Judges and Judiciary
Presiding Judge Picks Assignments For Bench in Contra Costa County
By Staff Writer
Judge Laurel Brady is Contra Costa County's new presiding judge for 2003, replacing Judge Garrett Grant, who will oversee his ...
After a recent barrage of bad news, Tenet Healthcare Corp. had something to cheer about last month when a jury found in its fa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Major Bay Area law firms were dealt a one-two blow in 2002 by a combination of depressed transactional practi...
LOS ANGELES - For the nation's largest private law firms, it was a year of merger mania, and five of California's largest firm...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Children of Slain Mom Can't Sue Therapist
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The children of a San Diego woman who was murdered by her husband cannot sue their father's therapists for fail...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Dennis Herrera took office as city attorney a year ago, he was issued a nondescript black binder, filled...
LOS ANGELES - Flush from victories against New York's Mafia families, Los Angeles' new police chief, William Bratton, created...
Forum Column - By Charles Hobson - On Nov. 5, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases that should close one of the...
Constitutional Law
Court Says Making Screeners Be Citizens Is Unconstitutional
By Columnist
Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Charles S. Doskow - A District Court has held that the law requiring citizenship of air...
Focus Column - Litigation By Mark Goldowitz - In 2002, there were 20 published opinions involving the SLAPP law, including fou...
Intellectual Property
Circuit Asks High Court to Decipher Domain Name Suit
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Kremen says he thinks Network Solutions, the Internet domain name provider, should be liable for giving ...
SAN DIEGO - The mother of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam is calling for a new state law that would open the door to a possible de...
WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice has confirmed in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats that FBI agents have ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man cleared of murder and freed from prison by a judge can still be re-tried for the crime, a state appella...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips rang in the new year by acquiring Kalkines, Arky, Zall & Be...
SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge Gail Ohanesian went to college thinking she might marry a lawyer. But a chance meeting with...
LOS ANGELES - Efren Cruz, who was convicted of murder in a high-profile Santa Barbara shooting and then cleared by a judge, s...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled 5-2 Thursday that Larry H. Roberts must remain on San Quentin's death row ...
Entertainment & Sports
Pomona's 'Rappin' Granny' Has $105,000 Last Laugh on Master P
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The case of the so-called rapping granny is over, ending another bizarre chapter in the "Annals of St...
Forum Column - By Bennet Kelley - Here is a fact that will get your attention: More Americans participated in the election for...
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Paul D. Fogel and Benjamin G. Shatz - More than a dozen amendments to the Federal Rules of A...
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - 'Tis the season to be jolly. You've been hearing that in the stores, on the radio, pe...
SAN DIEGO - Court of Appeal Justice Gilbert P. Nares loves the area of San Diego where he grew up. Nares, who sits on the 4th ...
Focus Column - Litigation - By David Burkenroad - Since Code of Civil Procedure Section 1008 was amended in 1992, it has drast...
SAN FRANCISCO - While criticizing Sen. Trent Lott's racially charged remarks, the Bush administration has been quietly urging ...
Focus Column Bankruptcy Law By Leslie A. Cohen and Craig G. Margulies The assignability of a contract or lease is a critical ...
Litigation
Fast-Track Reforms Have Lawyers Reaching for the Egg Timer
By Linda Rapattoni
Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Something's up. Defense lawyers and plaintiffs lawyers are huddling, g...
WASHINGTON - An obviously exasperated Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist again has urged Congress to create more federal judge...
LOS ANGELES - Barry Russell, the U.S. Central District's incoming chief bankruptcy judge, is preparing for an onslaught of cas...
WASHINGTON - In the hours following the Sept. 11 attacks on America, newspapers began to ask an important, if unpopular, quest...