Defying Microsoft
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Daniel Harris is known among his fellow intellectual property lawyers as the Microsoft expert, the man compani...
Protesters Rail Against U.S. Adventure Passes
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - As Pasadena retiree Bob Bartsch drove home through the Angeles National Forest one summer day in 1998, he spotte...
Brian Clearwater, 49, High Court Staff Member
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Brian Clearwater, longtime calendar coordinator for the California Supreme Court, has died of a sudden illness...
Courts Told To Emulate Businesses
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - California's judges and court administrators were admonished Wednesday to act more like business people if the...
Dying to Sue Their Doctors
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ronald M. Papell - The battle raging in Washington over patients' rights has stalemated over the White House...
YMCA Suit Allowed
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Child care centers can be sued for negligence even if they asked parents to sign a waiver, a state appeals cour...
Insurance Coverage for Elder-Abuse Claims Is Unclear
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tort Law - By Douglas A. Greer - Elder-abuse claims against physicians have become increasingly prevalent. The ...
Reporter's Notebook: When Is a Stripper Like a Journalist? When She Works
By Peter Blumberg
Reporter's Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - A couple of exotic dancers in Humboldt County made legal history this week. But they...
Cease-and-Desist Letters May Contain Some Hidden Perils
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Michael A. Shimokaji - The litigation of patents, trademarks and copyrights often st...
Lockyer Files Suit Against Law Firm
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued a small plaintiffs law firm Wednesday, claiming its members had violated the s...
Justices Rebuff El Paso in Antitrust Suit
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - El Paso Corp., the nation's largest natural gas pipeline company, is headed for trial in 11 coordinated antitr...
Hastings Offers Revised Proposal for Parking Lot
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law says it may join the YMCA in an innovative plan to develop student housing, a fitn...
Mesereau's Pro Bono Calling Gratifies Him
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Tom Mesereau spent Sunday morning doing what he does two Sundays of every month: giving free legal advice to poo...
Suit Says U.S. Lax on Smog Standards
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco seeks to force the government to update air pollution standa...
Humboldt DA Sues Pacific Lumber for Fraud
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit seeking up to $250 million in civil fines from Pacific Lumber Co. for alleged "fraudulent suppressio...
Interpreters Sue to Halt Law
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Court Interpreters Association sued the Judicial Council on Tuesday, claiming a recent law esse...
Keker & Van Nest Doesn't Want to Represent Brobeck
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The San Francisco law firm Keker & Van Nest wants out of defending Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and two o...
Fearless and a Bit Scary
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Do not mess with La Supremaca. Although Marilyn Hall Patel's official title is chief judge of the U.S. Distric...
Leaving Consumers Helpless
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Bill Lockyer - California's unfair-competition law, - Business & Professions Code Section 17200 - is one...
High Court Will Review Fee Awards
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to clarify the discretion of judges to award attorney fees in priv...
Defense Could Target Bullets During Hearing
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Three bullets are expected to figure prominently in the preliminary hearing of Robert Blake's murder case, which...
Instructions On Race Bias Earn Judge a Chastisement
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Placer County Superior Court Judge Joseph W. O'Flaherty has been reprimanded again by an appeal court for enco...
Relying on Ex-Klansman for Facts Is Not Wise Idea
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By Anthony J. Mohr - The setting: Thanksgiving dinner for nine in a European capital. Four Americans and a loca...
Recent Case Shows Transfer of Insurance Policies Can Be Complex
By Columnist
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Clyde M. Hettrick - The recent California Supreme Court decision in Henkel Corp. v. Hartf...
Coppola Can Make 'Pinocchio'
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - He still doesn't get his $20 million verdict, but famed director Francis Ford Coppola can make his "Pinocchio" ...
U.S. Supreme Court Takes on Major States' Rights Fight
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Taking on a major states' rights battle, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the federal gover...
Judge Orders Boy Off Life Support
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court ruled Monday that a 11/2-year-old Orange County boy, critically injured after his father ...
Amnesty Aids Those Who Avoided Tax With Offshore Arrangements
By Columnist
Focus Column - International Law - By Mara E. Nez and Michelle B. Graham - On Jan. 14, the Internal Revenue Service announced ...
Proving Motive for Hate Crimes
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - To protesters, prosecutors and even the chief of police, the slaying of Jeffery Owens in June appeared to have all...
The Quarrel Over Tapes
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - For a state normally in the vanguard of new technology, California's courtrooms surprisingly lack the high-tec...