Budget Cuts In East Bay Have Fallout
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - Budget cuts proposed for the coming year could close the courthouse in Alameda, eliminate the district attorney's co...
Paternity, Other Bills Move Ahead
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The Assembly Judiciary Committee, faced with two bills that would make it easier for men to escape child support ...
Court Boots Child-Porn Evidence
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Tuesday threw out the majority of the evidence in the government's child-pornography possession ...
Judge Denies E*Trade Injunction
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Cupertino software company will have to be satisfied with a $1.29 million jury verdict for trade secret misapprop...
High Court Reduces Caseload, Expert Says
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A constitutional law expert said Tuesday that in the October 2002 term of the U.S. Supreme Court the nine justice...
New Judge For Church Cases
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Chief Justice Ronald M. George on Tuesday assigned Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marvin Lager to preside over...
Fatal End to Rendezvous Lands Lawyer in Court
By Matthew Heller
SANTA BARBARA - The blonde in Room 309 did not wake up after a night of drug-fueled partying at a Montecito hotel with her law...
Priest-Abuse Victim Passes Bar, Becomes New Lawyer
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES -The judge looked at the lawyer candidate and said, "You have a distinct background. You are in a unique position ...
Tenderloin Clinic Wins Suit Over Attorney Fees
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The Tenderloin Housing Clinic is not licensed to practice law, but a judge has refused to force it to refund f...
Council May Ban All Lap Dances
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Courtney Love's stint on the poles at Jumbo's Clown Room in Hollywood notwithstanding, Los Angeles has never bee...
Railroad Wins Ruling in Dunsmuir Disaster
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - California regulators had no authority to require a railroad to maintain track safety at the scene of one of t...
Judge Dumps Painting Case for Jurisdiction
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge decided Monday that the court has no jurisdiction over a legal dispute over ...
Conflicting Duties Can Emerge During Prosecution of a Patent
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Eileen Lehmann - Prosecuting a patent application claiming an invention may create a...
Under Interrogation
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Forum Column - By Katherine Darmer - Those who have followed the U.S. Supreme Court's recent confessions cases easily should h...
Judge Sets Trial Date In Controversial Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A judge on Monday set a July 1 trial date for a case in which a San Bernardino County sheriff's investigator drew ...
Budget Woes Force County to Close Courts
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - In a move to stave off the effects of the state budget crisis, Riverside court officials are closing three court l...
Court Reviews Nuclear-Waste Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday decided to enter a bitter dispute among several Southeastern states over a plan to st...
Disbarred Lawyer Faces Trial for Theft
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A disbarred San Diego lawyer must face trial on charges of grand theft, misappropriation of entrusted money and un...
Plaintiffs Without Borders
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - An 11-judge federal appeals court panel today tackles the question of whether multinational corporations can b...
Agent Battles Insurer Over Rights to Name
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A small South Los Angeles insurance agent is fighting one of California's 10 largest auto insurers over rights t...
PLF Sues City, Says Contract Law Violates Proposition 209
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A conservative law firm once again is taking aim at a San Francisco ordinance that helps minorities and women ...
Pooh's New Lawyers Suggest Children's Character Trial of Century
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The plaintiffs' new legal team in the high-profile Winnie the Pooh royalty case reportedly will inclu...
Chronicle Switches Libel Lawyer
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Hemorrhaging money as a result of falling advertising revenue and high staff costs, the San Francisco Chronicl...
Reporter's Notebook: Adachi Says Filing System Is a Virtual Fossil
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi wants to operate a paperless office one day and is starting by destroying old misd...
The Faces Behind the Firms
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Ralph Baxter wants to get personal with his firm's marketing campaign, so for the first time in recent memory,...
Presiding Judge's Re-Election Is First in 40 Years
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - For the first time in four decades, the presiding judge of the Orange County Superior Court was re-elected, givin...
Judge Dumps Nazi-Looted Painting Case
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge decided Monday that the court has no jurisdiction over a legal dispute over o...
Under Interrogation
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Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - In Chavez v. Martinez , the U.S. Supreme Court was presented with a golden opportunit...
E-Pitfalls
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Column - Legal Technology - By Linda G. Sharp and Michele C.S. Lange - The terms "electronic evidence," "e-discovery" and "com...
Build Now, Pay Later
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer A new program allows affordable housing developers in Fremont to build first and pay...