Intellectual Property
Ruling Drops Curtain on Grokster's Activities
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - As Hollywood crowed and the Silicon Valley grumbled about the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling Monday in MG...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco has approved a major air pollution settlement between government regulators ...
SAN FRANCISCO - California consumers are free to file class actions in interstate contract disputes despite contrary provisio...
Judges and Judiciary
Chatsworth Judge Encourages Family Atmosphere in Court
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael J. Farrell was born into one of those Irish-Catholic families that hav...
SAN FRANCISCO - An image of the Ten Commandments in the official seal of the highest court in the West appears to be safe - a...
WASHINGTON - In a decision celebrated by the entertainment industry, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that Internet file-sharing...
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California has honored several attorneys for their work in areas suc...
LOS ANGELES - With discontent growing in the professional mediation community, a prominent attorney resigned Wednesday from th...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Event Rentals Inc., doing business as Classic Party Rentals, signed a 10-year, $4.6 million lease for 7...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Restrictions in U.S. Software Contracts Can Hit Euro-Snag
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Mark Ostrau - Following its expansion last year, the European Union now comprises 25...
SAN FRANCISCO - Old friendships die hard, and for Daniel Deshon, the newest partner of Nixon Peabody's San Francisco office, ...
Corporate
Board Directors Learn Glory and Horror of Regulation, Litigation
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Stanford Law professor Joseph Grundfest took the opportunity during this year's installment of his annual Dir...
LOS ANGELES - No space in the budget or not enough work for a full-time general counsel? For Michael Oswald and Stuart Blake,...
LOS ANGELES - Rosie O'Donnell's got one so she can share her poetry with the world. Your neighbor's uncle probably has one fo...
LOS ANGELES - Even when Michael Leibovitz was an international tax law partner in Baker & McKenzie's downtown San Diego o...
LOS ANGELES - McDermott Will & Emery snatched litigator Dana Levitt from Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan for its tri...
Family
Panel Chastises Imperial Judge Over His Handling of Juvenile Cases
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - For the second time in six weeks, a state appeals court has criticized an Imperial Superior Court judge for fai...
SAN FRANCISCO - Is it the State Bar Board of Governors' job to endorse a filmmaker's project, even if it deals with an aspect...
Column - By Garry Abrams - The federal trial of the wrongful-death civil suit stemming from the murder of rap mogul Notorious ...
SAN DIEGO - Michael N. Pancer, the legal magician, once persuaded a jury to acquit a client who had skipped town in the middle...
Newmeyer & Dillion, an Orange County-based real estate law firm, opened an office in Walnut Creek last Monday. Jan A. Grue...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday removed the most serious legal challenge faced by the California Coa...
INDUSTRIAL SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO - Raymarc Automotive Inc. signed a 10-year, $5.5 million lease for a 39,250-square-foot industr...
Constitutional Law
Takings to Help Developers Are Legal, Justices Decide
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a struggling Connecticut municipality can seize property in a working...
Focus Column - International Law - By Chris Van Gundy - It seems commonly accepted that enforcing foreign arbitral awards gene...
Forum Column - By Elliot S. Berkowitz - About a year ago, I wrote a column predicting how SB899 - the state's so-called worker...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Suggestion Box: A Possible Cure for ADA Abuse
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - The following is an open letter to U.S. District Court judges regarding Americans with Disabilities Act...
Labor/Employment
Ignorance is Bliss for Employers Fighting Off Discrimination Claims
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Anthony J. Oncidi - In a far-reaching new opinion that will have implications for many employers, the 2...
Administrative/Regulatory
Political Watchdog Agency Seeks Input on Its Future
By Donna Domino
SACRAMENTO - The state's political watchdog agency is taking a hard look at itself and inviting others to suggest the directi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Joseph Kenneth Sorden of Pacifica did his time for a 1983 rape conviction and had been out of prison for more...