Judges and Judiciary
Big Bear Courthouse Reopens After Fire Closure
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino County courthouse in Big Bear has reopened after being closed since Oct. 28 because of wil...
SAN FRANCISCO - If it sometimes seems as if San Francisco Superior Court Commissioner Loretta M. Norris has already reached h...
LOS ANGELES - Claiming Ford Motor Co. has deceived customers into buying potentially deadly vehicles, a class action filed Thu...
SAN FRANCISCO - "Don't Be Cruel" to the King, a divided federal appellate court ordered Thursday as a 2-1 majority concluded ...
SAN DIEGO - Victims of the October firestorms in Southern California can pick up a telephone or go to a disaster center to rec...
SAN FRANCISCO - A plan to lift Pacific Gas and Electric Co. from bankruptcy, despite being the product of a much-ballyhooed a...
LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California Thursday jumped into the controversy over the State Ba...
SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley has lost an influential, or at least symbolic, voice on the New York Stock Exchange as Larry S...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pennie & Edmonds, a 230-lawyer New York intellectual property boutique with offices in San Diego and Palo ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Customers of bankrupt Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will be charged at least $10 billion over the next nine yea...
Judges and Judiciary
His 'Fever' for Civil Rights Led Jurist to Law School
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Commissioner Gerald T. Richardson remembers his courtroom reaction to the 1987 felony prosecution of Leonard Jam...
SAN FRANCISCO - Golden Gate University School of Law announced Thursday that it has hired Frederic White, a professor at Cleve...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys Thursday disavowed a controversial full-page advertisem...
SAN FRANCISCO - One day after President Bush signed a bill banning so-called partial-birth abortions, three federal judges, in...
LOS ANGELES - The lawyers and laypeople who visit the Los Angeles County Law Library typically comb its volumes for informatio...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Monica L. Sloboda - A contaminant discharged at one location allegedly has migrated to a...
Forum Column - By Nona Liegeois - In 1999, when a developer proposed a project that would have displaced 70 homeowners and ten...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Presiding Judge Thomas Hansen, in outlining his assignments for 2004 this week, h...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Mervyn's department store chain tentatively has prevailed in Alameda County Superior Court against claims ...
WASHINGTON - As they reviewed another variation on police roadblocks Wednesday, most of the Supreme Court justices expressed s...
SAN FRANCISCO - All the Superior Court judges up for reelection in March intend to run for another term, and they appear to ha...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Wednesday slapped a landlord with $3.3 million in punitive damages for failing to provide hea...
LOS ANGELES - Opponents are lining up to challenge the re-election of Los Angeles Superior Court Judges David Wesley and Dan O...
SACRAMENTO - Terry Bean was like family to Arthur Ford. The Ford family, who took in dozens of San Francisco foster children i...
SAN DIEGO - A lawsuit that pits privacy rights against free-speech guarantees will get its first court test Friday when a fede...
Judges and Judiciary
Budget Cuts Make Justice Slower and Less Convenient
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Messengers for two legal courier services, having filed their client's documents before the clerk's office clo...
SAN FRANCISCO - With about 40,000 absentee ballots counted early on election night, Bill Fazio thought he saw a breakthrough i...
SAN FRANCISCO - District attorney candidates Bill Fazio and Kamala Harris just can't seem to agree on anything. On Tuesday nig...
Entertainment & Sports
Former Beach Boys Guitarist Rides New Wave Into Sea of Litigation
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - In January, Alan Jardine, former lead guitarist for the 1960s super-surf group the Beach Boys, wiped ...
CARSON - For $1.65 million, Louise Ghalili purchased Carson Place, a 7,320-square-foot shopping center at 239-251 W. Carson St...