Judges and Judiciary
Convicted Judges Must Pay Own Criminal Defense Costs
By Pamela Mac Lean
A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected efforts of three convicted former judges to have their judicial liability insurance c...
Has the time come for lawyers to turn in their dictaphones and minicassettes and exchange them for handheld digital recorders ...
Jon Johansen deciphered the DVD scrambling code. ...
RIVERSIDE - In the so-called house of horrors, two of Mansa Musa Muhummed's "wives" allegedly lived in the garage and children...
Colorado's electronic filing runs into difficulties. ...
Hollywood studios filed lawsuits in state and federal courts once DVD copyrights were threatened. ...
Deal Proof, a tool that automates the proofing of documents, can save lawyers from making embarassing mistakes. ...
One prime example of planning for appellate consequences is deciding the forum in which to bring the case.
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court Monday rebuffed a novel suit demanding that the California Supreme Court publish all stat...
Libel Suit Against Huffington Settles The widow of the former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland has settled her libel suit agains...
For everyone who is fed up with the bombardment of laws in the 21st century, "The Beach" introduces the temptation of a more o...
By Boyd Hudson The end of every year leads to a rush of transactions that are often motivated by tax concerns. The year that j...
SACRAMENTO - The GOP presidential candidate who receives the most Republican votes in the March 7 primary is not unequivocally...
The campaign to ban the Harry Potter books fails to grasp their essential value: the benevolent depiction of a world in which ...
Vote "yes" on Proposition 30. The insurance companies' strategy to defeat Proposition 30 is no secret - spend, spend, spend al...
Ahda Sands Heads Langston Bar Ahda V. Carlisle Sands has been installed president of the Langston Bar Association. Also servin...
Cochran's Killer Faces 75 Years A reputed gang member was convicted Monday of first-degree murder for the 1998 shooting death ...
The first stage of the balloting to elect a new Superior Court Executive Committee has resulted in the selection of 12 members...
A former in-house attorney for Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. claims in a lawsuit that she was fired in retaliation for taki...
WASHINGTON - For better or worse, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who taught at Harvard Law School for nearly 30 years, still has a...
SAN FRANCISCO - At one time in her career, Carol C. Yaggy thought she had a good chance of receiving a judicial appointment, e...
Just off the main highway on the way to Palm Springs, 38 babies lie buried in a peaceful cemetery called the Garden of Angels....
Name partner Bruce D. Tobey is leaving Century City-based Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey to join Santa Monica-based ...
Media
Publisher Fires Parting Shot at Judges Who Carry Guns Without Permits
By Garry Abrams
Tim Crews is not a wimp. On the eve of starting a five-day contempt stretch in the Tehama County Jail in Red Bluff, the publis...
Vote "no" on propositions 30 and 31. A "no" vote will block a plaintiffs' bar plan that would drive up insurance costs, discou...
Among actions announced Monday by the justices were: GRANT DRUG TESTING: The court agreed to review next October a decision by...
A Chapter 11 "cramdown" plan that simply vests ownership in the prebankruptcy equity holders is doomed. By David S. Kupetz ...
Kirkland & Ellis THERMA-WAVE HEATS UP STOCK MARKET WITH IPO Therma-Wave Inc. successfully completed the final stage of it...
Four children and about a dozen Morrison & Foerster lawyers are clad in dashikis, kinte-cloth outfits, head wraps and oth...
LARGE FIRMS An often-overlooked exception in federal securities law allows the California Department of Corporations, rather t...