Intellectual Property
Fish & Richardson Defeats Claim on Wafer Scanners
By Draeger Martinez
San Diego attorneys from patent power Fish & Richardson recently beat an $8.4 million patent infringement claim for client...
Focus Column - Litigation - By William M. Hensley - Imagine the sense of satisfaction. You have just settled a complicated law...
Judges and Judiciary
Contenders for Region's Superior Court Seats Present Their Candidate Statements
By Contributing Writer
Following are statements from candidates for seats on the Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside Superior Courts. ...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Patrick Mattimore - For the next four or five months, Al Delucchi, the judge in the Scott Pet...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's budget crisis is shaping everyone's efforts at the Capitol, and the new Republican governor has fi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists, frustrated by what they describe as a lack of action from state regulators to clean up mass...
SAN JOSE - The attorney representing Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser, who faces criminal charges for ti...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley faces a formidable roster of five challengers in his re-election bid Tuesday - in...
RIVERSIDE - The federal Securities and Exchange Commission has filed suit against three Riverside-area finance companies and f...
Government
Wal-Mart's Critics Promise Court Battle if Ballot Initiative Wins
By Jory Farr
LOS ANGELES - Opponents of Wal-Mart said they will be back in court if voters approve an April 6 ballot initiative allowing th...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Joel Rosenblatt - Joe Grundfest's attempt to set a new standard for inquiries into corporate ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Surgeon Hurt by Police Sees $33 Million Award Dumped
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Friday tossed out a $33 million damage award against the city of Los Angeles and Budget R...
SACRAMENTO - State prison lawyers and those representing inmates argued to stalemate Friday over how to guarantee the autonomy...
SAN BERNARDINO - Security officials at San Bernardino County's Rancho Cucamonga courthouse have begun requiring inmates appear...
Entertainment & Sports
Mother of All Motions Tries To Turn Pooh Into Roadkill
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Lawyers celebrated the 13th anniversary of the Winnie the Pooh lawsuit Friday locked in mortal combat...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has decided a Web site operator did not violate trade secrets by posting software for ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The strange bedfellows in the same-sex marriage furor before the state Supreme Court aren't the loving couples...
The federal government is relying on "junk science" to confer protected status on a 6-inch-tall shorebird, according to an att...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ten Northern California judgeships are up for grabs in the March primary, including one held by a Marin County...
LOS ANGELES - At 4:30 p.m. on May 28, two days after the 2003 Memorial Day holiday, Los Angeles Superior Court judges halted a...
SANTA CLARA - In a smashing victory for IBM, a Santa Clara County jury Thursday rejected lawsuits filed by two former workers ...
Forum Column - By Russ Baker - First, there were "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq; then, there weren't. First, we were go...
Entertainment & Sports
Appeals Court Applies Fair Use in Unpredictable Ways
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By David Halberstadter - Within a couple of months of each other, two panels of the 9th U.S...
Criminal
Don't Hold All Muslims Responsible for Men Who Misuse Quran, Beat Women
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Summer M. Hathout - Whenever I tell people that I speak to Muslim audiences about domestic violence, I get t...
Employment Column - By J. Kevin Lilly, Rod M. Fliegel, Ronald D. Arena and Emanuel Shirazi - Law firms frequently are required...
SACRAMENTO - Salinas Valley prison authorities have intercepted a second death threat against state Sen. Gloria Romero, she di...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco jurors grabbed a rarely used provision of a consumer protection law and hit Bank of America with...
Appellate Practice
Attorney Who Used Opponent's Memo Gets Thrown From Case
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney who tried to use his opponent's trial strategy memo against him was disqualified Wednesda...
Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - One of the best public photography exhibits in San Francisco right now is the dis...
Litigation
Riverside Judge Tosses Most of Man's Gender-Bias Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court judge in Riverside has stripped most of the claims from a lawsuit filed by the former spokesperso...