Judges and Judiciary
Supreme Court Studs Its 2004 Docket With Property Issues
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - For its 2004 term, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken an interesting group of property cas...
Labor/Employment
Departing Law Firm Employees Should Practice Civility, Restraint
By Columnist
Employment Column - By David Gurnick and Sue Bendavid-Arbiv - "A revolution in the practice of law has occurred requiring econ...
Letter to the Editor - I am writing concerning your article on Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and its managing partner, Ken Doran ...
Judges and Judiciary
Litigant Should Not Have to Hire Hitman to Get Judge's Recusal
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Dana Cephas - Federal judges are required to recuse themselves whenever their impartiality might reasonably ...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By James Baker and Heather Reinschmidt - Can a retirement plan change the rules for receiving ...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali approved more than $24 million in payments Thursday to the California Pu...
SAN FRANCISCO - The purpose of matrimony is to encourage procreation, same-sex marriage opponents wrote in a brief filed Thur...
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court appeared to struggle Thursday with balancing a city's desire to enact stricter mort...
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge has frozen $500 million in bank and investment assets belonging primarily to doctors who placed in...
LOS ANGELES - A retired Methodist minister cannot challenge a church order keeping him from preaching or worshipping at his f...
SAN DIEGO - Saying that it could lead to animals' deaths, a Superior Court judge has blocked the sale of a pet identification ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing the Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison bankruptcy approved a settlement late Thursday in wh...
Judges and Judiciary
Education Gave Judge Hope Beyond Dad's Tortilla Factory
By Claude Walbert
CHULA VISTA - The family of Yvonne E. Campos valued education, and, if she had any rebellious doubts about that, her father's ...
LOS ANGELES - A judge on Thursday rejected a defense request to remove Santa Barbara County District Attorney Tom Sneddon fro...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Phyllis J. Hamilton was a girl in tiny Jacksonville, Ill., her high school principal sought her out to m...
LOS ANGELES - Some may think that Herman Melville's classic "Moby Dick" chronicles a sea captain's self-destructive and obsess...
SACRAMENTO - Defense attorneys scrambled Wednesday to use a newly passed ballot measure to dismiss an untold number of unfair...
WASHINGTON - Though Republicans expanded their control of the U.S. Senate after significant victories in Tuesday's elections, ...
INDUSTRIAL GOLETA - Cortona Partnership has purchased a 29,548-square-foot research-and-development building at 6860 Cortona D...
Family, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Forum Column - By Franklin R. Garfield - It is widely believed that justice or even fairness is not available in the Los Angel...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for criminal and civil attorney Myron S. "Mike" Lapidus of Mission Viejo. Lapidus, who...
WALNUT CREEK - Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Nancy Davis Stark was known as a by-the-book prosecutor who fought hard in co...
Forum Column - By William L. Buus - Have you ever served on a jury? If so, you've felt the boredom that comes with passively l...
SAN DIEGO - After 15 years of litigation, the city of San Diego is back where it started: facing a federal-court injunction to...
SAN DIEGO - A low-key judicial race that hinged on the candidates' experience turned into a sweeping victory Tuesday for feder...
LOS ANGELES - A half-cent sales tax to fund more Los Angeles County police was defeated in Tuesday's election, sending leaders...
LOS ANGELES - Almost overlooked in the hoopla over the hotly contested presidential race and 16 state propositions, five new S...
Litigation
Absentee Ballots Could Decide City Attorney's Race Outcome
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The outcome of an intense campaign for city attorney remained unknown Wednesday, with vote totals for candidates M...
Judges and Judiciary
Riverside DA Wins Spot on Blythe Bench
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
BLYTHE - In a hard-fought race for Riverside County's open judicial seat, Deputy District Attorney Sarah Adams Christian handi...
Judges and Judiciary
Rigali Holds Narrow Lead in Judicial Race
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA BARBARA - Santa Maria attorney James F. Rigali on Wednesday held a narrow lead over Deputy District Attorney Edward H. B...