Court OKs Couple's Suit Against Lawyer
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area couple can pursue a lawsuit against an insurance company lawyer who they allege tricked them ...
Young Associate Maintained Positive Attitude
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Thursday for Benjamin M. Paik, a fifth-year associate at the Los Angeles offi...
Judge Finally Sets Brobeck Trial Date
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Refusing to brook further delay, a trial judge ordered Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's new counsel Tuesday to...
New Suit Blasts Sweeps on Skid Row
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES -Labeling the recent Skid Row police sweeps "witch hunts," the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild Tuesday filed a...
S.F. Commissioner Richard Best Retires 'Because I Can'
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Best, a San Francisco court commissioner for 30 years and the court's resident expert on technology an...
Gags Are Good, DA Says, But Only Some, And Not Always
By Robert Selna
Reporter's Notebook - By Robert Selna - The arguments about public access to information in the police cover-up case are start...
GOP Loses Third Filibuster Vote
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Tuesday failed in their third attempt to end the Democratic filibuster on the nomination of...
Judicial Conference Requests Help for Busy Bench Officers
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The policy-making body for the federal courts has voted to ask Congress to create 57 new judgeships this year, in...
Inglewood Police Had Warning
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Inglewood police raised concerns about several of their police officers years before one of them was videotaped ...
Police: Judges Told Them to Withhold Files
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A spokesman for the San Francisco police legal department said Tuesday that, upon the advice of unnamed local...
Order in the Forest: Arboreal Hobbits Face Eviction From Redwoods
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Life was getting tense Monday morning for Remedy, a tree sitter who has been perched in an ancient Hu...
Four Skadden Fellows Will Work in California
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Four of the 26 Skadden Fellows chosen for 2003 will work in California, New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meaghe...
Public Safety
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Forum Column - By Charles L. Hobson - California's three-strikes law has a history of vindication in the face of opposition. I...
Recent Cases Highlight Issues Involving the 11th Amendment
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Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives the states, as well a...
Forty Years After 'Gideon,' Right to Counsel Is Crucial
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Forum Column - By Kirsten Levingston - When Clarence Earl Gideon crept into a poolroom in Panama City, Fla., 40 years ago, and...
Brobeck Delay Tactic Is Opposed
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Monica lawyer Monday filed an objection to Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's attempt to postpone yet ag...
Bias Is Alleged In Rulings on Fatal Domestic Altercations
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Controversy has found Judge Elliot Daum in a hurry. In just two years since Daum became the first public defen...
May It Please the Speaker Phone, With All Respect
By Dennis Pfaff
Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Pfaff - Former San Francisco attorney Clifford Chanler, because of his occasionally volatile p...
State Board Says It Shouldn't Pay for Seeking Dismissal
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Medical Board of California told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that it would not pay any damages or costs ...
Patel Orders Immediate Release of Convicted Killer
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Glen "Buddy" Nickerson, who has spent 18 years in prison for a double murder he may not have committed, had hi...
Morgenstern Agrees to Take Brobeck Case
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Although buried in debt, defunct Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has found another law firm to represent it aga...
Clock Runs Out on Ex-Nun's Suit
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit brought by a former Catholic nun who claim...
'Killpatrick' Rule Struck By Justices
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Judges no longer need to advise pro se criminal defendants about their Fifth Amendment privilege against compe...
Small, Yet Very Big
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - At 59, patent attorney James Sheridan should have been planning his retirement and improving his golf game. In...
Couple Sues Over Rejection Of Black Santa
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Roch Ward says he planned a romantic Christmas Eve surprise for his girlfriend. He would propose to Laurie Lyons b...
City Officials Try to Put Brakes on Street Racing
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The roadside memorial on Imperial Avenue in Lemon Grove is bright with flowers brought by friends of two El Cajon ...
Sheriffs Arrest Priest for Abuse
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Former priest John Peter Lenihan has been arrested and charged with 10 felony counts of child molestation, breath...
Attorney Takes on Murder-by-Breast-Milk Case
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - In a rare foray into state criminal court, controversial civil-rights lawyer Stephen Yagman will defend a mother a...
Beverly Hills Getting First New Apartments in 21 Years
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CREJ WIRE REPORT For the first time in more than two decades new apartments are being planned for the city of Beverly Hills. ...
Former DJ-Turned-Mediator Spins Creative Solutions
By Eron Yehuda
If fate had smiled differently on Jack Schwartzman, he could have held the professional title of DJ rather than JD. Schwartzma...