Appellate Practice
Attorneys Must Keep Informed On Changes to Appellate Rules
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Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James M. Harris and Jill Faulkner McNeal - The appellate rules of the California Rules of Co...
Focus Column - By Laura Esquivel, Jackie Goldberg and Jennifer C. Pizer - In 1988, Lydia Ramos met the love of her life, Linda...
Constitutional Law
Legal Scholar Will Testify in Favor of Putting Curbs on Debates
By Mark Cromer
LOS ANGELES - As Democratic filibusters continue to logjam President Bush's efforts to appoint conservative jurists to the fed...
Pamela Jester, who has served as interim director of Continuing Education of the Bar, has been named as the organization's per...
LOS ANGELES - Outspoken constitutional scholar Douglas Kmiec is headed back to Southern California, where he will resume his f...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court said Tuesday that a Hollywood screenwriter can sue Sony Pictures for allegedly infringin...
LOS ANGELES - Despite being courted by local Democratic party leaders, Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss announced Tuesda...
LOS ANGELES - More minority judges, court staff and lawyers are needed to boost public trust in U.S. courts, the president-ele...
LOS ANGELES - Families suing for the loss of loved ones who perished in an Alaska Airlines jet crash three years ago have move...
Military Law
Ex-Petty Officer's Petition Goes Before Highest Military Court
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The nation's highest military court, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, has agreed to review the U.S. Na...
LOS ANGELES - A gay Guatemalan immigrant is fighting for asylum, arguing that he faces severe persecution if sent back to a co...
OAKLAND - When the University of California gets sued by an employee, it's easy to root for the little guy, the plaintiff who ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Mexican doctor who was illegally kidnapped and abducted to Texas from Mexico on orders of U.S. drug agents i...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Xenophon F. Lang Sr. He was 85. While La...
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SAN FRANCISCO - Some day, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ksenia "Kay" Tsenin may best be remembered for dismissing indict...
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - Stellar credentials and a "well-qualified" rating from the American Bar Association, its h...
LOS ANGELES - In a case of first impression, a state appeals court has decided that pro bono lawyers can win attorney fees as ...
WASHINGTON - Restricting the reach of federal trademark law, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Lanham Act does not bar a...
SAN FRANCISCO - After 10 mostly quiet years in Hong Kong, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe has added four partners and 1...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for alleged victims of priest sexual abuse denounced the decision by other members of the plaintiffs' le...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles law firm that claimed it has been forced into involuntary servitude after a judge ordered its lawy...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge erred when she refused to hold a hearing on potential bias or misconduct after a court employee ...
LOS ANGELES - A U.S. District judge in Los Angeles has denied a request by attorneys accused of abusing the state's unfair-com...
WASHINGTON - Re-emphasizing the broad reach of the Federal Arbitration Act, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that a debt-restruc...
SACRAMENTO - A proposed method of implementing the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on executing the mentally retarded was approved b...
SACRAMENTO - The state Senate passed a bill Monday to protect the elderly from financial abuse by requiring more complete dis...
SAN DIEGO - Memorial services for Bruce R. Marshall, who became a lawyer after years as a spokesman for Southern California Ga...
LOS ANGELES - With his former firm effectively winding down its California operations, Bruce Canter, managing partner of the N...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two brothers in a Texas blues-rock band are not wronged celebrities just because a comic book series loosely ...