Appellate Practice
Appeal Court Told to Stop Discouraging Oral Arguments
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court scolded appellate justices in Riverside Thursday for turning a deaf ear to lawyer...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for a gay former Air Force doctor hope to chip away at the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy o...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Court Prevents Closing of Facility for Disabled
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County cannot make a rehabilitation facility for disabled people bear the brunt of painful budget cu...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Premiere Real Estate Firm Accused Of Negligence
By Robert Selna
OAKLAND - The legendary real property law firm Miller Starr & Regalia defended itself Thursday in opening statements again...
Judges and Judiciary
Ex-Vietnam Combat Nurse Serves on Appeals Bench
By Katherine Gaidos
SANTA ANA - Justice Eileen C. Moore didn't speak publicly about her experiences as a combat nurse in Vietnam until the late 19...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers may cite sonnets by Shakespeare or scenes from Spielberg for their persuasive value, but they can't ci...
Civil Rights
Court Insists on Full Rights Of Marriage for Gay Couples
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Wednesday that only full marriage rights for gay couples - not ci...
Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - In 1855, the state Supreme Court, in one of its most laconic opinions ever,...
Real Estate/Development
Case Adds Uncertainty About Effect Of 'Time Is of the Essence' Clauses
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Angele Solano - Contracts for real-estate purchase and sales transactions routinely include ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, a 950-lawyer Dallas firm, has landed two veteran litigation partners fr...
Reporter's Notebook - By Erik Cummins - SAN FRANCISCO - Teveia Barnes looked at a lot of job offers when she left the Bar Asso...
SANTA ANA - A judge who scolded high-profile attorney Mark Geragos earlier in the week for overextending himself softened his ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles and Orange dioceses will not agree to settle sexual-abuse litigation for $1.43 billion, as sugge...
SAN FRANCISCO - Less than three weeks before the Commerce Department declared a controversial tuna fishing technique to be env...
Judges and Judiciary
Legal Elite Rally Around Beleagured Local Justices
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - On Jan. 20, a Who's Who of the Los Angeles legal community attended a party at Disney Hall that raised $15,000 f...
SAN DIEGO - Joan K. Irion had been on the Superior Court bench less than a year when Presiding Judge Wayne L. Peterson asked f...
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The inevitable finally happened. Kobe Bryant's lead defense attorney, Pamela Mackey,...
Forum Column - By Chris Ford - In "To Earn Discretion, Judges Must Stop Being Politicians" (Forum, Jan. 21), Hirbod Rashidi ar...
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James Harris and Tillman Breckenridge - On May 6, 2003, the U.S. District Court for the West...
ESCONDIDO - Fiorenzo V. Lopardo, who was one of the first two Superior Court judges permanently assigned to the Vista branch o...
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Bar Association plebiscite is sort of like the Iowa caucus of the county's judicial races, o...
LOS ANGELES - The American Bar Association gathers today to begin one of its twice-yearly meetings, with 2,600 lawyers and fam...
SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Lynne Collins committed reversible error in a murder trial when she ...
SACRAMENTO - In addition to being the court historian for California's Eastern District, U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb ...
Technology & Science
Panel Listens to Arguments in Online Music-Swapping Appeal
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in a high-stakes case that could change the rules ...
SAN DIEGO - Danielle L. Hickman is no stranger to tough court cases. Two years ago, Hickman prosecuted a man for abuse after h...
Intellectual Property
Online Advertising May Lead to Liability Under Foreign Law
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By John C. Rawls - Despite the bursting of the Internet bubble, e-commerce continues to...
REDWOOD CITY - The Scott Peterson murder trial opened quietly and smoothly Monday, despite fears the intense media interest wo...
Forum Column - By Tam Hunt and Derek Jones - The city of Los Angeles recently held a public hearing to discuss the merits of r...
Judges and Judiciary
Reinhardt Sees Risk in Judiciary Driven by One Ideology
By Pamela Mac Lean
Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - SAN FRANCISCO - One of the most liberal federal appellate judges in the country says that if...