Much Activity Highlights This Year for Cases, Legislation on Anti-SLAPP Law
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Goldowitz - Continuing a pattern from last year, much judicial and legislative activity th...
'Grant' Applies Equity Concept to Exhaustion Doctrine
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The 6th District Court of Appeal has decided, apparently on first i...
Rocha Tapped As U.S. Marshal
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Federico Rocha, a veteran Oakland police officer with a doctorate in public administration, has been nominated...
Fenwick Closes Washington, D.C., Office
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Mountain View's Fenwick & West is winding down operations at its Washington, D.C., office, chairman Gordon D...
Lawyer Aiding Client Gets Prison Sentence
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - A Glendora attorney was sentenced Wednesday to three years in state prison, one year in county jail and three year...
Bookstore Hosts 9th Circuit Judges' Debate
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Stephen Reinhardt and Alex Kozinski, the most outspoken judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, will de...
Senate OK Ends Partisan Battle Over Court of Claims Nominee
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Victor J. Wolski as a judge for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, ending yet an...
Special Court Speeds Pretrial Civil Matters
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - When the South Gate City Council slashed the salary of City Clerk Carmen Avalos by 90 percent in the fall, Avalo...
Blake Asks Court to Take Witness Statement Now
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake is asking the judge in his upcoming murder trial to take immediate testimony from a witness w...
O.C. Staffers Threaten Strike
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Just a day after Orange County Superior Court employees picketed the Central Justice Center, a union official said...
Little League Sued
By Gale Holland
SAN BERNARDINO - Two San Bernardino brothers molested by their Little League Baseball coach when they were teens filed a propo...
Bet Tzedek Ball Raises Money, Consciousness
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - For one night each summer, an organization founded to assist the region's disadvantaged elderly population becom...
Compromise Eases Progress of Elder Abuse Legislation
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, has succeeded in moving along a bill banning secret settlements in e...
Children's Play About Diversity Causes Uproar
By Allison Hawley
LOS ANGELES - Students at elementary schools in the Marin County city of Novato usually spend their school days learning their...
Water District's Suit Against Environmentalists Is Rejected
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Sacramento has tossed out on free speech grounds a lawsuit filed by the nation's largest ir...
Persistent Ex-Parolee Works Way Up Food Chain of Judicial System
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Drake Ward is doing his part to keep the system on its toes. Ward's prolonged, persistent and continu...
PG&E Tells PUC Judge There's No More Talking
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. demanded Wednesday that state utility regulators take an all-or-nothing approac...
Fazio: 'I'm Not a Quitter'
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Defense lawyer Bill Fazio didn't hold back in April as he assessed District Attorney Terence Hallinan's handli...
Court Respect for Autonomy of Parties Allows ADR to Flourish
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Focus Column Alternative Dispute Resolution By Richard Chernick Just as the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts have ...
Even '800-Pound Gorillas' Deserve Some Basic Civility
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Forum Column By Joel Benoliel The article "Taming the Beast" (Michael M. Berger, Forum, May 2) purported to tell the story of...
Library Visitors Should Study, Not
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Forum Column By Jay Sekulow The U.S. Supreme Court applied sound logic and common sense when it upheld the Children's Interne...
Services For Dick Iglehart
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service for Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Iglehart is scheduled for 4 p.m. today at ...
School Loses Fourth Appeal of $3 Million Verdict
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that could end 14 years of litigation, the Simi Valley Unified School District lost its fourth appe...
Committees OK Reforms Of 17200 Law
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Two state legislative committees approved bills Tuesday that proponents said would tweak California's unfair com...
Alameda Picks Probation Chief
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday for the first time exercised its new power to appoint the ...
Claims Court Nominee Draws Fire
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - A Senate vote is scheduled today on U.S. Court of Federal Claims nominee Victor J. Wolski, who has been strongly...
Judge Tosses Lead Paint Suit
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - In a major victory for the lead paint industry, a Santa Clara County judge Tuesday tossed out a lawsuit filed by B...
Champagne Toast Unlikely At Gathering On Indicators
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - To hear the U.S. government tell it, the Europeans want to take away your trusty green can of Kraft Parmesan ...
Attorney Harry Wartnick
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Harry Wartnick, a pioneer in asbestos litigation, died Monday after a long history of heart problems...
Curbing Poor Driving Habits
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - As the mother of a teenager who soon will drive and with the memory of her own spotty record during her youthful ...