Anschutz Entertainment Group Inc. has signed a lease with the California State University Board of Trustees to develop a sport...
InterMune Inc. announced the offering of 3 million shares to the public. The shares were offered at $37 a piece and will bring...
SAN FRANCISCO - Moving to halt the judicial expansion of police power, a divided state court of appeal has ruled officers cann...
Intellectual Property
Judge Rejects Online Music Patent, Citing Its Public Use
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Oakland appears to have dealt a major blow to a San Francisco company's attempt to assert a...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian likes the view of downtown Los Angeles from his eighth-floor window. It's ...
Forum Column - By Francis O. Spalding - On Sept. 26, Gov. Gray Davis signed into law SB475, which gives the California Judicia...
SAN DIEGO - A nanny who was caught by a hidden video camera while grabbing a 2-year-old boy by the neck and throwing him acros...
SAN JOSE - U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel has approved the settlement of a class action against a Johnson & Johnson subs...
Although best known as a rainmaker in the real estate world, Paul Walker acts more like an interior decorator as he gives a to...
JOSHUA TREE - Carrie Davis, a mother convicted of child murder and torture in a high-profile San Bernardino County case, has g...
LOS ANGELES - The Oscars are over for the year, but the memory may linger on in a lawsuit brought by the Western Law Center fo...
SANTA ANA - The final tally in the March 5 race for Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline's office shows that Kline ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The hotly contested admission of evidence that Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel were associates of the Aryan B...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which hopes to begin reviving its troubled bankruptcy reorganization plan this w...
SACRAMENTO - Two bills before the state Legislature are giving civil libertarians the heebie-jeebies. One would require all sc...
SAN FRANCISCO - Andrew Giacomini has been named managing partner of San Francisco's Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rud...
Focus Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - Guilty pleas are not games. They are serious proceedings that have lasting consequences...
Criminal
Police Can Search Car for Documents Anywhere That They Might Be Found
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Alex Ricciardulli The California Supreme Court in the potentially far-reaching opinion in In re Arturo D....
SAN DIEGO - Inside the gilded lobby of a stately downtown hotel, Anthony D. Romero refuses the luxury of a deeply cushioned ch...
Opinion Column - By Edward J. Casey - Some say that the story of California is the story of water. Without the construction of...
Employment Column - By Michael Brown - At some point in their careers, many attorneys grapple with disillusionment and dissati...
Judges and Judiciary
Women's Commission Lauds Pair of Female Judges in L.A.
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Commission for Women has named two Los Angeles Superior Court judges Women of the Year. T...
Viewpoint Column - By Noelle C. Nelson - National events of the magnitude of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks shape every aspect...
Roundtable - Linda B. Bulmash, Mediator with ADR Services, Robert Altman, Mediator and retired judge ADR Services, Nancy Bornn...
He may be young, but Stephen M. Doniger, 31, says he projects a thoughtful and ethical wisdom, particularly when it comes to p...
Trial Tech Column - By Paul R. Kiesel - WAIT! I say that to you, but I need to heed my own advise. Remember, never buy the fir...
SAN JOSE - A Monterey attorney has pleaded guilty to two counts of felony grand theft, and will serve a state prison term for ...
Technology & Science
Sentencing Panel Will Look Into Hacker's Motives
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Michael Edmund O'Neill was a computer geek growing up, and he readily admits he sometimes hacked into protected c...
SAN FRANCISCO - A pre-dawn collision between two giant freighters steaming through a thick California fog left more than a br...
Judges and Judiciary
Commission Delays Hearing About Judge
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The Commission on Judicial Performance on Thursday called off a hearing originally scheduled for next week in its ...