Intellectual Property
'Victoria's Secret' Case Illuminates Confusion Over 'Dilution' Definition
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Focus Column - By William F. Abrams and Paul E. Thomas - When Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue Inc. , 2003 U.S.Sct.Lexis 1...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers and others who entered Department 40 of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on Friday mo...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Makes House Calls at Homeless Shelter: A Win-Win Situation
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The small, cramped room in a homeless shelter run by the Emergency Housing Consortium seems an unlikely location fo...
Forum Column - By Dorothy Ehrlich and Sanjeev Bery - The Department of Justice is considering sweeping new legislative proposa...
Law Practice
A Recent Book Recalls the Bad Old Days at Harvard, When Men Were Men and Women Were Ladies
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - When Judith Richards Hope started at Harvard Law School in 1961, her property law professor set aside special...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Joseph F. Biafore is not the sort of jurist who enjoys the limelight. Duri...
Judges and Judiciary
Hitchens' Plan Reasserts Control Over Flow of Cases
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Significant changes are under way in the San Francisco criminal courts, with a new plan to expedite cases and...
Forum Column - By Barbara Schultz - Skid Row has been discovered by loft dwellers, redevelopment boosters and, most recently, ...
Intellectual Property
Invention Record Is Crucial, Even Without Patent Filing
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Michael J. Sacksteder - When the issue is whether an accused patent infringer came u...
VENTURA - Defense attorney Neil B. Quinn's client is willing to admit to one of the more sensational crimes in recent Ventura...
Securities
Student-Run Legal Clinics Aid Investors Fleeced by Brokers
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - James Belay is neither a wheeler nor a dealer. He's an industrial painter with an eighth-grade education livin...
SAN DIEGO - Three cases in San Diego County alleging sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests have been turned over to state At...
Focus Column Litigation By Kenneth C. Feldman The year 2002 was a bellwether year for opinions issued involving the tort of ma...
LOS ANGELES - Children's advocates joined with Los Angeles County officials Thursday to announce what they described as a lan...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Each year, 40,000 children in California are removed from parents who have abused them ...
Judges and Judiciary
Family, Work Help Judge Carry on Despite Cancer
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Judge Robert A. Sandoval needs a break - perhaps more than the average stressed-out employee. Last spring, Sando...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victor Persn on Thursday appeared to be leaning against trying in California a ...
Constitutional Law
American Flag Must Share The Overpass, Circuit Rules
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Peace signs have just as much right to hang from highway overpasses as the American flag, a San Francisco fed...
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service has been scheduled this weekend for Oakland lawyer Frank Howard, an enthusiastic backer of...
Entertainment & Sports
Poorer and Wiser, Popov and Hayashi Talk Baseball
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - They wrestled each other on the concrete floor of Pac Bell Park. They filed reams of legal paperwork. They ba...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - At some point in the interviewing process, virtually all candidates are asked tou...
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers are scrambling to find fixes for a campaign reform law that allowed a political party to channel nearl...
LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Thursday sued Hollywood fund-raiser Aaron Tonken, lawyer Kevin M. Clarke...
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar on Thursday moved to stop Trevor Law Group attorneys from practicing law, citing "serious miscond...
Appellate Practice
Justices Give Triplets' Mom Chance at Suing Blue Cross
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A woman facing $1 million in medical bills for her prematurely born triplet daughters may get a shot at challen...
Forum Column - By Dan Grunfeld and Hernn Vera - For decades, an essential part of the American dream has been the attainment o...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Unified School District upped the ante Thursday in its lawsuit against Progress Energy Corp...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge reversed himself Wednesday and allowed actor Robert Blake to bail out of jail while he aw...
SANTA ANA - A federal grand jury in Santa Ana has indicted 13 people, including a former Long Beach attorney, for allegedly en...
SACRAMENTO - Privacy advocates, frustrated by years of defeat in the Legislature, moved Wednesday to put a measure on the bal...