Suit Accuses Magic Mountain of Racial Profiling
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - In the second potential class action filed against Six Flags Magic Mountain in a month, a group of minority men ...
Attorney Nets $425,000 in Fees in Rights Case
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A San Jose lawyer who represented a former city attorney's office investigator in a successful civil rights lawsuit...
Hard to Swallow
By Columnist
'Deputy Duh' admits that defense attorneys' duties can be honorable as well as necessary. ...
Fired Editor's Suit Blames Politician
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - A civil-rights activist and former editor of the L.A. Focus newspaper filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit Thurs...
Land Locked
By Columnist
One of the most frustrating things about land-use litigation for landowners has been the procedural gauntlet that lies between...
Lawyers Should Avoid Perilous Waters of Cross
By Columnist
As we know, cross-examination is risky. The witness, at best, is indifferent to your case and, more than likely, actually want...
Bar Board Nixes Plan to Up MCLE
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - Fearing the wrath of lawyers and legislators, members of the State Bar Board of Governors on Thursday rejected p...
Workers Comp Ruling Denies Tort Damages
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court reaffirmed Thursday that an injured employee of an independent contractor cannot ...
PG&E Wants to Keep Outside Attorney Fees Confidential
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. wants to keep secret the hourly rates it is being charged for legal services outs...
GOP Rules Successor Selection Process
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The impending departure of U.S. Attorney Robert S. Mueller III to become FBI director creates a vacancy for th...
Project Aims to Make Court A Friendlier Place for Kids
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - They call it the Hall of Tears. It's the second-floor hallway of the Los Angeles County Courthouse, where batter...
Repairman For the FBI
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Tapping U.S. Attorney Robert S. Mueller III as the next FBI director gives the Bush administration a career pr...
Unintended Consequences
By Columnist
The statute exempts "evidence of indebtedness" that meets one of two tests - but only for parties who meet the statute's sophi...
Insurmountable Barrier
By Columnist
Saelzler is the most recent case to circumscribe the ability of plaintiffs to sue property owners for injuries resultin...
Minnesota Educator to Head Western State
By Jill Boekenoogen
LOS ANGELES - James F. Hogg will become dean of Western State University College of Law in Fullerton on July 30. Hogg replaces...
Shoddy Shelter
By Columnist
In the old song, much is made of whether you pronounce the word "tomato" or "tomahto." The lesson to be learned by the end of ...
Judicial Journey
By Columnist
Although Japan's Supreme Court contains more than 1,000 employees, the loudest sound heard in its empty corridors was our heel...
Panel Allows Fifth Postponement in Olson Case
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - The judge presiding over the police-bombing trial of former Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson d...
Justices Ponder Sex-Act Question
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Does paying to watch two people perform sex acts with one another constitute prostitution, or is it legally protec...
Bearded Black Firefighters Claim Bias
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - California discriminates against black firefighters by requiring them to shave, according to a lawsuit filed T...
Bar Association Looks to Help Juvenile Offenders
By Matthew King
SAN FRANCISCO - A week after the Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice released a report excoriating the city for failing ...
Decisions Show Sharp Divide Among Justices
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's 2000-2001 term will be remembered mainly for the justices' unsigned 5-4 decision last Dec. 12...
Crusading Cooley Sidesteps Pitfalls That Trapped His Predecessors - So Far
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Once upon a time, you could pretty much count on a Los Angeles district attorney to do a great imitation of a si...
Term Exposes Court's Ideological Fault Lines
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In the Supreme Court's 2000-2001 term, the justices' 5-4 decision in Bush v. Gore was not an anomaly. Near...
U.S. Attorney's Civil-Rights Unit Gets New Boss
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Caroline C. Wittcoff has been named chief of the Los Angeles U.S. attorney's civil-rights section, which investi...
McCutchen Doyle Calls Off Merger With Piper
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Piper Rudnick McCutchen is not to be. After more than two months of exclusive talks, San Francisco's McCutchen...
Risky Business
By Columnist
Bleak as the unlicensed contractor's position may be with respect to payment for the work, he or she is not left in a complete...
Insurance Scheme Flops When Tales Arouse Suspicion
By Tamara Nowlin
By Tamara Nowlin Nevada Journal Staff Writer A money-making scheme gone wrong led to conviction of insurance fraud for two Re...
Yucca Mountain's Radiation Limits Don't Satisfy State
By Tamara Nowlin
By Tamara Nowlin Nevada Journal Staff Writer The state of Nevada filed a lawsuit June 27 challenging the radiation-protection...
Fair Fight
By Leonard Novarro
Rian Jones, noted for his calm personality, loves to fight the good fight. In court, that is. "My role as a defense attorney i...