Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The U.S. government must close its unlawful concentration camp at Guantnamo Bay immediately ...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a new rule establishin...
LOS ANGELES - The questionnaire used to screen potential jurors in the Robert Blake murder trial may be released as early as t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Walnut Creek sole practitioner Clifford B. Malone Jr. should be disbarred for defrauding a client of more than...
OAKLAND - Three photographs hang in the chambers of Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Krashna. One is of Hall of Fame ...
LOS ANGELES - Disneyland's decade-old practice of giving Southern California residents a $10 discount is legal, an appellate c...
LOS ANGELES - A judge is unlikely to change his mind about moving the Scott Peterson murder trial out of Modesto, some legal e...
WASHINGTON - Intensifying its scrutiny of the government's war on terrorism, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider wheth...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Economists tell us that we are in the middle of an economic recovery. But various analy...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Many lawyers find that it is in their best interest to use a recruiter when explo...
Focus Column - Litigation - By David T. Biderman and Kyann C. Kalin - The state Court of Appeal's decision in Romo v. Ford , 1...
SAN FRANCISCO - The nonprofit Asian Law Alliance has filed suit in a San Jose federal court accusing a local businessman of il...
SACRAMENTO - How did Judge Russell Hom become the first practicing criminal defense attorney to be appointed to the Sacramento...
Constitutional Law
San Diego Settles Scouts Suit With ACLU, Will Pay $950,000
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The city of San Diego agreed Thursday to pay the American Civil Liberties Union $950,000 to settle part of a lawsu...
Judges and Judiciary
Reflection, Research on Appeals Bench Suit Jurist
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - It was a real dog of a case. Dog, that is, as in Rover, Lassie, Spot, Canis familiaris, the domestic fami...
LOS ANGELES - Long Beach's lawsuit against the state Republican Party was reinstated Thursday, the city's second appellate vic...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Commission on Judicial Performance has rejected a deal negotiated by its prosecutors and ordered an ...
Government
Harris Vows to Be Smart on Crime, Protect Civil Liberties
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Kamala Harris took office Thursday as San Francisco's district attorney, promising to create a prosecutor's of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Don't call the judge a rat. If you do so, apologize. Sharon Claire Brooks, a divorce attorney formerly of Sisk...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles prosecutor showed an author a confidential strategy memo that laid out perceived strengths and wea...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan will protest the $831 in parking violations he racked up over three years, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney-elect Kamala Harris is rounding out her staff by reaching into the ranks of the state Justic...
Forum Column - By Kris Whitten - What do recent court decisions striking the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance a...
Labor/Employment
Sexual Stereotypes Can Serve as Evidence of Workplace Bias
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considered sexual stereotypin...
LOS ANGELES - Stuart Buchalter, a Los Angeles corporate attorney noted for his skill at operating and guiding corporations, di...
Product Liability
Gun Company Liability Case Set for Third Trial in March
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A nationally watched case in which Berkeley parents claim a gun company is liable for the death of their 15-ye...
Holland & Knight has acquired seven-lawyer boutique Cowley & Chidester. The Cowley firm, located near San Diego in Ran...
Constitutional Law
City Cleared To Join Fight Against Limit On Abortions
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The city has joined the battle against the U.S. Department of Justice over the medical procedure known as part...
LOS ANGELES - A Palm Springs man, booted from his estranged lover's home on Valentine's Day, can go back, an appellate court h...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dan Oki said Wednesday that a projected $30 million to $40 million statewide sh...