LOS ANGELES - To hear supporters of the state's recall tell it, the American Civil Liberties Union is at the core of a left-wi...
LOS ANGELES - Kathleen M. McDowell's complacency regarding women's health care issues ended in the early 1990s. McDowell, a pa...
Focus Column - Litigation - By James J. Moneer - Enacted in 1992, the anti-SLAPP statute, Code of Civil Procedure Section 425....
Forum Column - By Anderson L. Washburn - Reading national press columns and articles mocking California about the recall elect...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Antitrust Defense May Not Apply to Subsidiary That Is Heavily Regulated
By Columnist
Focus Column - Antitrust Law - By Mark Fogelman - The Copperweld doctrine - a well-established antitrust defense - gene...
LOS ANGELES - A San Diego attorney cannot be retried for allegedly harassing lawyers who defeated him in court because a feder...
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up an issue vital to the legal community, the California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide wheth...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal officials have agreed to settle a lawsuit by undertaking a massive effort to identify areas important ...
LOS ANGELES - Wilmont Argen Odom Jr., the chief deputy city attorney and chief of the litigation staff for the city of Compton...
SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty San Francisco police officers accused in the Union Street beating case will have a prelimin...
SAN FRANCISCO - When the U.S. Supreme Court rejected medical necessity as a defense to the use of medical marijuana two years ...
Government
9th Circuit's Next Case: Computer Crimes Against Baby Boomers
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Dear 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Hi there! I read with great interest your fabulous decision t...
LOS ANGELES - Faced with an explosion of strip clubs, and militant opposition from neighborhood groups, the Los Angeles City C...
SAN FRANCISCO - LeRoy Hersh, one of San Francisco's feistiest and most successful plaintiffs attorneys, died Tuesday at his ho...
SACRAMENTO - Environmental lawyer Christopher Sproul is running as a candidate in the Oct. 7 recall election to replace Gov. G...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's former landlords filed a petition Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San...
COLTON - The billboard for a strip club that overlooks traffic on Interstate 215 in Colton is eye-catching enough, sporting th...
Forum Column - By Karl Manheim - We have yet to hear the last word on the state recall election, which is turning out to be th...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Harnedy v. Whitty, 110 Cal.App.4th 1333 (200...
Appellate Practice
Firm Needn't Disprove Water Contamination
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Lockheed Martin Corp., the defendant in an upcoming trial of a lawsuit claiming it contaminated groundwater n...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles juvenile court cannot send a young woman to California Youth Authority without exploring whether...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill Tuesday that requires the Judicial Council to give the public prior notice of pendi...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Council members may prefer talking on cell phones or chatting with staffers to listening to the...
Judges and Judiciary
Jeans Company, Heller Ehrman Cross-Sue Over Sale to Nautica
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - When the owners of a Los Angeles women's jeans company decided to sell their prosperous business to the trendy c...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has recognized for the first time that a half-sibling who cares for a child can be leg...
WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association on Tuesday released a "qualified" rating for California Supreme Court Justice Janice...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Air Force Captain Maintains Court Decorum
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN LUIS OBISPO - Judge John A. Trice knew it was time for a career change when, as a prosecutor, he tried a double-murder cas...
Judges and Judiciary
Legal Community's Efforts Face Threat From Prop. 54
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Proposition 54, the "Racial Privacy Initiative" being pushed by University of California Regent Ward Connerly, co...
WASHINGTON - When the hotly contested California recall election battle finally gets to the Supreme Court, it will be only the...
SAN FRANCISCO - The order to delay California's recall election appeared Tuesday to be on a fast track to the U.S. Supreme Cou...