Mahony Visits Priest Abuse Protesters
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - During their Holy Week vigil outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, alleged survivors of clergy sex ab...
Childhood Memories Sustain Judge on Court
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The chambers of Sacramento Superior Court Judge Talmadge R. Jones are like a museum of Western cultural artifacts...
Protocol Simplifies Registration Process in Foreign Countries
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column Intellectual Property By Robert B. Burlingame On March 28, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued proposed ...
Judicial Limbo
By Columnist
Forum Column By Andrew W. Schwartz and Bill Higgins In Chevron USA Inc. v. Lingle , 02-15867, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...
Jeffrey Wohl of Orrick Joins Paul Hastings
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - After 21 years at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Jeffrey Wohl has joined the San Francisco office of Pau...
Defacto Pay Cuts Loom For State's Court Staff
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Some 1,434 employees of the state's appellate courts and the Administrative Office of the Courts almost certa...
Bush Nominates S.F. Judge to 9th Circuit
By Contributing Writer
WASHINGTON - President Bush has nominated San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Carlos T. Bea to the 9th U.S. Circuit Cour...
Too Many Attorneys on Board? Depends Who You Ask
By Karen Coleman
Reporter's Notebook By Karen Coleman OAKLAND - Add one more to the list of complaints involving the Oakland Police Department...
Rave Case Out on Missing Page
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - It was just a one-page certificate required by the Department of Corporations, but an Alameda company's failure to...
Contra Costa County Clerks to Close Early
By Karen Coleman
CONTRA COSTA - The clerks' offices in Contra Costa County Superior Court will close their doors an hour earlier, starting Apr...
The Courts' $312 Million Budget Shortfall Forces Places the Sheriffs' Monopoly in Jeopardy
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A proposal to open court security to competitive bidding may sound good on paper, but it faces an uphill batt...
Glass Shield Used in Court Overturns Sex Assault Case
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court overturned a six-year sentence for sexual assault Tuesday because the alleged victim ...
Attorney Packs a Mean Punch
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Her quick smile was replaced with a stern stare as Mary Lehman pulled on the 16-ounce training gloves, climbed on...
UCLA Law Professor Was Man of Substance
By Alice Lee
LOS ANGELES - James Dupre Sumner Jr., professor emeritus at UCLA School of Law, died April 1 at the age of 84. Known as "Sunn...
Ex-Altar Boy Testifies That Priest Molested Him
By Riley Guerin
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner on Tuesday ordered former Catholic priest Michael Stephen Baker to st...
Effort to Curb Peremptories Is Revived
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A controversial recommendation to significantly reduce the number of peremptory challenges in criminal and ci...
Judge Strives to Make Difference
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - When Judge Jessica Perrin Silvers was looking for a sign to guide her toward a career, she found it in a place s...
True Judge Tales
By John Roemer
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Cecil is a connoisseur of crime. He relates courtroom war storie...
Lawyers Prepare for Holocaust Insurance Trials
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Lawyer William Shernoff has been busy videotaping depositions of his elderly clients, as litigation over Holoca...
Prosecutor Savors His Ballet-Dancing Passion
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - The ballerinas shuddered as they stepped from the cool night into the warmth and humidity of Anna Cheselka Danc...
Judge Rethinks Area 51 Decision
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - As if the military's super-secret Area 51 in the Nevada desert wasn't weird enough, now a federal appellate j...
'Huskinson' Will Decide Issue of Quantum Meruit Fee Recovery
By Columnist
Focus Column - Law Practice - By David C. Moore - Most attorneys know that the California Rules of Professional Conduct prohib...
War Machine
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Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - Now that the United States has invaded Iraq and firmly established the law of might, we nee...
Judge Cites Area 51 Show
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - As if the mystique around the military's Area 51 in the Nevada desert wasn't weird enough, now a federal appe...
Judge Bars Skid Row Searches
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Finding the Los Angeles Police Department's actions unconstitutional, a federal judge Monday barred officers fro...
Solano County Judge Does It For the Kids
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Solano County Superior Court Judge Dwight C. Ely had to make a weighty decision last year: continue to serve in ...
Herrera Pressured for Restitution
By Tyler Cunningham
Reporter's Notebook By Tyler Cunningham While Dennis Herrera was campaigning to become San Francisco's city attorney, he prom...
Law Enforcement, Health Services May Face Cuts
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - As expected, the county's proposed budget released Monday won't spare law enforcement or child protection from t...
Brown to Fund Public Defender With $1.2 Million for 17 Staffers
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - At a time when San Francisco is facing a $347 million deficit, Mayor Willie Brown has dedicated $1.2 million ...
Activist Wants to Do His Time, Won't Pay Fine
By Gale Holland
LOS ANGELES - The first protester against the Iraq war to be sentenced in Los Angeles said Monday he would refuse to pay his f...