SACRAMENTO - The California Judicial Council plans to pursue legislation to adopt a uniform civil fees schedule and to ask vo...
EXTRA Feature - When EXTRA asked Los Angeles attorney Kelli Sager what she'd like to receive this holiday season, she was quic...
WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who is recovering at home from thyroid cancer, is planning to swear in Presi...
Product Liability
Panel Denies Tobacco Cases' Right to Binding Arbitration
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - In a major setback for cigarette makers, a state appellate court ruled Friday that most disputes lingering from ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Plaintiffs, Defendants Flock To Neutrals Instead of Court
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs and defendants increasingly are flocking to private judges and attorneys who hold out the promise of ...
LAND VISALIA - El Progresso Restaurant purchased 72,309 square feet of land from the Family Health Care Network. Terms of the...
LOS ANGELES - It's Christmastime. Five mobsters sit around a table playing cards, laughing and jawing in exaggerated Bronx acc...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists and fishing organizations are threatening a Clean Water Act lawsuit that could impose major...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Judge William J. McGuiness of Oakland was remembered Thursday as a "consummate gentleman" during his ...
WASHINGTON - The Canadian Supreme Court ruling on Thursday allowing the country's government to legalize same-sex marriage cou...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - The casebook method has long been the favored tool of learning for law st...
Forum Column - By Donald E.J. Kilmer Jr. - Dec. 15 is the anniversary of our Bill of Rights. Under 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...
Judges and Judiciary
Fight Over Confirmation Threatens Quality, Independence of Judiciary
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Forum Column - The following is a statement from Charles Pickering, the Mississippi judge whose nomination to the 5th U.S. Cir...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - California is a state where rags to riches stories are not uncommon. It is a place where p...
Letter to the Editor - Regarding "Schools Need More Sensible System Than Zero Tolerance," (Nov. 15 Daily Journal): Omitted fro...
Employee Benefits
New Legislation Covering Domestic Partners Will Affect Employers
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Column - Employment Law - By James J. McDonald Jr. - Two laws will go into effect in California on Jan. 1, that are likely to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Memorial services are scheduled Monday for retired Judge Lewis P. May of the Alameda County Municipal Court. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Funeral services are scheduled today for Jerry Curtis, a former assistant state attorney general and Alameda ...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley decided Thursday he would not retry the three remaining LAPD officers charged in ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court declined Thursday to halt a proposed upscale residential development in West Los...
SAN FRANCISCO - Inmate Terrance Covington can sue guards at Corcoran State Prison for beating him excessively during a cell e...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney for alleged double agent Katrina Leung accused federal prosecutors in Los Angles of engaging in a fl...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Finds His Strict Rules Make Process Work Well
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Be prepared to stand when the judge enters, observe a moment of silence for the troops in Iraq, fill out court p...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bidding for the right to sue Clifford Chance over its alleged role in the ruin of Brobeck, Phleger & Harr...
RIVERSIDE - A land-swap plan by an elderly couple that saved a controversial cross in the Mojave Desert has come under attack ...
SAN DIEGO - A state prosecutor found himself on the hot seat Wednesday in front of the California Supreme Court, trying to re...
INDUSTRIAL LAKE FOREST - Clark Contractors Inc. purchased a 10,268-square-foot industrial building at 26902 Vista Terrace fro...
Letter to the Editor - With regard to Juliet Leftwich's commentary ("Americans Must Work for State, Local Reform of Firearm La...
Judges and Judiciary
Alas, Bush Will Have Chance to Turn Supreme Court to Right
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Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - Even before the serious health problems of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist broke into the...
Intellectual Property
Inventors Should Time Filing Their Applications Carefully
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By C. Amy Smith and Jessica Wolff - The recent heightened attention to the written desc...