Appeal Panel Shoots Down Lawyer-Fee Dispute
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court offered no hope Wednesday to a San Francisco plaintiffs attorney who is challenging $8.5 ...
State Budget Crisis Gives Top Cops Rhetorical Visions of Anarchy
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Somewhere along Interstate 5 in the wee hours, Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca and Los Angeles Police Ch...
Judicial Leaders Are Told to Fight for Funding
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Leaders of the bench and bar must adopt strategies traditionally used by advocacy groups, such as lobbying leg...
Seeing Purple
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The Purple Berets, a spirited Sonoma County women's advocacy outfit, are known for their theatrical flair and ...
Chaplain Sues to Resume Ministry to Inmates
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A lay chaplain who says the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department barred him from ministering to youth at the Men's C...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 17
By Angela Gottula
LOS ANGELES COUNTY CASTAIC - National developer Regency Centers purchased the Hasley Canyon Village Shopping Center at the in...
Jackson Case Doesn't Faze Santa Maria Area Residents
By David Houston
SANTA MARIA - Michael Jackson does not impress the citizens of this northern Santa Barbara County farming town, where prosecut...
Aid Isn't Meant to Be an Annuity
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Chris Micheli - As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has suggested, the Legislature should limit awards of "front p...
Agency Review of Regulations May Help Business Community
By Columnist
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Paul N. Singarella and Jennifer B. Wieland - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigned as t...
Landlord Accused of Bilking Elderly Man
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera has sued a local landlord, accusing him of bilking a confused 73-year-old tenant ...
Discrimination Suit Costs $85K
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The city will pay $85,000 to settle claims that a former investigator in the district attorney's office was th...
Judge Admonished For Rushing Waivers
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A Placer County judge went too far in trying to keep things moving during his arraignment calendar sessions, the ...
Leno Talks Campaign Finance Reform
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Mark Leno unveiled a package of campaign finance reforms Tuesday that he said would be fairer to cand...
'Restorative Justice'
By Dennis Opatrny
KENWOOD - The young man's father kicked him out for violating the "house rule" of no marijuana smoking. He didn't attend schoo...
Gay Couple Sues Over Site's Policy On Adoption
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - A local gay couple is suing an Internet adoption firm for denying them access to its paid online services. In ...
3 Bucks Short and They Lose
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - For plaintiffs attorneys, just like holiday shoppers, waiting until the last minute can be risky business. A s...
PG&E, Reform Group Reach Agreement
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and one of its most vocal critics announced a potential breakthrough compromise T...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 16
By Angela Gottula
LOS ANGELES COUNTY WHITTIER - The Mediterranean Apartments, a 257-unit garden-style community, has received $14 million in pe...
Oki Won't Seek Higher Rung on Ladder
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Embattled Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dan T. Oki, who was criticized for his role in releasing felony suspe...
Federal Bill Likely Will Thwart State's Tough Anti-Spam Law
By Columnist
Focus Column - Business Law - By Gregg A. Farley and Paul C. White II - On Jan. 1, a bill hailed as the toughest anti-spam law...
Fudging Funding
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Forum Column - By Leslie Gielow Jacobs - This term, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the U.S. Constitution's free-ex...
Defender Recused By Judge
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge Monday recused the public defender's office from representing an accused murderer who re...
Judge Feinberg Well-Respected
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired appellate Justice Sidney Feinberg, who served on the Court of Appeal in San Francisco and the Santa Cl...
Are 'Taggers' Like Criminal Street Gang?
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - In this city, where some view graffiti artists more as exterior decorators than criminals, the district attorn...
Ruling Gives Police Greater Leeway in Traffic-Stop Arrests
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday gave police greater latitude to arrest everyone in a car stopped for a routine traffi...
Court Takes on Mexican Trucks
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the U.S. Transportation Department must prepare an in-dept...
Presiding Justice Says He'll Retire
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Presiding Justice Charles S. Vogel announced Monday he will retire from the state Court of Appeal after 44 years...
Initiative to Limit 17200 Advances Toward Vote
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer cleared the path Monday for proponents of a proposed ballot initiative that would r...
Bottom Line: Politicians Fight Turf War Over Schools' Dirty Bathrooms
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - How do you measure the decline of a city? One way is the toilet cleanliness index. By that standard, ...
Harris Took Districts That Hallinan Won In November
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney-elect Kamala Harris raided neighborhoods won by incumbent Terence Hallinan in the November e...