A Ruling Allows Inmates to Sue For Phone Fees
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - California inmates can sue over a surcharge the state levies on all telephone calls they make from prison, a fed...
Fine Legal Minds Appear as High-Profile Case Chasers
By Contributing Writer
Those tiny strips of ballot paper we've come to know as "chads" - dimpled, pregnant and otherwise - seem an apt metaphor for t...
Avoiding Legal Detours
By Eron Ben Yehuda
Attempts by the plaintiff's attorney to paint the intersection as "evil" failed, in part, because a directed verdict on govern...
Sheriff to Track 'Racial Profiling'
By Chris Ford
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to accept $75,000 in state money to fund the collection a...
Deputy District Attorney Ralph Torres Dies
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Services will be held Sunday for Ralph Torres, a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney. Torres died unexpe...
Another Opening
By Columnist
In many ways, entertainment resembles any other area of business law, giving rise to litigation over contract disputes, accusa...
Unpredictability
By Staff Writer
In the coming years, intellectual property rights are likely to spark increasingly vigorous debate as their potential value co...
Tinseltown Attorneys
By Columnist
A. Barry Cappello won a $54.2 million verdict for his client for breach of contract. Marc A. Karlin won a case that pitted the...
Taking the Initiative
By Columnist
Californians have long grappled with the questions raised by ballot initiatives, which have become a routine part of political...
Straits of Ignorance
Recently, I was invited to Cuba to do a Web presentation for a joint conference hosted by Cuba's National Union of Cuban Juris...
Miracle Worker
By Columnist
Myer J. Sankary embodies an unlikely combination: corporate business experience and cross-cultural sensitivity. His breadth of...
Assuring Fairness
By Columnist
Courts continue in their role of bolstering the integrity of the arbitration process while giving arbitrators power to determi...
Millennium Review
By Columnist
By Alex Ricciardulli Contrary to public opinion, the new millennium starts this New Year's Day: The U.S. Naval Observatory, t...
Tangled Web
By Columnist
Tax advisers are concerned about a new set of proposed regulations, just issued in October, that affect attorneys. The Interna...
Chief, Board Split Over Dog-Bite Policy
By Chris Ford
LOS ANGELES - Whether to tighten the leash on the Los Angeles Police Department's canines prompted debate Tuesday between the ...
ACLU Files First Amendment Suit Against Health Department
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The ACLU of San Diego and Imperial counties is suing the local Department of Heath and Human Services, alleging th...
I-91 Suit Proceeds
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In a ruling that could affect hundreds of thousands of commuters on Interstate 91, a San Bernardino County ...
Professor Accuses State Bar of Unlawful Election Procedures
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - State Bar officials and a chronic bar critic are scheduled to meet this morning over what the critic charges are...
Graham & James Plans to Accept Involuntary Bankruptcy
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Graham & James has consented to the involuntary bankruptcy proceedings initiated last month by three of th...
DA Pleads Not Guilty to Beating Ex-Wife's Lover
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - An Orange County sex crimes prosecutor pleaded not guilty to felony charges Tuesday for allegedly beating his estr...
Federal Bar Honors Six U.S. District Judges
By Martin Kruming
SAN DIEGO - The Federal Bar Association will sponsor a dinner Jan. 31 honoring six senior judges of the U.S. District Court in...
9th Refines Law Guiding International Custody Case
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - An Israeli media baron won reconsideration Tuesday of his child custody claim based on a broad new interpretat...
Federal, State Prison Inmates Seek Dismissal, Retrial Under 'Apprendi'
By David Pike
By David F. Pike Nevada Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - The dissenters to Supreme Court decisions regularly engage in hyper...
Board of Examiners Approves Airline Deal
By Andrea Rosas
By Andrea Rosas Nevada Journal Staff Writer CARSON CITY - The Nevada Board of Examiners has approved a two-year deal with Sou...
Freedom Remains Elusive for State, Federal Inmates
By David Pike
By David F. Pike Nevada Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - For many federal and state prisoners, the Supreme Court's decision ...
Court Hears Refugee's Claims That INS Violated His Right to Equal Protection
By David Pike
By David F. Pike Nevada Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - Tuan Anh Nguyen would not be sitting in a federal detention center ...
Court Strikes 'Migratory Bird Rule'
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Handing another important victory to the states, the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled Tuesday that the...
9th Circuit Reverses Gender-Bias Award
By Andrea Rosas
By Andrea Rosas Nevada Journal Staff Writer The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a $420,000 award to a Las Vega...
Diversity's Champion
By Contributing Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - It was another 12-hour day at Bank of America for Teveia Barnes, an associate general counsel, when she receiv...
Judicial Selections Send a Message
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - When President Clinton used his recess appointment power last month to install Roger Gregory on the 4th U.S. Circ...