Focus Column - By Lawrence R. Jensen - The California courts last month reaffirmed their recent trend of dealing harshly with ...
Government
Out-of-Control Initiative Process Is Hijacking California Politics
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Whether they are approached by signature-gatherers outside grocery stores or puzzled by ba...
Litigation
Marvel Settles Lawsuit Against Computer Game 'City of Heroes'
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - As one of the first cases to examine the limits of expression on the Internet, the suit had the potential to tr...
LOS ANGELES - Sources inside St. Louis-based Bryan Cave have confirmed reports that the firm is in merger negotiations with Cl...
Real Estate/Development
Historic Status Not Enough to Save Venice Tenants
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Bill Delvac isn't very popular with the tenants of Venice's Lincoln Place apartments. The Latham & Watkins ...
SAN JOSE - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may have thrown a lifeline to the company that makes the popular BlackBerry e-...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday upheld a decision to dismiss a complaint against a woman charged with...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges Thursday against two former San Francisco hedge fun...
LOS ANGELES - For the second time this year, a prominent Proskauer Rose partner is departing the Los Angeles office. Richard M...
LOS ANGELES - Firing the latest salvo in a battle that has visited state courts for years, Insurance Commissioner John Garamen...
Judges and Judiciary
Ethics Code Would Let Judicial Candidates Comment on Issues
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - Candidates in judicial elections would gain the right to comment on controversial issues but remain barred from m...
CLERGY ABUSE RULING - A San Diego federal judge Thursday upheld a 2002 law that allows alleged victims one year to file a civi...
SANTA ANA - When Don Dewberry entered Orange County's innovative program after his third drunken-driving arrest, the former au...
SAN BRUNO - Archstone-Smith has acquired Meridian at the Crossing, a 300-unit community at 1099 Admiral Court, for $101.2 mill...
Bankruptcy
When Reforms Hit the Fan, Bankruptcy System Failed to Answer Mayday
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Forum Column - By Dennis McGoldrick - Nov. 21, 2005. I walk into the U.S. Trustee hearing room for five 341a bankruptcy credit...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco County Superior Court Judge James McBride has been assigned to the master criminal calendar cour...
Forum Column - By William J. Aceves - Earlier this month, the British House of Lords issued a landmark ruling on torture. In a...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Carefree Abandon of Rules Defeats Point of Arbitration
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Focus Column - By Michael E. Ballachy - Since retiring from the Superior Court, I have been privileged to preside over a numbe...
SAN FRANCISCO - A firm must be disqualified from handling a lawsuit if it previously has obtained confidential information fro...
LOS ANGELES - Nicole Wool ditched criminal procedure the day her Southwestern University School of Law professor made the seat...
SAN FRANCISCO - A software producer that already won more than $1 million from two other Silicon Valley companies for spilling...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Umbrage Signals New Limit for Bush's War Powers
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - First, a judge stands down from a special court that oversees government surveillance after the Bush administrati...
Administrative/Regulatory
National Security Fence Trumps Six Endangered Species
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - "The dogs came in low and fast, bouncing like hailstones, tongues on fire, trailing drool. Fahey took them head ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland's novel lawsuit to force the state highway department to take trash seriously had ended in a tidy truc...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Monterey County prosecutor looked to have the right stuff to win a rape-murder conviction: A suspect who adm...
THOUSAND OAKS - Decron Properties purchased the 110,074-square-foot Park Oaks Shopping Center at 1640-1790 Moorpark Road from ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Pushy Courts Tainted Mediation of Clergy Case
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Forum Column - By Jeff Kichaven - Every year, one appellate decision stands head and shoulders above the rest in terms of elab...
Administrative/Regulatory
Tookie Blew His One Last Chance to Do Good
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor In the Dec. 15 Daily Journal, you printed three letters by persons who opposed the execution of Stanley ...
Focus Column - Louis R. Dienes - Venture capital firms are often judged by their rates of return. Rates of return are a functi...
Forum Column - By Carl Tobias - On Nov. 10, the U.S. Senate passed 49-42 an amendment to the Department of Defense Authorizati...