The exclusion should apply only to a war that involves an attack by sovereign governments or the military forces of sovereign ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has rejected a claim that a novel lawsuit alleging that journalists' sources are trade s...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to clarify how malpractice laws apply in cases where multiple at...
WASHINGTON - Ducking for now the highly charged issues of employee privacy and consent, the nation's top federal judges have u...
SAN FRANCISCO - Within moments of last week's terrorist attacks, California's law firms began to confront the tremendous human...
LOS ANGELES - Some time in the future, Consuelo B. Marshall's portrait will go up on a wall in the federal courthouse in Los A...
SAN FRANCISCO - The two lawyers jailed on criminal charges because their dogs fatally mauled a Pacific Heights neighbor have f...
Government
'Demons Within' Deepen Enduring Fault Lines That Rend American Life
By Garry Abrams
Nobody wants to be demonized. But there's a whole lot of demonization going on. These words came to me Wednesday morning as I ...
SAN FRANCISCO - World War II slave laborers cannot sue the Japanese corporations that forced them to work because a 1999 Calif...
Harper-Collins Publishing Co. Inc. is reissuing C.S. Lewis' classic children's series, "The Chronicles of Narnia." And who say...
SAN FRANCISCO - While many judges spring from colorful backgrounds, Lassen County Superior Court Judge Stephen D. Bradbury can...
Administrative/Regulatory
Delgadillo Vows To Beat Office's Tech Problem
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - His predecessor tried to do it but said he was foiled by politics. On Wednesday, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo ...
VICTORVILLE - Normally, the collision between Cynthia Sikes and another driver near Adelanto in September 1999 would have been...
Benjamin Franklin once observed, "They that would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve nei...
There are two big unanswered questions about the monstrous attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The first is tha...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Makes No Effort to Publicize New Election Rules
By Columnist
The California State Bar races this year can't be considered a true test of the new election rules that stem from a recent set...
William A. Masterson , 40-year veteran of the legal scene welcomes the change from law practice to full-time ADR. ...
Negotiation impasses are a fact of life, leading mediators and negotiators to keep an ever-vigilant eye out for impasse breake...
For Randy Sunshine, there's more to the law than winning. Not that the 45-year-old attorney doesn't relish going to trial and ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Appreciates Decorum, Strives for Patient Demeanor
By Contributing Writer
Critics often argue that private judging undermines the public courts and fosters divided, rich man versus poor man justice. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brendan Hallinan, the 26-year-old son of San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan, was arrested last w...
As science continues to advance, more difficult decisions will be necessary in order to establish a policy in this area. ...
For $1 a month, it seemed like a good deal. But when thousands of policyholders of an outpatient medical rider issued by Physi...
SAN JOSE - A San Francisco business software company has quietly settled a federal lawsuit it filed last month accusing the ch...
SAN BERNARDINO - County Supervisor Jerry Eaves has pleaded not guilty to more than a dozen bribery charges that allege he acce...
SAN FRANCISCO - Scott Dondero had trouble enough when he was pulled over by Marin County sheriff's deputies on the night of Ju...
SAN FRANCISCO - A case that may prove to be the most significant legal test for MTBE is threatening to become snarled in maneu...
SAN FRANCISCO - The country's war on drugs has come to this: A suit filed by "Mr. Bunny" against U.S. Attorney General John As...