Fed Sets Federal Fund Rates at 2.25 Percent
By Emily Burg
By Emily Burg CREJ Managing Editor Despite mixed signs of economic growth, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for ...
Senator Questions New Rules OKing More 'Judicial Junkets'
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Recent changes to judicial ethics guidelines could make it easier for federal judges to accept expense-paid trip...
Supreme Court Gives Cautious Endorsement to Catalyst Theory
By Columnist
Forum Column - By David I. Levine - A bare majority of the state Supreme Court has given cautious endorsement to the catalyst ...
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Jennifer R. Bush - For the past five years, and arguably longer, the U.S. Court of Appe...
City Attorney Enters Mayoral Bog
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - In a move described as "aggressive," San Diego's new city attorney will weigh in this week on the controversy swi...
Newport Beach Picks Female City Attorney
By Blair Clarkson
The city of Newport Beach has made its first city-attorney appointment in 20 years, and for the first time, it's a woman. Acti...
Townsend Sues N.Y. Insurer for Fees, Costs
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Townsend and Townsend and Crew has filed a lawsuit against a New York insurance company seeking $273,305 in w...
Death Row Inmate Gets Final Chance
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Death row inmate Donald Beardslee had a roller coaster Thursday. Within the space of a few hours last week, a...
Panel Upholds No-Fee Clause in Agreement
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - A homeowner who refuses to mediate a dispute and later wins in court cannot receive attorney fees, a state appella...
Courts Shouldn't Second-Guess Legislative Property Regulation
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Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - The U.S. Supreme Court soon will decide how far government can go in regulating privat...
Bet Tzedek Names New Director of Litigation
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Michelle Williams Court has taken over as director of litigation at Bet Tzedek, one of the nation's premier pro...
It's All Academic
By Lorelei Laird
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - When the subject of California's geographic centers for cutting-edge technology comes up, Orange...
Legal Wrangling Over Competency Stalls Case
By John Ryan
By John Ryan Daily Journal Staff LOS ANGELES - Roy Green could face the death penalty for allegedly stabbing to death a prison...
Tech-Savvy Judge Finds Her Place
By Brent Kendall
NEW YORK - Like many others in this city, Chief Judge Jane A. Restani of the U.S. Court of International Trade likes to stay ...
'Credible Threat'
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - John Burris was motoring east across the Bay Bridge in his canary-yellow Fiat convertible on St. Patrick's Day...
Judge Orders Justification of Pollution Settlement Plan
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A controversial five-refinery pollution deal between Chevron and the federal government won't be immediately ...
Top Aide to Seek DA Spot If Her Boss Doesn't Run
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Karyn Sinunu, the trusted assistant to Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy, has decided to run for ...
Clifford Chance Settles Brobeck Claim
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Six months of wrangling over the fate of a lawsuit against Clifford Chance ended abruptly Friday, when the Lo...
Daily Deals -- Transactions for Dec. 17
By Joseph Pimentel
INDUSTRIAL LOS ANGELES - Tokyu World Transportation Inc. signed a five-year, $1.5 million lease for 45,360 square feet of ind...
The New Guard
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature's judiciary committees will have fresh leadership during the session that opens in January...
Misclassification Suits Can Have Devastating Effect on Firm's Future
By Columnist
Column - Employment Law - By Lin M. Meyer - Since enactment of Bounty Hunter legislation permitting plaintiffs' lawyers to rec...
California Corporations Can Expand Cyberspace Presence
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Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Steve Mullins - California corporations, limited-liability companies and partnerships soon wi...
Upholding Medi-Pot Measure Would Undercut Civil Rights Laws
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - What do marijuana, bald eagle feathers, domestic violence, guns near schools and homegr...
Legislature Must Reconsider Policy Of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' in Military
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Forum Column - By Nathaniel Frank - Two lawsuits were filed last week against the U.S. military. In one, eight soldiers are ch...
Gonzales Abandons Principles That Become Inconvenient
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Forum Column - By Kristian Williams - When he nominated Alberto Gonzales to replace John Ashcroft as attorney general, Preside...
Probate Bench Officer Loved World Travel
By Allison Schifani
LOS ANGELES - Services took place Thursday for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Ann E. Stodden. Stodden, who s...
L.A. Judge Looks North for Vacant Bench in Bay Area
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronni MacLaren, now sitting on assignment in San Francisco, has applied for ...
Court Watchers Rely on Cryptic Clues About Rehnquist
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist loves a good mystery - he even wrote one - and so maybe he's just teasing us. ...
Even-Tempered Judge Adopts a Deliberate Pace
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - When Arthur Bocanegra was running for Santa Clara County Superior Court judge two years ago, he touted his agreeab...
Panel Allows Prosecutor's Racial Bias in Jury Selection
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - It's OK that a prosecutor kicked three American Indians off a Humboldt County jury panel in a murder-for-hire...