By Drew Combs
LOS ANGELES - Though it seemed like they asked him about everything, there was one subject the Judiciary Committee didn't cove...
SAN JOSE - In a major legal victory that comes with a caveat, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday tossed out Ya...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court rejected Thursday an Army National Guardman's bid to block his extension of active duty...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fickle Contra Costa County murder defendant Susan Polk has decided to ditch high-profile defense attorney Dani...
PUC APPOINTMENT - San Francisco telecommunications lawyer Rachelle Chong was sworn in Thursday as the newest member of the Cal...
DISBARMENTS Hultgren, Jerry R. , Fresno Medeiros, Anthony David , Fresno Woods, Robert Brian , Woodland RESIGNATIONS Curtis, P...
SACRAMENTO - California's judiciary has one of its best shots in years at getting funds to build new courthouses and renovate...
Forum Column - By Harvey Gee - In his most recent book, "The 'Huddled Masses' Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights" (2004), Kevi...
Intellectual Property
There's No Easy Way to Root Out Trolls by Patent Reform
By Columnist
Focus Column - By C.J. Alice Chen and Darren E. Donnelly - The U.S. Supreme Court will soon reconsider the long-lived standard...
LOS ANGELES - Jan Handzlik knew what he wanted to do when, as a child, he saw Raymond Burr play the role of a white-collar def...
SAN FRANCISCO - Craig Thompson, a nearly 30-year veteran of the California attorney general's office who specialized in enviro...
WASHINGTON - When Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. finishes his time in the hot seat before the Senate Judiciary Comm...
Entertainment & Sports
Conspiracy? What Conspiracy? Mysteries Stripped to the Bone
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Take it off. Take it all off! Show us some skin! Well, hallelujah, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles, or...
By Douglas W. Kmiec - On the opening day of Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s Supreme Court nomination hearings, the Democratic senators t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal appellate judges wrongly reversed a California man's death penalty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wedne...
Judges and Judiciary
Prolific Writer, Independent Thinker Defies Pigeonholing
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - John T. Noonan Jr. has penned more than 200 scholarly articles and book reviews and more than a dozen major bo...
DUBIOUS DISTINCTION -- Can San Francisco, known as the country's ultraliberal city, really be among the "meanest" to homeless ...
LOS ANGELES - Catherine J. Pratt, a deputy counsel for Los Angeles County, has been elected a Los Angeles County Superior Cour...
LOS ANGELES - Officials with the U.S. District Court for the Central District have created a new magistrate judge position to ...
SACRAMENTO - A proposed two-year moratorium on California's death penalty cleared its first legislative committee hurdle Tuesd...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Gov. Pete Wilson went after several state affirmative action programs, a group of pro-affirmative action ...
Forum Column - By Patrick L. Mattimore and Jean Amabile - No one was surprised when Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorne...
Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - Three weeks have now passed since the Bush administration's program of extra-judicial e...
Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the matter of Zwirn v. Schweitzer (ordered published Dec. 14) the 2nd District Court ...