SAN FRANCISCO - For once, asking which federal jurist is the fairest in the land has no relation to the judge's philosophy. A ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Earns Accolades for His Decisiveness, Research
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - In his 14 years on the bench, Judge Kenneth R. Freeman has never wavered from the notion that the biggest challe...
SAN FRANCISCO - The bald eagle can't help the bison, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. In a unanimous dec...
SAN FRANCISCO - Whether scolding combative lawyers or putting bad guys in prison, the judge retrying the Oakland Riders case h...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Liability policies typically obligate insurance carriers to defend and inde...
Forum Column - By Glenn C. Smith - As a professor who closely follows the U.S. Supreme Court and is not always enamored with t...
Entertainment & Sports
Manufacturers Must Negotiate Product Placement Contracts
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Eric Weissmann - Product placement - using a product such as a car, champagne or cell ph...
Judges and Judiciary
Re-Electing President Poses Danger to Independent Judiciary
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Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - While trying to convince skeptical conservative activists of his father's Christian bona fid...
SANTA ANA - Barely two weeks after a mistrial in a rape case that could have sent him to prison for 55 years, the son of an Or...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jack C. Oppenheimer, a long-time lawyer with the federal government, has died after a brief illness. He was 86...
LOS ANGELES - The June 29 bail hearing for Christopher Kim lasted three hours and 15 minutes. Federal prosecutors and Kim's de...
WASHINGTON - The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday became the second federal appeals court to ru...
SANTA ANA - A suspended Orange County attorney pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 25 felony counts of theft, forgery and tax evas...
RIVERSIDE - District Attorney Grover Trask, one of the longest serving top prosecutors in the state, announced Wednesday that ...
SACRAMENTO - Doctors are not going to believe this, but trial lawyers are coming to their rescue. The lawyers feel bad that do...
LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica judge tentatively agreed Wednesday to unseal the detailed California High Patrol report of the Fa...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's highest court hopped on the Blakely bandwagon Wednesday, agreeing to take a closer look at the rol...
SAN FRANCISCO - Contingency planning or attempted coup? The Bush administration's bid for authority to cancel and reschedule t...
YOSEMTE NATIONAL PARK - In December, just six months shy of qualifying for full retirement, appellate Justice William M. Wunde...
LOS ANGELES - A Sacramento judge has thrown out a ruling that former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson should ...
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - The Bush administration never has liked the federal judiciary so much as when it was put in...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
'Rojas' Doesn't Resolve All ADR Confidentiality Issues
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - In its second decision interpreting the parameters of Califo...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Brian Oxman, who has made frequent media appearances on behalf of Michael Jackson and his family, is no...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two women who complain they were strip searched and left nude in their Marin County jail cells after being arr...
Litigation
Panel Rebukes Judge for Lack Of Empathy for Very Ill Lawyer
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - In a scathing rebuke, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday that an Orange County judge lacked empathy when he r...
WASHINGTON - Amid widespread uncertainty over a recent Supreme Court decision that cast doubt on the constitutionality of the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has ordered a Canadian hashish king released after 13 years of a 24-year pri...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday handed a major environmental victory to California Indian tribes in one of the...
Forum Column - By Alison Dundes Renteln - We Americans are proud of our commitment to our ideals: religious liberty, equal pro...
Forum Column - By Patrick Gardner and Meghan Lang - Last week, Congress released the first-ever report detailing the nation's ...