SANTA ANA - Retired Municipal Court Judge Kenneth M. Smith, a Southland jurist whose sentencing of drug offenders to mandatory...
By Pamela A. MacLean DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - The stunning decision by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to s...
By Leslie A. Gordon Special to DJC Bankruptcy LOS ANGELES - Like fireflies to a light, except perhaps in reverse, California'...
The stunning decision by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to seek bankruptcy protection rather than a political solution to the...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mandatory Government Arbitration Gets Setback
By Matthew King
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge in Santa Cruz has declared unconstitutional a new state law imposing binding arbitratio...
Gone are the days of blanket protection for all documents filed under seal. As of Jan. 1, 2001, new California Rule of Court 2...
By Tina Spee DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - Fellow judicial officers paid tribute Friday to the memory of retired ...
By Dennis Pfaff DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - At some point very soon in the epic struggle over Pacific Gas &am...
By Dennis Pfaff DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Ratepayers of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. are not legally enti...
Intellectual Property
U.S. Judge Overturns Big Verdict Against Altera
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - A potential multibillion-dollar jury verdict against semiconductor giant Altera Corp. in a patent-infringement...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Juvenile Court's proposed tort policy - requiring private attorneys to join the county bar assoc...
By Karen Coleman DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing the bankrupt firm of Graham & James con...
Judges and Judiciary
Commission Ousts L.A. Judge for Abuse of Sick Leave
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency ordered the removal of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy...
By Pamela A. MacLean and Dennis Pfaff DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writers SAN FRANCISCO - Nine groups representing consumers, agricu...
Government
Judge Strikes Key Testimony in Murder Case, Cites DA's Actions
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge said Thursday that he will strike key testimony from a double-murder case and...
By John Roemer DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - California consumer lawyers reacted swiftly to PG&E's bankrupt...
Front Page
Utility Firms Ponder Bankruptcy While Residents Remain in Dark
By Sherri Salzman
LOS ANGELES - As light bulbs in Northern California flicker, dim and blink off, enveloping millions of energy consumers in st...
By Pamela A. MacLean DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee may be just days away from the s...
By Dennis Pfaff DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will formally object to the appoin...
By Pamela A. MacLean DJC BankruptcyStaff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - An electric cogeneration operator, idled for weeks due to non...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has acquired extrasensory perception. No California court has yet addressed the applicat...
SACRAMENTO - Four bills that address a range of topics including construction defect litigation, pro-bono work, toxic mold sta...
LOS ANGELES - The Century City office of Irell & Manella has snapped up two former Lyon & Lyon partners. Christopher ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ratepayers of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. are not legally entitled to have a formal committee representing ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A potential reprieve for cash-strapped legal aid programs arrived Wednesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Holland & Knight has acquired seven attorneys from local probate boutique Ross Sa...
SAN FRANCISCO - If everything that happens in court-ordered mediation sessions is secret, how is a judge supposed to find out ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster announced Wednesday that the Hong Kong Law Society has approved the firm to practice l...
Judges and Judiciary
His Clerks Want Court Building Named for Browning
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Momentum is gathering for naming San Francisco's 100-year-old federal appeals court building after Judge James...
Everyone has an opinion about whether O.J. did it. And these opinions usually are not anemic. Furthermore, there are many opin...