Government
Lightning-Rod Ashcroft Covers Legal Map in Plea-Bargain Memo
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - That wild and crazy guy, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, keeps finding ways to make people so ma...
SACRAMENTO - The success of a lawsuit filed earlier this week against California's new domestic partnership law likely will de...
SAN FRANCISCO - The campaign for district attorney is getting interesting. Incumbent Terence Hallinan has opened a 9-point lea...
SACRAMENTO - The Pacific Legal Foundation filed a suit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of a key element of the sta...
Forum Column - By Antonio R. Sarabia II - Victims of crime should be encouraged to provide not only information but also other...
Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Stephen F. Rohde - Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the Sixth Amendment a...
SAN DIEGO - California consumers who just want a tidy toilet are getting taken to the cleaners themselves because powerful che...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis Tuesday appointed Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender Drew E. Edwards and Pasadena tria...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley's office has urged appellate judges to unseal a secret ruling on church files tha...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis had little choice but to sign into law new provisions offering workers greater protections agains...
SAN FRANCISCO - Litigation against Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton on allegations its legal advice helped to perpetuate ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Scholar Was 'Father of Administrative Law'
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Private services have been held for a former professor at the University of San Diego School of Law who is recogni...
SAN FRANCISCO - Concluding that Alameda County Superior Court Judge D. Ronald Hyde "cannot or will not conform his behavior to...
Judges and Judiciary
Santa Clara County Judge Danser Indicted for Conspiracy
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser has been indicted on a felony count of conspiracy and eight ...
LOS ANGELES - During the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's televised recall hearing Tuesday, Judge Alex Kozinski drew laughs ...
Judges and Judiciary
U.S. Judicial Conference Backs Repeal of Sentencing Limitations
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Judicial Conference of the United States on Tuesday voted unanimously to support repeal of a controversial ne...
Appellate Practice
High Court Nibbles Away at Mountain of Death Appeals
By Peter Blumberg
Reporter's Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - California's capital appeals backlog has finally stopped growing. For the first time...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers say Suzanne H. Segal has the perfect background to be a magistrate judge. She spent 12 years in the civi...
Intellectual Property
As other people begin 'googling' for information, a Google attorney turns to the case law for insight.
By Contributing Writer
MOUNTAIN VIEW - As Bill Watterson noted in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, "verbing weirds language." It certainly weirds ...
REDWOOD SHORES - For decades, patent and copyright cases have been litigated exclusively in federal court. For the last 20 ye...
Constitutional Law
Close Oct. 7 Vote Could Bring ACLU Back to Court
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The appeals over the recall election may be finished but a close recall election and numerous disputed punch-c...
SAN FRANCISCO - The most fascinating aspect of the decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate California's...
SAN FRANCISCO - As the sole federal judge in the tiny town of Marshall, Texas, U.S. District Judge T. John Ward had to learn ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The defense of fair use plays an important role in copyright law; without it, any and all unauthorized copyin...
Intellectual Property
Madrid Protocol Presents Mixed Opportunity
By Contributing Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - For U.S. trademark owners wanting to protect their trademarks beyond the U.S. border, the newly adopted Madri...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the past, when a patent owner charged a competitor with patent infringement, the alleged infringer comp...
WASHINGTON - The decision to end litigation challenging California's Oct. 7 recall election rather than to seek Supreme Court ...
LOS ANGELES - It's hard to imagine a more appropriate assignment for Commissioner Michael M. Duffey than Division 100 at the V...
Forum Column - By Peter Kwan - Ira Shafiroff's article, "Marriage Mayhem: Advocates of Same-Sex Unions Rely on Weak, Faulty Ar...
International
Conflicting Data Laws: Airlines Are Damned if They Do, Don't
By Columnist
Focus Column - International Law - By Lothar Determann - Lawmakers on federal and state levels often pursue different objectiv...