Environmental
Bill Would Conform State Law to Changes to Superfund Statute
By Columnist
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David A. Ossentjuk - The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization ...
Government
9th Circuit Should Have Considered Remedies Besides Postponement
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marc Levin - By postponing the recall election in Southwest Voter Registration Education Project v. Shell...
These are the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal judges who will sit on the en banc panel hearing the California recall case: Ma...
SANTA BARBARA - Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall probably will resume her job as a jurist even after her conviction on misde...
Law Practice
Counsel Says Giants Richer, But Ain't No Damn Yankees
By Tyler Cunningham
Reporter's Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - Most baseball fans outside the five boroughs hate the New York Yankees. The team i...
Appellate Practice
Experts Dispute Reputation Of Appeals Court as Liberal
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is commonly perceived as a renegade, left-leaning federal appeals court, r...
SAN FRANCISCO - The pro-recall advocates have drawn some of the most philosophically conservative judges on the 9th U.S. Circu...
LOS ANGELES - When an 11-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sits down after today's hearing to consider wha...
SAN JOSE - When he isn't flying off to a conference or lobbying in Sacramento to secure funding for drug and mental-health-tre...
Outsourcing may seem like a tantalizing prospect, but it's not for everyone. So what's the best way for a company to determine...
LOS ANGELES - The role of an O'Melveny & Myers attorney in the legal imbroglio over halting the state recall is drawing fi...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Open-Space Measure Doesn't Violate Constitution, State Law
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Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - The 1st District Court of Appeal recently upheld an open-space initiative ...
Labor/Employment
Ignoring Complex Time Rules May Lead to Labor Violations
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Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - Wage-and-hour laws can significantly affect firm culture. Some recent developments in th...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - "Lack of comprehension is perhaps the greatest single barrier to justice. A failure to ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Survivor of Singapore Airlines Crash Settles Suit
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - After surviving the crash of a Singapore Airlines jet in Taipei three years ago, Harald Linke has developed such...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former port commissioner has subpoenaed City Attorney Dennis Herrera to talk about a case involving dead fis...
SAN JOSE - Larry Sonsini, the chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, was asked Wednesday to serve as interim chairm...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Police Department has agreed to provide sign-language interpreters for deaf witnesses, victims a...
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera has replaced seven lawyers he fired in July with at least five new hires, an aide...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge Thursday ordered one of the state's biggest HMOs to continue insuring some 200 local law...
LOS ANGELES - A San Diego man convicted of molesting a 13-year-old girl will get a new trial because one of the jurors in the ...
Real Estate/Development
Appeal Court OKs Oakland Ordinance on Home Loans
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has upheld an Oakland mortgage-lending ordinance, rejecting claims that the local law con...
SAN FRANCISCO - C. Don Clay, the No. 2 person to U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan in San Francisco, was appointed Thursday to the Alam...
SAN FRANCISCO - For a fleeting moment it looked as if Larry Sonsini, one of the most recognized deal-makers on the West Coast,...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner Gives Hope To Ill, Troubled Teenagers
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The 15-year-old girl, her crown of neatly knotted braids sprouting in two pigtails, sat expectantly beside her a...
SAN FRANCISCO - If the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agrees to reconsider the order delaying California's Oct. 7 recall el...
SAN FRANCISCO - A South Seas soap opera is unfolding in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a sleepy, tropical, former U.S. ...
LOS ANGELES - To hear supporters of the state's recall tell it, the American Civil Liberties Union is at the core of a left-wi...
LOS ANGELES - Kathleen M. McDowell's complacency regarding women's health care issues ended in the early 1990s. McDowell, a pa...
Focus Column - Litigation - By James J. Moneer - Enacted in 1992, the anti-SLAPP statute, Code of Civil Procedure Section 425....