Plaintiff Drops One Tobacco Firm as Defendant
By Gale Holland
LOS ANGELES - The attorney for a 63-year-old lung cancer patient suing cigarette makers for enticing him into a smoking addic...
Judge OKs $400,000 Settlement In Slaying of Danielle van Dam
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge approved a $400,000 settlement Wednesday in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against the ma...
Keep Elephants Together, Suit Says
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles woman Wednesday filed a lawsuit to try to block the Los Angeles Zoo from separating two female ele...
Panel OKs Limits on What Picketers Can Carry
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of a Los Angeles city ban on protesters carrying ...
Public Lawyers Agree to Cut Pay But Secure Promotions
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The city's public lawyers overwhelmingly approved a new contract Wednesday that temporarily cuts their pay by...
Closing Statements Begin For Brobeck
By Robin Davidson
LOS ANGELES -- Closing statements began late Wednesday in the trial pitting Dickson, Carlson & Campillo against former par...
Where to House a Sex Predator?
By Craiq Anderson
Reporter's Notebook - By Craig Anderson - State and local authorities cannot find a home for the first convicted child moleste...
No Magic Potion Will Rejuvenate Grand Jury
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - It is the Gray Wall of Orange County. As judges Wednesday selected the members of the 2003-04 grand jury that will...
The Worst Is Over, Gov. Davis Tells Courts
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - California's judiciary and trial courts should feel some relief after Gov. Gray Davis announced Wednesday he is ...
Lawyer Praises Judge for Assailing Detainee Policy
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles civil rights lawyer Wednesday praised a federal judge for blasting the U.S. government over its ha...
Judge Brings Humor to Bench
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - On his first week on the job, just out of law school, Santa Clara County prosecutor David H. Ezgar got a big surpri...
Marin Judge Can Run Hot and Cold
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN RAFAEL - Marin County Superior Court Judge John Stephen Graham barely speaks above a whisper in his dimly lit courtroom as...
SARS Raises a Variety of Legal Issues to Challenge Employers
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Scott H. Dunham and Anne E. Garrett - The world is facing an international health crisis be...
'Sanchez-Scott' Decision by Kuhl Proves Her Unfitness
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Forum Column - By Karl Manheim - In the fight over Judge Carolyn Kuhl's nomination to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, o...
Book Cooking
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Forum Column - By Stephen P. Milner - Many investors have a higher expectation of a certified audit than the actual intent and...
Kuhl's Recanting on 'Bob Jones' Irks Critics
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A former colleague of Carolyn Kuhl, the Los Angeles judge nominated for a spot on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Board Taps Prosecutor For Inspector General
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Andr Birotte Jr., a former deputy county public defender who became a federal prosecutor, is the Los Angeles Boa...
Court Delays Hearings on Trevor Group
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A hearing scheduled for today on state Attorney General Bill Lockyer's suit against the Trevor Law Group was abr...
Parties Settle 'Allstate' Fee Fight
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights will receive $175,000 for its work on a class action against All...
Detective Tells of Seedy Underworld
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - When he sat down for a deposition in November, Riverside police Detective Ronald E. Kipp provided a rare look in...
Chinese Slave Laborers Live to See Reckoning Day
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Four elderly Chinese survivors of Japanese slave labor camps arrived in Los Angeles Tuesday for a day of reckoni...
DNA Evidence Takes Spotlight In Trial for DA's Stabbing Death
By Matthew Heller
LOS ANGELES - For prosecutors, the DNA fragments on a bloody knife and a beer bottle are the key physical evidence in their ca...
Judge Rules On Evidence In McPherson Slaying Case
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ruled Tuesday to admit the confession of the man who allegedly killed a state senator's son, but she ...
Kuhl's Comments 'Astonish' Former Colleague
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A former colleague of Carolyn Kuhl, the Los Angeles judge nominated for a spot on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
GOP Bills to Fix 17200 Fail in Committee
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Three bills that proposed moderate reforms to the state's Unfair Competition Law were shot down by the Senate Jud...
Forbidden Fruit of the Vine
By Craiq Anderson
NAPA - In a constitutional battle between adherents of two conservative legal doctrines, Napa Valley wineries are demanding t...
Using Vigilante Tipsters Raises Questions
By Susan Mc Rae
By Susan McRae Nevada Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - One day in 2000, Capt. Kevin Murphy of the Montgomery, Ala., Police ...
Court's Amendments Improve Bankruptcy 'Rules of the Road'
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Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Wesley H. Avery - The Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California has amended i...
National Character
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Forum Column - By John A. Frederick - In her recent article "Nonbelievers Shouldn't Have to Honor a Deity They Do Not Worship"...
$16M Awarded In Candy Death
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury awarded nearly $16.7 million Monday to the family of a 12-year-old girl w...