Geragos Gets Another Trial Delay
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - A judge who scolded high-profile attorney Mark Geragos earlier in the week for overextending himself softened his ...
Sources Doubt Dioceses Will Pay $1.43 Billion to Settle Suits
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles and Orange dioceses will not agree to settle sexual-abuse litigation for $1.43 billion, as sugge...
Internal Memo Contradicts 'Dolphin-Safe' Finding
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Less than three weeks before the Commerce Department declared a controversial tuna fishing technique to be env...
Legal Elite Rally Around Beleagured Local Justices
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - On Jan. 20, a Who's Who of the Los Angeles legal community attended a party at Disney Hall that raised $15,000 f...
Jurist Helped Unclog Family Law Courts
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Joan K. Irion had been on the Superior Court bench less than a year when Presiding Judge Wayne L. Peterson asked f...
Inflaming Old Conflicts by Bringing Race Into Bryant Trial
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The inevitable finally happened. Kobe Bryant's lead defense attorney, Pamela Mackey,...
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Undermine the Constitution
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Chris Ford - In "To Earn Discretion, Judges Must Stop Being Politicians" (Forum, Jan. 21), Hirbod Rashidi ar...
Sanctions Can Make Remand Order Open to Federal Appeal
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James Harris and Tillman Breckenridge - On May 6, 2003, the U.S. District Court for the West...
Judge Was Stickler for Courtroom Decorum
By Claude Walbert
ESCONDIDO - Fiorenzo V. Lopardo, who was one of the first two Superior Court judges permanently assigned to the Vista branch o...
Santa Clara Backs 2 in Judicial Races
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Bar Association plebiscite is sort of like the Iowa caucus of the county's judicial races, o...
ABA House May Consider Accrediting Western State
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - The American Bar Association gathers today to begin one of its twice-yearly meetings, with 2,600 lawyers and fam...
Conviction Voided on Dismissal of Jury Holdout
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Lynne Collins committed reversible error in a murder trial when she ...
William the Lionhearted
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - In addition to being the court historian for California's Eastern District, U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb ...
Panel Listens to Arguments in Online Music-Swapping Appeal
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in a high-stakes case that could change the rules ...
Patent Office Hails Spending Plan
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The cash-strapped U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would get a big budget boost next year if Congress approve...
One Company Loses Out in Cloning Case
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The three-company battle over the ownership of patents covering cloning technology used to create Dolly the S...
Newest Class of DAs Bring Wisdom Born of Experience
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Danielle L. Hickman is no stranger to tough court cases. Two years ago, Hickman prosecuted a man for abuse after h...
Online Advertising May Lead to Liability Under Foreign Law
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By John C. Rawls - Despite the bursting of the Internet bubble, e-commerce continues to...
Peterson Case Doesn't Create Circus Atmosphere
By Craiq Anderson
REDWOOD CITY - The Scott Peterson murder trial opened quietly and smoothly Monday, despite fears the intense media interest wo...
L.A. Must Stop Resource Drain, Revamp Energy Use
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Tam Hunt and Derek Jones - The city of Los Angeles recently held a public hearing to discuss the merits of r...
Reinhardt Sees Risk in Judiciary Driven by One Ideology
By Pamela Mac Lean
Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - SAN FRANCISCO - One of the most liberal federal appellate judges in the country says that if...
Critics Doubt Sheriff Has Case Against Jackson
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson's claim that deputies roughed him up during his November arrest on child-molestation charges has...
Retired State Appellate Justice Joins JAMS
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Recently retired appellate Justice Charles S. Vogel joined JAMS this week as a private neutral. Vogel brings to ...
Company Concedes Patent Used in Cloning
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The three-company battle over the ownership of patents covering cloning technology used to create Dolly the sh...
Street Racer Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A street racer who was charged with the death of a rival who crashed and died during a speed contest betwee...
Judge: Environmental Review Applies to Restoration
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Farming interests believe a Colusa County Superior Court decision requiring the state to conduct an environmen...
Legal MasterMind Tackles MasterCard Over Purloined Sex Pictures
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Thanks to the Internet, the greatest development in thievery since the invention of highway robbery, ...
Court OKs Verdict by Jury That Consulted Bible, Clergy
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors committed misconduct by consulting Bible passages and religious leaders while deliberating in a death p...
The Sage Observer
By John Roemer
OAKLAND - Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" adorns Alameda County Superior Court Judge Philip V. Sarkisian's chambers. Each year Sa...
Bush Budget Would Help Patent Office
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The cash-strapped U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would get a big budget boost next year if Congress approves...