Technology & Science
Rescuing Broadband in America Requires Following New Path
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Forum Column - By Reza Dibadj - U.S. broadband policy is broken. Increasingly falling behind a number of European and Asian co...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Nominees Should Apply Law, Not Impose Beliefs
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Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - Advocates across the political spectrum, from the Family Research Council to the Allian...
SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to raise public awareness of a growing international problem, U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan announced ...
LOS ANGELES - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the local chapter of the St. Thomas More Law Society have rej...
Litigation
Officials Agree to Cover Courthouse Inscription
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Bowing to pressure from a civil-rights group, officials have decided to cover up an inscription in Riverside's cou...
Government
Devil's in Details: Presidential Candidates Fear Their Own Free Speech
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Nobody's saying so, but the intent behind the controversial 32-page agreement on the three presidenti...
SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco plaintiffs lawyer Nikolai Tehin learned from his office manager in 2002 that his client tr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer featured as one of the poster boys in the Proposition 64 campaign to restrict consumer protection law...
LOS ANGELES - Two decades after the court fight began, a federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered the FBI to turn over the rem...
Judges and Judiciary
David Ballati Is Elected S.F. Assistant Presiding Judge
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The judges of the San Francisco Superior Court have elected David L. Ballati the court's next assistant presid...
SAN FRANCISCO - A disgruntled former client of Johnnie Cochran's who was ordered by a Los Angeles judge in 2002 to stop picket...
LOS ANGELES - As soon as juvenile law attorney L. Ernestine Fields began to realize her dream of providing every foster kid in...
Intellectual Property
To Receive Damages, Link Lost Profits to Infringement
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Donald M. Gindy - In a long-running squabble with Timex Corp., Montana-based film co...
Public Interest
Public-Interest Pledge May Keep Law Students on Right Path
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Forum Column - By Paul Von Blum - In a few days, the fall quarter at UCLA begins and, with it, a new season for the law-school...
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing the government's recent agreement to release another American-born "enemy combatant," the lawyer for Jo...
LOS ANGELES - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. remained hospitalized Tuesday at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was u...
SAN FRANCISCO - Barbara Hou is beginning her second year on the idyllic, leafy campus at the University of Michigan Law School...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ross Nadel, chief of the criminal division under U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan, stepped down abruptly Tuesday from ...
LOS ANGELES - It's been a few years now since legal experts tackled the questions of what the definition of the word "is" is. ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Malibu Will Appeal Ruling on Development Plan
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - The Malibu City Council decided late Monday to take its fight against the state Coastal Commission to the state ...
Law Practice
Not All Law Clerks Can Justify Spilling Confidential Data
By Philip Carrizosa
Column By Philip Carrizosa - The October issue of Vanity Fair has set off a fascinating quarrel among law clerks over how much...
SAN FRANCISCO - California can tax tobacco companies to fund the state's forceful anti-smoking advertising campaigns, a divide...
SAN FRANCISCO - Capping a federal effort to break up a violent Hispanic prison gang, eight members of the Nuestra Familia gang...
LOS ANGELES - When the Edmund D. Edelman Children's Courthouse opened in 1992, it was hailed as a haven for abused and neglect...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - If they happened elsewhere, we might call them violations of human rights. But these ...
Entertainment & Sports
'Grosso' Helps Hollywood Writers, Upholds Implied Contract
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Forum Column - By Yakub Hazzard and Jonathan E. Stern - Now that wasn't so hard after all. Thanks to the recent 9th U.S. Circu...
Focus Column - International Law - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson and Peter J. Engstrom - In China National Metal Products Import/...
SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Barbara County winegrowers wanted to create a new appellation and give it the historic name of their cor...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that gives victims of child sex abuse more time to file civil claims...
LOS ANGELES - A panel at the world's highest court for sport heard testimony Monday from U.S. gymnast Paul Hamm and his South ...