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...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city attorney agreed Monday to settle a code enforcement lawsuit against former port commissioner Pius Lee...
Judges and Judiciary
Santa Barbara Judge Resumes Work
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA BARBARA - Judge Diana R. Hall has resumed her seat on the Santa Barbara County Superior Court bench, court officials sai...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate panel Monday reversed an Oceanside battered woman's second-degree murder conviction, saying ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge Monday set an Oct. 8 trial for private investigator Anthony Pellicano after lawyers ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Visalia litigator Lloyd L. Hicks was appointed Monday to the Tulare County bench by Gov. Gray Davis. Hicks, 59...
Judges and Judiciary
CJP Broke Its Own Rules, Says Ousted Judge's Attorney
By Donna Domino
Reporter's Notebook - By Donna Domino - Former Superior Court Judge Bruce Van Voorhis, the hated Judge Dredd of Contra Costa C...
SACRAMENTO - A Superior Court judge ruled Monday that Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante was wrong to use millions of dollars from his 2...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Judicial Smack Down Feeds Media's California Frenzy
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Judicial schism! Judicial schism! Read all about it! When it comes to making news, the East Coast sho...
LOS ANGELES - The importance of Bush v. Gore beyond the current occupant of the White House appeared lost on most membe...
SAN FRANCISCO - California voters are likely to be going to the polls Oct. 7 instead of March 2004 to decide whether to recall...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles teen convicted of second-degree robbery does not have to maintain a B grade average as a condition...
Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - With barren, craggy mountains in the backdrop, Geraldo Rivera appears on camera. His hair blowi...
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius was more than accommodating to the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison lawyers it picked up as ...