L.A. Jury Clears Tobacco Giant
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Thursday cleared tobacco giant Philip Morris of negligence and misrepresentati...
Preparation Eases End-of-Summer Review Process
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Employment Column By Deanna M. Wilkinson It's finally August. Summer programs are in their final stages, and within the next ...
Pacific Bell Attacks Copyright Act
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Bell Internet Services, flooded with hundreds of subpoenas by the record industry and "bounty hunters...
Preliminary Relief Is Difficult, But Not Impossible, to Obtain
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Focus Column - Antitrust Law - By Matthew L. Cantor - Consider the following hypothetical: A small business has developed an i...
Judge Made Small-Claims Into People's Court
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for M. Peter Katsufrakis, who as a Municipal Court judge turned the Los Angeles s...
Labor Leaders Sue for Court's Expense Data
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Labor leaders at the Orange County Employees Association filed suit Wednesday to force court managers including Pr...
Tehin Is Indicted On 13 New Counts
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury has indicted Nikolai Tehin, the suspended San Francisco attorney, on 13 new counts of bil...
Dentist Let Off for Tip to Cops
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A dentist who alerted a police officer's superiors that he suspected the officer was abusing painkillers did ...
Scouts' Lease
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge ruled Thursday that the city of San Diego's $1-per-year lease of public parkland to the Boy Scouts...
In the Name of Consumers, Pac Bell Defies DMCA
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Bell Internet Services, flooded with hundreds of subpoenas by the record industry and copyright enforc...
Unocal Must Defend Slave Suit Under State Law, Judge Rules
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - In a case with far-reaching implications for international corporations, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge...
Family Law Bench Officer Gets Raves From Counsel
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - For Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Luis A. Lavin, tears are part of the everyday challenges facing family law ...
High Court Affirms Freedom From Searches
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In another slap at aggressive police tactics, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a warrantless s...
Seven Lawyers Lose Jobs in City Attorney's Office in S.F.
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera has laid off seven lawyers, according to documents the office released Thursday....
Fixer-Upper
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - The Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency thought that it had some good ideas to re...
Big Brother Will Be Watching
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Recently, in an attempt to gain support for anti-terrorism legislation, Attorney General J...
Courts Struggle With Class Arbitration Questions
Paralleling congressional attempts to limit class actions legislatively, federal and state courts continue to struggle judicia...
Retroactivity Is Only One Issue Reaised By Statute of Limitations' Extension
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Darren Le Montree - Practitioners have been talking a lot about whether the extension of the st...
Do-Not-Call Registry Could Cut Phoned Intrusions
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Forum Column - By Nathan D. Wirtschafter - The balance of power has shifted. Since the Federal Trade Commission inaugurated it...
Exposing Lakers Star's Accuser?
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Legal experts predict a major battle over whether the allegations of Kobe Bryant's accuser's checkered past wil...
PG&E Showdown Set for November
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Formal U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearings on a compromise plan to restore Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to financia...
Altheimer Lawyers Get New Jobs
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - All the San Francisco lawyers and associates at the rapidly dissolving Altheimer & Gray have found new hom...
Jurist Rejects Sanctions Against Zoo's Lawyers
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Wednesday denied a motion for sanctions against lawyers representing t...
Political Crosswinds Assail USA PATRIOT Act
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - When House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last week to gut one of the most controversial provisions of the USA PA...
Inglewood Retrial
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley said Wednesday that he would retry former Inglewood police officer Je...
'Gideon' Inspires Ad Campaign
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi on Wednesday announced a billboard campaign to inform those accused of crimes that...
Reporter's Notebook: Chief Justice Prefers The Personal Touch
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Think you push a lot of paper at work? Try serving as California's chief justice, a job that requires signatur...
Delinquency Court Judge Helps Children
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - It was a routine morning in Compton's delinquency court. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charles Q. Clay...
Prison Officials Explain Lapse in Procedure
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - During a hastily called meeting in March, California's prison director, Edward Alameida, banged his fist on a ...
Exposing Lakers Star's Accuser?
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Legal experts predict a major battle over whether the allegations of Kobe Bryant's accuser's checkered past will...