SACRAMENTO - Two brothers who practice law in Emeryville have fought a quixotic battle to win the right to cite unpublished ca...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge denied a defense motion Thursday to close a jury trial that would decide whether a murde...
SAN FRANCISCO - Covenant Care Inc. will be liable for punitive damages if plaintiffs can prove the nursing home chain starved ...
LOS ANGELES - Navneet S. Chugh laughingly said he was "a little pushy" about helping launch the new National South Asian Bar A...
SANTA ANA - No one had heard of it happening before. The jury had just delivered its verdict against Willie Hubert Knox, convi...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office will be disqualified from prosecuting a major fraud case because pros...
Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - Anyone who has worried that the debate over ultraconservative judicial nominees in the U.S. ...
Forum Column - By Scott Wm. Davenport - It is well-known in legal circles that exceptions to the hearsay rule have continued t...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Kevin Lilly - The right to recover attorney fees in employment cases is a central part of the reme...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By James D. Nguyen and Gregory J. Hall - In the Internet commercial frontier, the keys ...
SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly Judiciary Committee has shot down two bills that tried to soften a new law requiring greater ...
LOS ANGELES - Children's advocates Wednesday sued Los Angeles County, alleging officials there have failed to investigate fami...
WASHINGTON - On March 9, Rep. Ron Lewis, R-Ky., with the support of 19 of his Republican colleagues, introduced a bill that wo...
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar will employ an expert to adjust scores for 700 applicants who were unable to take the last part of...
SACRAMENTO - A trial judge approved a settlement Wednesday between a lawyer accused of abusing the state's Unfair Competition...
LOS ANGELES - The 1996 Telecommunications Act allows states to prohibit cities from entering local telephone markets, the U.S....
Appellate Practice
State High Court Agrees to Consider Punitive Damages
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court decided Wednesday to take a closer look at punitive damages, marking the first t...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court judges ironed out some procedural wrinkles Wednesday in two lawsuits seeking to v...
Appellate Practice
In This Country, Nobody Wants to Take the Blame for Anything
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - What do master terrorist Osama bin Laden and the nutritionally sinister cheeseburger have in common? ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case pitting the public's right to know against a defendant's right to a fair trial, a defense attorney ...
LOS ANGELES - A pilgrimage to see Eliot L. Spitzer, the activist state attorney general of New York, has become an essential j...
WASHINGTON - Atheist Michael Newdow of Sacramento turned in a dazzling performance Wednesday as he tried to convince the Supre...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city of San Francisco is not without allies in its defiant stand against the state's marriage laws. But th...
Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - The five-justice majority in recent 11th Amendment and Commerce Clause rulings has reli...
Focus Column - Juvenile Law - By Grace Suarez - If you are like many defense lawyers practicing juvenile law, you have a numbe...
Forum Column - By Charles L. Lindner - ABC's latest contribution to crime drama, "The District Attorney," premiered at 10 p.m....
SACRAMENTO - Three bills that would crack down on immigration consultants who prey upon desperate people with dreams of citize...
SACRAMENTO - Two measures that would grant members of the news media greater access to state prison inmates cleared key commit...
LOS ANGELES - The Food and Drug Administration's order to drug makers to slap warning labels on antidepressants including Paxi...
WASHINGTON - Debate on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage continued in the Senate on Tuesday, as Republicans and D...