SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted 6-0 Wednesday to decide whether the renovation of an old bank building in ...
BAKERSFIELD - Both the clerk and the bailiff looked up in shock when Kern Superior Court Judge Robert S. Tafoya asked the def...
WASHINGTON - By breaking from their party colleagues, Democrats intending to vote for John G. Roberts Jr. as chief justice hop...
MULTIFAMILY FONTANA - Joseph Chavez of Marcus & Millichap brokered the $5.4 million sale of a multifamily property at 167...
Judges and Judiciary
Courts Need to Stay Clear of Family Religious Entanglements
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Forum Column - By Warren D. Camp - Trial courts are vested with broad judicial discretion to fashion orders that are in the be...
Forum Column - By William I. Rothbard, Theodore F. Monroe and Bradley O. Cebeci - The Federal Trade Commission's relentless at...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Peter J. Laufenberg - From the desk of the insurance commissioner of Florida to Insurance Co...
Letter to the Editor - The article titled "Making a Federal Case of Gangs" gave the false impression of a new trend in federal...
Letter to the Editor - I am the assistant district attorney in charge of major cases and homicides for the Santa Clara County ...
LOS ANGELES - Owning a BlackBerry hand-held computer has changed the way litigator Robert Schaberg does business. "I live and...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Jewish inmate who was forced to share a cell with anti-Semitic prisoners on several occasions may pursue hi...
Administrative/Regulatory
Court Beaches Malibu's Settlement With Developer
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Malibu City Council violated the state's open meeting law by agreeing behind closed doors to a settlement wi...
LOS ANGELES - Frustrated by stalled contract negotiations, 1,000 Los Angeles County deputy probation officers called in sick ...
LOS ANGELES - State lawmakers violated Proposition 103 when they passed legislation in 2003 allowing automobile insurance carr...
Judges and Judiciary
Winning Court Administrator 'Can't Believe It's Really Work'
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Sam Hamrick is a lawyer who found a place in the legal system but doesn't practice law. He's the clerk of the U.S...
Probate
Justices Will Review Reversal of Anna Nicole Smith's Judgment
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Anna Nicole Smith's long-running, headline-grabbing legal saga over her husband's fortune got a new lease on life...
WASHINGTON - Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who announced her retirement in July, likely will serve on the U.S. Supreme Court at...
OFFICE SANTA CLARA - Pacific Coast Capital purchased the Regency Plaza, a 13-story office tower at 2350 Mission College Blvd.,...
Intellectual Property
It's Likely Curtains for Lemelson's Abuse of Patent System
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Forum Column - By George M. Sirilla - In its Sept. 9 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the ...
Letter to the Editor - I, for one, am just about fed up with the intelligent-deficient who cling to the view that the Constitu...
Letter to the Editor - In his Op-Ed piece of Sept. 19 ("Rally 'Round Pledge: It Doesn't Threaten Religious Liberty," Daily Jou...
Appellate Practice
Amicus Briefs Must Provide Courts With Real Assistance
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Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Alycia A. Degen and Catherine Valerio Barrad - More than 85 amicus briefs were filed with th...
SAN FRANCISCO - The first of 40 cases nationwide that charges Wal-Mart Stores Inc. with workplace violations went to trial in ...
LOS ANGELES - On Saturday, Loyola Law School will put the civil justice system on trial for its life. In response to charges t...
Litigation
Citing Legal Fees, Judge Stalls Oracle CEO's Unusual Insider Trading Settlement
By Craiq Anderson
REDWOOD CITY - A proposed settlement of an insider trading lawsuit that would have resolved the case by allowing Oracle Corp. ...
Column - By Garry Abrams - For a month, superlawyer David Boies, the famed attorney who prosecuted Microsoft for antitrust vio...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who was badly burned recently when a PG&E electrical transformer exploded in San Francisco's Finan...
MULTIFAMILY NAPA - Montrachet, a 200-unit luxury apartment community, was sold for $45 million by BayRock Financial to First ...
Labor/Employment
Prevent Lawsuits by Providing Benefits to Domestic Partners
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jan Vaughn Mock - You may think things are ticking along just fine in your client's busines...
Labor/Employment
Employers May Debit Exempt Workers for Part-Day Absences
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Teresa Tracy - In a dramatic departure from the position that has been espoused by the Cali...