Davis Signs 2 Whistleblower Bills
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis had little choice but to sign into law new provisions offering workers greater protections agains...
Sheppard Firm Now Faces Trial
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Litigation against Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton on allegations its legal advice helped to perpetuate ...
Scholar Was 'Father of Administrative Law'
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Private services have been held for a former professor at the University of San Diego School of Law who is recogni...
CJP Yanks Judge Hyde from the Bench
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Concluding that Alameda County Superior Court Judge D. Ronald Hyde "cannot or will not conform his behavior to...
Santa Clara County Judge Danser Indicted for Conspiracy
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser has been indicted on a felony count of conspiracy and eight ...
Kozinski's Jab at Judge Doesn't Affect Opinion
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - During the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's televised recall hearing Tuesday, Judge Alex Kozinski drew laughs ...
U.S. Judicial Conference Backs Repeal of Sentencing Limitations
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Judicial Conference of the United States on Tuesday voted unanimously to support repeal of a controversial ne...
High Court Nibbles Away at Mountain of Death Appeals
By Peter Blumberg
Reporter's Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - California's capital appeals backlog has finally stopped growing. For the first time...
Magistrate Has Perfect Background for Her Post
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers say Suzanne H. Segal has the perfect background to be a magistrate judge. She spent 12 years in the civi...
As other people begin 'googling' for information, a Google attorney turns to the case law for insight.
By Contributing Writer
MOUNTAIN VIEW - As Bill Watterson noted in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, "verbing weirds language." It certainly weirds ...
Patent Forum-Shopping
By Contributing Writer
REDWOOD SHORES - For decades, patent and copyright cases have been litigated exclusively in federal court. For the last 20 ye...
Close Oct. 7 Vote Could Bring ACLU Back to Court
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The appeals over the recall election may be finished but a close recall election and numerous disputed punch-c...
Circuit Ends Recall Crisis With Simplicity
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The most fascinating aspect of the decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate California's...
Advise and Dissent
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - As the sole federal judge in the tiny town of Marshall, Texas, U.S. District Judge T. John Ward had to learn ...
The Transformation of Fair Use
By Contributing Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The defense of fair use plays an important role in copyright law; without it, any and all unauthorized copyin...
Madrid Protocol Presents Mixed Opportunity
By Contributing Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - For U.S. trademark owners wanting to protect their trademarks beyond the U.S. border, the newly adopted Madri...
New Inter Partes Life for Old Prior Art
By Contributing Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the past, when a patent owner charged a competitor with patent infringement, the alleged infringer comp...
ACLU Decision Not to Appeal Draws Praise
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The decision to end litigation challenging California's Oct. 7 recall election rather than to seek Supreme Court ...
Great Communicator, Jurist Seeks Win-Win
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - It's hard to imagine a more appropriate assignment for Commissioner Michael M. Duffey than Division 100 at the V...
Marital Discord
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Peter Kwan - Ira Shafiroff's article, "Marriage Mayhem: Advocates of Same-Sex Unions Rely on Weak, Faulty Ar...
Conflicting Data Laws: Airlines Are Damned if They Do, Don't
By Columnist
Focus Column - International Law - By Lothar Determann - Lawmakers on federal and state levels often pursue different objectiv...
Circuit Indicates It Favors Oct. 7 Recall
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - California voters likely will be going to the polls Oct. 7 instead of March 2004 to decide whether to recall ...
City Settles Fishy Case With Fines
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The city attorney agreed Monday to settle a code enforcement lawsuit against former port commissioner Pius Lee...
Santa Barbara Judge Resumes Work
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA BARBARA - Judge Diana R. Hall has resumed her seat on the Santa Barbara County Superior Court bench, court officials sai...
Panel Reverses Battered Woman's Conviction
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate panel Monday reversed an Oceanside battered woman's second-degree murder conviction, saying ...
Jurist Sets Trial Date for Celebrity Sleuth
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge Monday set an Oct. 8 trial for private investigator Anthony Pellicano after lawyers ...
Davis Names New Judge For Tulare
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Visalia litigator Lloyd L. Hicks was appointed Monday to the Tulare County bench by Gov. Gray Davis. Hicks, 59...
CJP Broke Its Own Rules, Says Ousted Judge's Attorney
By Donna Domino
Reporter's Notebook - By Donna Domino - Former Superior Court Judge Bruce Van Voorhis, the hated Judge Dredd of Contra Costa C...
Bustamante's Funding of Anti-54 Ads Fails Review
By Philip Carrizosa
SACRAMENTO - A Superior Court judge ruled Monday that Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante was wrong to use millions of dollars from his 2...
9th Circuit Judicial Smack Down Feeds Media's California Frenzy
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Judicial schism! Judicial schism! Read all about it! When it comes to making news, the East Coast sho...