SANTA ANA - Consistency counts, especially when you're disqualifying a judge during appeal. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...
SANTA ANA - The devil is usually in the details and, in this case, so was the scam. So ruled Orange County Superior Court Jud...
Constitutional Law
Jurists Let Stand Ruling Against Anti-Abortion 'Wanted' Posters
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In an important victory for abortion providers, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let stand a federal appellate c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Altheimer & Gray, a 300-lawyer Chicago firm that had been aggressively building its San Francisco office, ...
WASHINGTON - In a case that will affect lawyers and other professionals, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider wheth...
Litigation
Judge to the Stars Retires After Serving 16 Years on L.A. Bench
By Jeff Berg
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge-to-the-stars Marilyn L. Hoffman has retired after 16 years on the bench. Hoffma...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Friday reversed a man's arson conviction, saying a Los Angeles Superior Court judge commi...
LOS ANGELES - Deputy District Attorney William W. Hodgman got up Friday morning to gather what was left of his sexual-abuse ca...
OAKLAND - In-house counsel at the University of California believe the university should be exempt from lawsuits that bedevil...
SACRAMENTO - A man convicted twice of murdering a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl must either be tried a third time or rele...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
New Option For Housing Sex Predator
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - After months of futile searching for a landlord willing to rent to a convicted child molester, state authorities a...
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Duyen Nguyen - Getting fired from a job with a law firm has a way of stirring som...
Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could crush the last vestiges of leg...
Intellectual Property
'Winters' and 'Comedy III' Still Leave Courts With Gray Area
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By David Halberstadter - Earlier this month, the state Supreme Court issued its newest deci...
SAN FRANCISCO - Memorial services will be held today in Carlisle, Pa., for Morris L. Myers, a well-known lawyer and labor arbi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco law that helps women and racial minorities win public contracts is not sufficiently supported ...
LOS ANGELES - The Supreme Court's decision Thursday striking down prosecutions of long-ago sexual abuse could spell the end of...
LOS ANGELES - Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore delivered a demand for justice for the count...
WASHINGTON - On a day of high drama at the Supreme Court, the justices ended their 2002-03 term Thursday with a whimper, dismi...
POIPU, Hawaii - It's tough to have sympathy for federal judges seeking a 16.5 percent hike in their $150,000 a year salary dur...
WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist sure knows how to grab an audience by the throat so they'll listen to his ever...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors on Thursday were studying whether to drop charges against dozens of Catholic priests in Southern Cal...
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., vowed Thursday to move quickly on a U.S. Supreme Court nomination if ...
LOS ANGELES - Three administrative Superior Court judges allowed alleged burglars, batterers and carjackers to go free rather ...
LOS ANGELES - After Friday night, attorney Robin Meadow officially will be at the helm of the nation's largest voluntary bar o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Changes in a popular anti-diarrhea medication prompted by a court settlement with the state could present a ri...
WASHINGTON - Handing a stunning 7-2 victory to defendants facing the death penalty, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that defe...
LOS ANGELES - As many as 800 people convicted of child molestation under a California law allowing prosecution of long-ago sex...
LOS ANGELES - In a stunning reversal of one of its own rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down state laws that...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Jessica A. Mayer - If you are like most computer-savvy consumers, th...