SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous federal jury on Wednesday rejected a claim for damages against former San Francisco police officer...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's not just fly-by-night bandits who make unauthorized copies of computer software. The Los Angeles County ...
Pepsi, apparently, goes down easier than Coke. At least that's the implication from the Coca-Cola Co.'s feisty reaction to a ...
LOS ANGELES - Paramount Pictures chief Brad Grey has asked a judge to stay a movie producer's suit seeking to add him as a def...
SAN FRANCISCO_Sometime in the middle of the night last Friday, the federal government asserted the formidable state secrets pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Not long after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, court business in Louisiana and Mississippi struggled...
Firm Watch
Pair of Lobbyists See Their New Firm Take Root Near the Capitol
By Jennifer Hammn
SACRAMENTO - Patterson Wheeler, a new lobbying firm, has sprouted near the state's Capitol with a single client: California Bu...
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - At the conclusion of most depositions the table is littered with documents produced by o...
Intellectual Property
Video Explaining Patent Office to Jury Is Flawed But Helpful
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - Heather N. Mewes and Darren E. Donnelly - Patentees enter every jury trial with one distinct advantage: an of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Telecommunications giant AT&T Tuesday asked a federal judge to close his courtroom during the first hearin...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren, whose high-profile cases included the same-sex marriage lawsu...
Administrative/Regulatory
New Probation Chief Envisions Model for Reform
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Robert B. Taylor liked to jokingly tell friends he was downsizing when he retired from the Los Angeles Police De...
Law Practice
Partners Take Leave, Trying to Draw Prosecutor's Eye From Milberg
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - As their embattled law firm works to stave off a federal indictment, David Bershad and Steven Schulman, two name...
LOS ANGELES-One of two Vioxx cases that appeared headed for consolidation into one liability trial in Los Angeles could be dis...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate Goes Easy on Moderate, to Annoyance of Conservatives
By Peter Blumberg
WASHINGTON - Conservative activists vented their frustration Tuesday when the Republican-led Senate rubberstamped the nominati...
LOS ANGELES - In a "highly disturbing" case, a state appellate panel has tentatively concluded that a Riverside prosecutor end...
Labor/Employment
Nation's First Guest Workers Sow Stories Into U.S. History
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - For most of his life Guadalupe Acevedo kept to himself the memories of the time spent wielding a short-handled h...
LOS ANGELES - The man she loved had metamorphosed into someone else, someone 10 pounds too thin, someone with bloodless skin a...
Focus Column - By Martin Fern - 'Boilerplate" has been used to describe standard clauses in contracts since the early 19th cen...
Government
It's Iraq All Over Again as Bush Seeks Legal Cause for Invading Iran
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Now that the mission - whatever it was - has not been accomplished in Iraq, Bush is setting ...
LOS ANGELES - Full-court press media coverage of the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping scandal has sometimes generated as much att...
LOS ANGELES - Miller time has ended at law firm Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro. On Monday, the...
SANTA ANA - A Los Angeles jury has found the defunct international law firm Coudert Brothers committed malpractice and must pa...
Constitutional Law
False Police Report Law Won't Get Nod From Supreme Court
By Peter Blumberg
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied review of two free speech-related cases from California. The first was a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A recently published state Court of Appeal decision rejecting a farming company's demand for compensation for ...
LOS ANGELES - Ten lawyers departed the medical malpractice defense powerhouse Bonne Bridges Mueller O'Keefe & Nichols on M...
Convicted child molesters had time on their side Monday. In two unrelated cases, Los Angeles appellate panels found that a ci...
SAN FRANCISCO - Foie gras, a tasty delicacy nevertheless disdained by animal rights activists, sits at center table in a contr...
WASHINGTON - San Jose-based eBay Inc. got a boost Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that wipes out the longstanding...
SANTA ROSA - Court staffers have a nickname for Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Knoel L. Owen: Superman. Owen undoubtedly ...