SAN FRANCISCO - In a groundbreaking case shrouded in secrecy, a San Francisco appellate court has allowed a corporation to lea...
LOS ANGELES - Hair-styling legend Vidal Sassoon has settled his lawsuit against the company that owns his name, consumer marke...
LOS ANGELES - School and county officials are forcing pregnant teens and high-school mothers out of college-prep classes and i...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morale has slumped to a new low in U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan's office following his decision last week to pass ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Wednesday elaborated on just what it takes for shareholder class actions to survive th...
Real Estate/Development
Feds' Anti-Terrorism List Reaches Real Estate Deals
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Robert C. Barnes - If you're representing a landlord, tenant, seller or buyer of real proper...
Discipline
Merger Negotiations Require Candor By Attorneys, Not Misrepresentation
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Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Thomas C. Klein - The decision in the recent case of Vega v. Jones, Day, Reavis & Pog...
Forum Column - By Darryl Hamm - We need to reclaim our children. Roper v. Simmons, the juvenile death-penalty case to b...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney filed a court motion Wednesday to block the Diocese of San Diego from shuffling church assets out of...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent on a process for cloning human beings. Although at le...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento appellate court issued a stern warning about frivolous appeals Wednesday, slapping a veteran atto...
Civil Rights
Publisher Faces Damages for Not Disclosing Paper's Sources
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A San Bernardino Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that a publisher being sued for libel faces damages bec...
Appellate Practice
Court Releases Baseball Great From Suit Over Infomercial
By Dan Evans
Baseball great Steve Garvey relied on personal experience when he endorsed "Fat Trapper," which promised weight loss even on a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge Wednesday granted a former police officer's request to be tried in San Francisco for assault in a case...
SAN FRANCISCO - An appellate court has become the first in the state to toss a defendant's sentence based on the landmark Blak...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former Internal Revenue Service official can pursue his whistleblower claim that he was demoted for complain...
Column By Garry Abrams - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is famous for his muscles and his movies. But maybe he should be equally w...
SAN FRANCISCO - The two San Francisco police lawyers charged last week with leaking a key "Fajitagate" memo claimed Wednesday ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up one of the hottest issues in family law, the California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to define par...
Labor/Employment
Wrong Decision by Labor Board Reflects Political Affiliation
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Forum Column - By Bernhard Rohrbacher - First, a disclosure: More than a decade ago, as a teaching assistant at the University...
Administrative/Regulatory
Courts Conflict on Requiring 'Public Use' to Support Taking
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Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Doug Smith and Basil Shiber - Redevelopment in California has affected urban landscapes radic...
LOS ANGELES - In an apparent victory for medical marijuana advocates, a divided state appeals court Tuesday ruled the controve...
SACRAMENTO - California's courts are counting on a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to enhance their collecti...
Judges and Judiciary
Help Available Online for Those Who Can't Afford Lawyer
By Philip Carrizosa
Column By Philip Carrizosa - It wasn't that long ago that a person coming to a courthouse for help with a legal problem would ...
WALNUT CREEK - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Nancy Davis Stark was known as a by-the-book prosecutor who fought har...
LOS ANGELES - Azusa attorney Stephen J. Alexander was arrested Tuesday on federal income tax charges, the latest fallout from ...
SAN FRANCISCO - It came from below, oozing out of the sewers, gushing inexorably into the streets of a tony South Bay communit...
SACRAMENTO - Some political observers contend that the campaign to urge voters to reform the state's Unfair Competition Law ma...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Is a spousal-support waiver in a premari...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The Bush administration is manipulating and censoring science for political purposes in or...