SAN FRANCISCO - In opening statements in the retrial of the biggest police corruption case in Oakland's history, a defense at...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County's prosecutors and public defenders were assessing what to do next Wednesday after voters soundl...
LOS ANGELES - A judge Wednesday ordered George Russell Weller to stand trial on vehicular manslaughter charges for running dow...
SACRAMENTO - A defense attorney alleging a pattern of racially biased jury selection by a now-retired Alameda County death pe...
SANTA ANA - A 6-foot, 2-inch cardboard cutout of a lawyer beat out Republican Otto Bade for the 69th District Assembly seat Tu...
SACRAMENTO - Tuesday's election was just the beginning of what promises to be a protracted period of fallout over two importan...
REDWOOD CITY - Should Scott Peterson be convicted of the murder of his wife and unborn child, his appellate attorneys will ce...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a room in the stately old Federal Reserve Bank packed with computers, telephones and harried volunteers, f...
Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - Some of them want to use you. Some of them want to abuse you. -Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams...
Appellate Practice
Make Certification Motions Elaborate, Precise, Detailed
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Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James C. Martin and Jayne E. Fleming - Lawyers need no refresher on the "one-final-judgment"...
Government
Schwarzenegger Fails to Stand Up To Powerful Prison Guards Union
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Forum Column - By Vincent Schiraldi and Javier Stauring - In January, in his State of the State address, Gov. Arnold Schwarzen...
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - There is a short news item in last Thursday's New York Times that the judge in the feder...
LOS ANGELES - Provisional ballots were shaping up Tuesday to be the possible boogeyman of the 2004 presidential election. Cast...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan has hired five new prosecutors, including a new chief of the Organized Crime Stri...
SAN FRANCISCO - The lead prosecutor in Oakland's police corruption retrial spent the second day of opening statements Tuesday...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared unreceptive to arguments that a Florida death-row inmate's Sixth Amendment ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental groups filed two lawsuits early this week in an attempt to insulate themselves against the effec...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge Tuesday refused to temporarily halt Los Angeles County's plans to remove the tiny golden...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-area entertainment lawyer Scott Tenley arrived at Longwood Manor, a convalescent home in Mid-City Lo...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Applies His High-School Teaching Skills on Bench
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
FONTANA - Sitting as a San Bernardino Superior Court commissioner often reminds Michael A. Knish of his former career as a hi...
A federal judge in Toledo ruled Tuesday that Ohio voters who did not receive absentee ballots on time can cast provisional bal...
Government
Legal Community Turns Out in Record Numbers to Prevent Debacle of 2000
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A record number of lawyers and law-students in Southern California volunteered their time and expertise on Elect...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief Magistrate Judge Feels Comfortable Setting the Pace
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia V. Trumbull comes from that generation of women lawyers who were first. Trumbull, 5...
Product Liability
Wyeth Settles Fen-Phen Case After Jurors Award $115,000
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys involved in the state's massive litigation surrounding "fen-phen" quickly reached a $70,000 settlement...
LAS VEGAS - Hundreds of California lawyers joined a temporary migration of volunteer attorneys to election swing states Tuesda...
LOS ANGELES - When Sheriff Lee Baca emptied the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, there was none of the outcry tha...
Intellectual Property
Google Blithely Ignores Legal Rights of Trademark Holders
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Forum Column - By Antonio A. Sarabia II - There has been a fair amount of publicity, primarily by Google itself, about Google ...
RIVERSIDE - Services have taken place for Justin Michael McCarthy, a longtime Riverside civil attorney known for zealously li...
Letters to the Editor - I am responding to Pierce O'Donnell's article ("Breaking News: God Is a Republican, or So Says America...
Focus Column - Legal Ethics - By Alec H. Boyd - On Oct. 13, the state Supreme Court declined to review or depublish Janik v. R...