LOS ANGELES - In a scathing rebuke of a Kern County trial court's decision to terminate dependency for a special-education tee...
LOS ANGELES - A dispute over ownership of a Picasso painting stolen by Nazis, which spawned a lawsuit that spanned three year...
Securities Law Supplement - Three years after the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act became law, practitioners are still sifting thro...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wal-Mart Inc. ran into trouble Monday when it asked the 9th U.S. Circuit of Court of Appeals to throw out a c...
SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney who led the losing legal challenge to the constitutionality of the California Coastal Commission...
SACRAMENTO - The state's schools superintendent and a teachers union sued Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Tuesday, claiming he viol...
LOS ANGELES - An inked merger between athletic shoe companies Reebok and Adidas is expected to face scrutiny by regulators in ...
Appellate Practice
Panel Reinstates Trademark Suit Over Use of 'Yellow Cab'
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel stepped in Tuesday to referee a war between Sacramento taxi companies fighting over ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Canadian company's $1 billion free-trade complaint stemming from California's ban on the gasoline additive M...
LOS ANGELES - Ask anyone in professor George Gliaudys' legal-writing class, where most of the students are Los Angeles County ...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawyers Express Support for Judge Sentenced in DUI
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Calling her a good, hardworking jurist who has apologized for her mistake, several Sonoma County attorneys say...
Judges and Judiciary
Life Is Never Dull With Glider-Flying, Scuba-Diving Judge
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES - Not long after Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judson Morris Jr. took the Municipal Court bench, Judge Michael ...
DLA Piper Gray Cary and Cooley Godward attorneys represented Protein Design Labs in its collaboration with Biogen Idec. Latham...
OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO - Newmark Realty Capital secured a $44 million financing for the CNET Networks Inc. world headquarters a...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge late Monday set aside a $6.5 million verdict against the county and ordered a new trial in ...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - When the 15th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act was celebrated on July 26...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Mark Ivener - Reminiscent of the late 1990s, big-name mergers are in the news: Proctor &...
Family
State Court Cannot Justify Depriving Homosexual Couples of All Benefits
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lawrence C. Levine - Putting aside for a moment the emotion and rhetoric that surround the notion of same-se...
U.S. Supreme Court, Letters, Judges and Judiciary
Thomas, O'Connor Agree on 'Kelo'
By Columnist
Letter to the Editor - In "Thomas, Unbridled, Would Gut 200 Years of Precedent" (Aug. 5 Daily Journal), professor Erwin Chemer...
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services are scheduled for U.S. District Judge William J. Rea, who died last week after a brief illnes...
LOS ANGELES - Federal Judge John T. Ward thinks his "rocket docket" reputation, which draws patent cases to his Texas courtro...
Intellectual Property
Inventor Files Patent Suit Over Automated Phone Systems
By Drew Combs
LOS ANGELES - Ronald Katz, a Los Angeles inventor, has filed a patent infringement suit in the Eastern District of Texas again...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists fret that a judge's recent ruling could create a significant loophole allowing for massive i...
LOS ANGELES - Over the course of his lunch hour, Los Angeles criminal defense attorney "Morgan Bishop" dissuaded the district ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Elaine Rushing, who pleaded no contest to an enhanced drunken driving charg...
Administrative/Regulatory
Court Allows Regulators to Fight Mining Plans
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court Monday affirmed the authority of state regulators to go to court to block faulty ...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Robert Baines has not shied away from controversial cases, even when his r...
Administrative/Regulatory
CIA Can't Reveal Motor Pool Data It Doesn't Have Any
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The CIA has been maligned for missing the pending fall of the Soviet Union and other intelligence miscues. No...
Column - By Garry Abrams - Public Beware: News Media and Politicians Rediscover an Old, Dangerous Trend and Call It New, Impro...
SAN FRANCISCO - A tortured whistle-blower retaliation case that consumed eight years, millions of dollars in attorney fees an...