Legislature Kills Most Child Safety Measures
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A package of 12 Republican bills meant to protect children from sexual predators and pornographers was decimated...
Pot Case Juror Takes the 5th
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - One of seven jurors who publicly apologized for voting to convict medical marijuana grower Ed Rosenthal has s...
Deputy DA Wins Top Prosecution Honors
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Deputy District Attorney Sara Danville, who won four first-degree murder convictions last year, has been named Riv...
Dedicated Litigator Often Worked Pro Bono
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VICTORVILLE - Services have been held for John A. Delatore, a retired civil attorney known as an aggressive litigator who didn...
Judicial Complaints On Rise
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Complaints against California state judges rose slightly during the year 2002, according the annual report of...
Create Misleading.com, Go to Jail, Porn Foes Say
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - If the U.S. House of Representatives gets its way, the federal government may have to expand its prison system...
Award for Eye Doctor Suing Unum Cut to $5 Million
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A Marin County judge has reduced to $5 million a punitive damages jury award of $30 million against UnumProvi...
Pillsbury Says It's Sorry in Settlement With Ex-Partner
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop has settled the $45 million defamation lawsuit filed against it by former partner Frode Je...
From the Prosecutor's Table, the Other View
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Inconsistency is in the eye of the beholder. For every defense lawyer's complaint about shameless double-speak...
Critics Decry U.S. Deals to Attract Immigrant Enlistees
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A boom in immigrant signups for the Iraqi invasion, after an executive order greased the wheels for enlistees to...
Flip-Flop Ethics
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Two boys kill a pizza delivery guy just for the fun of it. When prosecutors can't prove which one fired the le...
Enrollment of Minorities Falls At Law Schools
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Lower minority enrollments at California-run law schools could foreshadow the future of state-run law schools na...
Affirmative Action Divides Court
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Hearing its most important case in 25 years on the highly charged issue of race, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ind...
DAILY DEALS -- Northern California
By Jack Briggs
DIXON - The John H. Olson Family Limited Trust purchased an 11,520-square-foot building at 1520 N. Lincoln St. (and occupied ...
Government Must Do More to Regulate Dietary Supplements
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Recently, there have been stories of professional athletes and people who are simply tryin...
Crucial Assistance for Victims
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Forum Column - By Susan G. Millmann - Now there is factual evidence that confirms what legal aid attorneys have known anecdota...
'America West' Rejects Strict Standard On Stock Price Effect
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - Securities Law - By M. Chapman Findlay, David R. Garcia and G. Michael Phillips - Some 15 years ago, the U.S. S...
Church Document Fight Moves Into Open
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The public could get its first close view today of the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese's response to dema...
Fraud-Suit Debtors Can't Seek Bankruptcy Refuge
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled, 7-2, that debtors who owe money as the result of settling a fraud suit against...
Advocate Fights For Access to Expulsion Data
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Larry Komar wasn't on a mission to make new law. The Lake Arrowhead man says he just wanted to find out why t...
$1.7 Billion El Paso Settlement Retires California's Stone-Age Bench
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Some eternities are shorter than others. For instance, I never expected a gaggle of consumer and muni...
Committee Challenge Fails
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge dismissed a bid by a conservative lawyer to dismantle a committee that recommends to President B...
Feds Drop Fight For Offshore Oil Leases
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government Monday gave up its legal fight to muzzle California on matters regarding the extension ...
Police Reopen Probe of Lawyers' Murder-Suicide
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A day after they had pronounced the case "closed," police have reopened an investigation into the murder-suicide...
Patient Justice Brings Administrative Skills
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES -The corridor outside Justice Judith Ashmann-Gerst's chambers is lined with 8-by-11 photos of the 2nd District Cou...
Judge's Gutsy Move Earned Him Attorneys' Admiration
By Donna Domino
MONTEREY - Presiding Judge Terrance Duncan was understandably apprehensive when he got word that the jury in a recent rape cas...
Banking Expert Bolts Early From Brobeck to Bullivant
By Erik Cummins
Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's commerce and finance group splintered as the firm dissolved last month, with members of the ...
Making Orangeade Out of the Mall of Orange
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When life hands you lemons, you should make lemonade, so the old chestnut goes. The 32-y...
Low-Income Housing Could Take Hit from President's Dividend Proposal
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BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ More than $1 billion of equity raised by syndicating low-income housing tax credits might ...