SAN FRANCISCO - Thousands of same-sex couples awoke Thursday morning thinking they were married. Later in the day, they learne...
Constitutional Law
Panel Says Woman Can Bash Bar, Even Lie, to Its Patrons
By Dan Evans
BALBOA ISLAND - A historic bar in an affluent enclave of Newport Beach found itself on the cutting edge of free-speech rights ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Formal notices warning scores of lawyers in Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office that they could be laid off...
LOS ANGELES - While school officials and reformers celebrated settlement of a major lawsuit to improve shoddy schools for Lati...
Law Practice
Attorneys Must Pay to Replace Former Employer's Office Staff
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Two attorneys must pay their former boss the costs of replacing office staff after the pair left the firm and re...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento judge's "dynamite" instruction to jurors blew up in his face Thursday as a unanimous appellate pa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Thursday's California Supreme Court ruling invalidating more than 4,000 same-sex marriages is just the first s...
Constitutional Law
Charts in Jury Room May Result in Murder Mistrial
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Charts that mysteriously made their way into the jury room and reportedly played a key role in the murder convicti...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - America's national forests are under a furious and unrelenting attack by the Bush administ...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeff Winikow - Like the swallows at Capistrano, employment-at-will issues regularly re-surf...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Stand Up for U.S. Soldiers: Whatever The Reason, Don't Torture Captives
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Neal Sonnett - The American Bar Association stood up this week for our soldiers posted around the world now ...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Donald E. Warner Jr. and John S. Caragozian - In November 2003, days before he was recalled...
Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - In every federal election since Reconstruction after the Civil War, every election since the...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Parting Thoughts Hit The AOC, Lazy Prosecutors
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Before her recent retirement, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Judith Whitmer lamented the loss of autono...
SAN FRANCISCO - Some Alameda County deputy public defenders are refusing to sign forms where defendants waive future jury tria...
SAN FRANCISCO - Can judges order would-be amici curiae on the losing side of a lawsuit to pay attorney fees? The state Supreme...
INDIO - A memorial service will be today for Sergio A. Retamal, an Indio civil attorney known for his passion for the law and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 5th District Court of Appeal came up with a novel way to discourage a deluge of briefing on Blakely...
REDWOOD CITY - The legal experts commenting on the Scott Peterson murder trial resemble a best-in-show parade before televisio...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego man imprisoned 21 years for the murder of a child said after his court-ordered release late Tuesday th...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Gary Feess expressed serious doubts Wednesday about the federal prosecution of Oxnard pain d...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Judith Whitmer was skeptical whether she could sentence the convicted ch...
LOS ANGELES - Many of the qualities commonly attributed to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert L. Hess were on display in ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Department officials who review immigration appeals cannot simply rubber stamp decisions by their own ...
LOS ANGELES - Manuel Navarro cannot be forced to pay support for children he did not father. But if child-support officials st...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge, in a blistering ruling accusing government officials of elevating international politics over...
Appellate Practice
Appeals Courts Perpetuate Racism Travesty in Jury Selection
By Columnist
Forum Column - By A.J. Kutchins - In its recent series of articles, the Daily Journal has done a fine job of bringing to light...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court will announce Thursday whether it thinks San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom went to...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge refused a prosecution request to revoke the bail of a teenager accused of rape Tuesday but ...
SANTA ANA - The plaintiffs' lawyer at the center of the University of California, Irvine, fertility scandal knowingly stole fr...