JACKSON ARRAIGNMENT
By David Houston
SANTA BARBARA - Michael Jackson's scheduled arraignment Friday on child-molestation charges will not be televised, broadcasted...
Reaching Too Far
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Forum Column - By Robert F. Turner - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals got it wrong again last month when it held in Gh...
Party Requesting Modification Must Offer New Income Data
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Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - The court in In re Marriage of Tydlas...
Business Should Consider Well-Being of U.S. Workers
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Forum Column - By Sidney Morse - Concern for the American worker must become a top priority to policy-makers, business leaders...
Judge Won't Block Whale Sonar Tests
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge declined Monday to block new tests off the California coast of a high-frequency sonar system i...
Judge Releases Jury Questionnaire in Blake Case
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - An 18-page questionnaire aimed at gauging whether potential jurors have been tainted by pretrial publicity in th...
Some Lawyers Call Jurist Decisive; Others Find Her Difficult
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - If you're headed to Department K in the Compton Courthouse, you might consider, first, leaving early enough to a...
Veteran San Bernardino Prosecutor Will Retire
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - David Whitney, a veteran San Bernardino County prosecutor who has secured 105 murder and manslaughter convict...
Stressed Worker Out of Luck
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Worrying yourself sick about job security in a grim economy does not qualify as a workers' compensation injury...
Open-Government Ballot Measure OK'd
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature approved an initiative Monday for the November ballot that would give Californians a consti...
Landlord Settles With S.F. Tenants
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A longtime deputy public defender has agreed to settle two lawsuits by tenants who claimed he failed to repair...
An Improbable Destination
By Craiq Anderson
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO - After graduating from Hastings College in 1983, Marie Weiner moved to San Diego with her husband to look...
Mad Dog v. Jacko Wacko: 'Dumb and Dumber' Comes to Trial Court
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Finally, we have proof of something that many of us have long suspected. Celebrity trials do in fac...
As Kamala Harris Takes Over, the Uncertainty Is Gone
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors returned to work Monday at San Francisco's Hall of Justice with smiles on their faces and a new bo...
$2 Billion Trust OK'd For Asbestos Claimants
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - More than $2 billion will be paid to Northern Californians suffering from asbestos-related harm after a bankru...
Vets Push for Project 112 Story
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Has the government told the whole story on Project 112? In recent years, the Department of Defense has acknowled...
High Court Allows Pursuit of 1994 Northridge Earthquake Claims
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a federal appeals court decision that allows thousands of Southern Californ...
Court Lets U.S. Withhold Names of Detainees
By David Pike
WASHINGTON -In a major victory for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a federal appeals c...
Inland Empire Developers Feel the Retail Heat
By Laura Coleman
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer Retail in the Inland Empire has never been hotter, according to developers at the Internat...
Evicting Landlords
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BY TODD J. WENZEL The San Francisco Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Ordinance was adopted in June 1979 to prot...
Checkmate
By Stefanie Knapp
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Daniel Callahan was transfixed by Judge Gregory H. Lewis. Specifically by his mouth, which seeme...
EMC Buys Firm For $635 Million
By Toni Vranjes
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Palo Alto software firm VMware Inc. in its acquisition by EMC Corp. VMware's soft...
VISA Hires Antitrust Expert To Be Its General Counsel
By Erik Cummins
Joshua Floum, VISA USA Inc.'s new general counsel, secretary and executive vice president, will advise the U.S. subsidiary of ...
Business Trial Lawyers Climb on Boards of Chapters in California
By Tina Spee
The Association of Business Trial Lawyers welcomed new boards of directors to three of its five chapters in California on Jan...
Bringing Back the Barrio
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer A social services agency and a private developer have joined forces to create a distinct...
New Laptop Hooks Lawyer At Sony's Kiosk in Airport
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Column - Technology Review - By Paul Kiesel - I certainly do seem to be on a techno-binge lately. I go through stages when, fo...
Jurist Puts Education First for Youth
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - H. Kirkland Jones doesn't fool around when it comes to education. As a requirement for getting off probation, he...
Paul Hastings OKs Parisian Merger
By Liz Valsamis
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker plans to merge with Paris' Moquet Borde giving the Los Angeles-based firm 55 lawyers in ...
Hero for Life
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ news assistant Janice Woody wants her son, Changa Mukasa, to have the option of living in an apartment, ...
Under Full Sail
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BY LOGAN SMITH Southern California industrial real estate continues to set the pace for the nation. In its fall report, Grubb...