SAN FRANCISCO - Bruce Vanyo came as close as a partner could to leaving his firm without going anywhere at all. For the entire...
WASHINGTON - Officials at the Library of Congress were ready for a massive onslaught by academics, journalists and other Supre...
Government
Embattled Marin Judge Wins Easily; Some Candidates Face Runoffs
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A veteran Marin County judge battling charges of cronyism handily defeated two challengers in the primary elec...
Real Estate/Development
Appeals Court Holds Pre-Dispute Jury-Trial Waivers Unenforceable
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Estate Law - By Seton B. Hunt - The 1st District Court of Appeal held on Feb. 6 that pre-dispute contract ...
Forum Column - By Joseph E. Herman - On Jan. 1, 2004, the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 went into effect, opening the ...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Scott J. Ferrell and Melinda Evans - Suppose that your client is an office supply store. Last week...
SAN DIEGO - County Supervisor Bill Horn on Wednesday called for an investigation into problems with a new electronic voting sy...
SAN DIEGO - Two Superior Court judges on Tuesday easily disposed of challengers who questioned their records. In a third judic...
WASHINGTON - The debate over a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage heated up Wednesday on Capitol Hill, but despite c...
LOS ANGELES - A civil litigator and a prosecutor will face each other in a November runoff in Santa Barbara County that likely...
Judges and Judiciary
Incumbent Trounces Challenger in Hard-Fought Bench Race
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Incumbent David A. Williams trounced former District Attorney Dennis E. Kottmeier for a Superior Court seat i...
LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles Superior Court judges - one rated not qualified by the Los Angeles County Bar Association becaus...
SAN JOSE - The precedent-setting libel verdict against two research scientists who waged a long campaign of invective on Inter...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's all about landslides in Humboldt County. District Attorney Paul Gallegos began his tenure last year by fi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Wednesday that the state's political watchdog agency has the constitutional powe...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser will not be allowed to postpone his response to a Commission...
SAN DIEGO - A frequent critic of City Hall outpaced two municipal government insiders Tuesday in the hotly contested race for ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County Superior Court Judge John A. Sutro Jr. is known among some lawyers who practice before him as "G...
Judges and Judiciary
Voters Reject Attempts to Unseat Two L.A. Judges
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The battle to unseat two controversial Los Angeles Superior Court judges crashed and burned Tuesday, after voter...
LOS ANGELES - Family law attorneys have only one thing to say about Robert A. Schnider's appointment 15 months ago as a Los An...
LOS ANGELES - With the re-election campaign behind him, District Attorney Steve Cooley focused Wednesday on his plans for the ...
SACRAMENTO - California trial lawyers pumped more than $1 million into state Assembly races in Tuesday's primary election and ...
LOS ANGELES - In the opening of the documentary "Juvies," a dozen boys and girls walk single-file across a sandy yard at Centr...
Appellate Practice
Asylum Seekers Can Cite Family as Persecuted Group
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Family members may win asylum protection if they can show they were persecuted simply for being members of the...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawmakers Must Resist Movement to Cite Unpublished Opinions
By Columnist
Forum Column - By William Rylaarsdam - California Rules of Court Rule 977 prohibits the citation of the "unpublished" opinions...
Appellate Practice
Play Safe: Strictly Construe Time Limits for Filing Writs
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James C. Martin and Mary L. Perry - Better safe than sorry - an overused expression indeed. ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County voters Tuesday said they were woefully uninformed about local judicial candidates, and relied...
WASHINGTON - Issuing a decision that will affect lawyers and other professionals, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that work...
LOS ANGELES - Voter-rights groups and Department of Justice monitors patrolled the polls Tuesday to make sure a new identifica...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge Monday ruled that the city of South Gate can add claims for fraud and False Claims Act vi...