Patent Office Can Deny Application Based on Laches
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Jeffrey Brill - In Bogese, the Federal Circuit upheld the authority of an adm...
La Jolla Biotechnology Firm Files for Chapter 11
By Toni Vranjes
Cutting-edge technology doesn't mean a thing if you don't have the cold, hard cash to support it. So La Jolla biotechnology co...
Infield Fly Rule Pales Next to Ball Dialectics
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - After hearing a dozen days of evidence, two days of argument and expert opinions from four law professors, th...
After Tribulations, the Trial
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - There has never been anything like it in a bankruptcy court. Trial opens today in the largest utility bankrupt...
Defendant Can Utilize Motion for an Undertaking to Enforce Award of Costs
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Brian T. Hafter - Given the difficulty often experienced in enforcing cost awards against out-o...
Fiery Marshall Moves on to Third Round
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - The waiting is always the hardest part. On Wednesday, members of John Marshall High School's mock-trial teams an...
African-American Was First on State Bar Board
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services for Edwin J. Wilson, the first black lawyer to practice in Long Beach and the first African-Am...
Kaiser Will Pay $1 Million Fine for Deaths of Patients
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Agreeing to pay the largest fine ever levied by state regulators against a full-service health plan, Kaiser Foun...
John Cruikshank, 75, East Bay Jurist, Mentor
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Services for John F. Cruikshank Jr., a judge and lawyer who was beloved to both bench and bar throughout the E...
Court Administrator Quits to Be With Kids
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Jose Guillen, chief executive officer of Riverside County Superior Court for the past 19 months, is quitting his j...
Salt Flats May Turn Out Costly
By Dennis Pfaff
PALO ALTO - California taxpayers won't entirely escape liability for cleaning up any toxic wastes discovered within thousands...
Lawyer Becomes Envoy to Tijuana
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Irvine attorney Ruben A. Smith, who helped engineer approval for a Mexican-themed supermarket in Anaheim, has been...
Next Step for Death Cases Contesting IQs
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In one of the first California appeals to invoke the U.S. Supreme Court's new ban on executing mentally retard...
The O'Reilly Factor
By Jeffrey Anderson
Charles O'Reilly loves good judges and beautiful women, and not necessarily in that order. He also loves a good fight. Thi...
Lockout Limits
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The issue of "unpublished" judicial opinions will not go away. A federal rules advisory...
Lawyers for Rubin Weigh Lawsuit for Neglect
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Jewish Defense League President Irv Rubin said Thursday they are considering a lawsuit against the g...
Panel Puts Visitation in Hands of Judges
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Juvenile court judges must decide visitation orders for biological parents, instead of delegating their authorit...
Dodging Obstacles to Get Past the Job Gatekeeper
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Gail N. Kaneshiro - With the July 2002 bar results soon to be released, many prospective bar passers wi...
New Statutes Show Legislature Has Embraced 'Smart Growth'
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use - A survey of this year's land use bills suggests that the Legislature has jumped on the smart-growth ...
Remembering Mildred Lillie
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Fred Woods - It is indeed a singular privilege to be asked to give a written tribute to Presiding Justice Mi...
Panel Approves Bush Nominees
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee - still under Democratic control during a rare, lame-duck session of Congress - ap...
Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman has threatened legal action against a Georgia journalist...
Westerfield's Lawyers Seek Sentencing Delay
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for David A. Westerfield, the convicted murderer of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, are seeking postponement ...
Family, Friends Mourn Two Lawyers' Deaths
By Stefanie Knapp
PASADENA - Services will take place Nov. 30 for Pasadena attorney David C. Haber, one of two lawyers killed Saturday in an aut...
Troubles Reported All Round
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Embattled Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison plans more layoffs and partner sacrifices to help it survive into 20...
Big Trade Secrets Case Settles
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Concluding an epic battle over stolen technology, Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys Inc. have settled their long...
Remembering Mildred Lillie
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Johnson Jr. - Justice Mildred L. Lillie was the very best colleague that any appellate judge could hope...
Panel Approves Bush Nominees
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee - still under Democratic control during a rare, lame-duck session of Congress - ap...
Remembering Mildred Lillie
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - An examination of the life of Justice Mildred L. Lillie illuminates her determination, de...