SAN FRANCISCO - In Gov. Gray Davis' latest round of judicial appointments, he has tapped a commercial litigator, an insurance ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Cartwright & Alexander law firm in San Francisco announced Tuesday that it will dissolve after five ye...
SAN FRANCISCO - Next time you're swooshing down the slopes on your skis and a snowboarder barrels into you, don't run (or hobb...
Litigation
AT&T Posed as Minority-Owned Company, Competitor's Suit Says
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - A Native American-owned telecommunications company has sued AT&T, alleging that it created a front company t...
LOS ANGELES - Some insiders affectionately call Thomas Higgins the presiding judge of delinquency court. The head deputy of th...
LOS ANGELES - Confirmation hearings for San Diego Superior Court Judge Judith McConnell, who has been appointed to sit on the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal Environmental Protection Agency isn't legally obliged to take action against polluters, even if th...
SAN FRANCISCO - A bid by San Francisco class action lawyer Sherman Kassof for a larger award of attorney fees got no sympathy ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Assumption of Risk Doctrine Rejected in Child's Boat Accident
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A young child who fell out of a water-skiing boat and nearly lost her arm to the propeller can pursue a neglig...
LOS ANGELES - The attempted-bombing trial of accused Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson should be delayed at l...
LOS ANGELES - The name Hugh Henry Brackenridge may not jog too many memories, but to hear Judge Zel Canter tell it, he was a h...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has stayed a contempt order that calls for a Beverly Hills attorney to spend five days in ...
RIVERSIDE - A Perris man has pleaded guilty to terrorizing a Riverside County mosque in the wake of last month's terrorist att...
LOS ANGELES - As public-interest groups nervously watch the diversion of charitable contributions to fund disaster-relief effo...
LOS ANGELES - Anti-secession forces in City Hall are betting on a weakening economy, the energy crisis and post-Sept. 11 fears...
SACRAMENTO - First, the good news: A planned $96 million Los Angeles crime laboratory that had fallen victim to squabbling bet...
Constitutional Law
New Type of Strife Proves Far More Chilling Than Cold War
By Columnist
I miss the Cold War. Like a pedestrian who congratulates himself for nimbly avoiding an oncoming bicycle only to find himself ...
Every day, secretaries throughout the nation spend their time "plugged in" to a dictaphone machine, transcribing lawyers' tape...
In spite of the potential savings, in-house corporate attorneys from out of California may only practice law for the corporati...
The Constitution does not bar the government from helping families escape from underperforming public schools, even when churc...
SAN FRANCISCO - With the search for a new top prosecutor still under way, interim U.S. Attorney David Shapiro on Monday announ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oil companies knew for years the potential environmental hazards of the controversial additive MTBE but decide...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Lazarus won about half the votes cast in the local bar association plebiscite on whether to endorse a cand...
SAN FRANCISCO - The gloves came off early in the Mendocino County district attorney rematch election between incumbent Norman ...
As Ben Franklin once said, "Nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes." ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In order to increase the number of domestic violence incidents reported to police, San Francisco District Atto...
SAN FRANCISCO - For someone regarded by his peers as the most influential trademark attorney in the country, University of San...
VICTORVILLE - A Victorville deputy public defender who contended that several San Bernardino County drunken-driving defendants...
SAN DIEGO - A judge sentenced a former assistant general manager Monday to a choice of jail or work-furlough for using his sec...
The legal/law enforcement response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States promises to be sweeping - and a mass...