In Hawkeye Distilling Co. v. New York State Liquor Authority, 460 N.Y.S.2d 696 (1983), Justice Richard W. Wallach held ...
The California Legislature is considering two bills that offer remedies for the legal inequality faced by gay and lesbian fami...
While intended to rehabilitate drug offenders, Proposition 36 may become a full-employment act for appellate lawyers. ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Pending Bill Would Reopen Summary-Judgment Loophole
By Columnist
If the current bill revising California's summary-judgment statute were subjected to impartial scrutiny, it would not pass. ...
'Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel' is a comprehensive resource for both sides. ...
SANTA ANA - The Orange County district attorney's office will retry a former high-school vice principal whose conviction for h...
SAN FRANCISCO - A black lawyer who fought alongside former San Francisco Supervisor Angela Alioto to win a giant race-bias ve...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Napa Superior Court Judge Thomas Kongsgaard, who served on the special masters panel that recommended...
WASHINGTON - Coming to the aid of property owners fighting government regulation, a sharply divided Supreme Court on Thursday ...
WASHINGTON - Dealing a blow to prisoners who want to overturn their convictions or sentences, the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, Th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal authorities cannot jail indefinitely immigrants convicted of crimes simply because their former homel...
Administrative/Regulatory
Split Court Rules States Cannot Impose Limits on Tobacco Ads
By Contributing Writer
WASHINGTON - Big Tobacco triumphed on the last day of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2000-2001 term with a victory over state effort...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday threw out the landmark trial judge's order to break up the Microsoft Corp. B...
RIVERSIDE - After spending a couple of hours at an appointment in August, Sue Calderon returned to her van and made an awful ...
Government
Officials Refute County's Drug-Initiative Grade
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A day after a national drug reform group flunked San Bernardino County on its readiness to implement Proposit...
During extended negotiations, lawyers and their clients frequently encounter situations where they seem to disagree completely...
The secret settlements' hall of shame keeps growing. Starting in the 1930s, asbestos manufacturers kept hidden the health risk...
All Americans have an "inalienable" right to privacy. This right extends to privacy in personal or confidential information th...
LOS ANGELES - The Criminal Justice Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association has honored Judge Leslie W. Light, the mo...
LOS ANGELES - Southwestern University School of Law has honored two professors, appointing them to endowed chairs. The law sc...
LOS ANGELES - Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery has added two lawyers from the Los Angeles office of Squire Sanders & D...
While the withdrawal of the opinion letter was viewed by some as a change in the state's position, it was more of a tempering ...
Local lawyers pick their favorite judges. ...
It is time for the family law bench to enforce the rules concerning ex parte practice and not encourage its continued abuse. T...
SAN FRANCISCO - Got anything you want to get off your chest about a federal bankruptcy judge? Saturday is the final day the 9t...
SANTA ANA - The Orange County grand jury blasted the county's educational system for juvenile offenders Wednesday, citing a "s...
SAN FRANCISCO - Phyllis Harding thinks rehabilitation of nonviolent drug offenders makes absolute sense. To prove her point, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Last summer, San Francisco lawyer Tricia McCarthy founded The Bridge of Books Foundation, a nonprofit organiz...
Front Page
Last Chance to Air Your Beefs About State's Bankruptcy Judges
By Pam Mac Lean
Got anything you want to get off your chest about a federal bankruptcy judge? Saturday is the final day the 9th U.S. Circuit ...
SACRAMENTO - A drug reform group on Wednesday graded California's largest counties on their readiness to implement Propositio...