Parents Fault Lack of Seat Belt in Boy's Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Fifteen-year-old Steven Allen Edgar was killed when he was ejected from the back seat of a Ford Explorer that...
Panel Will Review Election Cash Issue
By Chris Ford
LOS ANGELES - During a special session today, Los Angeles' Ethics Commission may press for legislation requiring political gro...
Swerve Maneuver
By Christopher Duenas
Although some think that bad publicity about the Ford Explorer's exploding tires could make defending Ford product liability c...
Bush Should Heed Concerns Of African-American Leaders
By Columnist
President George W. Bush touted his recent White House meeting with a hand-picked group of African-American ministers, farmers...
Commerce In Camera
By Dawn Piimanu
It was business unusual among last year's Top 10 defense cases. While corporate contract matters dominated the list, only one ...
Double Fault
By Tamara Nowlin
With the plunk of an oil drill on the floor of the ocean, a controversy erupted on the land up above. It started with Lloyd's ...
A Last Glance
By Staff Writer
In a nutshell, a final summation of the Top 10 defense cases of 2000. ...
In the Shadow of the Valley
By Julie Sung
In Silicon Valley, big tech breakthroughs can spell big damage demands in litigation. And that's how defense counsel sees a re...
Twice Is Nice
By Ed Kimble
Litigation over issues related to inadequate child support payments is widespread in California. The surprise is that technolo...
Flood Level
By Tamara Nowlin
It started with a dripping waterspout that turned into a puddle big enough to drown a toy retailer's chance of hitting the big...
Wilson Elser Litigator Dies Unexpectedly at 58
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Geoffrey Gaidos, an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, died Sund...
No Way Out
By Tamara Nowlin
On a raw night in San Francisco, the screams of three firefighters trapped in a burning building could not be heard. Melanie S...
Stock Indigestion
By Ed Kimble
When National Semiconductor gobbled up Cyrix Corp., it gave shareholders $240 million worth of heartburn. But they got no reli...
Member Says Board Broke 'Sunshine' Laws
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - The sole holdout in a vote to settle a book-banning lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against ...
Information Society?
By Columnist
Aaron Epstein owns a piece of real estate in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. When the city in 1998 expanded the Hollywood E...
Caught in the Act
By Ed Kimble
Vantive Corp. looked like a sure bet. The customer-service software developer went public in August 1995 at $6 a share. Rapid ...
Legendary Public Defender Dies
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Frederick D. Smith, the first black attorney to be hired as a San Francisco public defender and to serve as th...
Judge Dismisses Fired PD's Discrimination Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Riverside County Public Defender Margaret Spencer, who alleged she...
Chanler Prevails Against As You Sow
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chanler, a controversial plaintiffs lawyer who helped pioneer the aggressive pursuit of Proposition 6...
Critical Condition
By Columnist
* Health Care Law * By Lowell C. Brown and R. Gregory Cochran By now, most Americans generally are aware that federal law for...
Chinese Spiritualist Leaves Immigration Jail
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - After 13 months, Zhang Hongbao, founder of Zhong Gong, a highly popular meditative discipline that China has bra...
Local Position
* Constitutional Law * By Erwin Chemerinsky One of the most dramatic changes in the law in recent years has been the U.S. Sup...
Ruling May End Double-Filing of Sex Charges
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court decision handed down this week could mean an end to a prosecutorial tactic of charging d...
Suit Seeks New Voting Machines
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - The state's lotto machines are more reliable than many of its voting machines, according to a lawsuit challengin...
Judge Continues Assault on Fees In Class Actions
By John Roemer
By John Roemer Nevada Journal Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Vaughn J. Walker's activist attitude toward fe...
Judge Rejects Huge Fee in Smog Refund Litigation
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - In a stinging defeat for five law firms, a Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Tuesday that the firms are not ...
Committee Picks Architect To Build New Courthouse
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A Chicago architect won a contest to design a $300-million federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, which is ...
Critical Condition
By Columnist
9th Circuit holds that hospitals' duties under "patient dumping" laws are triggered when the ambulance contacts a hospital.
Justices Uphold Prevailing-Wage Penalty
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - California may withhold payment to subcontractors on state projects who fail to pay employees the state's prevail...
Spring Downers
By Columnist
April is upon us once more, bringing all the portents of spring. For some, New Year's is the appropriate time for reflection, ...