Government
Exploding WWII Spy Could Have Served as Warning to White House
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - In the drab city of Ankara, Turkey, in 1942, the NKVD, the intelligence service of the Soviet Union, ...
SACRAMENTO - Nevada County Superior Court Judge Kathleen Butz was named Wednesday by Gov. Gray Davis to the 3rd District Court...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Public Utilities Commission official reviewing the compromise plan to get the bankrupt Pacific Gas and Elect...
ANAHEIM - Pacific Community Mortgage Inc. leased 10,035 square feet of office space in Stadium Centre at 2099 State College B...
LOS ANGELES - The historic confluence of the Roman Catholic Church and the state lives on in the Red Mass, a colorful ritual c...
Real Estate/Development
Relationship of Business and Victim Gives Rise to Owner Duty
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - The existence and scope of a business owner's duty to protect the publ...
Forum Column - By Richard L. Hasen - On Sept. 23, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, unanimously reversed...
SAN JOSE - A state appeal court panel was extremely skeptical Tuesday about the notion that allegedly defamatory writings on I...
SOLANO - Solano County prosecutors Robert S. Bowers and Michael Mattice were appointed Tuesday by Gov. Gray Davis to Superior ...
WASHINGTON -The Supreme Court's 2003-04 term is shaping up as one that could set important new precedents in the area of Miran...
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services took place Monday for veteran bankruptcy lawyer Robert L. Morrison, who died of a heart attack...
WASHINGTON - Maria V. Altmann's determined quest to recover six Gustav Klimt paintings that she claims were stolen from her fa...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County goes to court today seeking an injunction against sheriff's deputies, whose Tuesday sickout t...
SACRAMENTO - Hundreds of angry employees of the Sacramento Superior Court walked off their jobs Tuesday, staging a rowdy prote...
WASHINGTON - If Bush administration officials are found to have leaked the identity of a CIA operative married to a prominent ...
Appellate Practice
Ruling in Bing Crosby Suit Is Music to Ears of Heirs
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Bing Crosby wasn't just a song-and-dance man. He was also a singing and dancing business, a state appellate cour...
SAN FRANCISCO - Through his two full terms in office, the issue of domestic violence has been a thorn in the side of San Franc...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a rancorous 9-3 decision, a federal appeals court overturned its own 1998 landmark ruling Tuesday and allow...
LOS ANGELES - No one seems to know for sure how the building that houses the Los Angeles County Mental Health Court came to be...
LOS ANGELES - Fifteen years ago, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Vincent H. Okamoto took his 8-year-old son, Darby, on a pilg...
Forum Column - By W. Scott Snowden and Richard A. Bennett - The Judicial Council soon will act on a number of proposals presen...
Focus Column - Construction Law - By David A. Ossentjuk and William M. Hensley - In a decision probably influenced by the curr...
SACRAMENTO - Physical and financial abuse of elderly Californians, including trust mills involving attorneys, are the target o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Having forced out City Attorney Malcolm Hunter after a quarter-century on the job, the Richmond city council p...
OAKLAND - Lawyers at Wendel Rosen Black & Dean are finding environmental consciousness is good for business. ...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Cruz County judge Monday rejected a legal challenge to efforts by prosecutors to prevent grand jury witness...
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Monday confirmed San Francisco Superior Court Judge Carlos T. Bea for a seat on the 9th U.S. Circui...
SAN FRANCISCO - Civil litigator Leslie G. Landau, managing partner of the San Francisco office of Bingham McCutchen, was appoi...
Judges and Judiciary
Hullo! Constitutional Hang-Up Puts Do-Not-Call Registry on Hold
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Hanging up on a telemarketer has become a First Amendment issue. So one of the few innocent pleasures...
LOS ANGELES - In a potentially significant ruling, an appellate court last week barred an Ohio-based bicycle maker from submit...