SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis personally knows relatively few of the 208 judges he has appointed to the bench. Judge Brian C...
LOS ANGELES - Jeffrey W. Johnson makes it clear that he is not looking for sympathy or trying to make a personal statement. Bu...
SAN FRANCISCO - A routine defense request for copies of computer disks in a federal child pornography prosecution has sparked ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Golden Gate Names Winner of Afghan Scholarship
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Nasrina Bargzie's unusual path to law school began in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Her father, an educated landowner...
LOS ANGELES - A funeral Mass for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas W. Le Sage will be celebrated Friday in Carpi...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County has offered to pay $1 million to settle wrongful death and other claims in the cases of Jonat...
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - Client to lawyer: "What chance do I have at winning this case if we appeal?" Lawyer to cli...
Real Estate/Development
Courts Will Construe 'Spite Fence' Statute Liberally
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Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - There is an old saying that "good fences make good neighbors." That depends, however, ...
Dicta Column - By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. - Our youngest daughter is distressed. She yearns to find a career that satisfies her...
Dicta Column - On the Courthouse Steps - "Yes. I deal with port-related clients and receive daily updates regarding security i...
Constitutional Law
Distinct Line Between Commercial And Noncommercial Speech Is Gone
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Focus Column - By David Hopmann and Stephan E. Smith - On May 2, the California Supreme Court issued a decision, Kasky v....
LOS ANGELES - Senior U.S. District Judge Laughlin E. Waters, whose career in public service included serving as a state assemb...
Forum Column - By Joseph R. Grodin - At my first constitutional law class after Sept. 11, with the horror of that day in our s...
SAN JOSE - The former Palo Alto medical technician who re-used syringes while drawing blood has agreed to a deal in which she ...
SAN FRANCISCO - One case arose out of a rent freeze dispute involving mobile home parks. Another stems from a breach of contra...
LOS ANGELES - Private services off the coast of Long Beach will take place later this month for retired labor negotiator and a...
Litigation
Police Union Readies Lawsuit Against Cooley's 'Brady' Policy
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Police Protective League is preparing to sue District Attorney Steve Cooley over his new " Br...
SAN FRANCISCO - A highly touted court settlement intended to reduce diesel pollution from grocery store truck fleets may be fa...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court seemed eager Tuesday to protect marijuana users from prosecution if they can demons...
LOS ANGELES - Michael Clemens, an attorney who defied the odds when he taught himself to walk after suffering serious injuries...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Court of Appeal Justice Marc B. Poch will return to his judicial roots on the Santa Clara County bench...
LOS ANGELES - Trying to steady an archdiocese reeling from allegations of clerical sexual abuse, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony this...
SAN DIEGO - Under the glare of a Court TV camera and a rapt audience of journalists, court watchers and lawyers, the trial of ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The directors of the Hastings College of the Law appear set to approve the law school's controversial parking ...
INDIO - One of its names - castor oil fish - doesn't make this member of the snake mackerel family sound too appetizing. In up...
Forum Column - By Rob DeKoven - At a time when school and teacher accountability is at the forefront of school reform, it is o...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo said Monday that he opposes potential changes to federal immigration policy that ...
LOS ANGELES - The county Board of Supervisors is expected to vote today on whether to include on the November ballot a measure...
Appellate Practice
The Filing of an Appeal May Be Insufficient to Stay Proceedings
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^^Appellate Law^^ The Filing of an Appeal May Be Insufficient to Stay Proceedings Several exceptions to California's automati...
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge ruled Monday that lawyers for David Westerfield, accused of the kidnapping and murder 7-yea...