Chip manufacturer Broadcom Corp. of Irvine has acquired some of the assets of bankrupt company Gadzoox Networks Inc. Broadcom ...
In early January, Marc Beilinson received a tip that Wherehouse Entertainment Inc. had hired a bankruptcy lawyer and likely wo...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Law enforcement officials have been chasing bad guys in automobiles since...
Forum Column - By Daniel Felizzatto - In upholding the constitutionality of Megan's Law in Connecticut Department of Public...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara University Law School's new dean once roamed the campus as a junior high school student when his father...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Two Litigators Seek State Bar Presidency
By Don De Benedictis
LONG BEACH - Just two lawyers are running to be president of the State Bar for 2003-04. Anthony P. Capozzi and Nancy Hoffmeier...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis on Friday appointed four new judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench. The four appointees...
SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration lawyers and human rights advocates are objecting to the federal government's new policy of jailing...
SAN FRANCISCO - The abrupt closure of many U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide as war with Iraq began will harm internatio...
SAN FRANCISCO - Glen "Buddy" Nickerson walked out of San Quentin on Friday after 18 years in prison for a San Jose double murd...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County prosecutor is appealing to disqualify a judge from handling a domestic violence trial on groun...
LOS ANGELES - For Iraqi-American Ban Al-Wardi, the silence on the other end of the line spoke as loudly as a B-52 air strike. ...
SACRAMENTO - When he takes office today as acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California, with the expectation t...
SACRAMENTO - Lawrence Brown, who until Friday served as executive director of the California District Attorneys Association, ...
SAN DIEGO - An oceanfront hotel did not discriminate against a black Santa Claus, a Superior Court jury decided Friday. On a 9...
SONORA - Tuolumne Superior Court Judge Douglas C. Boyack seems to fit perfectly the role of a small-town judge. Usually dresse...
LAKEPORT - When Judge Arthur H. Mann first took the bench in 1979, he presided over a one-room Kelseyville Justice Court in a ...
LOS ANGELES - The Diocese of San Diego is petitioning to opt out of a proposed plan to bring up to 1,000 clergy sexual abuse l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Use of a camera and film made outside California to take a sexually explicit photo of a mother and her 10-year...
Employment Column - By Mark A. Romeo - While federal courts continue to narrow the coverage of federal equal-opportunity and w...
Zoning, Planning and Use
'Gardner' Discusses Issues Of Pre-1893 Subdivision Maps
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Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - As the population grows and urban boundaries expand in California, propert...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the first test of the state's new tobacco liability laws, a San Francisco appeal court has affirmed a $26.5...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's professional liability insurance runs out April 15, there's a good chan...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's improper dismissal of a juror in the middle of a criminal trial does not bar the prosecution from re...
SAN FRANCISCO - Dozens of anti-war protesters intermittently blocked entrances to the San Francisco federal building all day T...
LOS ANGELES - A jury Thursday awarded $3.6 million to a Los Angeles police-dog handler who claimed officers and supervisors di...
Environmental
El Paso Tentatively Settles With State, Offers Free Gas
By Joan Osterwalder
LOS ANGELES - El Paso Corp., the nation's biggest natural gas pipeline company, tentatively agreed to a $1.7 billion settlemen...
LOS ANGELES - Philip H. Lam may not be a rocket scientist, but he has designed nuclear power plants. Lam is not only an attorn...
Entertainment & Sports
Polanski Won't Make Appearance, Experts Say
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A quarter-century ago, then-44-year-old Polish film director Roman Polanski fled the United States before he cou...
LOS ANGELES - Litigator Brian Lawler has rejoined the ranks of the U.S. Marine Corps' few and proud. Four months after Lawler ...