SAN FRANCISCO -- Authorities in California took the unusual step of jailing and charging a tuberculosis patient who they say refused to take medication to keep his disease from becoming contagious. Health officials said Armando Rodriguez ...

Several recent prison reform proposals offer hope that California might finally be on its way to fixing ... One of the most encouraging is a bill by San Francisco state Sen. Mark Leno that would change the punishment for possession of illicit drugs from ...

He joined the judiciary in 1985 after scoring an upset win for a Municipal Court seat over heavily ... with his family to Southern California. He graduated from Loma Linda University and University of San Diego School of Law.

Buccola, co-founding partner of the ... Angeles and San Francisco based trial lawyers. "The recipient of the award is never just a yearly standout, but instead brings a lifetime of remarkable achievements in the law, both inside and outside the courtroom.

With Josh Fattal – the third detained hiker and a former UC Berkeley student – acting as best man, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd wed in a private ceremony last Saturday, said San Francisco attorney and family friend Ben Rosenfeld in a report ...

SAN JOSE, California -- A Silicon Valley software executive ... supervising deputy district attorney for Santa Clara County. When police obtained a search warrant for Langenbach's posh home south of San Francisco, they said they found hundreds ...

A 79-year-old bookkeeper has been sentenced to a year in jail for embezzling about $300,000 from the California charity where she ... reports Judy Gordon was sentenced Monday in San Diego County after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors.

Sixty-eight people have been arrested and 63 birds seized during a raid on a Southern California ... San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Jodi Miller says the department's Rural Crimes Task Force made nine felony arrests and 59 ...

Those who have long sought to turn small drug offenses into smaller crimes think they ... behavior does not make it less addictive or destructive," wrote the California District Attorneys Association in its opposition to the bill. Should the bill make ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A California jury began ... Now, jurors are mulling Oracle's patent claims, but the potential patent damages appear far less than what is involved in the copyright allegations. Redwood City-based Oracle sued Google in August ...

A police officers walks in the seats before the game between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 18, 2011 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California ... Today, District Attorney Spokeswoman Jane Robison said the ...

A California divorce attorney accused in the 2010 death of a Phoenix-area man has been extradited to Arizona. Authorities say 52-year-old Robert Fischer was arrested May 3 on suspicion of second-degree murder. He's accused in the death of 49 ...

(AP) - Three leaders of a Northern California gang have been sentenced to federal prison ... three were once regiment commanders of Nuestra Familia in San Francisco and Merced County. The gang is based in prisons but controls the actions of street-level ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Getting married was a smart business move as well as a personal milestone for Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, with the timing of the wedding, the day after the company's initial public offering, potentially proving particularly advantageous, California divorce lawyers said on Sunday.

SAN FRANCISCO May 17 (Reuters) - Stockton, California officials ... senior counsel with the Los Angeles law firm of Stutman Treister & Glatt, was selected in late March as mediator. Mabey is a former U.S. bankruptcy court judge and mediator ...

a professor of criminal justice at San Francisco State University who is a living example of the rehabilitative philosophy. Before he got his degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in the late 1950s, he spent five years in Soledad Prison ...

Jennifer Gill of Redwood City and Eric Ribeiro of San Bruno will be the featured vocalists. San Mateo ... of Northern California; Logan Carter, Mercy in Burlingame, South San Francisco Scavenger Co. Inc. and Elena and Arthur Court; Clara Duffy ...

The owners of two Northern California gardening stores ... a hydroponic equipment store with locations in Tracy and Hayward. The owners of the two stores, Steven Ortega Sr. and Marla Ortega, appeared in court Wednesday along with the 17 other ...

In an organisation of this size, that's not going to happen,' said Napa, California ... at Moradi Saslaw LLP in San Francisco. Lawyers said there was no guarantee the couple signed an agreement, citing divorce cases involving wealthy people such as ...

SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Getting married was a smart business move as well as a personal milestone for Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, with the timing of the wedding, the day after the company's initial public offering, potentially proving particularly advantageous, California divorce lawyers said on Sunday.

