SAN FRANCISCO - Seven years ago television viewers cringed at images of writhing young anti-logging protesters whose faces pol...
Judges and Judiciary
Longtime Judiciary Lobbyist Brought Branches Together
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Ray LeBov's announcement that he would retire after 13 years of directing the Judicial Council's lobbying arm has...
Government
Forget Gun Control: Let Nostalgic Politicians Bring Back Dueling
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Shopping for a dueling pistol isn't as easy as I thought it would be. Indeed, choosing the right side...
Appellate Practice
San Francisco Briefs Argue For Same-Sex Marriage
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Tradition, love of children or hatred of homosexuals: None of these are sufficient reasons to deny gay people ...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
'Empagran' Clears Up Only a Small Set of Antitrust Cases
By Columnist
Focus Column - International Law - By Matthew A. Fischer - On June 14, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court issued F. Hoffman-LaRoc...
Labor/Employment
As You Transition to Your New Job, Remember the Big Picture
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Stacy Miller Azcarate - You've gotten the job at your ideal law firm. You've given notice at your curre...
ORANGE - A former dean has sued Chapman University, claiming the stress of improving the law school damaged her mental health ...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer accused of attempting to extort money from "Riverdance" star Michael Flatley cannot argue that his pret...
Criminal
DA Will Identify Defendants Possibly Affected by Lab Problems
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley said Thursday that he will give defense lawyers a list of drug defendants whose l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Reconstructing a vanished river may take a while - perhaps as long as it takes a tree to grow. But that's the ...
SANTA ANA - The owners of a bar and restaurant patronized by Vietnamese-Americans sued Huntington Beach on Thursday, claiming ...
LOS ANGELES - Did Claudia Merlos, who suffers from a rare form of dwarfism, willfully and intentionally beat her 2-year-old so...
Criminal
Observers Expect Settlement in Civil Rape Case Against Basketball Star
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - On Aug. 17, the day Kobe Bryant's accuser filed a civil lawsuit against the Lakers' star, legal experts knew the...
SACRAMENTO - Before he was appointed to the bench last year by Gov. Gray Davis, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Steve W...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge tentatively ruled Thursday that attorneys representing alleged clergy abuse victims across No...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a groundbreaking case shrouded in secrecy, a San Francisco appellate court has allowed a corporation to lea...
LOS ANGELES - Hair-styling legend Vidal Sassoon has settled his lawsuit against the company that owns his name, consumer marke...
LOS ANGELES - School and county officials are forcing pregnant teens and high-school mothers out of college-prep classes and i...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morale has slumped to a new low in U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan's office following his decision last week to pass ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Wednesday elaborated on just what it takes for shareholder class actions to survive th...
Real Estate/Development
Feds' Anti-Terrorism List Reaches Real Estate Deals
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Robert C. Barnes - If you're representing a landlord, tenant, seller or buyer of real proper...
Discipline
Merger Negotiations Require Candor By Attorneys, Not Misrepresentation
By Columnist
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Thomas C. Klein - The decision in the recent case of Vega v. Jones, Day, Reavis & Pog...
Forum Column - By Darryl Hamm - We need to reclaim our children. Roper v. Simmons, the juvenile death-penalty case to b...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney filed a court motion Wednesday to block the Diocese of San Diego from shuffling church assets out of...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent on a process for cloning human beings. Although at le...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento appellate court issued a stern warning about frivolous appeals Wednesday, slapping a veteran atto...
Civil Rights
Publisher Faces Damages for Not Disclosing Paper's Sources
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A San Bernardino Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that a publisher being sued for libel faces damages bec...
Appellate Practice
Court Releases Baseball Great From Suit Over Infomercial
By Dan Evans
Baseball great Steve Garvey relied on personal experience when he endorsed "Fat Trapper," which promised weight loss even on a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge Wednesday granted a former police officer's request to be tried in San Francisco for assault in a case...
SAN FRANCISCO - An appellate court has become the first in the state to toss a defendant's sentence based on the landmark Blak...