REDWOOD CITY - A murder suspect who had been the subject of a legal fight over whether a mentally competent defendant could be...
Entertainment & Sports
Notorious B.I.G.'s Wrongful Death Suit Could Be on Road to Nowhere
By Garry Abrams
Colum Garry Abrams - It's back to the drawing board in the federal wrongful death suit brought by the estate of New York rap m...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
N.Y. Exchange Challenges State's Rules For Arbitrators
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Two stock market groups that arbitrate investor disputes filed suit in federal court Monday against the state ...
RIVERSIDE - A former deputy public defender is asking a judge to hold her ex-boss - Riverside County Public Defender Gary Wind...
LOS ANGELES - You've got to spend money to make money, and West Coast law firms know this better than any other in the country...
VALLEJO - On first impression, Judge Paul Beeman appears to be a slacker. Asked why he majored in political science as an unde...
SACRAMENTO - A state appeal court ruled Monday that five law firms that successfully challenged a $300 smog fee charged to out...
SANTA ROSA - Every morning before Judge Elaine Watters calls her calendar, her bailiff, Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Everett...
SAN FRANCISCO - Drunk drivers shouldn't foot the bill for their own arrests, claims a federal lawsuit that asks several small ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal bankruptcy judge sounded what may be the death knell for the state's alternative plan to lift Pacifi...
LOS ANGELES - Two years after a federal appeals court reversed his death sentence, a jury Monday recommended that Michael Anth...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists Monday said a San Francisco Superior Court judge's rejection of looser limits on dioxin rele...
LOS ANGELES - More than 2,500 young professionals in the entertainment, legal and finance industries showed up Saturday night ...
SANTA ANA - Senior members of the Orange County district attorney's office will decide within two weeks whether to seek the de...
Dicta Column - By Robert S. Thompson - Appellate specialists know that appellate courts employ their own brand of terminology....
Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner - Counsel will customarily base direct examination of an expert on hundreds of pages of re...
Criminal
Judge's Action in '20th Hijacker' Case Isn't Unusual, Experts Say
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - When a federal judge last week put off accepting a guilty plea from Sept. 11 conspiracy suspect Zacarias Moussao...
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Margery Somers - Southwest Airlines recently announced that it will enforce a policy that ...
Focus Column - By Joanne L. Siu - A U.S. company seeking to expand operations abroad must consider in structuring its operatio...
MERCED - Long before he became the district attorney and then a superior court judge in Merced County, Frank Dougherty grew u...
Law Practice
Good Work Ethic Distinguished Civil Litigator
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
PALM SPRINGS - Services have taken place for Ray R. Goldie, who owned an appliance store before earning a reputation as a resp...
Judges and Judiciary
Tech-Savvy Judge Runs His Civil Courtroom Like Fine-Tuned Piano
By Tamara Scott
LOS ANGELES - Ludwig van Beethoven's "Second Piano Concerto" reminds Judge Richard A. Adler of his sometimes prickly relations...
SANTA ANA - Orange County Judge Ronald Kline, facing allegations that he sexually abused and stalked a teen-age boy, will stan...
LOS ANGELES - A Century City lawyer is fighting to keep the fat legal fee that a German reparations fund paid him for settling...
LOS ANGELES - As the saying goes, money talks - and, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge has ruled, it should be allowed to exe...
LOS ANGELES - An agreement with Exxon Mobil and Chevron Texaco to clean up MTBE contamination in the city of Santa Monica's dr...
Corporate
Differing Cases Fuel Confusion About Franchise Termination for Violation of Law
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Mitchell S. Shapiro Virtually every well-drafted franchise agreement contains an "obey all laws" clause. A t...
From Staff Reports SAN FRANCISCO - James M. Rogers, a Richmond City Council member who advertises himself as the "People's La...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - News reporters are supposed to provide listeners and readers with facts, leaving opinions...
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Title IX, which forbids sex discrimination in all programs at schools that receive fede...