Circuit Tells DEA It Can't Prohibit Food With Hemp
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is high on hemp. By a 2-1 vote Monday, a three-judge panel struck down a...
Brothers Abused by Priest Settle for $4 Million
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Two brothers who were molested decades ago by a San Bernardino priest have agreed to settle their civil suit aga...
Supreme Court Gives Strom Thurmond a Well-Timed Send-Off
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The U.S. Supreme Court killed Strom Thurmond!? That was my first reaction Friday morning as I scanned...
U.S., California Jury-Selection Language Ruled Equivalent
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court tried Monday to put an end to the long-standing debate over whether the state's sta...
Court Rejects Trespassing Theory of E-Mail
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - In a legal battle that pitted freedom of speech against a company's private property rights, a divided California S...
White-Collar Litigation Star Will Lead Practice at Orrick
By Erik Cummins
Perhaps the biggest event in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's quest to build its litigation department came in 1998, when ...
Judge Sides With District, Forces Church to Move
By Stefanie Knapp
A parcel of Koreatown land will become home to 1,500 middle-school students instead of 3,500 parishioners, a judge ruled Tuesd...
Suffering Big Losses, SCI Holdings Wants SoftConnex Back
By Stefanie Knapp
A company is accused of providing misleading financial information that resulted in big losses for another, SCI Holdings Inc. ...
Hemophiliacs Sue U.S. Blood Companies
By Joan Osterwalder
Four U.S. companies exposed thousands of hemophiliacs to HIV and hepatitis C in the 1980s by selling them blood-clotting medic...
Manson Family Member Seeks Parole, Files Civil Rights Suit
By Eron Yehuda
Irvine attorney Eric P. Lampel doesn't expect sympathy for his client Susan D. Atkins, a prisoner notorious for her participat...
Townsend Opens San Diego Office
By Liz Valsamis
San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew is on track for the scheduled opening of its San Diego office tomorrow. On June...
Malaprop master Yogi Berra outscores Sen. Joseph McCarthy, tying up the Commie-busting legislator with streams of conscience.
By Contributing Writer
Daily Journal EXTRA has discovered still more tape recordings of secret interrogations conducted 50 years ago by Sen. Joseph M...
Stay Public or Go Private?
By Columnist
BY SCOTT FARB Part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Section 404, ups the ante on financial reporting internal controls that...
Consumer Attorneys Enjoy Slow Roast
By Eron Yehuda
A roast is supposed to make mincemeat out of the person honored. But that's not exactly a tall order when the subject of the g...
Jury Clears Convalescent Hospital of Elder Abuse
By Joan Osterwalder
Despite emotionally charged testimony about alleged lack of care at a Los Angeles nursing home, a jury found against an 89-yea...
Silicon Valley Vultures Circle But Find Little Palatable Prey
By Contributing Writer
BY BRAD BERTON Special to CREJ Silicon Valley's current cyclical economic trough predictably is garnering attention from real...
Corinthian Colleges Buys Career Choices
By Toni Vranjes
Corinthian Colleges Inc., a Santa Ana-based company that operates a chain of vocational schools, will buy Career Choices Inc. ...
Right to Repair
By Contributing Writer
Column - Construction Defects - By Kevin P. Cody - By now, most home builders and contractors are aware that an important new ...
Private Financing for Public School
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer California school districts are discovering new ways of financing and building their...
Tech Companies Merge for $225 Million in Cash, Stock
By Toni Vranjes
In yet another tech merger announced this month, software company Mercury Interactive Corp. has agreed to buy privately held K...
Filling in Long Beach
By Contributing Writer
BY MARGOT CARMICHAEL LESTER Special to the CREJ As developers try to tap into the trend of people seeking to reconnect to thei...
On Their Court
By Katrina Dewey
Call them competitors, trailblazers, maybe even bitches if you're hung up on an image of women that's all sugar and spice. Wh...
Bingham McCutchen Nabs L.A.'s Riordan & McKinzie
By John Ryan
Last year's merger with San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen wasn't quite enough for Jay Zimmerman, the aggre...
Perfect Fit
By Robin Davidson
When the American Jewish Committee held its 24th Annual Learned Hand Award Dinner a month ago, The Scene expected to encounter...
Family, Real Estate Shop Draw Partner to Southland
By Liz Valsamis
Real estate lawyer Craig Wood recently packed up and made the move to Southern California in order to be closer to his family....
Identity-Theft Law May Steal Time, Energy From Companies
By Joan Osterwalder
A new state law aimed at combating identity theft may be more of a nuisance than a help to businesses and consumers and end up...
Insurance Trial Lawyer Joins Stroock
By Liz Valsamis
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has hired insurance lawyer James E. Fitzgerald as partner. Fitzgerald, who joined the firm i...
EBay Sees Future in China, Ups Stake in Auction Site
By Toni Vranjes
EBay Inc. is boosting its investment in an online auction company serving the Chinese market. San Jose-based eBay has agreed t...
San Diego Considers Good-Cause Eviction Law
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer A noticeable change may be afoot for San Diego apartment owners and managers wanting to ...
Free Rent!
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Who says there's no such thing as free rent? The Associated Press reports that Capt. Alw...