Judges and Judiciary
From His Father's Footstool to State Appellate Bench
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - There appears to be a judicial gene in the family of William R. McGuiness. McGuiness' father, William J. McGui...
WORK OF FAITH - For 20 years, I had done high-tech marketing and engineering work. I had a good job, a good future, but I want...
SAN DIEGO - After nearly 20 years on the bench, San Diego County Superior Court Judge William C. Pate has retired. Pate, 62, r...
SANTA ANA - SIC-Leed 1015 Santa Ana LLC, a partnership between Leed Properties and the State of New Mexico Investment Counsel,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Estate planning attorney Mike Welty returned Sunday from a ski trip in Colorado to find his Healdsburg law off...
INDIO - Judge Randall D. White hears juvenile delinquency cases. But turning 18 isn't a ticket out of his courtroom. White, wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed a San Diego County prosecutor and former reality TV star to the San Diego...
Environmental
Complying With National Plan Is Key to Recouping on Cleanup
By Columnist
Focus Column - By William D. Wick - Failure to evaluate alternatives for cleaning up contaminated property and failure to prov...
LOS ANGELES - While the federal judge assigned to hear the racketeering, wiretapping and conspiracy case of private eye Antho...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday waded into a contentious labor law battle between workers and employ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Many investors might find it hard to believe that the executive who calls the shots at the company in which th...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously that a Las Vegas builder could not file a race discriminati...
SANTA ANA - An elderly woman who wandered unnoticed away from a residential care facility only to be injured by a hit-and-run...
Administrative/Regulatory
Seeking Help for Nontraditional Victims of Domestic Violence
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A woman stopped by the Gay & Lesbian Center in Los Angeles a couple of days after Christmas frustrated and a ...
WORK OF FAITH - On Sept. 21, 2001, I went to the Metropolitan Corrections Center prison in San Diego to meet my client Osama A...
LOS ANGELES - If living well is the best revenge, then dying in paradise could well be the last, best laugh. So, maybe legenda...
TAX EVASION BRINGS PRISON - A Campbell divorce attorney was sentenced to 21/2 years in prison after a jury convicted him of ev...
Focus Column - By Thomas B. Snyder - In Crawford v. Weather Shield Manufacturing Inc ., a subcontractor was held liable for pr...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Admonishes Jurist for Using Staff on Personal Work
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency has rebuked Orange Superior Court Judge John M. Watson for using court s...
LOS ANGELES - What's the cost of taking property off the competitive San Francisco rental market and displacing its occupants?...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned back a challenge by two tobacco companies to California's Proposition 9...
Education
Oops! Sorry About That Acceptance E-Mail, Boalt Hall Says
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - Admissions officials at University of California, Berkeley's law school sent out e-mail to up to 7,000 applicant...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's judicial watchdog agency has charged Judge Elaine M. Rushing of the Sonoma County Superior Court...
LOS ANGELES - The wiretapping allegations against private eye Anthony Pellicano have resulted in criminal charges against a d...
LOS ANGELES - A trial judge's refusal to instruct a jury on "imperfect self-defense" led to the reversal Tuesday of a second-d...
Firm Watch
Veteran Litigator Takes Nine Attorneys With Him to Luce
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has nabbed veteran litigator Bruce S. Ross from Holland & Knight to s...
Litigation
Caltrans Pays $4.3 Million To Settle Deaf Church's Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Members of a church for the deaf who lost their house of worship in an eminent-domain condemnation will receive $...
Public Interest
'Jobs, Not Jails' Skid Row Protesters Shout at Politicos
By Anat Rubinn
LOS ANGELES - The crowd of politicians and police officers paced to the chants of angry protesters. A phalanx of TV cameras to...
Judges and Judiciary
Judging Ranks No. 1, Even Over Playing for the Oakland Raiders
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Michael K. Kellogg's colorful past includes manning pumps on remote desert oil rigs, teaching constitutional law...
WORK OF FAITH - You can justify anything you want by looking at a religious base. Bad idea. I don't approach religion that way...