Appellate Practice
Courts Shouldn't Put Publishable Data in Unpublished Opinions
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Forum Column - By Robert S. Thompson - Given the manner in which the state appellate courts have administered the present regi...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - The subject of dog tracking evidence may become the subject of popular ...
Forum Column - By J. Kevin Lilly - For years, employers have cited the high costs for workers' compensation insurance as a maj...
SANTA CLARA - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser's decision to give light sentences to two defendants conv...
SAN FRANCISCO - Negotiators for Attorney General John Ashcroft have agreed the FBI will pay $2 million to settle long-running ...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Wednesday threw out a defamation suit filed by fashion retailer Forever 21 against garme...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County lawyer who made his mark in the 1990s helping conservative Christians get elected to Southern Cal...
LOS ANGELES - Robert Hertzberg, a partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw and a former speaker of the Assembly, announced Wedn...
SAN DIEGO - The criminal defense system for those who can't afford lawyers would be dealt a severe blow if the San Diego Count...
WASHINGTON - Dismissing arguments by California environmental and labor groups, the Supreme Court on Wednesday indicated it wi...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris refused a demand from the police union Wednesday to step aside f...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers drafting contracts that waive the parties' right to a jury trial in case of a dispute are currently un...
LOS ANGELES - A man who served 24 years in prison for a murder he said he didn't commit has filed civil rights claims against ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge in Santa Ana has ruled that a U.S. citizen accused of trying to bomb the Vietnamese e...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jack Gifford, a popular Alameda County criminal court judge who recently pleaded no contest in a prostitution ...
SACRAMENTO - Bruce Harrington's brother and sister-in-law, Keith and Patti Harrington, were killed in 1980 by an intruder who ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pelican Bay inmate Frank S. Clement protested in 1999 when guards withheld his pen pal letters because they ca...
Forum Column - By Sue Blake - On Easter Sunday, the FX Network aired a special feature titled, "Redemption: The Stanley 'Tooki...
Forum Column - By Stanley "Tookie" Williams - There are at least two illegitimate reasons for my sitting on San Quentin's deat...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles McCoy has recommended that clergy sexual-abuse lawsuits filed in Northe...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County and state officials have no authority to force adult-film actors to use condoms during sex sc...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County prosecutors dismissed sex-abuse charges Tuesday against an embattled Oakland minister who was a...
LOS ANGELES - Audrey Woods promises women that, if she represents them in divorce court, they'll get everything they deserve f...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris tapped Criminal Division Chief Paul Cummins on Tuesday to prosec...
LOS ANGELES - Latham & Watkins has hired a Los Angeles finance partner from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom a mon...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday blocked $100 million in Yosemite National Park construction projects th...
SAN FRANCISCO - A California law prohibiting employers from using money they get from the state to finance anti-union efforts ...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has been taking a considerable amount of heat latel...
WASHINGTON - Taking its first look at the Bush administration's war on terrorism, the Supreme Court on Tuesday laid down a bar...
SANTA BARBARA - Robert M. Sanger threw Santa Barbara courts into disarray last year when he convinced a judge that the county'...