Appellate Practice
Appeals Courts Perpetuate Racism Travesty in Jury Selection
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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...
Constitutional Law
ABA Will Try to Block Change to Attorney-Client Privilege
By Don De Benedictis
ATLANTA - The American Bar Association will ask Congress to block a plan that would require businesses charged with crimes to ...
LOS ANGELES - Former Stan Lee Media executives, including Clinton booster and ex-convict Peter F. Paul, manipulated stock in t...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Pierce O'Donnell on Tuesday asked a judge to throw out a misdemeanor campaign money-launder...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - Was Al Joseph DeGuzman a Columbine-style bomber who really planned to massacre his fellow student...
SAN FRANCISCO - City College of San Francisco officials refused to show two campus cops details of unsubstantiated harassment ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles Tuesday convicted a former immigration official of seeking sexual favors and cash ...
SACRAMENTO - A controversial measure that would make it easier for divorced parents to move away from their ex-spouses while k...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - In a case of first impression, the court in Bayes v. L...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Casting a pall over the hotly debated issues of the presidential campaign is the memory of F...
ATLANTA - It was not a good day for the Bush administration at the American Bar Association on Monday. First, the ABA's policy...
SAN FRANCISCO - Shaming defendants with Scarlet Letter-style punishments passed muster Monday with a federal appeals panel tha...
Appellate Practice
Justice O'Connor Will Assist ABA in Improving Jury System
By Don De Benedictis
ATLANTA - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will help lead an American Bar Association effort to improve the jury...
SAN FRANCISCO - You can't dodge the tax collector. You can't sell books touting your scheme to encourage other people to try i...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge James M. Mize has been named the new president of the California Judges Associ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two weeks after a judge ordered San Francisco to stop giving preferential treatment to women- and minority-own...
SANTA ANA - The supervising judge of Orange Superior Court's civil panel is under investigation by the state Commission on Jud...
SAN FRANCISCO - Credit card companies and other financial institutions cannot be held liable for the illegal activities of Web...
LOS ANGELES - Constitutional law scholar Erwin Chemerinsky has agreed to step down from a panel investigating the Rampart poli...
LOS ANGELES - Burmese villagers should have their day in court to try and show that Unocal is responsible for human rights vio...
Judges and Judiciary
Despite Stress, Jurist Likes Presiding Over Divorce Court
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Presiding over divorce court has taught Los Angeles Commissioner John A. Slawson to value his own marriage even ...
Government
Cities Return to Court to Fight Limits on Storm Drain Runoff
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Southern California cities are expected back in court today to begin the second phase of a trial challenging str...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court reinstated a rape conviction Monday against a defendant who claimed he wasn't for...
Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan lured former Pillsbury Winthrop partner M. Katharine Davidson to its 100-lawyer Santa Mon...
The boutique model worked well for Buchman & O'Brien for 65 years, beginning with its founder Abraham Buchman in 1939. So ...
In police television dramas, officers are often shown commandeering vehicles. That isn't supposed to happen in the real world,...
The family of a 24-year-old Los Angeles man killed by deputies last August has slapped Los Angeles County and the county Sheri...