Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - A bedrock concept in Fourth Amendment law is that, before the police can ...
Forum Column - By John Burton - The Washington, D.C. Circuit's decision in Center for National Security Studies v. United S...
LOS ANGELES - Feuding legal titans Browne Greene and Charles O'Reilly met in court Friday for a hearing on forcing arbitratio...
SANTA ANA - The votes are in, but they may not count. Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central Distr...
SAN JOSE - The judge poised to release the first child molester to complete the treatment program outlined in California's Se...
LOS ANGELES - The decades-long battle over cleanup of a Carson landfill long considered a prime spot for a National Football ...
Technology & Science
Looking to Build Nanotech, Burns Doane Makes a Hire
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis has recruited nanotechnology legal pioneer Kitu Bindra to join the firm's 15...
When legal-industry strategists decided a global presence was the way to ensure long-term success at the highest levels, U.S....
Ask a law firm to pinpoint its main office location, and you're likely to get some incarnation of the following: "We don't ha...
SAN FRANCISCO - President Bush's nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of C...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
No Strict Liability in Transplant Of Tissue
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Suppliers of human tissue for medical procedures cannot be sued for strict liability because they provide a h...
SAN FRANCISCO - In 1994, while most people limited their thoughts about sex to the physical world, Gary Kremen was fantasizin...
LOS ANGELES - When a dozen federal agents came banging on his door at 7 a.m. with guns drawn and a battering ram, Michael Nguy...
Entertainment & Sports
7th Circuit Splits with 9th on Application of 'Betamax' Case
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - With a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision at the end of June, en...
Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - Most people are aware that union membership has been declining for decades. In 2001, the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge heard arguments Thursday in a procedural battle that could determine the fate of lawsuits seek...
Judges and Judiciary
Governor Puts Quartet on Los Angeles Bench
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced the appointments Thursday of Santa Monica court commissioner Joseph Shiro Biderman and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has landed an exclusive, two-year deal with Cisco Systems Inc. to handle all of th...
SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld three contempt sanctions against a Larkspur criminal defense attorney who...
SAN DIEGO - A lawsuit challenging a section of the state Elections Code that requires voters to cast a vote on a recall before...
Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Opatmy - Floyd Andrews returned to the San Francisco Hall of Justice this week. But it wasn't ...
SOUTH GATE - Albert T. Robles, the former South Gate city treasurer ousted in a January recall election, has been indicted on ...
SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed corporate attorney Randa M. Trapp to a vacant seat on the San Diego Superior Court, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The director of California's prison system, Edward Alameida, dropped three inquiries into alleged perjury by P...
LOS ANGELES - An accused armed carjacker released from jail after Memorial Day in a dispute between the District Attorney's Of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Does it really take as many as 67 law firms charging as much as $1,000 an hour to settle class action claims o...
Judges and Judiciary
Reflective Glendale Jurist Keeps an Open Mind
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - William D. Stewart believes he has the best job in the world. Since early 2001, the soft-spoken Midwesterner has...
Civil Rights
Unregistered Same-Sex Partner May File Wrongful-Death Suit
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Scott Forbes and William Miles III, a West Hollywood same-sex couple, had been living together since 1980, but l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Merger negotiations between Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Cooley Godward have collapsed even as merger...
SAN JOSE - A legal showdown looms today in the case of Brian DeVries, the first child molester to complete the treatment progr...