The Scene arrived early for the Anti-Defamation League Pacific Southwest Region's 2003 Jurisprudence Award dinner on March 12....
Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner has hired bankruptcy lawyer Peter Ito to lead its West Coast bankruptcy practice. Ito, who joi...
Chip manufacturer Broadcom Corp. of Irvine has acquired some of the assets of bankrupt company Gadzoox Networks Inc. Broadcom ...
In early January, Marc Beilinson received a tip that Wherehouse Entertainment Inc. had hired a bankruptcy lawyer and likely wo...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Law enforcement officials have been chasing bad guys in automobiles since...
Forum Column - By Daniel Felizzatto - In upholding the constitutionality of Megan's Law in Connecticut Department of Public...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara University Law School's new dean once roamed the campus as a junior high school student when his father...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Two Litigators Seek State Bar Presidency
By Don De Benedictis
LONG BEACH - Just two lawyers are running to be president of the State Bar for 2003-04. Anthony P. Capozzi and Nancy Hoffmeier...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis on Friday appointed four new judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench. The four appointees...
SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration lawyers and human rights advocates are objecting to the federal government's new policy of jailing...
SAN FRANCISCO - The abrupt closure of many U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide as war with Iraq began will harm internatio...
SAN FRANCISCO - Glen "Buddy" Nickerson walked out of San Quentin on Friday after 18 years in prison for a San Jose double murd...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County prosecutor is appealing to disqualify a judge from handling a domestic violence trial on groun...
LOS ANGELES - For Iraqi-American Ban Al-Wardi, the silence on the other end of the line spoke as loudly as a B-52 air strike. ...
SACRAMENTO - When he takes office today as acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California, with the expectation t...
SACRAMENTO - Lawrence Brown, who until Friday served as executive director of the California District Attorneys Association, ...
SAN DIEGO - An oceanfront hotel did not discriminate against a black Santa Claus, a Superior Court jury decided Friday. On a 9...
SONORA - Tuolumne Superior Court Judge Douglas C. Boyack seems to fit perfectly the role of a small-town judge. Usually dresse...
LAKEPORT - When Judge Arthur H. Mann first took the bench in 1979, he presided over a one-room Kelseyville Justice Court in a ...
LOS ANGELES - The Diocese of San Diego is petitioning to opt out of a proposed plan to bring up to 1,000 clergy sexual abuse l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Use of a camera and film made outside California to take a sexually explicit photo of a mother and her 10-year...
Employment Column - By Mark A. Romeo - While federal courts continue to narrow the coverage of federal equal-opportunity and w...
Zoning, Planning and Use
'Gardner' Discusses Issues Of Pre-1893 Subdivision Maps
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Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - As the population grows and urban boundaries expand in California, propert...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the first test of the state's new tobacco liability laws, a San Francisco appeal court has affirmed a $26.5...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's professional liability insurance runs out April 15, there's a good chan...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's improper dismissal of a juror in the middle of a criminal trial does not bar the prosecution from re...
SAN FRANCISCO - Dozens of anti-war protesters intermittently blocked entrances to the San Francisco federal building all day T...
LOS ANGELES - A jury Thursday awarded $3.6 million to a Los Angeles police-dog handler who claimed officers and supervisors di...
Environmental
El Paso Tentatively Settles With State, Offers Free Gas
By Joan Osterwalder
LOS ANGELES - El Paso Corp., the nation's biggest natural gas pipeline company, tentatively agreed to a $1.7 billion settlemen...
LOS ANGELES - Philip H. Lam may not be a rocket scientist, but he has designed nuclear power plants. Lam is not only an attorn...