SAN FRANCISCO - At the appellate court in Riverside, attorneys are warned that a refusal to waive oral arguments in certain ca...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kamala Harris wrested the San Francisco district attorney's office from Terence Hallinan by erasing a huge nam...
Intellectual Property
Specialty Film Units, Studios Grapple With Screener Ban
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Even as the Motion Picture Association of America prepares an appeal of the federal court ruling that overturned...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY LONG BEACH - Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels sold its 234-room Holiday Inn, Long Beach Airport, to Hilba Star LP,...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Courts Examined Pre-Emption And Unconscionability in 2003
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - This year has seen significant case law in the area of c...
Forum Column - By I. Nelson Rose - The voters want Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to redo every deal that Gray Davis made, includi...
Constitutional Law
'Ford' Targets Same Issues As Three High-Court Cases
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Wayne Allen Ford's case echoes some of the issues in three cases argued before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday...
SAN FRANCISCO - Louise Renne, who won a blockbuster settlement from tobacco companies as San Francisco's city attorney and con...
Criminal
Supervisor Plans Guilty Plea in Corruption Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A high-profile bribery case against an embattled San Bernardino County supervisor is coming to an end with a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - At least one Sacramento-based state appellate justice says courts ought to be allowed to order medical marijua...
LOS ANGELES - A mother filed suit Monday claiming she suffered tremendous emotional pain after three of her daughters were all...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday that a San Mateo County judge went too far when she took it upo...
LOS ANGELES - Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi has nabbed one-third of the attorneys from Santa Monica's Fogel, Feldman, Os...
SAN FRANCISCO - A meandering legal and procedural odyssey has finally ended for accused murderer Larry Joe McDougal, who plead...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has appointed Joe Lynn to the city's Ethics Commission a week after Lynn re...
Intellectual Property
Rogan Ends Short Reign At the U.S. Patent Office
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - James Rogan, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, has announced that he intends to leave his post...
LOS ANGELES - A trial court did not take into account recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it granted visitation rights to...
Litigation
Home Depot Card Holders Face Undisclosed Charges, Suit Says
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - When David Varco was remodeling a house in Arizona in February, he saw an advertisement that was too good to pass ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Charges that a former San Francisco health commissioner intentionally infected two men with HIV were dismissed...
SAN FRANCISCO - With the state facing a budget meltdown and the courts an easy target for major cuts next year, Chief Justice ...
Constitutional Law
Confession Lies At Epicenter of Gruesome Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Five years ago, prosecutors said, Wayne Adam Ford walked into a Northern California sheriff's station and tol...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alfred Dyer's time was almost up. The convicted murderer had just about exhausted his appeals, losing a 2-1 9t...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court indicated Tuesday that it will allow prosecutors to use in trials both evidence and statements ...
LOS ANGELES - Friday was a momentous day for Jose G. Medina. The 26-year old caught his first DUI at age 18, got shot in the h...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY CENTURY CITY - The 1901 Avenue of the Stars office building has leased its Suite 1500 for $1.5 million to K...
LOS ANGELES - Arthur William "Bill" Brown Jr., who practiced as a corporate attorney at the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mu...
WASHINGTON - Sounding incredulous and sometimes angry, the Supreme Court justices on Monday indicated they will overturn the d...
LOS ANGELES - One of 16 women who accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of sexual misbehavior during the recall campaign filed suit Mo...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Court OKs Lawyer's Conviction for Theft
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A once-prominent personal injury attorney convicted of bilking clients with disabilities of a combined $2.5 mill...
Appellate Practice
Court Will Consider Nature of Judges' Advice to Defendants
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether a judge must advise defendants that they will not be ab...