LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the Los Angeles Times Thursday accused a Sacramento Superior Court judge of violating the First Amen...
Judges and Judiciary
Archbishop's Sermon Stirs Controversy at Red Mass
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis delivered a stern sermon against abortion, the death penalty and stem-cell...
SAN FRANCISCO - Forcing parolees to give blood for a federal DNA database is a violation of Fourth Amendment protections again...
MARTINEZ - The woman was near tears telling Contra County Superior Court Judge Theresa Canepa why she missed a court date. Her...
LOS ANGELES - An Orange County judge ordered the Los Angeles County sheriff's union to halt the deputy sickouts that closed fi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Uncertainty and defections at the New York Stock Exchange have left legal observers wondering how the role of ...
Forum Column - By Daniel H. Lowenstein - The blocking of the California recall election by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S....
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Robert A. Holland and Hieu T. Hoang - Experienced appellate advocates know that they must ne...
Intellectual Property
Claim of Reverse Engineering Doesn't Alter Burden of Proof
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Benjamin D. Scheibe - Consider the following scenario: The defendant, who has been p...
Forum Column - By Francis T. Fahy - Thomas Friedman's vitriol against France in "France is Becoming Enemy of the United States...
SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday appointed an assistant U.S. attorney and a former federal prosecutor to the San Diego...
LOS ANGELES - After 12 years under the supervision of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ernest M. Hiroshige, the high-profile a...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has affirmed a $2.25 million judgment in favor of Beverly Hills attorney and businessman L...
LOS ANGELES - Upholding the state Vehicle Code for felony evading arrest, an appeals court has rejected claims that the law re...
LOS ANGELES - David Arthur Cathcart, a nationally prominent attorney in labor and employment law, died Tuesday of cancer at hi...
LOS ANGELES - Verizon Communications Inc., the biggest U.S. local-telephone company, has agreed to pay $20 million to settle a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Stepping into a fight that began in a trial court elevator, a state appeal court has reversed an order prohibi...
Intellectual Property
Submarine Patents Get Dunked, But Aren't Drowned
By Xenia Kobylarz
Reporter's Notebook - By Xenia P. Kobylarz - Last year, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave an unusual gift to s...
Judges and Judiciary
Sacramento Workers On the Job, Grievances Unsolved
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Employees of the Sacramento County Superior Court voluntarily returned to their jobs Wednesday, a day after they ...
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
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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...