Appellate Practice
Asylum Seekers Can Cite Family as Persecuted Group
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Family members may win asylum protection if they can show they were persecuted simply for being members of the...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawmakers Must Resist Movement to Cite Unpublished Opinions
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Forum Column - By William Rylaarsdam - California Rules of Court Rule 977 prohibits the citation of the "unpublished" opinions...
Appellate Practice
Play Safe: Strictly Construe Time Limits for Filing Writs
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Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James C. Martin and Mary L. Perry - Better safe than sorry - an overused expression indeed. ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County voters Tuesday said they were woefully uninformed about local judicial candidates, and relied...
WASHINGTON - Issuing a decision that will affect lawyers and other professionals, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that work...
LOS ANGELES - Voter-rights groups and Department of Justice monitors patrolled the polls Tuesday to make sure a new identifica...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge Monday ruled that the city of South Gate can add claims for fraud and False Claims Act vi...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyer to the stars Steve Warren didn't attend the Oscars this year: Instead, he watched the show at home with h...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired appellate Justice Leonard M. Friedman, remembered for his compelling opinions while on the 3rd Distric...
SAN FRANCISCO - The pain shot from court reporter Susan McGregor's fingertips to her shoulder muscles. Years of rapid-fire ste...
LOS ANGELES - Officials must prepare a full environmental impact report before they can obstruct the views Summerland resident...
SAN FRANCISCO - Noted East Bay real estate firm Miller Starr & Regalia has been cleared of negligence claims after an Alam...
SAN FRANCISCO - Should ERISA shield insurance companies? Insurers often invoke federal pre-emption under the Employee Retireme...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court indicated Tuesday that Congress finally got it right - or at least close enough to pass Constit...
SAN DIEGO - Early bird voters at one-fourth of San Diego County's precincts were unable to cast ballots because workers at pol...
Entertainment & Sports
Lord of the Dumpsters: Pooh Hearing Ponders Pulp, Truth or Fiction
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The trees in Winnie the Pooh's forest home were all chopped down to make paper to produce documents f...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court upheld a $300,000 jury award Tuesday to a Woodland Hills attorney whose massive book o...
LOS ANGELES - When Walt Disney Co. shareholders gather today at the company's annual meeting in Philadelphia, they'll cast the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie, the law firm that briefly represented Dutch software company Kazaa, creator of the popular music...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Archdiocese has fought for more than 20 months to keep confidential files on predator priests aw...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Alec H. Boyd - California attorneys who represent insured parties as independent defense cou...
Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards - A new breed of lawsuit is opening up a bevy of opportunities for lawyers in search of c...
Juvenile
When Youths Commit Brutal Crimes, They Should Face Full Accountability
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Forum Column - By Lisa Pinto - Some crimes are so heinous that judges need a full arsenal of punishments to sentence the perpe...
LOS ANGELES - The latest attorney to represent actor Robert Blake is a 35-year veteran who last year successfully won the rele...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fallen Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko left what some saw as a land of larceny in the Ukraine for the...
Criminal
Supreme Court Will Take Up State's Separation of Inmates by Race
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the constitutionality of California's policy of placing Afric...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by the Sierra Club to have all nine justices consider whether Justice ...
STOCKTON - It takes patience to try a case before San Joaquin Superior Court Judge Clark Sueyres. Sueyres is careful and thoro...
SAN FRANCISCO - State prison lawyers and those representing inmates argued to stalemate Friday over how to guarantee the auton...
Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran San Francisco federal prosecutor Robert D. Ward has retir...