Judges and Judiciary
Three Judges Campaign for Assistant Presiding Judgeship
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Three judges have nominated themselves to serve as San Francisco Superior Court's next assistant presiding jud...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Thursday opened an "inquiry" into possible violations of the state's open-meet...
SAN FRANCISCO - There's a steep price to pay for standing up the state's highest court. On Thursday, the California Supreme Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - After less than one month of partial darkness, courtrooms at San Francisco's Civic Center courthouse will agai...
LOS ANGELES - A man caught on television cameras shooting a lawyer outside the Van Nuys courthouse last Halloween is not menta...
SACRAMENTO - The plaintiffs' bar is on the defensive. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed one of two bills the Consumer Atto...
WASHINGTON - A three-paragraph statement on Wednesday from the Justice Department signaled the end of the government's three-y...
SACRAMENTO - Liane Randolph, head of the Fair Political Practices Commission, said she learned early to adapt to whatever situ...
LOS ANGELES - Judith Seeds Miller, a San Fernando Valley immigration and bankruptcy attorney, soccer mom and Spanish student, ...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Over the past few years, many class actions have been filed against employe...
Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - The experience of innumerable police states throughout history demonstrates that when ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco federal court jury - like its counterpart six years ago - was unable Wednesday to agree wheth...
LOS ANGELES -An African-American financial analyst filed a $5 million lawsuit accusing a Warner Bros. executive of barraging h...
Appellate Practice
Philip Morris Vows to Appeal Punitives to State High Court
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES -A day after a state appeals court cut its liability in half, tobacco giant Philip Morris vowed Wednesday to take ...
SACRAMENTO - Liane Randolph said that since her appointment as chairwoman, the state's Fair Political Practices Commission has...
Litigation
Candidate Calls Bankruptcy Answer to San Diego's Cash Crisis
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - City attorney candidate Mike Aguirre said San Diego's $2 billion pension and health care deficit will require debt...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Burnham Bates, a former Pillsbury Madison & Sutro managing partner and a socially prominent Bay Area ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Prop. 36 Fails Serious Drug Addicts, Says State Report
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Hard-core addicts are losing out under California's drug-treatment initiative, Proposition 36, according to a st...
Forum Column - By Mike Ancheta Nisperos Jr. - The State Bar of California Board of Governors Committee on Regulation, Admissio...
Media
What's That Smell? Rising Levels of Hypocrisy Flood Halls of Justice
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Snow fell on Colorado this week, an early taste of clean, pure winter. But Watson made it clear from ...
SACRAMENTO - Supporters of reforms to the state's unfair competition laws ballyhooed several nonprofit agencies and small busi...
LOS ANGELES - A judge on Wednesday threw out a defamation lawsuit filed by former judge and Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn aga...
LOS ANGELES - A former Brentwood civil attorney pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony charges of embezzling nearly $800,000 f...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge Wednesday approved one of the largest settlements in the history of Proposition 65, in ...
SACRAMENTO - The U.S. Justice Department has awarded California more than $11 million for DNA testing and forensic services t...
Administrative/Regulatory
Proposition 64 Limits Use of Unfair-Competition Statute
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Robert C. Fellmeth - Policing unfair competition, including offenses, ranging from misleading advertising to...
Environmental
'Headwaters' Could Head Off Private Attorney General Suits
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - Litigation - By David M. Rice and Troy M. Yoshino - Pure "private attorney general" claims under the state's Un...
SAN FRANCISCO - What do you get when you mix complex litigation and crafty lawyering with "the fiendishly fine distinctions" ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Officials Tell Hospitals, Foster Care to Team Up
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Citing the death of a four-year-old foster child who needed a new lung, Los Angeles County supervisors have orde...
SAN FRANCISCO - Concluding a troubled military prosecution that lasted more than a year, Airman Ahmad I. Al Halabi pleaded gu...