Entertainment & Sports
Keep It Simple, Keep It Lean, and You, Too, Can Win a Celebrity Trial
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Wanted: Low-mileage, high-credibility witness. Must combine innocence and charm of well-behaved tod...
SAN DIEGO - Claiming that they are the victims of "hostility" against their religion, Vietnamese Buddhists have sued San Dieg...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired San Francisco police officers are pursuing a class action that could sweeten their pensions by an est...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court said Wednesday it would not review a Los Angeles appeal court's decision to reverse a ...
LOS ANGELES - You can call him The Artist or His Royal Badness, but don't call Prince happy. The Minneapolis-based rock legen...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco lawyer disbarred for overbilling can't reinvent himself as a real estate agent, a Sacramento ...
INDUSTRIAL OTAY MESA - First Industrial Realty Trust purchased a 205,000-square-foot warehouse at 1855 Dornoch Court from the...
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Oscar Garza and Kenneth A. Glowacki Jr. - In any Chapter 11 case, it is the goal of the deb...
Judges and Judiciary
'Schiavo': Us-Versus-Them Attitude Distracts From What's Legally Right
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Forum Column - By Franklin E. Zimring - Whatever else it should have taught us, this spring's prime time tragedy of Terri Schi...
LOS ANGELES - Susan McRae, a veteran Daily Journal reporter, has won Los Angeles Press Club's 2004 Journalist of the Year awar...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place in Long Beach today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Harry T. Shafer. Shafe...
SAN DIEGO - Court errors that deprived a defendant of his right to a speedy trial have brought an order from an appellate cour...
Administrative/Regulatory
Judge Clears Discount Drug Initiative for Ballot
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento Superior Court judge refused Tuesday to scrap a proposed prescription drug discount initiative, deal...
SAN FRANCISCO - Parishioners at a May 23 mass in Berkeley wept, cheered and rose to their feet upon learning their longtime p...
LOS ANGELES - After the 1992 Rodney King riots, determined volunteers organized L.A. City Camp to show inner-city youngsters h...
SACRAMENTO - A pair of legislators announced Tuesday they will seek a two-year moratorium on California's death penalty while...
SAN FRANCISCO - A sexual harassment case the San Francisco Housing Authority could have settled for $365,000 five years ago w...
LOS ANGELES - After Michael Jackson was acquitted of child-molestation charges Monday, the Internet wag Matt Drudge posted a p...
INDUSTRIAL VENTURA - World Market & Tile signed a lease for 15,000 square feet of industrial space at 2976 Golf Course Dri...
Constitutional Law
Outlawing Flag Burning Amounts to Desecration of Constitution
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Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Today is Flag Day. To celebrate, Congress is considering amending the First Amendment for...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - Laurie L. Levenson - Believe it or not, Michael Jackson's case is not the only child molestation...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Cupertino man who killed his young lover and kept the corpse in a box he used as a nightstand cannot be par...
Administrative/Regulatory
Inmates Get Mixed Opinion on Confinement at Supermax Prisons
By Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - Prison inmates can establish a 14th Amendment liberty interest when seeking to avoid an assignment to high-securi...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to insert itself into a dispute over media-ownership rules, rejecting petiti...
Judges and Judiciary
Citing Marijuana Decision, Justices Kick Back Ruling on Homemade Machine Guns
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - One week after its medical marijuana ruling reinforced the reach of federal authority under the Commerce Clause, ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge agreed Monday to push back the trial date for former Fleishman-Hillard executives Doug Dowie and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Drug companies have wide latitude to use compounds patented by other companies to develop new drugs, the U.S. ...
Criminal
Conspiracy Theory Remains Key to Shrinking Rap-Murder Civil Case
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The Notorious B.I.G. case keeps getting smaller. More than three years after it was filed, the cons...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court Monday struck down two of the last remaining challenges to the underpinnings of the plan...
SAN FRANCISCO - Curious authorities took note a few years ago when they discovered an ominous rust-colored swath discoloring t...