For the Judiciary, Who Knows?
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Reaction in California's legal and legislative community to the election of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger as govern...
Election Had Serious Flaws, ACLU Legal Director Claims
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - While state officials proclaimed the California recall one of the smoothest elections in 20 years, a leading civ...
Brobeck Survivors Sue Snow, New Firm
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - A group of retired partners, longtime staff and trustees of the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison have su...
Adaptive Reuse: How Deep a Market?
By Contributing Writer
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer Ever since developer Tom Gilmore turned downtown Los Angeles' Old Bank District into a res...
Record Numbers Line Up to Vote
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - From East Los Angeles to Watts to Los Feliz, record numbers of Los Angeles County voters lined up to cast ballot...
En Banc 9th Circuit Reverses Two Decisions on Arbitration
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently reconsidered ...
Court Denies Review of Fetus-Killing Case, 2,000 Others
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court handed a defeat Monday to women's-rights and medical-professionals groups who had urged it to ...
Mentally Ill Inmate Faces Drugging, Execution
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court removed a barrier Monday to the execution of a death-row inmate who must take antipsychotic dr...
Looking for a Sign
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael G. McGuinness and Adam J. Karr - Employers and employees are waiting to see what Gov. Gray Davis wil...
Leak Brings Party Role-Reversal
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - "You know, a single allegation can be most worthy of a special prosecutor." Given the myriad calls from Democrat...
Litigator Takes Up Genocide Defense of Rwandan Official
By Pamela Mac Lean
Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - Santa Rosa lawyer Peter Robinson has shut down his criminal law practice to conce...
When Does Bill Become Law?
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A bill passed in 2001 that would have allowed foreign-born residents to get drivers' licenses never took effect b...
Deputy Sickout Delays Court Start
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, in apparent defiance of a court order, called in sick Tuesday, temporaril...
Lawsuit Aid Said to Create a Conflict
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County deputy public defender for a man charged with capital murder was accused Tuesday of a conflict...
Democratic Party, Lawyers Field SOS Calls From Voters
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A detached toilet seat with GOP front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger's face pasted to the lid hung on the wall as ...
Pot Users Claim Exemption
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel zeroed in Tuesday on the reach of the Constitution's Commerce Clause as central ...
Eumi Choi Named Ryan's Top Aide
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan has reshuffled the top management in his office, announcing that Eumi Choi will take ...
Case Pits States, U.S. Judges' Power
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Examining an important federalism issue, the Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared ready to reinforce the power of fe...
Energetic Civil-Rights Champion Takes Helm at Beverly Hills Bar
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Century City attorney Stephen F. Rohde vividly recalls interviewing in 1970 for the character portion of the New...
DA Wants to Re-examine Questionable Homicides
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan announced Tuesday that within the month he will ask the Board of Supervisor...
Judges Lead Way to Total-Entertainment State
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - California is now officially a movie. The state's voters on Tuesday elected to totally recall reality...
L.A. Coke Sting: Been There, Done That
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Edaleene Smith and her partners weren't the first crew to be duped by the Los Angeles Police Department into c...
9th Expands Battered Wives' Protection
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Laura Luis Hernandez's dangerously violent husband followed her from Mexico to Los Angeles and persuaded her h...
Bait and Switch
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - It was a job Edaleene Smith couldn't refuse: Go to an unoccupied stash house, look for a key under the doormat...
Harris Will Pay $34,000 For Spending Too Much
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCSICO - District attorney candidate Kamala Harris must pay $34,000 to atone for failing to timely report that she brok...
Criticizing Critics
A neighbor told me about a TV reality show he saw last week: "They showed you a real court with as many members as a football ...
Property Owners Must Study Eminent-Domain Law, Process
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property Law - By Barry MacNaughton - As if construction, financing, tenancy and maintenance issues aren't...
Deputies Violated Knock-Notice Rule, Panel Says
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A divided appeals panel Monday ruled that San Diego Sheriff's deputies violated the state's "knock-notice" rule ...
Regime Change Won't Help Plaintiffs Bar
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers, who have given more than $1 million to keep a Democrat in the governor's office, said they anticip...
Deputy Faces Charge Of Drug Possession
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - A sheriff's deputy was charged Monday with drug possession and evidence tampering after authorities said he was ca...