Judges and Judiciary
Brown Uses Nature Metaphors In Dissent to Drug Case Ruling
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown used colorful law of the jungle metaphors in dissenting Thursday to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Securities litigators were waiting to see Thursday whether President Bush's nomination of California Congress...
Administrative/Regulatory
Seattle Protest Case Sent Back to Trial Court
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury will decide whether the city of Seattle violated the Constitution when it banned protesters from an ar...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed a notice of appeal of a San Francisco's judge's ruling that the state's ...
LOS ANGELES - Jurors may be identified only by numbers, extra U.S. marshals will monitor proceedings and a metal detector may ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
'Taking' Can't Occur Merely By Enactment of Legislation
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Stuart Miller - The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment provides, "nor shall private proper...
Corporate
With 'Lingle,' Supreme Court Finally Lets 'Lochner' Rest in Peace
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Daniel L. Siegel - Takings law, once described by Justice Anthony Kennedy as "among the most litigated and p...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Friday for Eugene B. Dickinson, a San Gabriel Valley criminal and personal-injury attor...
LOS ANGELES - Graveside services are scheduled for 11 a.m. today for civil attorney Steve Mazin, who was gunned down Monday at...
LOS ANGELES - In a case of apparent first impression, a Los Angeles federal judge has ruled that state school districts must ...
SAN DIEGO - Timothy R. Walsh, who gained the spotlight for his successful prosecution in a widely publicized drug and serial-r...
INDIO - Ten school districts with mostly Spanish-speaking students sued the state Wednesday, claiming they are taking a beatin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate and securities attorney Jonathan Lemberg has joined Farella Braun & Martel's business transacti...
SAN FRANCISCO - The college application process is an overwhelming task for just about any kid. But for students at San Franc...
Administrative/Regulatory
Fundraiser's Acquittal Is Best of All Possible Outcomes
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Certain major national politicians almost surely slept peacefully and dreamlessly over the Memorial...
SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs attorney Rick Simons often comes to court looking worse off than his clients. He's handled auto ac...
INDUSTRIAL FULLERTON - Thomas and Mary Stangl have purchased two industrial condominiums totaling 4,844 square feet at 578 and...
SAN DIEGO - When lawyer James W. Huston steps into a courtroom, he knows he's in for an adrenaline rush. It's not unlike, Hust...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pat Burdick began representing Volkswagen, his first German client, more than 30 years ago in product liabilit...
SAN FRANCISCO - Corrections officials signaled Tuesday they will not put up a big fight to stop a federal judge from taking a...
INDUSTRIAL CITY OF INDUSTRY - Four Seasons General Merchandise signed a $20 million lease for a 613,375-square-foot industrial...
SAN FRANCISCO - John D. O'Connor, a veteran trial lawyer and partner with San Francisco's Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, F...
Judges and Judiciary
High Court's Takings Decision Marks Restoration of Logic
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - Just three years ago, things looked bleak and uncertain for those who defend health, sa...
Judges and Judiciary
Though No Blockbuster, 'Lingle' Disentangles Takings, Due Process
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - When it issued its recent decision in Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A. Inc ., the U.S. Supreme C...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Peter Lengsfelder - "Trials are too important to be left to juries," jury consultant Rankin Fit...
Criminal
You Can Expect Privacy in Bed, Even if It's Near the Front Door
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A man's bed does not a threshold make, even if its occupant can open the front door while lying down in it, t...
LOS ANGELES - Antelope Valley family law attorney David W. Bianchi has been elected the newest Los Angeles Superior Court Com...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide the constitutionality of Kansas' death-penalty law. The justi...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur M. Greenwald retired on Tuesday, finishing a 17-year stint on the bankruptcy court...
LOS ANGELES - Mortgage provider Countrywide Home Loans has reached a $30 million class settlement with 400 California-based c...