Panel Won't Second-Guess Disqualification
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Consistency counts, especially when you're disqualifying a judge during appeal. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...
Jurist Finds Firm Duped Seller
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - The devil is usually in the details and, in this case, so was the scam. So ruled Orange County Superior Court Jud...
Jurists Let Stand Ruling Against Anti-Abortion 'Wanted' Posters
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In an important victory for abortion providers, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let stand a federal appellate c...
Chicago's Altheimer to Close
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Altheimer & Gray, a 300-lawyer Chicago firm that had been aggressively building its San Francisco office, ...
Court Will Weigh Owners' Eligibility for Benefits
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In a case that will affect lawyers and other professionals, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider wheth...
Judge to the Stars Retires After Serving 16 Years on L.A. Bench
By Jeff Berg
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge-to-the-stars Marilyn L. Hoffman has retired after 16 years on the bench. Hoffma...
Court Axes Conviction For Judge's Misconduct
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Friday reversed a man's arson conviction, saying a Los Angeles Superior Court judge commi...
Abuse Lawyers Assess Their Losses, Go On
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Deputy District Attorney William W. Hodgman got up Friday morning to gather what was left of his sexual-abuse ca...
Regents Say Academic Freedom Limits Suits
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - In-house counsel at the University of California believe the university should be exempt from lawsuits that bedevil...
Circuit Orders Third Trial in 1979 Murder
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A man convicted twice of murdering a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl must either be tried a third time or rele...
A Model for Challenges, Triumphs
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer San Diego has been hailed nationwide as a redevelopment success story, particularly for ...
New Option For Housing Sex Predator
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - After months of futile searching for a landlord willing to rent to a convicted child molester, state authorities a...
'Reynolds' Vindicates Principles of Corporate Law
Forum Column - By Mark Pulliam and Brandt Schmidt - In a recent pro-business ruling, the 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected...
Fired Workers Complicit in Illegal Act Can't Prevail
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Duyen Nguyen - Getting fired from a job with a law firm has a way of stirring som...
Denying Dollars for Divinity
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Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could crush the last vestiges of leg...
Supreme Court Legalizes Sodomy
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - In a stunning reversal of one of its own rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down state laws tha...
'Winters' and 'Comedy III' Still Leave Courts With Gray Area
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By David Halberstadter - Earlier this month, the state Supreme Court issued its newest deci...
Morris Myers, S. F. Arbitrator, Memorialized
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Memorial services will be held today in Carlisle, Pa., for Morris L. Myers, a well-known lawyer and labor arbi...
Grand Jury Finds Fault in City Contracting Law
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco law that helps women and racial minorities win public contracts is not sufficiently supported ...
Ruling May End Case Against Kline
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - The Supreme Court's decision Thursday striking down prosecutions of long-ago sexual abuse could spell the end of...
Public Counsel Honors Gore at Fund-Raiser
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore delivered a demand for justice for the count...
Corporate-Speech Case Dismissal Dismays Nike
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - On a day of high drama at the Supreme Court, the justices ended their 2002-03 term Thursday with a whimper, dismi...
Just Trying to Catch Up, Judges Lobby for Raise
By Pamela Mac Lean
POIPU, Hawaii - It's tough to have sympathy for federal judges seeking a 16.5 percent hike in their $150,000 a year salary dur...
High Court Librarian Plans to Check Out
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist sure knows how to grab an audience by the throat so they'll listen to his ever...
Priests Who May Go Free
By Jim Adamekn
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors on Thursday were studying whether to drop charges against dozens of Catholic priests in Southern Cal...
Frist Vows Speed If Justices Retire
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., vowed Thursday to move quickly on a U.S. Supreme Court nomination if ...
Alleged Criminals Released
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Three administrative Superior Court judges allowed alleged burglars, batterers and carjackers to go free rather ...
New County Bar Head Is Consensus Builder
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - After Friday night, attorney Robin Meadow officially will be at the helm of the nation's largest voluntary bar o...
Kaopectate Deal Swaps One Risky Ingredient for Another
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Changes in a popular anti-diarrhea medication prompted by a court settlement with the state could present a ri...
Jurists Set High Standards for Capital Defense
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Handing a stunning 7-2 victory to defendants facing the death penalty, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that defe...