SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court labored Thursday to untangle a jurisprudential knot created when separate Santa C...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco man doing life in prison for the 1997 Marin County murder of high school football star Ronnie...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Bernard S. Kamine - Public Contract Code Sections 3400 and 10129 (and similar federal regula...
Forum Column - By Kurt A. Schlichter - Recently, a well-known international organization called for the investigation and pros...
LOS ANGELES - Joanne Caruso says she'll never forget the summer of 1984, working as a student associate at Howrey Simon Arnold...
LOS ANGELES - Microsoft Corp. might seem like an unlikely candidate to honor for good works, but when Public Counsel looked fo...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week named four attorneys, including a former judge, to various state and local ...
Column By Garry Abrams - Cable resurrection! Cable resurrection! Behold, when Los Angeles criminal defense attorney and onetim...
Entertainment & Sports
State Supreme Court to Review Dispute Between Raiders, NFL
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court Wednesday tackled the long-running dispute between the Oakland Raiders and the Na...
Judges and Judiciary
Gold Country Judge Helps Shoulder Burden of Growth
By Linda Rapattoni
PLACERVILLE - In Judge Daniel Proud's first year on the bench, he had two murder trials, including a double homicide. He also...
SAN FRANCISCO - A divided federal appellate court ruled Wednesday that a San Diego carpenters' union has a free speech right t...
INDUSTRIAL PLEASANTON - Goble Properties purchased a 33,486-square-foot industrial building in Hacienda Business Park at 4430...
LOS ANGELES - During his tenure as governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson says, he has invested in early-childhood education,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Once again, Congress has chastened the "liberal activist judges" of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The...
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Angel Raich and Diane Monson are residents of Northern California, suffering from severe...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Jack Brewer purchased a 40,216-square-foot industrial building at 8480 Miralani Drive from Sandra A. B...
LOS ANGELES - A woman paralyzed by multiple sclerosis said she nearly lost her home because of the actions of a unscrupulous L...
Criminal
In Penalty Phase, Restraints Do No More Damage Than Guilty Verdict
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Forum Column - By Sherri F. Colb - Last month, in Deck v. Missouri , 2005 U.S. LEXIS 4180, the Supreme Court held that the sta...
Administrative/Regulatory
Parole Reform Holds Key to Fixing California's Prison Problems
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - "The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons," Fyodor Dost...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted one case for review, agreeing to decide whether a New York couple can sue fe...
SAN FRANCISCO - It took a San Francisco jury three hours to decide Cisco Systems had not infringed on a rival's patent. The c...
SANTA MARIA - Judge Rodney S. Melville's decision to seal notes sent to him by jurors deliberating Michael Jackson's fate is u...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate Ends Filibuster, Clearing Way for Vote on Brown
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to end its filibuster on state Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, clear...
SAN FRANCISCO - Airport passengers randomly chosen for extra security checks can't invoke the Fourth Amendment if they get ca...
SANTA ANA - A judge threw out a suit by a fired Orange County district attorney spokeswoman Tuesday, saying she failed to pro...
RIVERSIDE - A state appellate panel Tuesday overturned a child molester's 60-years-to-life sentence on four counts of abusing...
SAN FRANCISCO - As the handicapping heats up amid the likely confirmation this week of California Supreme Court Justice Janice...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Cardinal Health 303 Inc. signed a one-year, $952,128 lease renewal for 83,520 square feet of industria...
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Warren R. Shiell - Attorneys representing married couples planning on ...
Forum Column - By Michael Halley - However long the Las Vegas odds were that the Senate would stand down from its once immine...