SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty San Francisco police officers accused in the Union Street beating case will have a prelimin...
SAN FRANCISCO - When the U.S. Supreme Court rejected medical necessity as a defense to the use of medical marijuana two years ...
Government
9th Circuit's Next Case: Computer Crimes Against Baby Boomers
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Dear 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Hi there! I read with great interest your fabulous decision t...
LOS ANGELES - Faced with an explosion of strip clubs, and militant opposition from neighborhood groups, the Los Angeles City C...
SAN FRANCISCO - LeRoy Hersh, one of San Francisco's feistiest and most successful plaintiffs attorneys, died Tuesday at his ho...
SACRAMENTO - Environmental lawyer Christopher Sproul is running as a candidate in the Oct. 7 recall election to replace Gov. G...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's former landlords filed a petition Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San...
COLTON - The billboard for a strip club that overlooks traffic on Interstate 215 in Colton is eye-catching enough, sporting th...
Forum Column - By Karl Manheim - We have yet to hear the last word on the state recall election, which is turning out to be th...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Harnedy v. Whitty, 110 Cal.App.4th 1333 (200...
Appellate Practice
Firm Needn't Disprove Water Contamination
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Lockheed Martin Corp., the defendant in an upcoming trial of a lawsuit claiming it contaminated groundwater n...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles juvenile court cannot send a young woman to California Youth Authority without exploring whether...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill Tuesday that requires the Judicial Council to give the public prior notice of pendi...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Council members may prefer talking on cell phones or chatting with staffers to listening to the...
Judges and Judiciary
Jeans Company, Heller Ehrman Cross-Sue Over Sale to Nautica
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - When the owners of a Los Angeles women's jeans company decided to sell their prosperous business to the trendy c...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has recognized for the first time that a half-sibling who cares for a child can be leg...
WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association on Tuesday released a "qualified" rating for California Supreme Court Justice Janice...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Air Force Captain Maintains Court Decorum
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN LUIS OBISPO - Judge John A. Trice knew it was time for a career change when, as a prosecutor, he tried a double-murder cas...
Judges and Judiciary
Legal Community's Efforts Face Threat From Prop. 54
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Proposition 54, the "Racial Privacy Initiative" being pushed by University of California Regent Ward Connerly, co...
WASHINGTON - When the hotly contested California recall election battle finally gets to the Supreme Court, it will be only the...
SAN FRANCISCO - The order to delay California's recall election appeared Tuesday to be on a fast track to the U.S. Supreme Cou...
LOS ANGELES - On a December day in 1978, a young lawyer on leave from his job at the public defender's office set out for an a...
Forum Column - By Richard E. Hasselbach - The media seem to have an almost insatiable appetite for courtroom drama. No longer ...
Law Practice
9th Circuit Decisions Deal With Bias of Administrative Judges
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Although most attorneys who appear regularly at administrative hearings...
LOS ANGELES - Observers of the state's gubernatorial recall challenges called the decision by a three-judge appellate panel on...
SAN FRANCISCO - The University of California has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to avoid taking a Lawrence Livermore Nationa...
VALLEJO - Solano County Superior Court Judge Franklin Taft has always been a tinkerer. According to his older brother, Vallejo...
Reporter's Notebook - Peter Blumberg - Appellate Courts - SAN FRANCISCO - I may have started this whole mess. If called to tes...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant victory for the disabled, including people with AIDS, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Entertainment & Sports
Ex-Cop Mack Says Conscience Is Pearly White in B.I.G. Hit
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - David A. Mack, who is the former Los Angeles police officer convicted of bank robbery and a key figur...