SAN FRANCISCO - On the eve of trial, Roman Catholic dioceses in Sacramento and Santa Rosa agreed Wednesday to settle 42 clerg...
Administrative/Regulatory
Psychologist May Testify About 'Fajitagate' Cop
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A psychologist may be forced to testify about red flags that came up during a pre-employment evaluation of a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The house looked like any other in the tidy Ingleside tract. But inside, two elderly residents - chronic hoard...
Judges and Judiciary
Ten Commandments Rulings Pave Way for Capitol Cases
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Far be it from me to disagree with the United States Supreme Court. But may I humbly suggest that a...
INDUSTRIAL LOS ANGELES - The Welk Group Inc. signed Quixote Studios, a Los Angeles-based production services company, to a lo...
WASHINGTON - The day after announcing its last rulings of the term, the Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted three more cases for...
Intellectual Property
Message in Music Copyright Disputes: Move Over, Juries
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Nathaniel Bruno - When authors, musicians and artistic designers seek protection for...
Constitutional Law
New Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Expect Resolution of Church-State Issue
By Columnist
Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - Sometime soon, Iraq's interim government will submit a constitution for approval by ...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - It may sound trite, but the practice of family law could hardly be called a bed of roses. ...
LOS ANGELES - If Delaware drivers were allowed to travel up to 90 miles per hour anywhere in the country but California traff...
Corporate
Pfizer Will Shell Out $1.9 Billion for Vicuron Pharmaceutical
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug company, will pay $1.9 billion to acquire Vicuron Pharmaceuticals Inc., a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento lawyer must pay $5,700 in sanctions for filing a frivolous appeal after he failed to disqualify ...
Corporate
Drug Company Pulls in $78 Million Before Launching Products
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - A pediatrics-oriented pharmaceutical company that has yet to publicly announce its initial line of products pul...
Judges and Judiciary
New Judge Proves Ambitious, Innovative, Willing to Learn
By Don Ray
SAN BERNARDINO - The folks in and around Department 3 in Victorville have been talking a lot about the blind boxer. They've be...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will revisit its March ruling that only an arbitrator, not a judge, can...
Intellectual Property
French Drug Maker Sues Over Use of Name in News Web Site
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Can a publisher use the name of a drug trademarked by somebody else in the domain name for its own medical ne...
Intellectual Property
Defendant in Camcording Case Decries 'Lies' and 'Spin' at Trial
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The first person to stand trial in federal court for illegally camcording theatrical movies gave an impassioned ...
LOS ANGELES - James E. Blatt has been known to pull some legal rabbits out of the hat during his 32 years as a criminal defens...
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the Bay Area's top criminal defense attorneys, Cristina Arguedas, confirmed Tuesday that she's been hi...
WASHINGTON - The future of church-state litigation will remain in turmoil after the Supreme Court issued two conflicting opini...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - "Having a place to live is everything! You can't go to school or work or have a norma...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr has come out West. A little more than a year after Hale and Dorr merged ...
Law Practice
Increasingly, Appellate Lawyers Advise at Trials, Laying Appeals Groundwork
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - As an appellate attorney, Robert Wright should be seeing the inside of a courtroom only about three times a year...
Judges and Judiciary
Rehnquist Could Resign During Summer, Making Way for New Chief Justice
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - After a day of major decisions, Chief Justice William Rehnquist left the U.S. Supreme Court building Monday with...
Communications
Court Denies Internet Service Providers' Bid for Cable Access
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Cable companies do not have to give competing Internet service providers open access to their high-speed cable li...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Justices Will Review Ruling Letting Service-Station Owners Sue Oil Firms
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that service station own...
Constitutional Law
Supreme Court Declines to Review Ruling Upholding Contempt Citations Against Journalists
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Staying out of the debate over whether journalists are legally protected from revealing their confidential source...
LOS ANGELES - In a setback for the Los Angeles city attorney's office, a federal judge Monday gave lawyers for the family of ...
Law Practice
Punk-Rock Host of 'Barely Legal' Provides Friendly Savvy
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - Sitting below a poster of a topless and tattooed Suicide Girl, entertainment attorney Joe Escalante coolly gives...
LOS ANGELES - A Compton judge must appear before a state appellate court to explain her actions if she continues to block a d...