SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco health commissioner, indicted last month on charges that he intentionally infected two ...
Government
DOJ Faces Challenge in Finding Source of Leak on CIA Operative
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department faces an uphill battle in trying to get to the bottom of allegations that White House offi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit that threatened to derail logging on tens of thousands of acres of land owned by Pacific Lumber Co. ...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sheri Bluebond is a woman of varied talents. Bluebond can help an ailing company get back ...
LOS ANGELES - Roman Catholic archdioceses from other states that knowingly send their pedophile clergy to California can be su...
SAN FRANCISCO - Medical marijuana advocates who support District Attorney Terence Hallinan for re-election are behind the ethi...
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...