SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge on Wednesday rejected a discrimination lawsuit brought by followers of a Chinese spiritu...
Litigation
Defense Counsel Focus Attention on 'Safe Products' Initiative
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - Tort reformers have set their sights on a ballot initiative that could insulate manufacturers from paying puniti...
Administrative/Regulatory
Wanted: Sanctuary for Signers
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Where West La Cadena Drive meets Interstate 215 in Riverside, the hands are now silent. There, for nearly 50 years...
TIME DOESN'T PAY - A mile may be a long way to walk from your parking space in the company lot, but that doesn't mean your emp...
LOS ANGELES - Two Attorneys Join Bankruptcy Court Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has a...
Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - The term "voir dire" translated from Norman French, means "to speak the truth." See Bo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sex sells. Finally. More than two years after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a domain name ...
Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - In the ceaseless culture wars in the United States that target and cast aspersions on media p...
Letter to the Editor - In "TV Skews Americans' Understanding of Real Justice System" (Jan. 27 Daily Journal), Joshua Marquis m...
Forum Column - By Yolanda Arias - The president and the House of Representatives are trying to strike a blow against foster ch...
Letter to the Editor - The issue of whether to impose a two-year moratorium on California's death penalty so that a California...
SAN FRANCISCO - In what came down to a high-stakes game of Semantic Scramble, San-Jose based Think Outside Inc. scored a signi...
Administrative/Regulatory
City, County Agree to Improve Handicap Access
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County and the Superior Court agreed Tuesday to spend the next 18 months and up to $9 million impro...
LOS ANGELES - The testimony of a 26-year-old man who has accused a former priest of molesting him years ago went from tearful...
LOS ANGELES - Barry Mitidiere figured he had a pretty good construction-defect class action when he found a Las Vegas retireme...
LOS ANGELES - Eliminating the threat of a lawsuit, the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday gave a $50,000, 12-week consulting jo...
SAN FRANCISCO - James G. Butler Jr., a senior trial attorney with San Francisco's Veen Firm, is the new president of the San F...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
9th Circuit Joins Others, Strikes Partial-Birth Act
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Congress' ban on certain late-term abortions is unconstitutional, a unanimous 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appea...
LOS ANGELES - Girls 1, Boys 1. And both sides were happy with the score. Senior U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian approve...
SAN FRANCISCO - On a summer day in 2000, 12-year-old Anthony McCurdy was on his way to a Chicago bowling alley when the front ...
WASHINGTON - Seven months ago, the state Supreme Court pronounced the state's criminal sentencing system constitutionally hea...
SAN JOSE - Privacy advocates are trying a new strategy in their battle to stop the Bush administration's domestic surveillanc...
Judges and Judiciary
Alameda DA's Rejection of Black Jurors Is Upheld
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Alameda County prosecutors have yet again prevailed against allegations that they purposely excluded black juror...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Superior Court judges have elected Deputy District Attorney Cynthia A. Zuzga as a commiss...
WASHINGTON - A San Francisco federal appellate judge didn't mince his words Monday when asked about the dramatic rise in immig...
Focus Column - By Christopher J. Lovrien - The California Supreme Court has granted review in at least nine separate cases to ...
Constitutional Law
High Court's 'Ayotte' Ruling Bows to Political Expediency
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael Halley - Whenever a court pays lip service to the viability of a federal constitutional right, but d...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - We all ponder, on occasion, the possibilities of the road not taken. How would our li...
SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Immigration Judge Anna Ho is accustomed to being overruled by higher authorities. Within the Justi...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was four weddings and a professional funeral for the career of Clark Leslie, a former San Mateo County cour...