Judges and Judiciary
Judge Known for Compassion Toward Kids and Drug Addicts
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Kathleen Akao, whose judicial career focused on helping abused and negl...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Thursday for Matthew Horway Witteman, retired general counsel for the Atchison Topeka ...
MIRELL WINS - Following two unsuccessful attempts, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa won City Council approval Tuesday fo...
MEXICO COURT OKs EXTRADITING CRIMINALS - Mexico's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that criminals facing life in prison can be extr...
RETAIL SAN MATEO - San Francisco-based SPI Holdings purchased the Bridgepointe Center, a 270,000-square-foot portion of a reg...
WASHINGTON - In a case with huge potential ramifications for the world of patent law, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed...
LOS ANGELES - Dick Volpert won't argue about it: He took a business risk that put O'Melveny & Myers' capital and reputatio...
Letter to the Editor - Thanks for the excellent series "A Woman's Work" (Nov. 28 Daily Journal). I worked my way through schoo...
Constitutional Law
Count Your Blessings: An Open Letter to Ex-'Combatant' Padilla
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Dear Jose Padilla: This Thanksgiving, I'm sure you have a lot to be thankful for. After a...
Focus Column - By David M. Grey - The party that challenges an "individualized educational program" - a program created by a p...
Forum Cloumn - By Ruth Silver Taube - Access to justice for the poor continues to be a critical problem in this country. There...
SAN DIEGO - Rep. Randall "Duke" Cunningham resigned Monday from the House of Representatives shortly after pleading guilty in...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to decide whether a Scarlet Letter-style punishment imposed by a San Fra...
LOS ANGELES - I could be a mother or a lawyer but not at the same time. And not with my baby at my breast. I found that when I...
LOS ANGELES - Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I found there was almost no escape from Stanley "Tookie" Williams. No matter what...
Criminal
Prosecutor Uses Videotape to Challenge Drug Agent's Account of Why He Shot Suspect
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County prosecutor is hoping to persuade a jury to convict a state drug agent of voluntary manslaught...
Judges and Judiciary
Los Angeles Judge Is Praised For Troubleshooting Abilities
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES - In 35 years as a prosecutor and a bench officer, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James A. Bascue has ear...
IMMIGRATION APPEAL SUCCEEDS - A Chinese citizen got a second chance Monday at asylum in the United States when a federal appea...
Administrative/Regulatory
A Woman's Work: Criminal Defender - And Mother
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - Janet Levine was born and raised in Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA in 1977 and earned her law degree from ...
MULTIFAMILY SANTA CLARA - Marcus & Millichap completed the sale of Homestead Manor for $7.1 million. Jacob Levy of Marcus...
Forum Column - By Edward J. Loya, Jr. - Whatever Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's overall jurisprudence may be, his Fourth...
Letter to the Editor - World AIDS Awareness Day, being observed on Dec. 1, comes with disturbing news - according to the Unite...
Focus Column - By David S. Olson - Recent appellate court decisions have made clear that the "mandatory relief" provision of C...
SAN FRANCISCO - As China boasts the world's fastest-growing economy, lawyers and other business leaders are quick to hop aboa...
LOS ANGELES - Gregory W. Jessner has been the target of some good-natured ribbing from friends and colleagues ever since anno...
LOS ANGELES - Holland & Knight, one of the nation's 15 largest law firms, plans to close or consolidate nine of its office...
Education
Catholic Program Shows Coaches How to Zone to Block Sex Abuse
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A mother stormed into the principal's office, pulling her pretty 13-year-old, pony-tailed daughter behind her. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Affable Murrieta Judge Gives Lawyers Leeway
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
MURRIETA - It's a problem that many judges accept as a given: At some point, lawyers are going to give them shallow excuses or...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Proposed Law on Land Sell-Off Benefits Speculators, not Public
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Sean B. Hecht - With little fanfare, Congress is poised to sell off some of our most precious public lands. ...
Editor's Note: The legal community, as well as the media, has been buzzing lately with discussion and debate over how women ca...