Litigation
Trade-Secret Plaintiffs' Challenge: Revealing Only Necessary Details
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Jason T. Anderson - Before commencing discovery, a California plaintiff claiming trade secret m...
Labor/Employment
Court Allows Chargebacks From Employee Commissions on Sales
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Employment Column - By Jacqueline Cookerly Aguilera and Roxanne Torabian-Bashardoust - In an unanimous opinion that recently w...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Ray Jurado - Recently, the California Supreme Court clarified that case law had set too high ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Management Changes for Santa Clara County Counsel
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SAN JOSE - Top managers in the Santa Clara County Counsel's office are coming and going this week. Bob Campbell, a former chi...
Judges and Judiciary
Peterson Murder Prosecutor Makes Judge in Stanislaus
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Stanislaus County prosecutor Joseph "Rick" Distaso, famed for winning first-degree murder convictions in the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court panel split Thursday over how many death threats it takes to qualify a Filipino ref...
Judges and Judiciary
Brown Successor Not Likely To Be Chosen Before Fall Session
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court will probably not have a permanent successor for Justice Janice Rogers Brown bef...
SAN FRANCISCO - A California Highway Patrol officer, fired for keeping a contraband machine pistol in his garage, must get hi...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge in Santa Monica Gives Attorneys Valuable Feedback
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - At times, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry B. Friedman's work isn't unlike that of the two public-school ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court labored Thursday to untangle a jurisprudential knot created when separate Santa C...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco man doing life in prison for the 1997 Marin County murder of high school football star Ronnie...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Bernard S. Kamine - Public Contract Code Sections 3400 and 10129 (and similar federal regula...
Forum Column - By Kurt A. Schlichter - Recently, a well-known international organization called for the investigation and pros...
LOS ANGELES - Joanne Caruso says she'll never forget the summer of 1984, working as a student associate at Howrey Simon Arnold...
LOS ANGELES - Microsoft Corp. might seem like an unlikely candidate to honor for good works, but when Public Counsel looked fo...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week named four attorneys, including a former judge, to various state and local ...
Column By Garry Abrams - Cable resurrection! Cable resurrection! Behold, when Los Angeles criminal defense attorney and onetim...
Entertainment & Sports
State Supreme Court to Review Dispute Between Raiders, NFL
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court Wednesday tackled the long-running dispute between the Oakland Raiders and the Na...
Judges and Judiciary
Gold Country Judge Helps Shoulder Burden of Growth
By Linda Rapattoni
PLACERVILLE - In Judge Daniel Proud's first year on the bench, he had two murder trials, including a double homicide. He also...
SAN FRANCISCO - A divided federal appellate court ruled Wednesday that a San Diego carpenters' union has a free speech right t...
INDUSTRIAL PLEASANTON - Goble Properties purchased a 33,486-square-foot industrial building in Hacienda Business Park at 4430...
LOS ANGELES - During his tenure as governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson says, he has invested in early-childhood education,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Once again, Congress has chastened the "liberal activist judges" of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The...
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Angel Raich and Diane Monson are residents of Northern California, suffering from severe...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Jack Brewer purchased a 40,216-square-foot industrial building at 8480 Miralani Drive from Sandra A. B...
LOS ANGELES - A woman paralyzed by multiple sclerosis said she nearly lost her home because of the actions of a unscrupulous L...
Criminal
In Penalty Phase, Restraints Do No More Damage Than Guilty Verdict
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Forum Column - By Sherri F. Colb - Last month, in Deck v. Missouri , 2005 U.S. LEXIS 4180, the Supreme Court held that the sta...
Administrative/Regulatory
Parole Reform Holds Key to Fixing California's Prison Problems
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - "The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons," Fyodor Dost...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted one case for review, agreeing to decide whether a New York couple can sue fe...
SAN FRANCISCO - It took a San Francisco jury three hours to decide Cisco Systems had not infringed on a rival's patent. The c...