SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney Suzanne G. Ramos was appointed Thursday to the San Francisco Superior Court, the first...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's been nearly seven years since San Francisco attorney Dennis Natali was shot to death in his BMW. His kill...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges Choose Two New Commissioners
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Superior Court judges have chosen a prosecutor and a civil research attorney to sit as commissioners. Deputy Distr...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Unanimously Supports State's Federal Judicial Picks
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Three California federal judicial nominees received unanimous support from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thur...
LOS ANGELES - With the recall election less than two weeks away, Gov. Gray Davis' push to appoint as many judges as he can mov...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Wednesday dismissed the majority of racketeering and fraud claims brought by an NBA player aga...
Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Brian D. Lerner - For years, the courts have stripped due process rights from aliens, who ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Recognizing Underlying Perceptions Makes Settling Disability Cases Easier
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Martin Quinn - During mediation of a claim for disability-insurance benefit...
Forum Column - By Reza Dibadj - The excesses of the economic bubble of the late 1990s, which featured cooked accounting statem...
Reporter's Notebook - By Craig Anderson - You might think the long-anticipated indictment of Santa Clara County Superior Court...
SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Aaron Persky and former Deputy County Counsel Carrie A. Zepeda wer...
LOS ANGELES - A trial pitting Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe against the founders of the chic Earl Jean Inc. company sett...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take up the case of a convicted methamphetamine maker ordered...
SAN BERNARDINO - In an unusually large personal injury verdict, a San Bernardino Superior Court jury Tuesday awarded $31 milli...
SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge Steven H. Rodda's family goes back nearly 150 years in Sacramento, and Rodda is about as wel...
LOS ANGELES - The recording industry's decision to sue 261 individuals for sharing files online grabbed the spotlight this mon...
LOS ANGELES - The Internet invasion has reached its final frontier - the lofty terrain of appellate-law practice. A brief file...
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...