Cytyc Corp. is expanding its women's health care product line by acquiring Palo Alto-based Novacept Inc. for $325 million. Cyt...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Apprendi v. New Jersey, ...
Focus Column - Business Law - By Marc Rappel - Many commercial contracts contain a choice-of-law provision stating that the pa...
Commercial Law
Ill-Conceived Arbitration Legislation Has Unintended Effects
By Columnist
Forum Column - By William G. Mitchell - When well-intentioned legislators enact legislation without examining the full extent ...
Forum Column - By Jill Kent - A habeas corpus evidentiary hearing in the case of John Stoll is proving that Kern County offici...
Appellate Practice
Jurors' Trip Into the Woods Sparks Defender's Outrage
By Peter Blumberg
Reporter's Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - If a judge takes jurors into the forest and there's no defense lawyer around to watc...
SAN JOSE - A magistrate judge said he is inclined to grant a mistrial in a closely watched lawsuit by six current and former S...
Law Practice
Lockyer Likely Will Promote Litigator to Newly Created Post
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer is expected to name veteran civil litigator Herschel Elkins today to the new...
SAN FRANCISCO - Starting immediately, San Francisco's Civic Center courthouse will see more criminal trials. Presiding Judge D...
SAN JOSE - Frustrated by a lengthy impasse over the salary increase in their current contract, Santa Clara County government l...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court on Friday published a ruling against R. J. Reynolds, a development a spokesman for the sta...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Politicians are so last century. As the nation's big questions, from the legality of gay marriag...
SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jack Gifford has pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace rathe...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has declared that California water officials enjoy significant authority to protect river...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has warned Mayor Gavin Newsom that potential budget cuts and a l...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has ruled that a legally insane offender suffering from a bipolar major schizoaffectiv...
LOS ANGELES - A city councilman called Friday for an investigation into the Los Angeles Police Department's decision pay the l...
LOS ANGELES - One of his former paralegals has sued attorney Edward Masry, claiming the lawyer, his famed researcher Erin Broc...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has developed a novel formula to calculate attorney fees in two civil rights cases, setting th...
Judges and Judiciary
Veteran Judge Takes Delight in Color, Emotion of Courtroom
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Speaking of his cases, fictional and real, Superior Court Judge Michael Cowell jumps back and forth from prison ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Court Finds Capacity Water Charge Was Validly Adopted
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Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin, Jr. - In November 1996, California voters approved Proposition 218, the Rig...
Family
Despite 'Rosales,' Administration Seems Determined to Leave Some Kids Behind
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Forum Column - By Yolanda Arias - Enedina Rosales already had raised her children. A working grandmother, she expected to be v...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - California's 108 community colleges have a mission to meet the varied educational needs...
Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - With the advent of high-tech electronic monitoring equipment and software tracking syste...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for Daniel L. Rothman, who practiced law in the Los Angeles area for 50 years, will be held a...
Labor/Employment
After 11 Years, Civil Rights Lawyer's License Will Be Reinstated
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - It's pretty basic-looking: a plastic card, containing a number, the cardholder's status, the seal of the State Bar...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has signed papers formalizing a settlement that bars Kaiser Permanente from f...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Test Takers Want Voice in Bar Exam Scoring
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Aspiring California lawyers who took the state Bar Exam last month are asking a bar panel to be fair today when ...
Public Interest
Circuit Offers Cold Comfort to Both Parties in Fee Dispute
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Who works harder? A federal appeals court judge or a government lawyer? A divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...
SAN FRANCISCO - The public should not worry that San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera himself will play any role in city...