WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate has approved five new judgeships sought by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to relieve the beleag...
LOS ANGELES - A downtown jury on Friday rejected a 28-year-old quadriplegic's claim that the city's policy of paying most trip...
OAKLAND - Three East Bay advocacy groups have won a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to create a project tha...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a flurry of year-end appointments, Gov. Gray Davis has elevated four Bay Area judges to the 1st District Co...
RIVERSIDE - Heating up Riverside County's race for top prosecutor, District Attorney Grover Trask is seeking an injunction to ...
Criminal Law Practitioner Column by Laurie L. Levonson - Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court held that roadblocks conducted for ...
LOS ANGELES - Two weeks after Steve Cooley took over the district attorney's office last December, he was briefed by prosecuto...
SAN FRANCISCO - Stanley Young has replaced Michael Charlson as managing partner of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's Menlo...
LOS ANGELES - Giving up a decadelong courtroom war that drew one jury verdict of $1 billion-plus and another for hundreds of m...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison has selected litigator Edward F. Fernandes to manage t...
Forum Column by John C. Eastman - It may not have been intended as a Christmas present - our national security team certainly...
Forum Column by Alex Ricciardulli - Voter-approved initiatives often are tied up in the courts for years before anyone can ma...
BARSTOW - Stopping off in Barstow is like stepping into a bygone era, with its mom-and-pop cafes, crumbling motels with neon s...
SACRAMENTO - California Chief Justice Ronald George said Thursday he hopes the governor will allow the state Public Defender's...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles civil rights attorney has alerted the county's legal watchdog agency to a string of cases that all...
SAN JOSE - Hardly anyone bothered to respond to the Santa Clara County Bar Association's bi-annual survey of local judges, acc...
Personal Injury & Torts
Store is Liable For Accidents If Inspections Were Overdue
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court made it easier Thursday for injured shoppers to win slip-and-fall tort suits. The...
SANTA MONICA - Services have taken place for George E. Sperling Jr., corporate counsel for the Carnation Co. for 34 years befo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three hotly contested psychological evaluations of Patrick Ghilotti, a serial rapist fighting for his release ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As part of Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s effort to win approval for its $10 billion bankruptcy reorganization...
SACRAMENTO - When the state Legislature reconvenes in January, a flood of anti-terrorism bills and a return to the tough-on-cr...
Forum Column by Stephen R. Barnett - Among the operational problems of the California Supreme Court, two stand out for the ext...
Dicta Column by Ralph Bovitz - Saving for retirement from the practice of law is a little painful as it involves having to put...
Employment Column by Luan McElroy - Unless your family member is the hiring partner of a firm or general counsel of a company,...
Court Jesters - In Epple v. State of Texas, 112 Tex. Crim. 612; 18 S.W.2d 625 (1928), Judge Albert B. Martin held the f...
Land Use Law Practitioner Column by Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert, David J. Petersen and Elizabeth M. Naughton - Whi...
DENVER - Families of victims of the terrorist attacks could receive an average of $1.65 million under a federal aid program de...
Dicta column by Paul O'Brien - "When did you become a writer?" she asked me. She was my student in a writing class at a univer...
Does the war on terrorism justify Attorney General John Ashcroft's recent actions? ...
OAKLAND - City Attorney John Russo doesn't face re-election for another two years, but a little early campaigning won't hurt i...