Carrying On
By Columnist
Terror and the Law - Forum Column - By Jan Ting - Since Sept. 11, the United States has been engaged in a life and death strug...
Carrying On
Terror and the Law - Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Throughout American history, whenever there has been a serious cris...
Detentions Trouble Experts of All Persuasions
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - While the hours that followed the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., resonated with a simple unde...
Beware: Redirect Can Get You in Deep
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner Everybody does redirect examination, but does that mean it is smart? I believe that all co...
Case on Runoff Elections Looks Moot But Look Again
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Why the California Supreme Court devotes its precious time to reviewing some cases and not others is often a m...
Person of Interest
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien - Oscar Wilde famously said that the only thing worse than being talked about was not being tal...
West Coast Courts Heed Call To Preserve Civil Liberties
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - On the day of the terrorist attacks, it was business as usual at the West Coast's highest federal court. The 9...
Westerfield Jury Continues Deliberations
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - After a day of deliberating without fresh requests for testimony or exhibits, jurors went home Monday without reac...
Church Club At School Has Equal Rights, Circuit Rules
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Student-led religious clubs must be given equal access to the same school resources as non-sectarian student c...
Lawmakers Water Down Anti-Terrorism Bills
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - After Sept. 11, much of the talk in the Capitol was about bills to combat terrorism, with many observers predicti...
Court Orders Jesus Christ Out of Prayers
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Irv Rubin, head of the Jewish Defense League, may be on the wrong side of the law lately, as he sits in federal ...
PG&E Creditors Favor Utility's Plan
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy case have allowed rival plans for the utility's re...
In Remembrance
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - In just one hour and 42 minutes, manifest U.S. symbols of economic might known all over...
Fencing Off the Public Domain
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Vawter "Buck" Parker wasn't scared when he got the ominously worded letter last fall from a member of Congress...
Civil Rights Suit Protests INS Jailing
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prison guards forced an Egyptian immigrant, Hady Hassan Omar, to undergo humiliating body searches and...
Career Prosecutor Received His Dying Wish
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Services for Irwin N. Bloom of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office will take place today in Inglew...
Firm Sues Ex-NBA Star Over Unpaid Legal Bills
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Lavely & Singer has sued former basketball star and consummate bad boy Dennis Rodman for $193,818.92 in unpa...
Jurors Don't Let Their Fear Prevent Fairness
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - On Sept. 14, 2001, Dennis Cunningham of San Francisco, the attorney for the Earth First environmental group, s...
MTV Icons Occupy Changed U.S. in Which Torture Is Debated
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - A day after last year's Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks comment...
New-Spouse Income Cannot Be Considered in Awarding Support
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In the recent case of Romero v. Romero, 2002 D...
MTV Icons Occupy Changed U.S in Which Torture is Debated
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - A day after last year's Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks comment...
Eminent Domain Rule Altered
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In 1999, when a jury ordered the Emeryville Redevelopment Agency to pay more than twice what it offered to own...
Firms Pull Together After Terrorist Attacks
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - As Drinker Biddle & Reath New York managing partner Matther Farley walks past ground zero each morning, his ...
School Must Allow Religious Club
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Student-led religious clubs must be given equal access to the same school resources as nonsectarian student cl...
PG&E Creditors Favor Utility's Plan
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy case have allowed rival plans for the utility's reo...
Person of Interest
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien - Oscar Wilde famously said that the only thing worse than being talked about was not being tal...
James Frolik, Attorney, 81, Tennis Pro
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - James Frolik, a San Francisco attorney for more than 50 years, has died after a six-month struggle with leuke...
Paving a New Path for Commerce
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer It may look like just a mini-version of the Alameda Corridor, but a $450 million grade-s...
Survey Reveals Little Demand for U.S. Office Space
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT The uncertain business environment, exacerbated by recent disclosures of accounting irregularities among sev...
Snell & Wilmer Sets Up Medical Devices Practice
By John Ryan
Phoenix-based Snell & Wilmer has launched a medical devices and pharmaceuticals practice group, the firm announced last mo...