Act Attempts to Put Arbitration Agreements on Equal Footing
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - The Federal Arbitration Act applies to contracts "eviden...
Patel to Get Rose Bird Memorial's 2003 Award
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Marilyn Hall Patel, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Northern California, has been chosen to receiv...
Cops, Scouts Have Troubled Past
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - David Kalish is neither the first cop to face charges of sexual misconduct with the Los Angeles Police Departmen...
Brobeck's IP Chief Relocates
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Bradford Duft, a former chief of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's intellectual property practice in San Diego...
Pawnshop Owner Has Rights to Stolen Ring
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The city of Oakland must stand trial for returning a stolen $600 diamond ring to its owner. The 9th U.S. Circ...
Feds Sought $660,000 From Lawyer-Gunman
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Lawyer Gerald V. Scotti, who killed himself and his paralegal in March, was under pressure from federal authorit...
Bong Ownership Is Legal
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Pot smokers can breathe a little easier after a state appeals court affirmed Tuesday that owning a "smoking devi...
Panel Reverses Worker's Firing
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Housing Authority employee fired for giving the address of three public housing tenants to a man w...
Gay Bias Suit By Students OK'd Despite School Appeal
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Six former Morgan Hill students, who claim principals ignored their complaints of taunts and beatings based o...
Jurist Tries to See Each Defendant as Individual
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Cynthia Rayvis tells jurors that she feels their pain, she truly does. Sev...
Justices Allow Stockholders to Sue Over Advice to Hold Shares
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Stockholders can sue for fraud when they are induced to hold onto their shares - not just to buy or sell stocks ...
When Legal Protections Are Shattered
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Forum Column - By Eve Hill - In the 1960s, when many states refused to recognize the basic human rights of African-Americans, ...
'Abrams' Addresses Effect Of Stipulation on Move Away
By Columnist
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - In In re Marriage of Abrams , 2003 DJDAR 1123 (Cal...
Law Lets Authorities Seize Street-Racing Cars
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - San Diego on Monday became the first California city to pass an ordinance that allows forfeiture of vehicles used ...
Perkins Coie Nabs Wilson Sonsini Partner
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Palo Alto's Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati has lost partner Bruce McNamara to the Menlo Park office of S...
Justices Grant State's Plea to Dismiss Disabilities Act Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday granted California's request to dismiss a case the state filed last year after losing...
Oakland Cops' Firing on Protesters May Invite Suits
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - The Oakland Police Department stumbled into a new police-conduct minefield Monday when officers fired non-lethal cro...
Fleiss Finishes Supervised Release
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Monday, marking the end of Heidi Fleiss' three years of supervised release from prison, congratu...
Buy, Sell or Hold: Stockholders Can Still Sue for Fraud
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Stockholders can sue for fraud when they are induced to hold onto their shares, and not just to buy or sell stoc...
Contra Costa On Hook for Judgment in Traffic Case
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A pedestrian injured in a dangerous crosswalk on her way to a bus stop gets to keep a $1.5 million judgment a...
Anti-War Veteran Gives Support to U.S. Troops
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Russell Balisok opposes the U.S.-led war in Iraq. But nobody is a stronger supporter of the soldiers in the Lanc...
DA Cleanup
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Deputy District Attorney Richard Sullivan, who clashed with his bosses over prosecuting an environmental-crime c...
Hard Corps
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - Even with a larger-than-anticipated crowd and upbeat atmosphere, a recent fund-raiser for Oakland's Neighborhood La...
Ruling Affirms Laws Banning Cross Burning
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Turning aside freedom-of-speech arguments, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld state laws that ban cross burning t...
High Court Limits Punitive Damages
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Handing a significant victory to corporate defendants, the Supreme Court on Monday raised tough new barriers to l...
Greed Over All
By Contributing Writer
Adviser Column - By Brad Reed - In every era, some chief executive officers have been scoundrels, but the percentage is unlike...
Preparing for Security in Insecure Times
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEBCREJ Assignment Editor Threats of terrorism and civil unrest over the Iraq conflict as well as possible lab...
Producer Sues NBC for Stealing Show Idea
By Eron Yehuda
Like lawsuits, many "reality" television shows such as "Survivor" and "American Idol" are based on the premise of overcoming c...
Mr. Community
By Karen Coleman
ALAMEDA - It's been 18 years since Judge Jeffrey Allen took over the Alameda County Superior Court's George E. McDonald Hall o...
Case Probes Disclosure Duty to Standards Committee
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Scott A. Herbst and Kristin Schnell - Organizations such as the Institute of Electri...