SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco federal court marshal has lost his bid to hold the Central Intelligence Agency respons...
Judges and Judiciary
Former S.F. Prosecutor Facing Disciplinary Charges Quits Bar
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco prosecutor who is the son of a retired Alameda County judge has given up his license to...
LOS ANGELES - In the world of movie piracy, the trial of Johnny Ray Gasca last week in Los Angeles federal court was a landmar...
INDUSTRIAL WOODLAND HILLS - Conejo USA LLC purchased a 35,153-square-foot industrial building at 1415 Lawrence Drive from Law...
VENTURA - Erudite, quick-witted and easy with a laugh, appellate-court Justice Arthur L. Gilbert is one of the most well-known...
PALO ALTO - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Douglas Southard has spent most of his 17-year judicial career in the Palo...
Intellectual Property
Circumstantial Evidence May Figure More in 'Inducement'
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectal Property - By Warren R. Shiell - For the second time in 20 years, the Supreme Court in the case of ...
Forum Column - By Greg Lukianoff and Samantha Harris - On June 8, Ted Mitchell, president of Occidental College in Los Angeles...
Administrative/Regulatory
Bill Allowing Pharmacist Approval For Morning-After Crosses A Legal Line
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The culture wars have already seeped into hospices, movie theaters and the Super Bowl. Now...
Labor/Employment
Court Interpreters Continue Strike in Northern California
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly 100 unionized interpreters who work in courthouses from Monterey to the Oregon border entered the third...
LOS ANGELES - Frustrated by what they claim are often-repeated inaccuracies in media coverage of the clergy abuse cases, lawye...
Appellate Practice
Spurred by 9th Circuit, Immigration Judge Reverses Self
By John Roemer
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles immigration judge rebuked by a federal appellate panel for "flimsy" work in denying asylum to a Su...
LOS ANGELES - When attorney Bryant Danner, a former self-described "utilities novice," began his reign as general counsel of E...
Corporate
Ameritrade Plans to Buy Rival TD Waterhouse for $2.9 Billion
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Online broker Ameritrade Holding Corp. announced in late June that it will buy rival TD Waterhouse for $2.9 bil...
SAN DIEGO - Two years after an investigation into possible municipal corruption became public with an FBI raid on City Hall, f...
SAN FRANCISCO - The latest effort to recall San Benito County District Attorney John Sarsfield fell several hundred signatures...
Administrative/Regulatory
Challenge to Strict Parole Policy Is Dealt Setback
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge's efforts to assail the Board of Prison Terms' stringent parole policies was dealt a pro...
LOS ANGELES - Moving to fulfill a campaign pledge to make ethics a central theme of his tenure, Los Angeles' new mayor, Antoni...
LOS ANGELES - Applied Materials Inc., the world's largest maker of semiconductor production equipment, has snapped up SCP Glob...
WASHINGTON - Although Sandra Day O'Connor will be remembered by many as the Supreme Court's first woman justice, she also crea...
INDUSTRIAL OAKLAND - An undisclosed group of investors purchased a 39,000-square-foot industrial building at 1545 Willow St. f...
WASHINGTON - Given Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's decisive role in many high-profile Supreme Court cases, it's difficult to ove...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Areas Prone to Landslides Can Use Abatement Districts
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. and Bryan W. Wenter - Nearly 30 years ago, a series of landslides in Sou...
Letter to the Editor - I just finished reading Warrick v. Superior Court , 2005 DJDAR 6347, as well as the Daily Journal artic...
LOS ANGELES - "Watergate was really a turf war between the White House and the FBI," John Dean, former White House counsel un...
SACRAMENTO - Add sexual harassment to the list of offenses California's prisons system is accused of doing nothing about. The...
LOS ANGELES - Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's decision last week to retire from the Supreme Court blindsided the legal and polit...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Summer Associates Learn About Pro Bono Work
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - The Western Justice Center Foundation held its second annual summer-associates workshop on June 30 at the center...
Law Practice
California Lawmakers and Lawyers React to O'Connor's Retirement
By Maggie Guerin
REACTIONS: The following is a sample of reactions to the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "The retire...
LOS ANGELES - Home and small-business owners in California shuddering at the recent expansion of cities' power to seize priva...