Court OKs Zero Tolerance Of Drugs in Public Housing
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government's zero tolerance drug policy for public housing tenants got the OK Tuesday from the U.S...
Liner Yankelevitz Nabs Partner, Of-Counsel
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica-based Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif has recruited two new senior lawyers, who start ...
Verdicts in Dog-Mauling Case May Help Resolve Civil Suits
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury ended the strange and sensational criminal case against Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel with guilty ve...
Runaway Train
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Jeff E. Jared - On Feb. 7, 2002, a congressional panel, the Amtrak Reform Council, finally recognized the ob...
'Hard-Nosed' Litigator Founded Paul Hastings
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Lee G. Paul, the last surviving name partner at Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, has died at ...
Varian's Tormenters Are Back
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A month after signing a permanent injunction barring two research scientists from launching personal attacks agains...
Panel Reverses Disqualification of Lawyer for Remote Conflict
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - When Santa Monica attorney Joseph Hartley asked a lawyer who was representing his client's insurer to do a few d...
Pulling the Plug
By Contributing Writer
Dicta Column - By Abel R. Coombs - A quiet revolution is occurring in the telecommunications arena even as some of the larger ...
New Rules Aim to Attract More Death Row Attorneys
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Tuesday that attorneys who volunteer to take death penalty appeals will...
Boards Must Prepare for CEO Turnover, Avoid Snap Changes
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michael J. Bleck and Brad Keil - America's corporate boards are on a record-setting pace in replacing their ...
Jurist Finds Support, Camaraderie
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - One of Judge W. Robert Fawke's most heart-wrenching cases involved an 8-year-old girl who died after a stray ...
Judge Testing
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee fired the latest salvo in the battle over the pr...
Court Upholds HUD Evictions for Drug Use by Relatives
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government's zero-tolerance drug policy for public housing tenants got the OK on Tuesday from the ...
Judge Testing
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Susan Lerner - The battle over the now-rejected nomination of Charles Pickering to the 5th U.S. Circuit Cour...
Judge Testing
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee fired the latest salvo in the battle over the pr...
Mauling Verdicts Help Clarify Civil Suits
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury ended the strange and sensational criminal case against Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel with guilty ve...
Advocates for Tenants Settle With Landlord
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - He has been slapped with slum violations and paid thousands of dollars in fines, but lawyers for a tenants' righ...
Real Estate Firm Wins $1.5 Million in Damages
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles has awarded $1.5 million in compensatory damages to a Beverly Hills real estate in...
Organized Stupidity Sums Up Alleged Killers' Murder-for-Profit Scheme
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In the cavalcade of crime in Los Angeles, some events stand out because they so dramatically illustra...
Hearings Start In DA's Bid to Prove Murder In Meth Fire
By Peter Blumberg
UKIAH - Frank Brady told officers he accidentally ignited a wildfire while trying to heat up bath water to soak his hemorrhoid...
High Drama
By David Pike
Dicta Column - By David F. Pike - Do we really need two weekly TV series about the U.S. Supreme Court? Probably not. Even one ...
Challenger for DA Seat Gets Backing of Ex-Rivals
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Bonnie Dumanis, who hopes to unseat incumbent District Attorney Paul Pfingst in the November ...
Government Misses Point in Drug Fight
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jonathan Watkins - If you were one of the 130 million people who tuned into the Super Bowl this year, you pr...
Courtroom Commander Sets Calm Tone at Trial
By Tamara Scott
VAN NUYS - Judge Darlene Elizabeth Schempp commands her courtroom like a mothership. Schempp has a reputation as a straightfor...
Justices Puzzle Over Change to Sentencing Law
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - When William Joseph Harris, a pawnshop owner from Albermarle, N.C., came before U.S. District Judge William L. Os...
Burden Helps Plaintiff Fight Forum Non Conveniens Motion
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Peter J. Engstrom - You file an action on behalf of your client in Superior Court. The defendants respond wi...
PG&E's Latest Move Entails Paying 7.5 Percent to Creditors
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s unusual proposal to repay $2 billion to a group of major creditors at 7.5 perce...
Burden Helps Plaintiff Fight Forum Non Conveniens Motion
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Peter J. Engstrom - You file an action on behalf of your client in Superior Court. The defendants respond wi...
Pakistani Man Gets Four-Month Sentence
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - A 19-year-old Pakistani man was sentenced to four months in federal custody Monday after pleading guilty in Janu...
Environmentalists Suing Over Border Power Lines
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - For years, environmentalists have expressed alarm about U.S. corporations running for the Mexican border, alle...