Administrative/Regulatory
'Under God' Challenger Goes After Custody Law
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Newdow took on the Pledge of Allegiance because he didn't want public schools indoctrinating his daugh...
Larry Engel was faced with two choices in the chaotic days following Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's dissolution last year: ...
SAN FRANCISCO - School integration plans in California suffered a major setback two years ago when an appellate court ruled th...
LOS ANGELES - A civil rights activist from the 1960s, Percy Clark enjoys borrowing the oratorical styles of his heroes, Martin...
Riverside-based Best, Best & Krieger recently opened its Bay Area outpost with just one attorney and one staff member. But...
Tax
Proving Tax Fraud Takes Keen Observation, Skilled Persuasion
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By G. Michelle Ferreira - What does "clear and convincing" actually mean? Perhaps "clear and convincing" is so ...
The dissolution of Aon Corp.'s six-lawyer San Francisco litigation office is complete, with two lawyers heading to Nossaman, G...
Partner Greg Lemmer left Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Menlo Park office last month to join Pillsbury Winthrop in Palo ...
Litigation
Vegetation-Chomping Rabbits Are Fair Game, Says Attorney General
By Eron Yehuda
Orange County homeowners gunning for the rabbits that eat their gardens have a new ally - state Attorney General Bill Lockyer....
International finance attorney William M. Burke, who worked at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton from 1967 to 1986, has ...
Civil Rights
Many Contributors to Desegregation Deserve Recognition for Their Work
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Paul Von Blum - Today, civil rights advocates, journalists, educators and many others will pause to commemor...
Appellate Practice
Panel in 'Gator' Should Limit Court Control of Web Stores
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Donald Searles - Years after first confronting the nebulous world of Internet jurisdiction, cou...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Separate is not equal. It was 50 years ago today that the U.S. Supreme Court told the nation its...
Immigration
Immigration Releases Cambodian Held Under Protest
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - A "grateful" Cambodian man who had been detained after serving a sentence for car theft has been released from j...
SAN JOSE - A Taiwanese company, ordered to pay more than $116 million for the wrongful death of three children who choked on i...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Judge Thomas V. Nuss will make a public ruling on whether the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese mus...
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei is an avid cyclist and wind surfer, but he insists he's no "wild an...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Manuel Real is well aware that his landmark 1970 decision desegregating Pasadena public scho...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - After too many years of accepting my husband's abuse, I finally stood up to him about three ye...
SAN FRANCISCO - If Michael Newdow could bill himself for all the time he's spent battling his ex-girlfriend over custody of th...
SACRAMENTO - While many trial lawyers were aghast at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal last week to severely limit punitiv...
LOS ANGELES - In a case that is scheduled to go to trial today, the city of West Hollywood is being sued for an accident invol...
LOS ANGELES - This is a tale of two high schools. El Camino Real is an integrated, predominately white, suburban school that r...
Employment Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Employment cases generate their own unique discovery disputes, often involving ...
Banking
What's Yours Is Mine, in Joint Bank Accounts, 'Lee' Decides
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Ronald S. Granberg - Al and Bob open a joint-tenancy bank account together: Al deposits $90,...
WASHINGTON - For 10 months of the year, I truly envy the Supreme Court justices for their leisurely schedule. Because they are...
LOS ANGELES - For four years, the ACLU has been trying to persuade a court to order the state to level the educational playing...
LOS ANGELES - In a potentially far-reaching decision, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Thursday that Catholic clergy cannot ...
RIVERSIDE - The operator of a remote, dilapidated farming village in the Riverside County desert has reached a settlement with...
Appellate Practice
Cooley Seeks Reinstatement of Three Convictions in Rampart
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office asked an appellate court Thursday to reinstate the convictions of thr...