SAN FRANCISCO - As the sole federal judge in the tiny town of Marshall, Texas, U.S. District Judge T. John Ward had to learn ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The defense of fair use plays an important role in copyright law; without it, any and all unauthorized copyin...
Intellectual Property
Madrid Protocol Presents Mixed Opportunity
By Contributing Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - For U.S. trademark owners wanting to protect their trademarks beyond the U.S. border, the newly adopted Madri...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the past, when a patent owner charged a competitor with patent infringement, the alleged infringer comp...
WASHINGTON - The decision to end litigation challenging California's Oct. 7 recall election rather than to seek Supreme Court ...
LOS ANGELES - It's hard to imagine a more appropriate assignment for Commissioner Michael M. Duffey than Division 100 at the V...
Forum Column - By Peter Kwan - Ira Shafiroff's article, "Marriage Mayhem: Advocates of Same-Sex Unions Rely on Weak, Faulty Ar...
International
Conflicting Data Laws: Airlines Are Damned if They Do, Don't
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Focus Column - International Law - By Lothar Determann - Lawmakers on federal and state levels often pursue different objectiv...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city attorney agreed Monday to settle a code enforcement lawsuit against former port commissioner Pius Lee...
Judges and Judiciary
Santa Barbara Judge Resumes Work
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA BARBARA - Judge Diana R. Hall has resumed her seat on the Santa Barbara County Superior Court bench, court officials sai...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate panel Monday reversed an Oceanside battered woman's second-degree murder conviction, saying ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge Monday set an Oct. 8 trial for private investigator Anthony Pellicano after lawyers ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Visalia litigator Lloyd L. Hicks was appointed Monday to the Tulare County bench by Gov. Gray Davis. Hicks, 59...
Judges and Judiciary
CJP Broke Its Own Rules, Says Ousted Judge's Attorney
By Donna Domino
Reporter's Notebook - By Donna Domino - Former Superior Court Judge Bruce Van Voorhis, the hated Judge Dredd of Contra Costa C...
SACRAMENTO - A Superior Court judge ruled Monday that Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante was wrong to use millions of dollars from his 2...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Judicial Smack Down Feeds Media's California Frenzy
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Judicial schism! Judicial schism! Read all about it! When it comes to making news, the East Coast sho...
LOS ANGELES - The importance of Bush v. Gore beyond the current occupant of the White House appeared lost on most membe...
SAN FRANCISCO - California voters are likely to be going to the polls Oct. 7 instead of March 2004 to decide whether to recall...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles teen convicted of second-degree robbery does not have to maintain a B grade average as a condition...
Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - With barren, craggy mountains in the backdrop, Geraldo Rivera appears on camera. His hair blowi...
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius was more than accommodating to the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison lawyers it picked up as ...
Appellate Practice
Law Review Article Guides Missouri High Court in Ruling
By Tina Spee
When the Missouri Supreme Court faced a right of publicity case brought by a professional hockey player against a comic book, ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Two years ago, Catholic Healthcare West signed a $600 million agreement to outsource its informa...
Column - Business Development - By Robert A. Potter - When firms lose a request for proposal, they usually blame it on their b...
Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory is 20 miles closer to its software and real estate companies in North Cou...
Nancy Sasaki, the former president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, has been named executive ...
The jury is still out two months after the Judicial Council launched a Spanish version of the California Courts Self-Help Cent...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Preparation by Mediator, Lawyers Boosts Success
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Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Lee Kanon Alpert - For a mediation to succeed, the mediator and other principals ...
A gas-station operator in San Pedro won a victory earlier this month when a federal judge ruled that Chevron improperly termin...
The relatives of a mother and daughter murdered during a 1999 sightseeing trip in Yosemite reached a $1 million settlement in ...