Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - In ordering a delay of the recall election in Southwest Voter Registration Education ...
Recall Rehearing Panel
By Philip Carrizosa
These are the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal judges who will sit on the en banc panel hearing the California recall case: Ma...
Judge May Keep Post Despite DUI
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA BARBARA - Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall probably will resume her job as a jurist even after her conviction on misde...
Counsel Says Giants Richer, But Ain't No Damn Yankees
By Tyler Cunningham
Reporter's Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - Most baseball fans outside the five boroughs hate the New York Yankees. The team i...
Experts Dispute Reputation Of Appeals Court as Liberal
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is commonly perceived as a renegade, left-leaning federal appeals court, r...
Recall Now Before 9th's 'Conservatives'
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The pro-recall advocates have drawn some of the most philosophically conservative judges on the 9th U.S. Circu...
Pair of Judges Will Play More Forceful Roles
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - When an 11-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sits down after today's hearing to consider wha...
Hugs and Treatment
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - When he isn't flying off to a conference or lobbying in Sacramento to secure funding for drug and mental-health-tre...
Does Outsourcing Make Sense? It Depends
By Toni Vranjes
Outsourcing may seem like a tantalizing prospect, but it's not for everyone. So what's the best way for a company to determine...
Lawyer's Recall Role Raises Ethics Questions
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - The role of an O'Melveny & Myers attorney in the legal imbroglio over halting the state recall is drawing fi...
Sonsini Rejects Offer to Run Stock Exchange
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - For a fleeting moment it looked as if Larry Sonsini, one of the most recognized deal makers on the West Coast...
ACLU Takes Brunt of Recall Ire
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - To hear supporters of the state's recall tell it, the American Civil Liberties Union is at the core of a left-w...
Open-Space Measure Doesn't Violate Constitution, State Law
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Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - The 1st District Court of Appeal recently upheld an open-space initiative ...
Ignoring Complex Time Rules May Lead to Labor Violations
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Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - Wage-and-hour laws can significantly affect firm culture. Some recent developments in th...
Toppling Barriers
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Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - "Lack of comprehension is perhaps the greatest single barrier to justice. A failure to ...
Survivor of Singapore Airlines Crash Settles Suit
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - After surviving the crash of a Singapore Airlines jet in Taipei three years ago, Harald Linke has developed such...
Herrera Subpoenaed In Health Code Case
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A former port commissioner has subpoenaed City Attorney Dennis Herrera to talk about a case involving dead fis...
Exchange Offers Job To Sonsini
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Larry Sonsini, the chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, was asked Wednesday to serve as interim chairm...
LAPD Settles Suit With Deaf Man
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Police Department has agreed to provide sign-language interpreters for deaf witnesses, victims a...
City Attorney's Hires Raise Ire, Questions
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera has replaced seven lawyers he fired in July with at least five new hires, an aide...
SFTLA Gains HMO Extension
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge Thursday ordered one of the state's biggest HMOs to continue insuring some 200 local law...
Panel OKs Convicted Molester's New Trial
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - A San Diego man convicted of molesting a 13-year-old girl will get a new trial because one of the jurors in the ...
Appeal Court OKs Oakland Ordinance on Home Loans
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has upheld an Oakland mortgage-lending ordinance, rejecting claims that the local law con...
Governor Names Clay, True to Alameda Court
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - C. Don Clay, the No. 2 person to U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan in San Francisco, was appointed Thursday to the Alam...
NYSE Job Not a Fit for Sonsini
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - For a fleeting moment it looked as if Larry Sonsini, one of the most recognized deal-makers on the West Coast,...
Commissioner Gives Hope To Ill, Troubled Teenagers
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The 15-year-old girl, her crown of neatly knotted braids sprouting in two pigtails, sat expectantly beside her a...
En Banc Odds Favor Recall Case Reversal
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - If the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agrees to reconsider the order delaying California's Oct. 7 recall el...
Judicial Trouble in Paradise
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A South Seas soap opera is unfolding in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a sleepy, tropical, former U.S. ...
ACLU Takes Brunt of Recall Ire
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - To hear supporters of the state's recall tell it, the American Civil Liberties Union is at the core of a left-wi...
Women Lawyers Welcome Leader
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Kathleen M. McDowell's complacency regarding women's health care issues ended in the early 1990s. McDowell, a pa...