But the appeals court majority said that exception would apply only to uses specifically authorized under the federal Controlled Substances Act, such as an experimental test of a drug, and not to use of the drug under California's law.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Three leaders of a Northern California gang have been sentenced to federal prison as part of an ongoing crackdown on its drug trafficking activities. Federal prosecutors in Sacramento said Tuesday that all three were once regiment commanders of Nuestra Familia in San Francisco and Merced County. The gang is based in prisons but controls the actions of street-level ...

A state assemblyman from Southern California has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor ... Contra Costa County District Attorney spokeswoman Bobbi Spinola said Monday. Hernandez was driving a state-owned car when he was arrested and has since ...

when they were still owned by the O'Malley family that moved the team from Brooklyn to California after the 1957 season. The sale was part of a reorganization plan after McCourt took the team into bankruptcy last June. A federal judge approved ...

And Cory Salzillo, lobbyist for the California District Attorneys Association, said prosecutors could also seek more adult prison sentences if youths can stay in state juvenile centers only until age 23. "We are obviously very happy that we made ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A court says two Southern California cities aren't discriminating against the disabled by banning medical marijuana dispensaries. The San Francisco Chronicle says bans by the cities of Irvine and Lake Forest were upheld Monday by the ...

But jumping over or cutting your way through a fence that surrounds an open yard doesn’t make you a burglar, according to a state appeals court. Although the California Supreme ... of criminal episodes in Kings County. Chavez was arrested ...

Jerry Brown proposed cuts of $544 million to the state's courts on Monday as part of a plan to make up California's $16 billion ... Services for those who can't afford lawyers, like self-help kiosks for family law, have been reduced.

California ... comply with a new state law that shifts lower-level offenders from state prisons to county jails. A second tax hike headed for the November ballot is being promoted by wealthy Los Angeles civil rights attorney Molly Munger.

Just a few days before the final nomination date, attorney Harmeet K Dhillon ... After working as a law clerk for a year in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2003 she moved to San Francisco and soon got involved in politics. In 2008, she unsuccessfully ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc has agreed to settle a lawsuit that alleged the site's "Sponsored Stories" feature publicized users' "likes" without compensation or the ability to opt out, according to a court document filed on Tuesday. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed in a San Jose, California federal court, could have included nearly one of every three Americans, with billions ...

A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by a 2-1 vote rejected an effort by the plaintiffs to invoke the anti-discrimination provisions of the federal Americans with Disabilities ... under California's law. Matthew Pappas, a lawyer ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A California ... claims, and damages. In court on Tuesday, attorneys for both companies made their closing arguments on patents. Oracle attorney Michael Jacobs said it does not matter that Oracle's patents only cover certain ...

In Northern California, Melinda Haag, Obama's US Attorney for the Northern District of California ... the area where most of the medical dispensaries are in Oakland. She also shut down Mendocino's ground-breaking regulation of marijuana growers ...

(05-21) 14:40 PDT WASHINGTON-- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a San Jose man's challenge to California's use of its three-strikes law ... attorneys argued that his eight-year sentence violated his right to a jury trial, because ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Getting married was a smart business move as well as a personal milestone ... potentially proving particularly advantageous, California divorce lawyers said on Sunday. Assuming the couple signed a prenuptial agreement ...

Then the Manhattan district attorney charged Alcala ... wouldn't affect Alcala's sentence in California, but Manhattan prosecutors have noted that a conviction here could essentially be insurance for law enforcement in case Alcala wins yet ...

A San Francisco judge looked askance this past week at arguments that well-known California plaintiffs attorney Terry O'Reilly did all ... to a server crash that would have compromised the business. Raghuram reset the logs, flushing the system.

Noël, partner in the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël ... of the "Top 75 Women Litigators" in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals, and a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2012.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, a major victory in the high-end real estate case, Cederwall v. Jay Morton Real Estate et al. was recognized in The Recorder's 2012 Top California Verdicts issue. The total verdict exceeded seven figures. The case was tried by Keith Yandell of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, and John Siamas of Reed Smith. In the five week jury trial at the ...

A man was arrested Monday night in connection with the disappearance of 15-year-old California girl Sierra ... south of San Francisco, the San Jose Mercury News reported. Garcia-Torres was booked into Santa Clara County Jail on one count of murder and ...