Thoughtful and Prompt Response to Allegations of Wrongdoing Is Critical
By Columnist
Focus Column - By William A. Urquhart - On July 12, President Bush participated in the first meeting of the new inter-agency C...
Road Hazards
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Forum Column - By Clarissa Martinez de Castro and Cristina Huezo - The driver's license debate is yet another stage on which o...
Inglewood Needs Replacement City Attorney
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Inglewood is in the market for a new lawyer, after the old one resigned in the wake of a State Bar Court finding...
Courtney Love Works on Settling Lawsuit
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - She hasn't made it official, but punk-rocker-turned-movie-starlet Courtney Love is working on settling her breac...
Judges Have Added Power Under New Class-Action Rules
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The federal judiciary's policymaking body Tuesday unanimously approved new class action rules that give judges mo...
City Cannot Finance Treasurer's Defense
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has barred the city of South Gate from continuing to finance the city treasurer's defense ag...
Board Contends It Doesn't Control DA
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Over Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer's objections, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to tell the st...
Victims Get Another Chance To Win Back Swindled Funds
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a lawsuit against the Las Vegas casinos where a convicted swi...
Man Falsely Accused of Molestation Wins in Court
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A Culver City man who won an $800,000 federal jury verdict last week had accused Culver City police and one of i...
Animal Lovers Divided
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The California clapper rail, the least tern and the western snowy plover came away winners in a federal appell...
Finding Cure for Bias in Medicine
In an era of managed care and spiraling costs, most of us have come to expect a little less from our nation's health care syst...
Claim of Gay Harassment Can Go to Trial
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A splintered 11-judge federal appeals panel Tuesday reinstated a sexual harassment suit by an openly gay forme...
Gender Violence Made Actionable
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a measure Tuesday that allows victims of gender-based violence to sue their attackers for ...
White-Collar Defense Pro Sets Tone for New Lawyers
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - At a time of rampant corporate fraud and popular paperback novels portraying lawyers on the criminal fringe, col...
Santa Cruz Co-op Wants Dope Back
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Arguing that it is an ideal test case to challenge federal drug policy, attorneys for the operators of a Santa Cruz...
State Supreme Court Addresses Parameters of the SLAPP Statute
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Focus Column - By Clyde M. Hettrick, Carole E. Handler and Timothy J. Toohey - Since its enactment, the anti-SLAPP statute (Co...
Judge Refuses to Find Defender in Contempt
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside judge refused Tuesday to hold Public Defender Gary Windom in contempt for allegedly using privileged a...
Cop's Lawyer Grills Witness In Riders Trial
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - Attorney Michael Rains wasn't treating his star witness very well in Oakland Alameda County Superior Court on Tuesda...
No Charges Against DUI Dean
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Edward J. "Fast Eddy" Kuwatch, the Willits authority on drunken driving defense, has been vindicated ...
Judges Have Added Power Under Class-Action Rules
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The federal judiciary's policymaking body Tuesday unanimously approved new class action rules that give judges mo...
Finding Cure for Bias in Medicine
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Forum Column - By Alan Jenkins - In an era of managed care and spiraling costs, most of us have come to expect a little less ...
Special Sauce Indeed
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - What promises to be a huge consumer and environmental health fight - a legal hot potato, if you will - has lan...
Russo Grades His Performance
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - Attorney John Russo's first Community Report Card for the city's legal department is a pamphlet that summarizes the ...
Parties Should Take Care When Incorporating Arbitral Body Rules
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Focus Column - By Allison S.Y. Chang - Arbitration clauses in transborder agreements often cause unintended headaches to the p...
Man Accused of Oscar Heist Gets $50,000
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $50,000 to a La Puente loading dock worker, who claims he was wrongly ...
Ex-Con Writers Face Off in Ripley's Believe It or Not! of Civil Actions
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - An ex-convict has sued another ex-convict over a movie script. Robert Dellinger, who did a short stre...
Shirking Duty
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Dicta Column - By Sean Carter - As Americans, we often pay lip service to lofty ideals, such as truth, justice and finding a p...
Court Grants New Murder Trial, Cites Error
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Juror No. 5 didn't think the murder defendant was guilty. After reviewing the evidence and talking with his fell...
Transgender Student Settles With School
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A transgender woman starts cosmetology classes today after settling a lawsuit against a Los Angeles beauty colle...
Don't Lose Your Head When Reporters Call
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Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith - Columnist George Will said in a 1981 interview that "being a lifelong Ch...