SAN JOSE - A federal judge Wednesday rejected a Cupertino schoolteacher's claim that his free speech rights were violated when...
LOS ANGELES - Mayor James Hahn's vow to clamp down on gang members throughout the city drew harsh criticism this week from opp...
LOS ANGELES - Ending months of speculation, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley announced Wednesday that he wil...
SAN FRANCISCO - Administrative Presiding Justice Judith D. McConnell of the 4th District Court of Appeal in San Diego was app...
SAN FRANCISCO - In their catchy 1997 hit "Semi-Charmed Life," the Bay Area band Third Eye Blind lamented: "I want something el...
SAN DIEGO - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday swept away the last legal hurdle for enforcement of tough new restrictions d...
Law Practice
Cheeky, Charismatic, Flamboyant Defender Gets Film Mogul's Send-Off
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - In death, as in life, O.J. Simpson defense attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. is getting the star trea...
LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that affects hundreds of pending cases growing out of the 1994 Northridge earthquake, a state appell...
SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Belton, one of the longest-serving staff members of the California Supreme Court and the judicial branch...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's like a touchdown called back after a referee's review. A judge's miscues during sports agent Leigh Stein...
Firm Watch
IP Litigator Johnson Leaves Fenwick for Greener Pastures at Morgan Lewis
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property litigator and trial lawyer Daniel Johnson Jr. has left Fenwick & West to join Morgan...
WEB EXCLUSIVE: SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan Lewis & Bockius has hired William Kimball, the third and latest Enron Corp. task fo...
INDUSTRIAL CAMARILLO - Interconnect Systems Inc. purchased a 22,311-square-foot, two-unit industrial building at 759-765 Flyn...
WASHINGTON - A divided U.S. Supreme Court expanded the scope of a landmark gender-equity law Tuesday, ruling that a male coach...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Jeffrey Goldman and Carolyn Wu - In a case of first impression in California, the Court of Appe...
Administrative/Regulatory
Prisoner Programs Can Help Prevent Recidivism
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - This is in response to an article written by Jeffrey A. Lowe, "Big House Fails to Prepare Parolees for ...
LOS ANGELES - Despite famed defense lawyer Johnnie L. Cochran's long battle with a brain tumor, his death Tuesday shocked the ...
LOS ANGELES - A former Fleishman-Hillard executive at the center of allegations that the firm overbilled the city of Los Angel...
SAN DIEGO - Tempted by the prospect of gaining six-pack abs without exercise, thousands of people bought battery-powered AbEn...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court sent the case of a 17-year-old boy who sexually abused children back to juvenile court Tu...
LOS ANGELES - Many observers of the O.J. Simpson criminal trial doubted that playing the race card would work for the defense...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that when nominal damages are awarded in a class action, e...
SANTA ANA - An Oceanside woman who shot and killed her husband a decade ago is not entitled to habeas relief because state cou...
Constitutional Law
Parents Rip Military's Selective Recruitment of Poor Students
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Criticizing the U.S. military for a "poverty draft," a group of Los Angeles-area teachers, parents and students ...
Criminal
Death Penalty Decision Hinges On Credibility of Ex-Prosecutor
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Whether Fred Freeman's death sentence should be overturned on the grounds that the jury selection process in his tr...
LOS ANGELES - After a five-week "whirlwind romance," high-profile Los Angeles insurance coverage litigation boutique Pasich &a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Modesto judge has ruled that the California Voting Rights Act, a 2001 statute meant to give minorities more ...
Constitutional Law
Teacher Sues School Over Restricting Religion in Class
By Staff Writer
SAN JOSE - Several years ago, Stephen Williams a veteran fifth-grade teacher at Stevens Creek School in Cupertino, had a relig...
LOS ANGELES - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., the brilliant Los Angeles lawyer who became a global celebrity for winning O.J. Simpson'...
Constitutional Law
High Court Considers If S.F. Hotel Can Press Federal Suit
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Stepping into a seemingly never-ending dispute over San Francisco's hotel conversion ordinance, the Supreme Court...