Appellate Practice
Make Certification Motions Elaborate, Precise, Detailed
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Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James C. Martin and Jayne E. Fleming - Lawyers need no refresher on the "one-final-judgment"...
Government
Schwarzenegger Fails to Stand Up To Powerful Prison Guards Union
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Forum Column - By Vincent Schiraldi and Javier Stauring - In January, in his State of the State address, Gov. Arnold Schwarzen...
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - There is a short news item in last Thursday's New York Times that the judge in the feder...
LOS ANGELES - Provisional ballots were shaping up Tuesday to be the possible boogeyman of the 2004 presidential election. Cast...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan has hired five new prosecutors, including a new chief of the Organized Crime Stri...
SAN FRANCISCO - The lead prosecutor in Oakland's police corruption retrial spent the second day of opening statements Tuesday...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared unreceptive to arguments that a Florida death-row inmate's Sixth Amendment ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental groups filed two lawsuits early this week in an attempt to insulate themselves against the effec...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge Tuesday refused to temporarily halt Los Angeles County's plans to remove the tiny golden...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-area entertainment lawyer Scott Tenley arrived at Longwood Manor, a convalescent home in Mid-City Lo...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Applies His High-School Teaching Skills on Bench
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
FONTANA - Sitting as a San Bernardino Superior Court commissioner often reminds Michael A. Knish of his former career as a hi...
A federal judge in Toledo ruled Tuesday that Ohio voters who did not receive absentee ballots on time can cast provisional bal...
Government
Legal Community Turns Out in Record Numbers to Prevent Debacle of 2000
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A record number of lawyers and law-students in Southern California volunteered their time and expertise on Elect...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief Magistrate Judge Feels Comfortable Setting the Pace
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia V. Trumbull comes from that generation of women lawyers who were first. Trumbull, 5...
Product Liability
Wyeth Settles Fen-Phen Case After Jurors Award $115,000
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys involved in the state's massive litigation surrounding "fen-phen" quickly reached a $70,000 settlement...
LAS VEGAS - Hundreds of California lawyers joined a temporary migration of volunteer attorneys to election swing states Tuesda...
LOS ANGELES - When Sheriff Lee Baca emptied the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, there was none of the outcry tha...
Intellectual Property
Google Blithely Ignores Legal Rights of Trademark Holders
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Forum Column - By Antonio A. Sarabia II - There has been a fair amount of publicity, primarily by Google itself, about Google ...
RIVERSIDE - Services have taken place for Justin Michael McCarthy, a longtime Riverside civil attorney known for zealously li...
Letters to the Editor - I am responding to Pierce O'Donnell's article ("Breaking News: God Is a Republican, or So Says America...
Focus Column - Legal Ethics - By Alec H. Boyd - On Oct. 13, the state Supreme Court declined to review or depublish Janik v. R...
SAN JOSE - U.S. District Judge James Ware, voicing concerns about the length and fairness of a pending economic-espionage cri...
SAN FRANCISCO - The corruption retrial of the Oakland police officers known as "the Riders" had barely begun Monday when the ...
WASHINGTON - Acting in a case in which an estranged husband abducted and killed his three children, the Supreme Court agreed M...
LOS ANGELES - For Greg Jordan, firmwide managing partner for Reed Smith, two of the most important goals for the Pittsburgh-b...
LOS ANGELES - A probate lawyer main duty is to his client, not to the beneficiaries of any wills he writes, a state appellate...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge will decide in the next week whether prosecutors can present evidence linking accused SUV-firebo...
LOS ANGELES - The juvenile-delinquency court has been called everything from a revolving door to the unwanted stepchild of the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran San Francisco appellate specialist Paul Fogel has been appointed to the California Judicial Council's ...
SACRAMENTO - A slew of television ads by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a sharp turnaround in the polls have prosecutors belie...