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...
Forum Column - By Dana Cephas - On Aug. 10, the first day of his term in office, the new president of the American Bar Associa...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge James Otero on Monday sentenced a former officer of the Beverly Hills Bar Association to 33 ...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Leonard Edwards, who has received numerous awards for his work with juvenil...
LOS ANGELES - Furnishing new ammunition for opponents fighting the state's controversial three-strikes law, a state appeals co...
Notebook - By Craig Anderson - SAN JOSE - Someone poisoned John Sarsfield's dogs. Whisper and Sundance were fed antifreeze or ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Removes DA's Office From Jurist's Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA MARIA - A judge on Monday removed the Santa Barbara district attorney's office from the prosecution of Diana R. Hall, a ...
Criminal
After Eight-Year Wait for Trial, Man Gets Life
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - After being convicted in a trial he waited eight years in jail to get, Anthony Williams has been sentenced to 16-y...
SAN FRANCISCO - "I forgot" is not a defense for failing to register as a sex offender, the California Supreme Court ruled Mond...
Judges and Judiciary
Walker Will Inherit Fiscal Woes With Role as Chief
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - When U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker takes over Wednesday as chief judge for the Northern District, he will ...
Entertainment & Sports
Sometimes, Attorneys' Paranoid Hollywood Dreams Can Come True
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - "My law firm partners are really space aliens, and they're out to get me!" This is what I imagine pow...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County criminal conflicts panel attorneys are in a bind. They have seen their relatively low pay stagn...