Judges and Judiciary
S.F. Judges Won't Join Groups that Exclude Gays
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court judges and commissioners here are forbidden from joining groups that discriminate against gay p...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Wu has rejoined the local office of Preston, Gates & Ellis after nearly four years with the online por...
WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee met Tuesday to consider legislation to break up the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appea...
Forum Column - By Dan Lawton - The paid purveyors of arbitration (like industry heavyweights JAMS and the American Arbitration...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Local Carriers Charge Regional Bells With Antitrust Violations
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Focus Column - By Matthew L. Cantor - A significant battle is currently taking place in the courts over a signature telecommun...
SAN FRANCISCO - The crime of continuous sexual abuse doesn't require the perpetrator to hold a position of authority over the ...
SAN DIEGO - A forensic entomologist testified Monday that the body of Danielle van Dam was first exposed to flies between Feb....
Administrative/Regulatory
Downtown Redevelopment Plans Exacerbate Problems
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Forum Column - By Gary Phillips - Redevelopment isn't supposed to increase blight, is it? Recently in the city of Los Angeles,...
REDWOOD CITY - A murder suspect who had been the subject of a legal fight over whether a mentally competent defendant could be...
Entertainment & Sports
Notorious B.I.G.'s Wrongful Death Suit Could Be on Road to Nowhere
By Garry Abrams
Colum Garry Abrams - It's back to the drawing board in the federal wrongful death suit brought by the estate of New York rap m...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
N.Y. Exchange Challenges State's Rules For Arbitrators
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Two stock market groups that arbitrate investor disputes filed suit in federal court Monday against the state ...
RIVERSIDE - A former deputy public defender is asking a judge to hold her ex-boss - Riverside County Public Defender Gary Wind...
LOS ANGELES - You've got to spend money to make money, and West Coast law firms know this better than any other in the country...
VALLEJO - On first impression, Judge Paul Beeman appears to be a slacker. Asked why he majored in political science as an unde...
SACRAMENTO - A state appeal court ruled Monday that five law firms that successfully challenged a $300 smog fee charged to out...
SANTA ROSA - Every morning before Judge Elaine Watters calls her calendar, her bailiff, Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Everett...
SAN FRANCISCO - Drunk drivers shouldn't foot the bill for their own arrests, claims a federal lawsuit that asks several small ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal bankruptcy judge sounded what may be the death knell for the state's alternative plan to lift Pacifi...
LOS ANGELES - Two years after a federal appeals court reversed his death sentence, a jury Monday recommended that Michael Anth...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists Monday said a San Francisco Superior Court judge's rejection of looser limits on dioxin rele...
LOS ANGELES - More than 2,500 young professionals in the entertainment, legal and finance industries showed up Saturday night ...
SANTA ANA - Senior members of the Orange County district attorney's office will decide within two weeks whether to seek the de...
Dicta Column - By Robert S. Thompson - Appellate specialists know that appellate courts employ their own brand of terminology....
Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner - Counsel will customarily base direct examination of an expert on hundreds of pages of re...
Criminal
Judge's Action in '20th Hijacker' Case Isn't Unusual, Experts Say
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - When a federal judge last week put off accepting a guilty plea from Sept. 11 conspiracy suspect Zacarias Moussao...
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Margery Somers - Southwest Airlines recently announced that it will enforce a policy that ...
Focus Column - By Joanne L. Siu - A U.S. company seeking to expand operations abroad must consider in structuring its operatio...
MERCED - Long before he became the district attorney and then a superior court judge in Merced County, Frank Dougherty grew u...
Law Practice
Good Work Ethic Distinguished Civil Litigator
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
PALM SPRINGS - Services have taken place for Ray R. Goldie, who owned an appliance store before earning a reputation as a resp...
Judges and Judiciary
Tech-Savvy Judge Runs His Civil Courtroom Like Fine-Tuned Piano
By Tamara Scott
LOS ANGELES - Ludwig van Beethoven's "Second Piano Concerto" reminds Judge Richard A. Adler of his sometimes prickly relations...