^^Land Use^^ Strip Speech First Amendment Rights Outweigh City's Image Concerns The court doubted the owner planned the image...
^^Real Property^^ By Mitchell Poole Recent amendments to federal and state sex-offender registration laws give prospective la...
Judges and Judiciary
O.C. Court Needs More Justices, More Room
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - At first glance, Orange County's Court of Appeal building in Santa Ana, with its Victorian-era architecture, mani...
Orange County attorney Monica M. Jimenez has sued her former law partner, prominent Los Angeles plaintiffs' attorney Raymond ...
SAN DIEGO - In an unusual alien-smuggling case, two Mexican citizens have been indicted on charges of illegally bringing four...
SAN FRANCISCO - With its reputation for peace-and-love liberalism and its history as the heart of the free speech movement, t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A trustee of DHL Express founder Larry Hillblom's $500-million estate has accused Morrison & Foerster and...
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal appeals court has ruled the news media and public have a common-law right of ac...
Intellectual Property
Mag-Lite Skins Copycats in Infringement Case
By Don De Benedictis
The maker of Mag-Lite flashlights has once again hammered a competitor in court and won the right to pound the competitor's f...
In legal proceedings that have spanned the Pacific Ocean, 3Com Corp. has succeeded in persuading judges in Hong Kong and the ...
^^The Rodent^^ Legal Trappings The lawyer's midcareer crisis is one crisis too many Lawyer life is basically one crisis after...
Key Data Requests for Financial Information Raise Privacy Concerns By Catherine W. Johnson One of the most controversial prov...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a blistering closing argument, Ciro Mancuso's attorney on Thursday blasted Patrick Hallinan for bringing a ...
By Sharon Berman Dear Sharon: The majority of my practice depends on being fed business from partners in other practice areas...
^^Environmental Law^^ Superfund Junk Two CERCLA Plaintiffs Flunk Daubert Test These decisions demonstrate that CERCLA lawyers...
^^Takings Charge^^ By Michael M. Berger It is a solidly accepted part of the constitutional canon that the federal Civil Righ...
In a case that has sparked a district attorney's investigation into allegations of widespread theft by Los Angeles Municipal ...
Environmentalists and state officials may proceed to trial with claims that three major supermarket chains have violated Prop...
Owners of the highly stylized French "Sephora" perfume shops have accused Macy's West Inc. of a new variation of "trade dress...
Criminal
Court: No Time Limit to Raise Statute of Limitations Defense
By David Kravetz
SAN FRANCISCO - A criminal defendant does not forfeit the statute of limitations as an affirmative defense if it is not raise...
Now that criminal charges against Buford O. Furrow, accused in the killing of a letter carrier and the wounding of five peopl...
SAN FRANCISCO - A copy of a $10 million settlement check from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. adorns the San Francisco office wall ...
Government Contracts
In Suit, Ex-Official Blows Whistle On Lab Research at UC Irvine
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
IRVINE - The former manager of a University of California, Irvine medical research laboratory has filed a federal False Claim...
As a prisoner of war in Japan for two years, Lester I. Tenney of San Diego claims he was forced to labor for a mining company...
By John F. Denove In the race to deliver yet even more astronomical profits for their shareholders, corporations have shunned...
By Joseph Posner "If at first one doesn't succeed, try, try again" is a maxim that most people learn from their mothers. It's...
By Conrad R. Aragon "Venerable" is an epithet applied to a person accorded respect by reason of age, dignity and character. I...
By Jerome Fishkin We lawyers are always complaining about clients who try to reduce their bills, don't pay on time or don't p...
Judges and Judiciary
Services Are Held for Retired Judge Burton Bach
By Melissa Onstad
Services were held Tuesday for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Burton Bach, who died Saturday. He was 69. Bach had u...
By Anthony J. Oncidi A badly fractured California Supreme Court has upheld an injunction prohibiting the use of "derogatory r...