Judge Orders Halt To Deputy Sickouts That Closed Courts
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - An Orange County judge ordered the Los Angeles County sheriff's union to halt the deputy sickouts that closed fi...
Watching the Watchers
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Uncertainty and defections at the New York Stock Exchange have left legal observers wondering how the role of ...
What Role Will Sonsini Have at Stock Exchange?
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Uncertainty and defections at the New York Stock Exchange have left legal observers wondering how the role of...
District Court Ruling Revives Defense of 'Submarine' Patents
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave an unusual gift to some members of the pate...
Valid Ballot
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Daniel H. Lowenstein - The blocking of the California recall election by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S....
Misrepresenting Record May Result in Sanctions
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Robert A. Holland and Hieu T. Hoang - Experienced appellate advocates know that they must ne...
Claim of Reverse Engineering Doesn't Alter Burden of Proof
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Benjamin D. Scheibe - Consider the following scenario: The defendant, who has been p...
United States Seems to Be Antagonizing Every Country
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Francis T. Fahy - Thomas Friedman's vitriol against France in "France is Becoming Enemy of the United States...
Davis Names Two Women to San Diego Bench
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday appointed an assistant U.S. attorney and a former federal prosecutor to the San Diego...
Pooh Royalties Case Will Get New Judge
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - After 12 years under the supervision of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ernest M. Hiroshige, the high-profile a...
Panel Affirms Libel Award to Attorney
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has affirmed a $2.25 million judgment in favor of Beverly Hills attorney and businessman L...
Court Upholds Evading Arrest Law
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - Upholding the state Vehicle Code for felony evading arrest, an appeals court has rejected claims that the law re...
Labor Lawyer Developed National Reputation
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - David Arthur Cathcart, a nationally prominent attorney in labor and employment law, died Tuesday of cancer at hi...
Verizon Settlement
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Verizon Communications Inc., the biggest U.S. local-telephone company, has agreed to pay $20 million to settle a...
Elevator Tiff Doesn't Prove Future Harm
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Stepping into a fight that began in a trial court elevator, a state appeal court has reversed an order prohibi...
Submarine Patents Get Dunked, But Aren't Drowned
By Xenia Kobylarz
Reporter's Notebook - By Xenia P. Kobylarz - Last year, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave an unusual gift to s...
Sacramento Workers On the Job, Grievances Unsolved
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Employees of the Sacramento County Superior Court voluntarily returned to their jobs Wednesday, a day after they ...
Exploding WWII Spy Could Have Served as Warning to White House
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - In the drab city of Ankara, Turkey, in 1942, the NKVD, the intelligence service of the Soviet Union, ...
Davis Fills Vacancy at 3rd DCA
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Nevada County Superior Court Judge Kathleen Butz was named Wednesday by Gov. Gray Davis to the 3rd District Court...
PUC Official Frets Over Provision of Permanancy
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A Public Utilities Commission official reviewing the compromise plan to get the bankrupt Pacific Gas and Elect...
DAILY DEALS -- Transactions from Orange County
By Jack Briggs
ANAHEIM - Pacific Community Mortgage Inc. leased 10,035 square feet of office space in Stadium Centre at 2099 State College B...
Red Mass Welcomes Bench, Bar Members
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The historic confluence of the Roman Catholic Church and the state lives on in the Red Mass, a colorful ritual c...
Relationship of Business and Victim Gives Rise to Owner Duty
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - The existence and scope of a business owner's duty to protect the publ...
Lost Votes
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Richard L. Hasen - On Sept. 23, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, unanimously reversed...
Skeptical Look at Varian Slurs
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A state appeal court panel was extremely skeptical Tuesday about the notion that allegedly defamatory writings on I...
Solano DAs Named to Bench
By Donna Domino
SOLANO - Solano County prosecutors Robert S. Bowers and Michael Mattice were appointed Tuesday by Gov. Gray Davis to Superior ...
High Court Adds 'Miranda' Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON -The Supreme Court's 2003-04 term is shaping up as one that could set important new precedents in the area of Miran...
Bankruptcy Star Taught High School for Year
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services took place Monday for veteran bankruptcy lawyer Robert L. Morrison, who died of a heart attack...
Justices Take Nazi-Looted Art Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Maria V. Altmann's determined quest to recover six Gustav Klimt paintings that she claims were stolen from her fa...
Deputy Sickout
By Gale Holland
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County goes to court today seeking an injunction against sheriff's deputies, whose Tuesday sickout t...