SAN FRANCISCO - Golden Gate University School of Law announced Thursday that it has hired Frederic White, a professor at Cleve...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys Thursday disavowed a controversial full-page advertisem...
SAN FRANCISCO - One day after President Bush signed a bill banning so-called partial-birth abortions, three federal judges, in...
LOS ANGELES - The lawyers and laypeople who visit the Los Angeles County Law Library typically comb its volumes for informatio...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Monica L. Sloboda - A contaminant discharged at one location allegedly has migrated to a...
Forum Column - By Nona Liegeois - In 1999, when a developer proposed a project that would have displaced 70 homeowners and ten...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Presiding Judge Thomas Hansen, in outlining his assignments for 2004 this week, h...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Mervyn's department store chain tentatively has prevailed in Alameda County Superior Court against claims ...
WASHINGTON - As they reviewed another variation on police roadblocks Wednesday, most of the Supreme Court justices expressed s...
SAN FRANCISCO - All the Superior Court judges up for reelection in March intend to run for another term, and they appear to ha...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Wednesday slapped a landlord with $3.3 million in punitive damages for failing to provide hea...
LOS ANGELES - Opponents are lining up to challenge the re-election of Los Angeles Superior Court Judges David Wesley and Dan O...
SACRAMENTO - Terry Bean was like family to Arthur Ford. The Ford family, who took in dozens of San Francisco foster children i...
SAN DIEGO - A lawsuit that pits privacy rights against free-speech guarantees will get its first court test Friday when a fede...
Judges and Judiciary
Budget Cuts Make Justice Slower and Less Convenient
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Messengers for two legal courier services, having filed their client's documents before the clerk's office clo...
SAN FRANCISCO - With about 40,000 absentee ballots counted early on election night, Bill Fazio thought he saw a breakthrough i...
SAN FRANCISCO - District attorney candidates Bill Fazio and Kamala Harris just can't seem to agree on anything. On Tuesday nig...
Entertainment & Sports
Former Beach Boys Guitarist Rides New Wave Into Sea of Litigation
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - In January, Alan Jardine, former lead guitarist for the 1960s super-surf group the Beach Boys, wiped ...
CARSON - For $1.65 million, Louise Ghalili purchased Carson Place, a 7,320-square-foot shopping center at 239-251 W. Carson St...
LOS ANGELES - A prosecutors group wants to oust five Los Angeles Superior Court judges from office, including two supervising...
Forum Column By Steve Kubby On his way out the door, and after two previous vetoes, Gov. Gray Davis has signed a controversia...
Appellate Practice
Court Must Put Specification of Reasons and Order in Writing
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Focus Column Appellate Law By Mary Perry and Paul D. Fogel Imagine that the trial court has just stated its intention to gran...
LOS ANGELES - Mediation of 50 priest sexual-abuse claims against the Diocese of Orange begins this week before retired privat...
LOS ANGELES - When court officials disclosed that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was paying retired Judge Thomas F. Nuss to d...
SANTA CLARA - International Business Machines Inc. launched an aggressive defense Tuesday during opening statements of a tria...
SACRAMENTO - Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday tapped Peter Siggins, a top aide to Attorney General Bill Lockyer, a...
Securities
Justices May Retain Wide SEC Power Court May Widen SEC Police Power
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices Tuesday clearly indicated that they will uphold the authority of the Securities and E...
Intellectual Property
Sour Note for Jazz Musician Who Sued the Beastie Boys
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Sounding off in a controversial case pitting a popular rap group against an avant-garde jazz musician, a fede...
SACRAMENTO - If San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan won't prosecute drug deals in his bailiwick, Marin County au...
SAN FRANCISCO - The accused share one depressing trait as they stand before State Bar Court Judge Patrice E. McElroy's San Fr...