Constitutional Law
Justices Urged To Dump Own Precedent on Secret Mailing
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to reverse its 1994 unanimous decision barring polit...
SACRAMENTO - California's court system is flooded with cases alleging health problems from toxic mold because there are no pub...
Litigation
Miracle Cure for Chubbiness Exercises Wine-Country Prosecutors
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Today's column is about the law of unintended consequences, prosecutorial angst and dieting. Up in the wine coun...
SAN FRANCISCO - Only a year ago, Internet patents were considered precious commodities, a must-have for every startup. Back th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Handing a significant tax victory to the restaurant industry, a split federal appeals court on Wednesday inval...
Employers used to working under federal law must develop strategies for dealing with the new, more liberal California law.
The economic damages expert is retained to value "hard-to-value" items. His opinion provides the trier-of-fact with a yardstic...
When someone comes into your home to perform work, you expect to be safe. That was the thrust of an argument that won $11.5 mi...
While litigators believe that good expert witnesses are critical to trial success, not all jurors agree. Most jurors believe t...
Amicus briefs that just rehash the arguments of the parties are disfavored by courts. ...
Attorney Craig Cascarano felt infuriated when he heard that Bill Clinton had commuted the 15-year sentence of drug kingpin Car...
From opening statements to expert testimony, development of the story is a key component that persuasive presentation tools sh...
Adult prisons are no place for children. The Daily Journal recently profiled Zena Long, 16, one of four girls incarcerated in ...
When Lee Jay Berman thinks about alternative dispute resolution, he thinks big. "I like working with complex, multiparty cases...
SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for the woman who claims she was sexually harassed by the top aide to Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown s...
Constitutional Law
High-Tech Surveillance Raises Fourth Amendment Questions
By Columnist
Sitting in a squad car, police scan your house with an Agema 210 thermal imager. The device, originally developed by the milit...
Clients measure a lawyer's worth in many ways. In Paul D. Scott's case, it was in boxes. When client Daniel Dean, 34, came to ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Holland & Knight last week added two partners to its real estate practice group. R...
Judges and Judiciary
Flying Superior Court Judge Pilots His Retirement
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Like most people, Paul Metzler keeps waiting for a sunny day. And after March 16, it can even be a sunny weekday...
LOS ANGELES - A wake for Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Gary T. Rowse will take place Monday. Rowse, whose work on the Littl...
Criminal
DA Asks to Use Orange County Resources for His Foundation
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, under fire for allegedly misusing public funds for his private fo...
Constitutional Law
Court Shields Library From Liability Over Internet Porn
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In the first such ruling in the country, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday that city libraries are not lia...
SAN FRANCISCO - Closely adhering to appellate court orders, a federal judge on Tuesday gave Napster Inc. a 72-hour deadline to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Art or Commerce? The California Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with the boundary between the two while consid...
LOS ANGELES - Nancy Mintie and Mark Adams seemed like the perfect team when they got together in March 1999 to help Mintie's p...
E-mail users send and receive countless messages every day. Many messages are just so much junk, and I, for one, routinely del...
SAN JOSE -- A federal judge dealt the fatal blow Monday to a complaint by a former senior deputy in the San Jose city attorney...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the wake of the appellate reversal of his arson-for-profit conviction, retired San Francisco police officer...
When I read Judge Robert Beezer's opinion in the Napster case, I was, to borrow a phrase from the late Hubert Horatio Humphrey...
Gov. Gray Davis on Monday appointed Alan Skobin, vice president and general counsel of Galpin Motors Inc., to the Department o...