SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco civil court judge has temporarily halted the execution of Hera, the Presa Canario involved in ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Judge Won't Bar Bookstore Booths for Flesh Flicks
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County judge Wednesday refused to bar a Cathedral City adult bookstore from operating booths in which ...
RIVERSIDE - City Attorney Stan Yamamoto, who served Riverside during the city's legal controversies involving Tyisha Miller an...
LOS ANGELES - Ending more than a year of negotiations over a contract for research attorneys at the Los Angeles Superior Court...
Judges and Judiciary
Accused Ex-Judge Wants Insurer to Pay for Her Defense
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray had to make a federal case out of the ethics charges lodged against h...
SAN FRANCISCO - The intellectual challenge for Judge Michael Daly Hawkins in reading mountains of briefs and writing hundreds ...
SACRAMENTO - The state Senate hasn't issued contempt sanctions against a defiant target of an investigation in more than 70 ye...
Intellectual Property
Avant Founder Gets 2 Years In Prison as Three Resign
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The long-running Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case climaxed Wednesday with one of the defendants, a company c...
Technology & Science
E-Book Hacker Can Repent for Alleged Crime at Shrine of Gutenberg
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Leave it to the Digital Revolution to turn the simple pleasures of reading and sharing books with friends into a...
LOS ANGELES - Once stigmatized by the community and hounded by police and immigration officers, day laborers are coming into t...
The art of drafting pleadings in family-law cases is dead. It has been usurped by a behemoth known as Judicial Council, which ...
After serving many years in the U.S. Army, attorney Kris P. Thompson knows how to fight hard for his clients. ...
Call Linda Bulmash the reluctant resolver. After years on both the plaintiff and the defense sides of litigation, Bulmash know...
LOS ANGELES - For the second time in less than a week, the 2nd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday freed a jailed cocaine abus...
Last November, California voters, by a landslide margin, enacted a historic change in the state's handling of nonviolent drug ...
The Circuit City decision is strong reason to question the continued validity of the California Supreme Court's recent ...
Craig A. Miller of San Diego's Levine, Steinberg, Miller & Huver won a $415,000 verdict in a wrongful-termination case,
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lawyers, Mediators Should Applaud the 'Foxgate' Ruling
By Columnist
The California Supreme Court has upheld the confidentiality of communications during mediation as established in Evidence Code...
Employers sued for harassment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 can assert their effective anti-harassment polic...
Should statutory mediation confidentiality be breached when bad-faith tactics are allegedly employed in the mediation? Does a ...
As employers overcome their shock at the $90 million verdict in Bell v. Farmers Insurance Exchange and begin grappling ...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' opinion in Duffield v. Robertson Stephens & Co., 144 F.3d 1182 (1998) (cert....
The program is designed to offer mediation in the early part of complaint processing, even before investigation by the departm...
Kris P. Thompson didn't hesitate to go to trial on behalf of one of San Diego's premier restaurants, despite fears that a "pub...
LOS ANGELES - A Newport Beach criminal-defense lawyer and his wife were arrested Tuesday on a federal indictment that alleges ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bank of America discriminates against the disabled, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday, by offering customer...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George announced the appointment of a new statewide task force Tuesday that will study...
LOS ANGELES - Robert Wolfe Gilbert, a labor lawyer known for his ability to craft settlements, has died. Gilbert died Sunday a...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis named three lawyers Tuesday to the Bipartisan Commission on Internet Political Practices, filling...