Judges and Judiciary
Panel Debates Role of Foreign Law in Federal Judges' Rulings
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Democrats, Republicans and law professors were deeply divided Thursday over the propriety of federal judges looki...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Alert Warns of Conflicting SEC, State Rules
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar upped the stakes Thursday in its growing rift with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It is...
SAN FRANCISCO - Stanford Law School has snagged top intellectual property law professor Mark Lemley from its perennial rival, ...
LOS ANGELES - A judge Thursday asked Los Angeles zoo officials to find out when Ruby the African elephant will move out of iso...
LOS ANGELES - Daniel Nicherie left U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson's courtroom in the custody of U.S. marshals late Wednesd...
Judges and Judiciary
Adopted Jurist Gives Back By Helping Others to Adopt
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A decade ago, Riverside Superior Court Commissioner Joan F. Ettinger, who was adopted as an infant, summoned the c...
Appellate Practice
Suit Against Chevron Over Rights Abuses Moves Ahead
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A human rights lawsuit seeking to hold ChevronTexaco Corp. responsible for the violent suppression of environm...
SAN FRANCISCO - On the second day of San Francisco's same-sex marriage spree, City Hall was mobbed. The line to wed stretched ...
SACRAMENTO - Two brothers who practice law in Emeryville have fought a quixotic battle to win the right to cite unpublished ca...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge denied a defense motion Thursday to close a jury trial that would decide whether a murde...
SAN FRANCISCO - Covenant Care Inc. will be liable for punitive damages if plaintiffs can prove the nursing home chain starved ...
LOS ANGELES - Navneet S. Chugh laughingly said he was "a little pushy" about helping launch the new National South Asian Bar A...
SANTA ANA - No one had heard of it happening before. The jury had just delivered its verdict against Willie Hubert Knox, convi...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office will be disqualified from prosecuting a major fraud case because pros...
Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - Anyone who has worried that the debate over ultraconservative judicial nominees in the U.S. ...
Forum Column - By Scott Wm. Davenport - It is well-known in legal circles that exceptions to the hearsay rule have continued t...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Kevin Lilly - The right to recover attorney fees in employment cases is a central part of the reme...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By James D. Nguyen and Gregory J. Hall - In the Internet commercial frontier, the keys ...
SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly Judiciary Committee has shot down two bills that tried to soften a new law requiring greater ...
LOS ANGELES - Children's advocates Wednesday sued Los Angeles County, alleging officials there have failed to investigate fami...
WASHINGTON - On March 9, Rep. Ron Lewis, R-Ky., with the support of 19 of his Republican colleagues, introduced a bill that wo...
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar will employ an expert to adjust scores for 700 applicants who were unable to take the last part of...
SACRAMENTO - A trial judge approved a settlement Wednesday between a lawyer accused of abusing the state's Unfair Competition...
LOS ANGELES - The 1996 Telecommunications Act allows states to prohibit cities from entering local telephone markets, the U.S....
Appellate Practice
State High Court Agrees to Consider Punitive Damages
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court decided Wednesday to take a closer look at punitive damages, marking the first t...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court judges ironed out some procedural wrinkles Wednesday in two lawsuits seeking to v...
Appellate Practice
In This Country, Nobody Wants to Take the Blame for Anything
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - What do master terrorist Osama bin Laden and the nutritionally sinister cheeseburger have in common? ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case pitting the public's right to know against a defendant's right to a fair trial, a defense attorney ...
LOS ANGELES - A pilgrimage to see Eliot L. Spitzer, the activist state attorney general of New York, has become an essential j...
WASHINGTON - Atheist Michael Newdow of Sacramento turned in a dazzling performance Wednesday as he tried to convince the Supre...