SAN FRANCISCO - A little self-promotion (actually, a lot) and assistance from the family helped make 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
MONTEREY - The nation's largest federal appellate court saw a remarkable spike in immigration appeals in the past two years, a...
LOS ANGELES - Saying mediation in the church sex scandal had "all but broken down," lawyers for hundreds of alleged victims of...
SACRAMENTO - Could a federal judge take over the state's notoriously troubled prison system - and fix it? U.S. District Judge ...
SAN FRANCISCO - An attack launched Wednesday by California and seven other states on global warming employs an ancient legal c...
LOS ANGELES - In a split decision, a state appeals court on Wednesday upheld a class action against pharmaceutical giant Bayer...
WASHINGTON - A coalition of interest groups opposed to some of President Bush's judicial nominees on Wednesday launched a tele...
Services were held July 17 for George Edwin Long, an Inland Valley probate attorney who helped establish the sovereign immunit...
Judges and Judiciary
ABA President Asks Parties Not To Demonize Judges, Attorneys
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - American Bar Association President Dennis Archer has sent a letter to Democratic and Republican leaders asking th...
SAN DIEGO - Charles F. Gerry, who fought 15 years for Alaskan fishermen harmed by the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989, died Jul...
LOS ANGELES - Services will be held Friday for Ralph S. Hemer, a partner in Glendale's Hemer & Barkus. Hemer died July 5 a...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco supervisors have asked voters to decide whether law firms should get a bigger tax bill. The city...
Government
Law of Protest: Some Are Less of a Threat to the Republic Than Others
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - It's political convention season, and the fear of anarchy is upon the land. Or at least in Boston and...
LOS ANGELES - Media lawyers said they filed an application late Wednesday with the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an order blockin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Invoking the Supreme Court's Blakely decision, a split 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the se...
Judges and Judiciary
Indio Judge Handles Complex Issues Well
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - Judge Michele D. Levine was immersed in a complex murder trial last year when she found out the defendant's former wif...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided Wednesday to hear en banc a case that could settle t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers on both sides of the securities bar agreed that a recent settlement between Broadcom Corp. and its sha...
WASHINGTON - In an attempt to end widespread confusion and uncertainty in federal courts nationwide, the Department of Justice...
MONTEREY - The sentencing questions spawned by the Supreme Court's decision last month in Blakely v. Washington have co...
SAN FRANCISCO - The president of Marin County Women Lawyers defended the credibility of her group's judicial survey Tuesday, a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal magistrate in San Diego went too far when she ordered a criminal defendant forcibly drugged to make ...
LOS ANGELES - The Alliance for Children's Rights hopes to cash in on what is fast becoming one of America's favorite pastimes:...
Forum Column - By Juliet Leftwich - On July 1, 1993, I stood in the moot courtroom of my former law firm, located in the 101 C...
Intellectual Property
Hobson's Choice Awaits Artist Of Work Portraying Celebrities
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By David Halberstadter - Is a bobblehead doll bearing the likeness of a celebrity-turne...
LOS ANGELES - A former Howrey Simon Arnold & White lawyer has sued the firm, claiming he was fired for exercising his Firs...
LOS ANGELES - An African elephant whose removal to Tennessee had sparked a year of litigation could be returning to her "soul ...
LOS ANGELES - In an unusual move, a Santa Barbara County judge filed an appeal brief Tuesday defending his decision to seal do...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that it won a $4.1 million copyright infringem...
Appellate Practice
Sometimes 'Friends' Make All the Difference in Court
By Philip Carrizosa
Column By Philip Carrizosa - Amicus curiae briefs are interesting creatures. These "friend of the court" briefs come in all sh...