When hiring a moving company, some aggravation is to be expected. The movers may not show up on time or they could damage and ...
Constitutional Law
Symbols Can't Change Past, But They Help Us Remember
By Philip Carrizosa
Column - By Philip Carrizosa - What symbols are important to you? A wedding ring? The American flag? A crucifix? The importanc...
Judges and Judiciary
Insurer's Bad Behavior May Force It to Pay Attorney Fees
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Kirk Pasich - A prevailing party in litigation is not entitled to recover attorney fees from it...
Constitutional Law
Fraternities Must Stand Up to Schools' Squelching Free Speech
By Columnist
Column - Constiitutional Law - By Greg Lukianoff and Matthew Vasconcellos - While there is no shortage of free-speech battles ...
Jim Pooley skipped graduation ceremonies at Columbia School of Law and hopped on the first plane to California. It was about a...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County's prosecutors and public defenders, hoping to win voter approval for a Nov. 2 ballot measure tha...
Judges and Judiciary
Patricia Esgro Went From the Projects to The Bench, and Now She Works to Inspire Underprivileged Youth
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Patricia Esgro learned to be independent at a young age. She has held a variety o...
Litigation
DA Fires Prosecutor Who Pursued Three-Strikes Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A county prosecutor who gained the national spotlight last year when he led the fight to keep a man in prison...
SACRAMENTO - Advocates for homeowner association members are puzzling over a veto message the governor issued on a bill that w...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury cleared the makers of Botox of liability for a litany of health problems a Hollywood socialit...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nine months ago, San Francisco Traffic Commissioner Paul Slavit said he would decide whether red-light cameras...
LOS ANGELES - The Nov. 2 election may well mark the first time homeless people turn out in force to voice their political opin...
SAN FRANCISCO - A meth-smoking mail thief who rented a Glendale hotel room with a bogus credit card had no right to privacy, a...
Forum Column - By M. Reed Hopper - Resolution of one of the most controversial legal battles in the 30-year history of the End...
Discipline
First Episode of 'Boston Legal' Gives New Meaning to Professional Ethics
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Bret Fausett - As every lawyer knows, one of the most frequent essay questions on bar examinations across th...
Forum Column - By Roy Ulrich - Californians will be asked to vote again in November on our primary election system. The "blank...
Column - Employment Law - By Martin L. Pitha - You are the general counsel of a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, X Corp...
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Robert Hulse - Although companies race to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to build...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court plans to require law firms filing documents in asbestos cases to do so electronic...
Family
San Bernardino Dedicates State-of-the-Art Dependency Court
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Seven years ago, Chief Justice Ronald George called San Bernardino's juvenile dependency court facilities - t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's ruling Thursday opens the door for priest molestation victims to seek potentially high punitive dama...
SAN FRANCISCO - Monterey County Superior Court Judge Albert Maldonado says the time has come for the California Judges Associa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cutbacks that once had threatened to reduce Attorney General Bill Lockyer's staff of lawyers and support perso...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Won't Tolerate Rudeness, Attempts at Hoodwinking
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Jack W. Morgan was a successful civil litigator in 1992, specializing in real estate and escrow matters, when hi...
SAN DIEGO - Underage smokers can't use the state's Unfair Competition Law to sue tobacco companies for targeting minors in the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two conservative religious groups that have been the earliest and most vocal opponents of the state's same-sex...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Appeals Court Finds Garvey Didn't Foul Out in Infomercial-Host Role
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By D. John Hendrickson and Harrison J. Dossick - Advertisers have long appreciated the valu...
Appellate Practice
To Cite or Not to Cite: Ask Illinois About Unpublished Cases
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Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The battle over no-citation rules for unpublished judicial opinions has moved from the ...
Forum Column - By Keith Paul Bishop - In August 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission's new attorney conduct rules took...
SACRAMENTO - Election Day 2004 marks the end of a criminal justice era in the state Legislature that has been dominated by a t...