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
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...