LOS ANGELES - Almost overlooked in the hoopla over the hotly contested presidential race and 16 state propositions, five new S...
Litigation
Absentee Ballots Could Decide City Attorney's Race Outcome
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The outcome of an intense campaign for city attorney remained unknown Wednesday, with vote totals for candidates M...
Judges and Judiciary
Riverside DA Wins Spot on Blythe Bench
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
BLYTHE - In a hard-fought race for Riverside County's open judicial seat, Deputy District Attorney Sarah Adams Christian handi...
Judges and Judiciary
Rigali Holds Narrow Lead in Judicial Race
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA BARBARA - Santa Maria attorney James F. Rigali on Wednesday held a narrow lead over Deputy District Attorney Edward H. B...
SAN FRANCISCO - The tax man will stay away from San Francisco law firm partners, as the city's voters have defeated a ballot ...
LOS ANGELES - A Pomona peace activist once suspected of the arson attacks that destroyed 125 sport utility vehicles in the San...
SAN FRANCISCO - Public interest attorney Faye D'Opal scored a decisive victory for a seat on the Marin County Superior Court,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Proposition 71, the embryonic stem cell research measure embraced by California voters Tuesday, will produce ...
Law Practice
Lawyers Are Lucky That Voters Didn't Legalize Burning Barristers at Stake
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Here are three important legal lessons of the 2004 elections: First, trial lawyers, and perhaps all...
SAN FRANCISCO - In opening statements in the retrial of the biggest police corruption case in Oakland's history, a defense at...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County's prosecutors and public defenders were assessing what to do next Wednesday after voters soundl...
LOS ANGELES - A judge Wednesday ordered George Russell Weller to stand trial on vehicular manslaughter charges for running dow...
SACRAMENTO - A defense attorney alleging a pattern of racially biased jury selection by a now-retired Alameda County death pe...
SANTA ANA - A 6-foot, 2-inch cardboard cutout of a lawyer beat out Republican Otto Bade for the 69th District Assembly seat Tu...
SACRAMENTO - Tuesday's election was just the beginning of what promises to be a protracted period of fallout over two importan...
REDWOOD CITY - Should Scott Peterson be convicted of the murder of his wife and unborn child, his appellate attorneys will ce...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a room in the stately old Federal Reserve Bank packed with computers, telephones and harried volunteers, f...
Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - Some of them want to use you. Some of them want to abuse you. -Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams...
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...