Mom Says Rossum Shared Marital Woes
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A woman accused of poisoning her husband almost didn't go through with the wedding and complained afterward of hav...
Brown Spurs Oakland's Measure CC
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - City Attorney John Russo isn't particularly excited about Measure CC, an initiative on Tuesday's ballot that would s...
Career Makes Judge Feel at Home
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - East Los Angeles may not inspire images of working-class New England, but to Los Angeles County Superior Court J...
Appellate Races Go Nearly Unnoticed
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Four years ago, two California Supreme Court justices under attack from anti-abortion activists mounted a $1.7...
After 'Rojas,' Counsel Must Be Careful When Preparing Mediation Evidence
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - In the fourth significant decision interpreting the paramete...
Candidates for DA Express Their Views, Plans, Goals
By Columnist
Forum Column - Editor's note: In covering next Tuesday's elections, we invited candidates for district attorney to submit stat...
Actor Searches For Lawyer to Replace Braun
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake wasted no time in looking for a replacement after his criminal defense attorney, Harland Brau...
Appellate Game Is More Like Playing Chess Than Poker
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Barry M. Wolf - Trial and appellate law bear roughly the same resemblance to each other as b...
Election 2002: Judicial Candidates Discuss Their Qualifications
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Editor's note: In covering next Tuesday's election, we asked candidates for judicial office to submit statements telling us a ...
Judicial Races Present a Range of Issues
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Fifteen Northern California judgeships in 11 counties are up for grabs in the November election, including one...
Suit Indicates You're Right To Hate S.F. Towing Firm
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - City Tow, long loathed by drivers whose cars it hauls away, may itself be on the hook for millions of dollars ...
Justice and Politics
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Only in San Francisco would anyone accuse a judicial candidate of pretending to be gay. That was the rumor pos...
City Breakup Will Take Its Toll on Low-Income Families
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Forum Column - By Neal Dudovitz, Daniel Grunfeld, Bruce Iwasaki and David Lash - The outcome of the upcoming vote on Valley an...
No Guarantees Upon Entering the House of the Lord
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - You say your prayers, you take your chances. The Roman Catholic Church is not responsible for the savage beati...
Circuit Backs Doctors Who Prescribe Pot
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Doctors are free to recommend marijuana to seriously ill patients without fear that federal agents will revoke...
Judge OKs Fees in PG&E Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy Tuesday brushed aside concerns by a federal...
A New World for Ex-Public Attorney
By Xenia Kobylarz
OAKLAND - Alameda Superior Court Judge Alice Vilardi is the first to admit that nothing in her 30-year legal career had prepar...
Suspect's Lover Ordered Autopsy, Witness Says
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - An autopsy room supervisor testified Tuesday that Kristin M. Rossum's lover at the county medical examiner's offic...
Better Choice
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Forum Column - By Chris Ford - It is news to practically no one that Gov. Gray Davis holds little promise for Californians who...
Actress, Jurors Watch Store Video
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Winona Ryder spent part of her 31st birthday in a Beverly Hills courtroom yesterday watching a Saks Fifth Avenue...
Tax Treatment of Remediation Costs Depends on Many Factors
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Focus Column - Tax Law - By Boyd D. Hudson and Robert A. Yahiro - The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and ...
Advocates Race to Free Women
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - She has been in the California Institution for Women since 1988, when she was sentenced to life without parole f...
Actress, Jurors Watch Store Video
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Winona Ryder spent part of her 31st birthday in a Beverly Hills courtroom yesterday watching a Saks Fifth Avenue...
Judge Halts Federal Seismic Project That Disrupts Whales
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A grisly discovery last month by a group of vacationing scientists helped trigger a court-ordered halt Monday ...
The Other Side of the Bench
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Oscar Lee Morris has emerged a free man from San Quentin's death row. That leaves him at liberty to plague his...
Jurist Stops Project Using Air Guns
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A grisly discovery last month by a group of vacationing whale scientists helped trigger a court-ordered halt M...
Braun Quits Blake's Defense Team
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Harland Braun announced Monday he was quitting Robert Blake's criminal defense team because the actor h...
MacLaren Struggles to Survive
By Cheryl Romo
It is the dumping ground. A place of last resort for troubled children no one else wants. A place where a "code of silence" i...
Videotape Shows Suspect Sobbing, Shrieking
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Kristin M. Rossum sobbed hysterically and told detectives that just because she wanted out of her marriage didn't ...
Franchisor Can Make Renewal Contingent on New Conditions
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Focus Column - Franchise Law - By Mitchell S. Shapiro - Most franchise agreements provide the franchisee with a right of renew...