Pesticides Threaten Public, Conservation Groups Claim
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Environmentalists warn that the state's use of insecticides to kill a pest that spreads the grapevine-kill...
Reviving a Market Jewel
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer After 30 years of inactivity, a relic from San Francisco's past will be restored and brought ...
Costco SpokesmanFailed to Review Trial Record
By Ron Mc Nees
Before accusing me of "fabrication," "fiction," "fantasies," "nonsense," making "unsupportable claims" and "misrepresent[atio...
Supreme Court Will Address Roadblocks to Find Witnesses
By Columnist
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - A bedrock concept in Fourth Amendment law is that, before the police can ...
Government Pull
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John Burton - The Washington, D.C. Circuit's decision in Center for National Security Studies v. United S...
Feuding Lawyers Reach Agreement in Corridor
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Feuding legal titans Browne Greene and Charles O'Reilly met in court Friday for a hearing on forcing arbitratio...
Street-Closure Plan Hits Roadblock
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - The votes are in, but they may not count. Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central Distr...
DeVries Judge Assails Critics
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The judge poised to release the first child molester to complete the treatment program outlined in California's Se...
Cleanup Pacts Open Way for NFL Stadium
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The decades-long battle over cleanup of a Carson landfill long considered a prime spot for a National Football ...
Looking to Build Nanotech, Burns Doane Makes a Hire
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis has recruited nanotechnology legal pioneer Kitu Bindra to join the firm's 15...
Tour de Latham
By Liz Valsamis
When legal-industry strategists decided a global presence was the way to ensure long-term success at the highest levels, U.S....
California's Top 50 Law Firms
By Tina Spee
Ask a law firm to pinpoint its main office location, and you're likely to get some incarnation of the following: "We don't ha...
Bush Nominates Janice Brown
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - President Bush's nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of C...
No Strict Liability in Transplant Of Tissue
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Suppliers of human tissue for medical procedures cannot be sued for strict liability because they provide a h...
Domain Names Ruled Intangible Property
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - In 1994, while most people limited their thoughts about sex to the physical world, Gary Kremen was fantasizin...
Web Thieves Discourage Piracy
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - When a dozen federal agents came banging on his door at 7 a.m. with guns drawn and a battering ram, Michael Nguy...
7th Circuit Splits with 9th on Application of 'Betamax' Case
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - With a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision at the end of June, en...
Class Litigation Replaces Negotiation With Unions
By Sandra Corrales
Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - Most people are aware that union membership has been declining for decades. In 2001, the ...
Question of Time
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Judicial review is most important when legislatures enact laws that are overwhelmingly p...
PG&E Parties Dispute Venue
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge heard arguments Thursday in a procedural battle that could determine the fate of lawsuits seek...
Governor Puts Quartet on Los Angeles Bench
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced the appointments Thursday of Santa Monica court commissioner Joseph Shiro Biderman and...
Morgan Lewis Wins Cisco Litigation Deal
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has landed an exclusive, two-year deal with Cisco Systems Inc. to handle all of th...
9th Sees And Raises Sanctions
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld three contempt sanctions against a Larkspur criminal defense attorney who...
Suit Disputes Recall-Vote Proviso
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - A lawsuit challenging a section of the state Elections Code that requires voters to cast a vote on a recall before...
Prosecutor Struggles to Regain His Footing
By Dennis Opatrny
Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Opatmy - Floyd Andrews returned to the San Francisco Hall of Justice this week. But it wasn't ...
City's Ex-Treasurer Indicted and Missing
By Anne La Jeunesse
SOUTH GATE - Albert T. Robles, the former South Gate city treasurer ousted in a January recall election, has been indicted on ...
Davis Fills Four Seats in San Diego Court
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed corporate attorney Randa M. Trapp to a vacant seat on the San Diego Superior Court, ...
Special Master Rips CDC for Evasive Stance In Rights Case
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The director of California's prison system, Edward Alameida, dropped three inquiries into alleged perjury by P...
Wanted For Murder
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - An accused armed carjacker released from jail after Memorial Day in a dispute between the District Attorney's Of...
1st DCA Sends Huge Attorney Fee Deal Back Down
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Does it really take as many as 67 law firms charging as much as $1,000 an hour to settle class action claims o...