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Jury of His Peers

Jun. 6, 2007
By Joseph H. Cooper

Forum Column - By Joseph H. Cooper - A community college professor teaching inmates gets his incarcerated students' perspectiv...


Litigation

Mouth Piece

Jun. 1, 2007

Defense attorney Christopher Plourd uses a pen to represent a gun during questioning in the murder trial of music producer Phi...


Criminal

Rehab Is StillBetter Option

May 24, 2007
By Konrad Moore

Many addicts continue to fight their addictions after sentencing under Proposition 36 and are re-arrested. But the good news i...


Hilton in the House

May 23, 2007
By Joseph H. Cooper

Forum Column — By Joseph H. Cooper — The fate of Paris Hilton was the subject of considerable debate among a group of prison i...


U.S. Supreme Court

Judges Know Best

May 15, 2007
By Erwin Chemerinsky

Forum Column – By Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk – The U.S. Supreme Court has adopted a radically different approach for...


Government

On the Senate Grill, Gonzales Defiant

Apr. 21, 2007
By Erwin Chemerinsky

The Daily Journal asked two leading constitutional scholars to weigh in on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' showdown with Co...


Government

Letter Imperfect

Apr. 20, 2007
By Erwin Chemerinsky

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The flap over the FBI's gathering of personal information about thousands of Americans h...


Criminal

Character Check

Apr. 19, 2007
By Konrad Moore

When the prosecutor's sole goal is getting a conviction, fairness and balance get lost. Just look at the Spector trial. ...


Law Practice, Insurance

Too Punitive?

Apr. 12, 2007
By Rex Heeseman

By Rex Heeseman - A Los Angeles trial judge tries to make sense of appellate courts' review of the use of multipliers in punit...


U.S. Supreme Court, Environmental & Energy

Global Effect

Apr. 10, 2007
By Richard M. Frank

The Supreme Court ruling on the EPA's power and duty to address global warming likely will affect all three branches of govern...


Government

Beyond Iraq

Apr. 5, 2007
By Stephen F. Rohde

Forum Column - By Stephen Rohde - In a speech 40 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. broke his silence on the subject and de...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice

Deposingthe Opposing

Mar. 31, 2007
By James C. Martin, David J. de Jesus

Focus Column - By James C. Martin and David J. de Jesus - There's no better way to aggravate opposing counsel than by putting ...


Judges and Judiciary

Fumbling Down Memory Lane

Mar. 27, 2007
By Arthur Gilbert

An appellate judge continues his meditation on the vagaries of memory and finally resolves which concert pianist ripped apart ...


Government

Prosecution Politics

Mar. 23, 2007
By Rory K. Little

Forum Column - By Rory K. Little - The result of the imbroglio over the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys should be to further...


U.S. Supreme Court

Smoky Logic

Mar. 16, 2007
By Erwin Chemerinsky

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the Philip Morris punitive-damages case is a...


Insurance, Constitutional Law

The Scale's in Motion

Mar. 13, 2007
By Rex Heeseman

The Supreme Court recently decided a major punitive-damages case, but many questions remain. A Superior Court judge helps unra...


Criminal

Unbalanced System

Mar. 8, 2007
By Konrad Moore

The jails are unsuited to be large-scale mental health providers, but that's what they are, writes a public defender. ...


Judges and Judiciary, Civil Rights

Pioneer Spirit

Mar. 6, 2007
By Brenda Harbin-Forte

Three African-American women -- a lawyer, a state judge and a federal judge -- shoud be honored for achieving milestones in Ca...


Judges and Judiciary

The Way to Stay

Mar. 3, 2007
By Benjamin G. Shatz

Focus Column - By Benjamin G. Shatz and Christopher D. LeGras - Two appellate specialists give useful guidance on what to do ...


Constitutional Law

Military Commissions Act Disaster

Feb. 27, 2007
By Stephen F. Rohde

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - By upholding the portions of the Military Commission Act that revoke habeas corpus for Gu...


Judges and Judiciary, Government

Deprived of Truth, a Democracy Turns Hollow

Feb. 21, 2007
By Robert L. Bastian Jr.

The distinction between fact and law is both theoretical and very real. Judges decide the law, and people figure out the facts...


Constitutional Law

Off Base

Feb. 14, 2007
By Erwin Chemerinsky

FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The Bush administration continues to violate the Constitution in Guantanamo and is misus...


Insurance

Pinning DownPunitives

Feb. 13, 2007
By Rex Heeseman

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge unravels the constitutional complexities of limits on punitive-damages awards. ...


Criminal

From Prison Policy, Gangs Come Home to Roost

Feb. 1, 2007
By Robert L. Bastian Jr.

Let's see . . . Gang members are stuck in jail for years, where their gangs' influence is consolidated and enhanced. Something...


Insurance

Broadening Coverage

Jan. 23, 2007
By Rex Heeseman

FOCUS COLUMN - By Rex Heeseman - insurance policy interpretation, this time taking an expansive view of coverage. ...


Judges and Judiciary

Memories AreMade of This

Jan. 17, 2007
By Arthur Gilbert

Now wait a minute . . . Didn't we meet back in Prague? And who was that pianist who tore his instrument apart on stage? Justic...


Judges and Judiciary

RehnquistRevelation

Jan. 11, 2007
By Erwin Chemerinsky

FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The recent news about Chief Justice William Rehnquist's drug addiction raises questions ...


Civil Rights

Blinding Schools to Race Devalues Diversity

Dec. 22, 2006
By Erwin Chemerinsky

FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - American public schools are increasingly racially segregated. A study by Harvard Profess...


Appellate Practice

Unpublished Opinions

Dec. 21, 2006
By James C. Martin, David J. de Jesus

FOCUS COLUMN - By Paul D. Fogel and David J. de Jesus - The verboten is about to be no more. After years of extensive debate, ...


Judges and Judiciary

FORUM COLUMN - By Mark C. Mazzarella and Wendy Patrick Mazzarella - Okay, we admit it. We watched the movie "Legally Blonde" w...