SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco law enforcers sent John Tennison and Antoine Goff to prison for 13 years for a murder the distri...
SAN DIEGO - A Marine veteran of Vietnam who set his law practice aside to sit as a temporary judge in juvenile court became a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - If a defendant is acquitted - even erroneously - that still counts as an acquittal and the defendant cannot be...
Criminal
Panel Says First Amendment Protects Lawyer's Comments
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A state appellate panel ruled Thursday that a San Bernardino County deputy public defender was protected by t...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, saying the government took too long to bring the defendant to trial, to...
Personal Injury & Torts
Varian Foes Down, But Not Out, in 6th DCA's Ruling
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - An appellate court upheld Thursday the $775,000 libel judgment against two former Varian Associates research scient...
WASHINGTON - In the wee hours of Thursday morning, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., did his best Jerry Seinfeld impersonation in r...
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate America will ask a Fresno appellate court today to gut the record-setting punitive damage award that...
FULLERTON - In an transaction valued at $1 million, Layton-Belling & Associates leased the final space in its 280,000-squ...
LOS ANGELES - Ending weeks of speculation in the legal community, Larry Feldman said Wednesday that he is joining the Century ...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Employment lawyers don't like to admit any deficiency in evaluating...
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - An Oct. 23 Human Rights Watch report concludes that a significant part of America's 2.1 mil...
Labor/Employment
'State Farm' Decision May Apply to Emotional-Distress Damage Claims
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Barrett K. Green - "No definite standard or method of calculation is prescribed by law by w...
SAN FRANCISCO - With only five days left in office, Gov. Gray Davis made a slew of last-minute appointments, naming legal app...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal regulators and two environmental groups filed an agreement Wednesday with U.S. District Judge Claudia...
SAN DIEGO - Two San Diego strip clubs, where livings are made by baring all, claim that a competitor prominently named in the ...
SACRAMENTO - A contractual clause that prohibited a managed-care provider from recovering damages against the state Departmen...
LOS ANGELES - The Association of Business Trial Lawyers' dinner and reception this Saturday won't be just another lawyer event...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether amusement park rides can be held to the same ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Does one Burton and one Adachi trump one Feinstein? Tune in to the Dec. 9 runoff election for San Francisco di...
Criminal
Bert Fields, Week 1: Affair to Remember or Much Ado About Nothing?
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The Bert Fields affair is producing two distinct camps about what it all means. The majority believe ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Willie Brown charged Tuesday that deputy city attorneys "wrote the roadmap" for Supervisor Chris Daly t...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Wednesday recommended death for a 35-year-old woman who was found guilty last month of murder...
LOS ANGELES - In response to a scathing report on the child welfare system, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Wednes...
SAN FRANCISCO - An 11 percent spending cut for the federal judiciary that began Oct. 1 has prompted layoffs and shortened hour...
Reporter's Notebook By Peter Blumberg "If a man strikes someone with an iron object so that he dies, he is a murderer; the mu...
Intellectual Property
Dot-com Bankruptcies Spawn IP Bargains for Savvy Buyers
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Focus Column Intellectual Property By Kevin D. DeBr Not long ago, money from venture capitalists and other investors flowed f...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate Must Reject Nominee Who Blatantly Distorts Truth
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Forum Column By Catherine Fisk In May, the Senate Judiciary Committee, over the objections of all of its Democratic members, ...
Forum Column By William D. Evers "Finders" are people who, for a fee, find sources of funding for startups and emerging compa...
SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay judge has granted class status to discount-store employees who claim local Wal-Mart and Sam's Clu...