Panel Tosses Injunction Halting Online Critics
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - Two former employees of Varian Medical Systems are free to continue firing away without restriction their online v...
Law Cracks Down on Phony Legal Services
By Susan Mc Rae
Cracking down on swindlers offering phony legal services to immigrants has received a boost with a new law that goes into effe...
Bankruptcy Lawyer Jack Stutman Dies at Age 86
By Lisa Madrid
Renowned bankruptcy attorney Jack Stutman, founder of Stutman, Treister & Glatt, has died. Stutman, who retired several ye...
ACLU May Sue County Over Scouts' Lease
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - The ACLU will probably file suit against Orange County after a decision by the Board of Supervisors to allow the B...
Federal Jury Awards Widow of Man Shot by Deputy $3 Million
By Tessa Jarrett
RIVERSIDE - Seven years have passed since Anne-Marie Speaker heard the crack of the gunshot from a sheriff's sergeant that kil...
Court Reverses Itself, Dumps Malpractice Case
By Dawn Piimanu
A state appellate court Tuesday threw out a malpractice suit against Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as time-barred, after ruling ...
Rampart Victim Asks for Damages Under RICO
By Susan Mc Rae
A day after his release from immigration jail, Oscar Ochoa, one of more than 100 people who had their criminal cases overturne...
Scapegoat
By Columnist
DICTA When one partner is singled out as a problem personality, the firm should take a look at its own structure before takin...
9th Circuit Sides With Protesters In Housing Case
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal housing officials in San Francisco trampled on the First Amendment rights of three Berkeley residents...
USC Student Sees Davis Parole Client
By Jill Boekenoogen
When Gov. Gray Davis announced earlier this week that he was authorizing the parole of a convicted murderer - the first time h...
Deadly Combination of Celebrity Hubris, Brain Failure Produces Riddles
By Garry Abrams
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we're here today because my client "was stupid" - and because the star of the movie my clie...
DA's Son Pleads to Drug Charge
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - The son of Orange County's district attorney has pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge, but he avoided a jail sen...
Board to Consider Battered Women's Syndrome
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - The state Board of Prison Terms will be required to consider evidence of battered women's syndrome in certain par...
Witkin Dinner a Roaring Success
By Martin Kruming
The Bernard E. Witkin Award Dinner continues to grow in popularity. In 1999, it drew 190 people and netted around $17,000, up ...
China Imprisons Mother of 10 for Women's Rights Work
By Columnist
Rebiya Kadeer is a well-known businesswoman and mother of 10 from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China. In 1995, she...
U.S. Nabs Boat and 2 1/2 Tons of Cocaine
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Coast Guard and Navy crews patrolling more than 200 miles west of Panama have made what authorities said was the f...
Parents of Teen Shot During a Prank Sue
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - The parents of a Buena Park teen-ager who was shot and killed last year after a Halloween prank have filed a civil...
Alameda Superior Court Hires Sims as CEO
By Staff Reports
Longtime Riverside County administrator Arthur A. Sims will be the next chief executive officer of Alameda County Superior Cou...
Supporting Democracy
By Contributing Writer
The African AIDS crisis made headlines once again at this month's U.N. Millennium Summit. While the spread of HIV demands atte...
Arrested Attorneys Want to Ensure Access
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Three lawyers who were arrested trying to enter the San Francisco Hall of Justice said they want a meeting wit...
Man With Nine Aliases Pleads to DNC Crimes
By Anne La Jeunesse
An Illinois man arrested while marching in an anti-fur protest during the Democratic National Convention pleaded guilty Tuesda...
O.C. Man Sues Over Dad's Rezulin Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - In the latest of an avalanche of lawsuits involving the prescription drug Rezulin, an Orange County man is suing t...
Pacheco Seeks Accounts of INS Abuse of Aliens
By Chris Ford
As part of his effort to address alleged civil rights violations and abuses of process by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalizat...
Defense Attorneys Oppose Delay of Rampart Trial
By Anne La Jeunesse
Attorneys representing four Los Angeles police officers accused by former Officer Rafael Perez of participating in corrupt act...
Larson Sworn in as Federal Magistrate Judge
By David Houston
Stephen G. Larson, a veteran assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and highly regarded expert on Russian organized crime, has...
'Cab' Calloway's Widow Regains All Rights
By Dawn Piimanu
Cabell "Cab" Calloway's widow has regained all rights that the famed bandleader signed away before his death in 1994, accordin...
Court Reverses Ruling Under Anti-SLAPP Law
By Matthew Heller
VENTURA - A state appellate court has dismissed a suit brought by attorney Edward L. Masry against the developer of a Thousand...
City Seeks Study of Justice System
By Chris Ford
The Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday to ask the state attorney general's office to examine how the criminal justice sys...
9th Circuit Tosses Montana Law
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling with campaign financing implications, a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down as unconstitu...
Woman Fired Over Pierced Tongue Sues Her Employer
By Ed Kimble
A Woodland Hills apartment leasing consultant who allegedly was fired because she got her tongue pierced announced a lawsuit a...