Constitutional Law
Gay Marriage Issue Likely to Land at Supreme Court
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Sooner or later the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether gay marriages are legitimate, several constitutiona...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco has sided with the movie industry to ban the sale of software designed to al...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Mediates Clergy Cases, His 'Consummate Challenge'
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - If Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter D. Lichtman had not heeded the wise advice of his stepfather 28 years ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles federal judge has thrown out a scientist's claim that he helped invent key DNA sequencing techno...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate panel seems troubled that a woman who supplied the eggs so that her lesbian partner could ge...
OAKLAND - Alameda Superior Court Judge Joseph R. Hurley knows his political conservatism goes against the grain of the leftist...
LOS ANGELES - Is Tom Higgins an overzealous prosecutor unfairly targeting his political opponents? Or is the candidate for dis...
Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - Remember the days when it was axiomatic that lawyers wore business suits to work? Well, ...
Forum Column - By Sue Blake - By now, the entire legal community has heard of Kevin Cooper, the man convicted of hacking to de...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey R. Albregts - The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, a quasi-local governmental agency wit...
COLTON - In the latest legal squabble over billboards showing a woman wearing only a tool belt as an advertisement for a Colto...
LOS ANGELES - Saying a growing number of scam artists have been passing themselves off as lawyers, Los Angeles County District...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bank of America resolved a decade-old dispute over excessive fees charged to manage 2,600 trust accounts by ag...
SAN FRANCISCO - Martin Berg, an award-winning legal affairs reporter, was named editor Thursday of the San Francisco Daily Jou...
Forum Column - By Franklin E. Zimring - The national news is overflowing with stories about crime and punishment this past mon...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland and Alameda County officials are seeking information regarding Cary Verse, the second man designated b...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Faces State Disciplinary Hearings Over Alleged Conduct
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge already under scrutiny for having improper contact with two sexual abuse vict...
Personal Injury & Torts
Groups Say Reform Effort Would Hurt Consumers
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Sixty groups sent a letter Thursday to corporate donors backing an initiative to reform the state's unfair compet...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Brings a Dancer's Sensibility to Traffic Court
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - At different points in her life, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Rebecca G. Omens wanted to be a dancer ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court Thursday declared unconstitutional a California law that allows juvenile sex offenders...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to focus the debate over San Francisco's gay marriage revolution on the constitutional issue, San Franc...
Criminal
Air Force Reserve's Top Lawyer Wins Promotion
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - After years of negotiating powers of attorney on the steps of airplanes departing for war and ensuring protests at...
Forum Column - By Richard C. Dieter - The U.S. Supreme Court took a step in the right direction when it agreed to review the c...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Psychological Dynamics in Mediation Influence Result
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Deborah Rothman and Zela G. Claiborne - A veteran trial lawyer once said th...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Apparently for the first time since the dark days of J. Edgar Hoover, the government has tri...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - In recent years, questions continued to arise as to how insurance polices a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury has returned complete defense verdicts in a sexual harassment case between local attorne...
SAN FRANCISCO - The two San Francisco attorneys who blame each other for standing up the state's highest court last week now f...
SAN DIEGO - Defense lawyers said Wednesday that stabbing victim Stephanie Crowe was killed by her brother and two of his teena...
San Francisco can continue to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the 1st District Court of Appeal late Wednesda...