Charges Dismissed in Case Of Intentional HIV Exposure
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Charges that a former San Francisco health commissioner intentionally infected two men with HIV were dismissed...
A Worried George Fears More Budget Slashing
By Hudson Sangree
SAN FRANCISCO - With the state facing a budget meltdown and the courts an easy target for major cuts next year, Chief Justice ...
Confession Lies At Epicenter of Gruesome Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Five years ago, prosecutors said, Wayne Adam Ford walked into a Northern California sheriff's station and tol...
Public Engagement
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Alfred Dyer's time was almost up. The convicted murderer had just about exhausted his appeals, losing a 2-1 9t...
Court Appears Likely To Narrow 'Miranda'
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court indicated Tuesday that it will allow prosecutors to use in trials both evidence and statements ...
'Things Are Looking Up,' Drug-Court Graduate Says
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Friday was a momentous day for Jose G. Medina. The 26-year old caught his first DUI at age 18, got shot in the h...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 9
By Angela Gottula
LOS ANGELES COUNTY CENTURY CITY - The 1901 Avenue of the Stars office building has leased its Suite 1500 for $1.5 million to K...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - In re Marriage of Bereznak, 110 Cal.App.4th 1062 (...
Corporate Attorney Radiated Happiness
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Arthur William "Bill" Brown Jr., who practiced as a corporate attorney at the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mu...
Justices Likely Will Overturn Death Sentence
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Sounding incredulous and sometimes angry, the Supreme Court justices on Monday indicated they will overturn the d...
Woman Sues Governor for Libel
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - One of 16 women who accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of sexual misbehavior during the recall campaign filed suit Mo...
Court OKs Lawyer's Conviction for Theft
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A once-prominent personal injury attorney convicted of bilking clients with disabilities of a combined $2.5 mill...
Court Will Consider Nature of Judges' Advice to Defendants
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether a judge must advise defendants that they will not be ab...
Fagan Not the Only Cop Under Fed Scrutiny
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. attorney's office acknowledged Monday that the federal grand jury probe of alleged civil rights viola...
Unocal Myanmar-Pipeline Trial Resumes Today
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - The second phase of a trial in which workers are accusing Unocal Corp. of human rights violations in the constru...
How One Man Almost Terminated Part of California's Budget Deficit
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The state of California just missed a chance to reduce its budget deficit by $9. That's right. By exp...
Fiery Judge Isn't Loved by Many
By Dennis Opatrny
FAIRFIELD - Solano County Superior Court Judge Harry Kinnicutt is a tall man, who lawyers say presides with a short fuse. He l...
California Legislators Criticize PG&E Plan
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The embattled compromise plan to resolve Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s bankruptcy was ripped Monday by a key ...
Panel Should Fry Big Fish, Critics Assert
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Ethics Commission fined City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa $5,100, the amo...
Evicting Landlords
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Todd J. Wenzel - The San Francisco Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Ordinance was adopted in J...
Danville Stands Alone Amid Tri-Valley Office Glut
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Maybe you've never heard of Danville. Nestled 15 miles from San Francisco as the crow flies, ...
Take Another Ride on the 'Atchinson, Topeka and the Santa Fe'
By Laura Coleman
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer In 1946's "The Harvey Girls," Judy Garland immortalized the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R...
Nursing Home Has to Pay $2 Million for Elder Abuse
By Amy Spees
A Fresno jury awarded $2.4 million in compensatory damages last month to the family of a woman who died as a result of alleged...
Saegis Bolsters Drug Research With $30 Million
By Toni Vranjes
Venture capitalists have poured $30 million into Saegis Pharmaceuticals Inc., bolstering its efforts to develop new drugs to i...
Acquittal Town
By Columnist
Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - Here's one for the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction file: A jury in Galveston, Texas, recently acq...
Capital Outlook Remains Strong in '04
By Contributing Writer
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ The next tsunami of capital for commercial real estate finance and investment is rising li...
The New California Land Rush
By Columnist
BY NANCY FAY Days after the state paid $275 million for the largest open-space purchase in its history, some environmentalists...
Lawyer Preserves Cat's Additional Lives
By Toni Vranjes
As counsel for Dr. Seuss Enterprises, La Jolla attorney Karl ZoBell works to protect the creations of the beloved children's a...
Indictment Nets 14 L.A. Real Estate Businessmen
By Leslie Simmons
BY LESLIE SIMMONS Special to CREJ Fourteen associates of real estate mogul Alan Casden, including the vice president of his f...