Column - Adviser - By William L. Buus - You have a judgment against a corporation and, afterward, you have developed a suspici...
San Jose attorney Alan L. Martini tried to disqualify an arbitrator hearing a contract dispute his client had with a consultan...
More than a dozen Internet search engine companies, including Google and Yahoo!, are the subject of a proposed class action cl...
LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood stuntwoman, who accused Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping her on two movie sets in the early 199...
LOS ANGELES - An 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who claims that the Austrian government has six paintings that the Nazis stole...
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles teacher plans to go to the state Supreme Court to try to restore a $425,000 jury verdict aw...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Trust us, we’ve heard the arguments that bigger is not better. We’ve listened to the patient rem...
SACRAMENTO - Activists on both sides of a ballot initiative that would reform the state's unfair competition laws hope Gov. Ar...
Entertainment & Sports
Attorneys Decry Accidental Disclosure of Data on Priests
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - A retired judge inadvertently made public a document naming 30 priests as past and present targets of a grand ju...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - What is it about recall elections that makes them such a popular tool for unhappy litigants? Last...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Budget Crisis Hits Home With First Layoffs
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In what may be only the beginning, the first layoffs for the 2005 fiscal year hit northern California federal ...
Partner Horace H. Ng has left Townsend and Townsend and Crew in Palo Alto to move crosstown to McDermott Will & Emery. Ng,...
FREMONT - A man accused of petty theft stood before Alameda County Superior Court Commissioner L. Thomas Surh and wanted to di...
LOS ANGELES - Three and a half years after the crash that closed the Angels Flight Railway, the last outstanding claim is sche...
Appellate Practice
Church Attorneys Attack Key Expert on Sex-Abuse Scandal
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - In a last-ditch effort to shield confidential church files from prosecutors, attorneys for Cardinal Roger Mahony...
SAN JOSE - The defense attorney for a man accused of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl is trying to win an acquittal for...
Entertainment & Sports
High Stakes Require Regulation of Magazines Ranking Colleges
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Most Americans younger than 50 have not heard about the payola scandals in the recording...
Labor/Employment
'Sue Your Boss Law' Prevents Actions Against Nonemployers
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Moe Keshavarzi - On Oct. 12, 2003, Gov. Gray Davis signed SB796 into law and created a new ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal has granted a rehearing in a case where it threw out a convicted batterer's s...
Constitutional Law
Judge OKs Political Asylum for Man Held on Secret Evidence
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - An immigration judge has approved political asylum for a Sri Lankan held for three years in a San Diego prison o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Disabled people who are mistreated in group homes can sue their caretakers, but the California Supreme Court d...
SAN FRANCISCO - Humboldt County law enforcement officers used pepper spray to punish anti-logging protesters in a series of in...
LOS ANGELES - Movie studios could face a flood of new claims from spurned screenwriters after a federal appellate ruling that ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The golden rules in Judge James Roeder's courtroom are: Show up on time, know your case and don't play games. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Who Upheld Domestic-Partners Law Targeted
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - An anti-gay marriage group said Thursday it would try to recall a Sacramento judge who earlier this week upheld C...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ordered federal energy regulators Thursday to reconsider California's request for $2.8...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was once unheard of for the government to try and win money from those who sue it. But environmental lawyer...
LOS ANGELES - An order to Cardinal Roger Mahony to turn over confidential files to Los Angeles prosecutors investigating clerg...
SAN FRANCISCO - After being intensely recruited by top law firms across the country, Leslie Caldwell has left the U.S. Departm...
Despite challenges, Iraq's nascent democratization process is still showing signs of life. Two recent developments, the Najaf ...