Cab Outfit Can't Claim Color Yellow
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Yellow Cab is just a yellow cab, a federal judge ruled Thursday in denying a Sacramento taxi company's trademark...
$1.1 Million FPPC Fine Is Upheld by Appeal Panel
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The 3rd District Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld the largest fine ever levied by the state's Fair Political P...
Warrantless Drug Search Before Court
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court once again wrestled Thursday with the question of whether police can search firs...
Tosco Successor Can't Evade Fines for Water Pollution
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - An oil company will pay $620,000 to settle a Bay Area water pollution lawsuit revived last November when the ...
Panel Creates Disappearance Of Magic Case
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The Fox network's notorious "Breaking the Magician's Code" television specials, which featured a masked magician...
Jury Finds Glendora Lawyer Guilty in Conspiracy
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Capping an exhaustive four-year prosecution, an Orange County jury Thursday found a Glendora attorney guilty of pe...
Private Time
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyers who once struggled to keep pace with initial public offerings are increasingly helping clien...
Posting of DVD Source Code Before Court
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Free speech advocates squared off with the entertainment industry Thursday in a widely watched trade secret d...
Jurist Releases Iranian Activist
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - After five months in an immigration jail, an Iranian peace activist finally has been released as his lawyer cont...
Bar's Oldest Member Loved Law
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - The oldest active member of the State Bar, Robert M. McManigal, has died. He was 102. McManigal died in his slee...
Jurist Releases Iranian Activist
By Jeff Berg
LOS ANGELES - After five months in an immigration jail, an Iranian peace activist finally has been released as his lawyer cont...
Flying Judge Likes View From Bench, Plane
By Donna Domino
SONORA - Tuolumne County Superior Court Judge William G. Polley has been flying high, literally and figuratively, since he too...
Holocaust Heroine Devoted Life to Teaching Tolerance
Forum Column - By Carole E. Handler, Jeffrey A. Tidus and David A. Lash - In Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, justice...
People Must Demand Recall
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Shawn Steel - At the beginning of the 20th century, a progressive revolt added the rights of initiative, ref...
'Campbell' Isn't Death Knell for Large Punitive Damages Awards
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael J. Bidart and Douglas M. Carasso - Are insurers subject to substantial punitive damages...
New Rampart Probe Offers Immunity
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - For the first time in the long-running Rampart police scandal, officers will be given "administrative immunity" ...
Guam Prosecutor Was Adventurous, 'Unique'
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Thomas Joseph Lannen, a former deputy federal public defender in Los Angeles and chief prosecutor for the Territ...
Clinic Focuses on Rehabilitation, Legal Aid for Skid Row Residents
By Alice Lee
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Claralou LaBarge worked at Inland Counties Legal Services before retiring in 1995. But, in the eight ye...
Edwards Tells BASF He Is One of Them
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - If he were president, U.S. Senator John Edwards would create an independent office to ensure that law enforce...
Study Shows Steady Erosion of Federal Bench Officers' Salaries
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Gathering Wednesday at an unusual news media event at the Supreme Court, four members of the court and the leader...
Court Reverses Convictions of Two in Murder
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has reversed two of three convictions in a brutal Los Angeles murder, saying that the defe...
Parties in Sex Predator's Case Quail Before Dilemma
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Lawyers for the state and the first convicted child molester scheduled to be released under the state's Sexually V...
Ruby and Pooh: Proof That, in Los Angeles, Courts Are the Real Zoos
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Winnie the Pooh and Ruby the elephant have one legal thing in common. The animals recently made headl...
Scrounging for Pennies
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Reeling from the threat of unprecedented budget cuts, California court officials are scouring every revenue s...
Sidestepping of 'Miranda' Worries Justices
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court sounded deeply troubled Wednesday that police officers are still being trained t...
Supreme Court Jurist Brought Court Dignity
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - David N. Eagleson, a Long Beach attorney who rose through the state's judicial system to become a state Supreme ...
Family-Law Innovations Earn Judge Appreciation
By Peter Blumberg
SANTA CRUZ - Though some judges dread family law, Samuel S. Stevens is not among them. The judge was so content during his thr...
State Bar Question Three
By Contributing Writer
Question Three - Crimes/Evidence - Don was a passenger in Vic's car. While driving in a desolate mountain area, Vic stopped an...
State Bar Question Five
By Contributing Writer
Question Five - Constitutional Law - Paul, a student at Rural State University ("Rural"), wishes to sue Rural, a public school...
State Bar Question Two
By Contributing Writer
Question Two - Real Property Trusts - Olga, a widow, owned Blackacre, a lakeside lot and cottage. On her 70th birthday, she ha...