Equal Protection
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Myron Dean Quon - During the month of June, people in California have celebrated lesbian, gay, bisexual and ...
Ruling Resurrects Automaker's Libel Lawsuit Against Publisher
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a setback for the media's First Amendment protections, a federal appeals court on Tuesday gave Suzuki Motor...
Volunteer for Poor Touched Hearts of All Who Knew Her
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Family, friends and co-workers are mourning the loss of Enid Davis, a beloved longtime Daily Journal employee wh...
Commissioner Who Rose From Bailiff Retires
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Ernest A. Lopez would like to think that he was a fair and compassionate jurist to those who appeared before him...
Baby Sitter Gets Time For Endangering Child
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - A Corona woman who left an infant in her van for several hours on a sweltering summer day was sentenced Tuesday to...
Exhibits Are Essential in Any Contract Involving Outsourcing
By Columnist
Focus Colum - By Greg Short - Whether negotiating an information-technology outsourcing contract or a business-process outsour...
May the Feng Shui Be Harmonious for You
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - You might have read recently about the feng shui fiasco in Sausalito, where residents h...
Life After Copyright: It's Spelled DRM
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Yet another legal scholar is heralding the demise of copyright law as we know it. And if there's anything to t...
Often Delayed Murder Case Goes to Trial
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Accused murderer Robert Lee Williams has managed to delay his trial for seven years, burning through four lawyers ...
Hearing the Fountain
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A defining moment for Associate Justice Maria P. Rivera of the 1st District Court of Appeal came at the Broadw...
Court Gives Man Shot at 'Golf.TV'
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - South Korean citizen Je Ho Lim, frustrated in his attempts to purchase the "Golf.TV" domain name from California...
Third Party Allowed in Prop. 65 Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Monday approved a Proposition 65 settlement with the maker of valves used in water pipe...
Lawyer Must Stand Trial for Extortion
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Monterey Park attorney faces trial on charges he tried to extort money from a San Gabriel businessman. At the...
CJP Hears of Courtroom Strife
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Van Voorhis, facing a second set of misconduct...
New State Bar President Vows To Restore Pride to Profession
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - Vowing to restore pride to the California legal profession by the end of 2003, James E. Herman of Santa Barbar...
Jury Must Decide Death, Court Says
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In the second decision in two weeks that could reduce the number of executions in this country, the U.S. Supreme ...
Tracking Results
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Dicta Column - By Sharon Berman - Lawyers can learn valuable business development lessons from their marketing failures as wel...
Jurist Drops Charges Against Immigrants
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has dismissed criminal charges against seven Iranian immigrants accused of soliciting money for ...
Ross Perot Could Become the Martha Stewart of California Energy Crisis
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Pint-size, jug-eared Texas billionaire Ross Perot could become the Great Satan - or at least the Mart...
Anti-Discrimination Laws May Apply to Employees Abroad
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Focus Column - By Alison P. Adema - The extraterritorial application of a statute involves the regulation of conduct beyond U....
Criminalist Links Hair Evidence to Westerfield
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Dog hairs and carpet fibers found in David A. Westerfield's motor home and his Sabre Springs house link the 50-yea...
Carr & Ferrell Gets Partner From Brobeck
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - John Montgomery, co-chairman of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's 56-lawyer business and technology practice i...
Judge Weathered Firestorm From Simpson Custody Case
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Though Orange County Superior Court Judge Nancy Wieben Stock has been on the bench for more than 12 years, her end...
Attorney Comes Back to Stradling Yocca
By Toni Vranjes
NEWPORT BEACH - After eight years of practicing as an in-house attorney at medical companies, Robert C. Funsten has returned t...
Keeping a Close Eye on Authority
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Forum Column - By Mark Schlosberg - On June 9, following a 17-year legal battle to obtain information under the Freedom of Inf...
FEHA Allows Age Bias in Job Benefits, Court Rules
By Matthew King
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court Monday upheld the right of employers to consider age when deciding which benefits to g...
High Court Misunderstands Origin of Thought, Freedom
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Forum Column - By Cyrus S. Nownejad - The U.S. Supreme Court's majority ruling in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, wh...
Hospital Gets $200 Million in Punitive Award
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Monday ordered Genentech Inc. to pay $200 million in punitive damages to the City of Hope - f...
May the Feng Shui Be Harmonious for You
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - You might have read recently about the feng shui fiasco in Sausalito, where residents h...
Tracking Results
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Sharon Berman - Lawyers can learn valuable business development lessons from their marketing failures as wel...