SAN FRANCISCO - A Fresno Court of Appeal panel gave three land use lawyers a public spanking for submitting a flawed administr...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Impasse Lifts As Sex Predator Finds a Home
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The first person to qualify for release under California's Sexually Violent Predator Act will be sent within three ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kamala D. Harris recalls prowling San Francisco's Tenderloin at midnight looking for an Oakland girl who had t...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David P. Yaffe may be eligible for retirement. But that doesn't mean Yaffe's re...
Forum Column - By Rebecca K. Glenberg - Imagine living in a neighborhood controlled by a central authority that has power over...
Litigation
Much Activity Highlights This Year for Cases, Legislation on Anti-SLAPP Law
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Goldowitz - Continuing a pattern from last year, much judicial and legislative activity th...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The 6th District Court of Appeal has decided, apparently on first i...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federico Rocha, a veteran Oakland police officer with a doctorate in public administration, has been nominated...
LOS ANGELES - Mountain View's Fenwick & West is winding down operations at its Washington, D.C., office, chairman Gordon D...
SANTA ANA - A Glendora attorney was sentenced Wednesday to three years in state prison, one year in county jail and three year...
LOS ANGELES - Stephen Reinhardt and Alex Kozinski, the most outspoken judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, will de...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate OK Ends Partisan Battle Over Court of Claims Nominee
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Victor J. Wolski as a judge for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, ending yet an...
LOS ANGELES - When the South Gate City Council slashed the salary of City Clerk Carmen Avalos by 90 percent in the fall, Avalo...
LOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake is asking the judge in his upcoming murder trial to take immediate testimony from a witness w...
SANTA ANA - Just a day after Orange County Superior Court employees picketed the Central Justice Center, a union official said...
SAN BERNARDINO - Two San Bernardino brothers molested by their Little League Baseball coach when they were teens filed a propo...
LOS ANGELES - For one night each summer, an organization founded to assist the region's disadvantaged elderly population becom...
SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, has succeeded in moving along a bill banning secret settlements in e...
LOS ANGELES - Students at elementary schools in the Marin County city of Novato usually spend their school days learning their...
Environmental
Water District's Suit Against Environmentalists Is Rejected
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Sacramento has tossed out on free speech grounds a lawsuit filed by the nation's largest ir...
Litigation
Persistent Ex-Parolee Works Way Up Food Chain of Judicial System
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Drake Ward is doing his part to keep the system on its toes. Ward's prolonged, persistent and continu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. demanded Wednesday that state utility regulators take an all-or-nothing approac...
SAN FRANCISCO - Defense lawyer Bill Fazio didn't hold back in April as he assessed District Attorney Terence Hallinan's handli...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Court Respect for Autonomy of Parties Allows ADR to Flourish
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Focus Column Alternative Dispute Resolution By Richard Chernick Just as the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts have ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Even '800-Pound Gorillas' Deserve Some Basic Civility
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Forum Column By Joel Benoliel The article "Taming the Beast" (Michael M. Berger, Forum, May 2) purported to tell the story of...
Forum Column By Jay Sekulow The U.S. Supreme Court applied sound logic and common sense when it upheld the Children's Interne...
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service for Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Iglehart is scheduled for 4 p.m. today at ...
Appellate Practice
School Loses Fourth Appeal of $3 Million Verdict
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that could end 14 years of litigation, the Simi Valley Unified School District lost its fourth appe...
SACRAMENTO - Two state legislative committees approved bills Tuesday that proponents said would tweak California's unfair com...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday for the first time exercised its new power to appoint the ...