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Judges and Judiciary


Web Exclusive - By Amy Yarbrough - The chair of a bipartisan committee that recommends President Bush's judge picks in Norther...


Law Practice


SEC Prods Defense in Subprime Cases

Apr. 18, 2008
By Lawrence Hurleyn

A senior Securities and Exchange Commission attorney urged defense lawyers Thursday to be proactive if investigators come call...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Apr. 18, 2008
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Full Disclosure

Apr. 18, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Focus Column - By Gil Cabrera - San Diego's new disclosure requirements revolve around two key areas: who is a lobbyist and wh...


Litigation


“This is the biggest mess I’ve seen the in city right now in which anyone has asked us to intervene in,” said Avis Ridley-Thom...


Law Practice


A powerful state union has forced the Judicial Council to slam the brakes on a legislative deal to beef up court security. ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Time on Your Side

Apr. 18, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Focus Column - By Jay Folberg - Introducing deadlines into a negotiation is a way to create a perception of a vanishing oppor...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By Rick Seabolt - If the public judicial system is to flourish in the face of stiff ADR competition, the system...


Corporate


Judge Approves Settlement of Suit Against Ford

Apr. 18, 2008
By Cortney Fieldingn

A Sacramento judge has approved a contested settlement agreement compensating 800,000 Ford Explorer owners whose vehicles lost...


Criminal


During nearly three hours of withering cross-examination Wednesday, a federal prosecutor tried to portray a former police offi...


Environmental


U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger ruled Wednesday that government officials who oversee the massive Sacramento-San Joaqu...


U.S. Supreme Court


Supreme Court OKs Use of Lethal Injection

Apr. 18, 2008
By Alexia Garamfalvin

A fractured U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a constitutional challenge to the lethal injection procedures used by mos...


Judicial Profile


Happy Face

Apr. 18, 2008
By Susan Mcraen

San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Brian McCarville keeps notes around his office reminding him to smile - and his sunny deme...


Juvenile


Scott Testifies at Child Porn Hearing

Apr. 18, 2008
By Lawrence Hurleyn

The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California took his expertise on child exploitation crimes to the U.S. Senate We...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


What's the Big IDEA?

Apr. 18, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - Two Supreme Court cases offer guidance for parents considering litigation against school d...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Apr. 17, 2008
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...


After prosecutors testified they did not rely on immunized statements to discredit one of Anthony Pellicano's co-defendants, a...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Focused on Long Civil Cases

Apr. 17, 2008
By Susan Mcraen

Leonard Goldstein, 1931-2008, a former presiding judge of the Orange County Superior Court who specialized in handling long, c...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Let the Bad Times Roll

Apr. 17, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Forum Column - By Ron Oliner - When times get rough for the economy, they get great for bankruptcy lawyers. ...


Law Practice


Eric A. Klein, the former co-chair of Katten Muchin Rosenman's West Coast corporate practice, has taken his substantial book o...


Firm Watch


Web Exclusive - A retired Modoc County judge entered a no contest plea late Tuesday to drunken driving charges. The future of...


Appellate Practice


A state appellate panel in San Diego Tuesday overruled Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and ordered the release from prison of a man...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Advocates Push To Reinstate HMO Patients

Apr. 17, 2008
By Evan George

Years after Blue Cross policyholders complained about being illegally dropped from coverage after they fell ill, they still ar...


Civil Rights


Reducing the Risk for Elder Abuse in Finance

Apr. 17, 2008
By Rebecca Beyer

Even with hearing aids and glasses, senior citizens can't hear or see very well. They are grandparents and great-grandparents,...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By G. Christopher Ritter and Andrew M. Spingler - Trial lawyers should realize that compelling, effective cour...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Apr. 16, 2008
By Maya Meinert

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Hidden in Plain Sight

Apr. 16, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - 'Hebrew Academy' and two other recent cases make up an unusual cluster of California appel...


Civil Rights


The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider an appeal by Tustin-based Ricoh Electronics in a case where two white Cal...


Judicial Profile


Docket Worker

Apr. 16, 2008
By Jim Adamekn

Judge Annemarie G. Pace moves cases quickly through her Victorville courthouse. The late and unprepared don't catch many bre...


Government


The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been proactive in trying to cut emissions from diesel-fueled trucks. But they are...