LOS ANGELES - Shirley Boucher has spent the last week in Department 107 of the criminal courts building, watching Jerrell Patr...
Entertainment & Sports
Jurist Thwarts Bid to Disqualify Pooh-Case Judge
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - An attempt to disqualify the judge who threw out the Winnie the Pooh royalties case has been denied for a second...
LOS ANGELES - Facing an unprecedented level of secrecy in high-profile trials around the country, media are fighting back agai...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that a San Jose teenager whose self-described "dark po...
Judges and Judiciary
O'Connor Advises Judges to Meet Their Lawmakers
By Pamela Mac Lean
MONTEREY - Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor expressed serious concern about deteriorating relations between Congress ...
SAN FRANCISCO - "What you see is what you get," is how Fresno Court Executive Tamara Beard describes Presiding Judge Brad Hill...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that pits freedom of speech against anti-discrimination laws, the California Supreme Court agreed We...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Michael D. Myers - Receiverships are a powerful remedy that should be part of the arsenal of ev...
Judges and Judiciary
Another Far-Right Justice Would Make Court Destructive
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - The just-completed Supreme Court term was memorable for a number of decisions concerning cru...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Six Ways to Defuse Moore-Style Techniques Used in Mediation
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Max Factor III - Going to see Michael Moore's controversial documentary "Fa...
International
Hague Court's Ruling on Israeli Wall Could Have Damaged Its Credibility
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Joseph M. Lipner - The International Court of Justice, in a July 9 opinion, has ruled that Israel's security...
Book Review - "Nothing Is Too Late: The Hunt for a Holocaust Swindler" (Brassey's, 2004) by Mark Kalmansohn - By Mark E. Beck ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A little self-promotion (actually, a lot) and assistance from the family helped make 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
MONTEREY - The nation's largest federal appellate court saw a remarkable spike in immigration appeals in the past two years, a...
LOS ANGELES - Saying mediation in the church sex scandal had "all but broken down," lawyers for hundreds of alleged victims of...
SACRAMENTO - Could a federal judge take over the state's notoriously troubled prison system - and fix it? U.S. District Judge ...
SAN FRANCISCO - An attack launched Wednesday by California and seven other states on global warming employs an ancient legal c...
LOS ANGELES - In a split decision, a state appeals court on Wednesday upheld a class action against pharmaceutical giant Bayer...
WASHINGTON - A coalition of interest groups opposed to some of President Bush's judicial nominees on Wednesday launched a tele...
Services were held July 17 for George Edwin Long, an Inland Valley probate attorney who helped establish the sovereign immunit...
Judges and Judiciary
ABA President Asks Parties Not To Demonize Judges, Attorneys
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - American Bar Association President Dennis Archer has sent a letter to Democratic and Republican leaders asking th...
SAN DIEGO - Charles F. Gerry, who fought 15 years for Alaskan fishermen harmed by the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989, died Jul...
LOS ANGELES - Services will be held Friday for Ralph S. Hemer, a partner in Glendale's Hemer & Barkus. Hemer died July 5 a...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco supervisors have asked voters to decide whether law firms should get a bigger tax bill. The city...
Government
Law of Protest: Some Are Less of a Threat to the Republic Than Others
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - It's political convention season, and the fear of anarchy is upon the land. Or at least in Boston and...
LOS ANGELES - Media lawyers said they filed an application late Wednesday with the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an order blockin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Invoking the Supreme Court's Blakely decision, a split 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the se...
Judges and Judiciary
Indio Judge Handles Complex Issues Well
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - Judge Michele D. Levine was immersed in a complex murder trial last year when she found out the defendant's former wif...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided Wednesday to hear en banc a case that could settle t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers on both sides of the securities bar agreed that a recent settlement between Broadcom Corp. and its sha...