Focus (Forum & Focus)
Employers Must Comply With State Laws on Meal Breaks, Rest Periods
By Don Debenedictisn
Employment Column – By D. Gregory Valenza - Employers must schedule meal periods and rest breaks with care. The Supreme Court’...
LOS ANGELES - A U.S. district judge has told prosecutors to reconsider their decision to seek the death penalty in a murder-an...
Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, second in command to Alberto Gonzales, told lawmakers that, before he left office ...
California workers hurt on the job lost their bid for bigger compensation awards Thursday, as the state Supreme Court handed a...
Disbarments, resignations and suspensions.
District Attorney Steve Cooley celebrated his 60th birthday this week by hosting a $500,000 birthday dinner for his re-electio...
Congress last year suspended habeas corpus rights for suspected terrorists detainted at Guantanamo Bay. Now that the U.S. Su...
LOS ANGELES - Vanderbilt University law professor Robert K. Rasmussen has been named dean of USC's Gould School of Law, ending...
Juvenile Court Judge Michael D. Coughlan shares stories of his childhood poverty when he works with the youth who appear befor...
The general counsel for a San Diego software company has joined the growing ranks of in-house attorneys indicted on corporate ...
Focus Column – By Lincoln D. Bandlow - More than an Apprentice or Average Joe should draft the participants’ release if a real...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Psychiatric Hospital Pays $2 Million to Settle Claims of Insurance Fraud
By Jim Adamekn
REDLANDS - Loma Linda Behavioral Medicine Center has shelled out $2 million to settle claims that it fraudulently billed feder...
An insurer that failed to settle a personal-injury lawsuit within the limits of its policy must pay $7.2 million to an Emeryvi...
LOS ANGELES - Robert S. Metzger has left Gibson Dunn & Crutcher to join Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Wednesday refused to let the U.S. Department of Energy off the hook for its role in cleaning u...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Dissent Rails at Sentence for Third Strike
By John Roemer
A dissenting judge called it "truly shocking," but a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a Los Angeles paranoid schizop...
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers are questioning whether the Justice Department intended to avoid Senate confirmation for the U.S. attor...
Web Exclusive - Four Santa Clarita Valley water agencies agreed to a settlement Wednesday that will pay up to $100 million for...
Judge George Genesta makes jury duty sound so appealing and patriotic that prospective jurors in his courtroom can't wait to b...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal law blocks Southern California air regulators from controlling emissions from railroads, by far one of...
Judicial Profile
9th Circuit Conservative Is a Forceful Player on and Off Court
By Amelia Hansen
Appointed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President George H.W. Bush in 1989, Judge Pamela Ann Rymer is known as a...
Santa Monica litigation shop Alschuler Grossman announced Tuesday it will combine with Bingham McCutchen, adding 40 attorneys ...
Santa Barbara County Superior Court Commissioner Deborah M. Talmage takes keen interest in the rehabilitation of drug-court de...
SAN FRANCISCO - The longer the engagement, the more commitment a couple can incur when the time finally comes to walk the aisl...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ronald T.L. Young, 58, a Superior Court judge who served Napa County for more than 22 years, has retired from ...
Letter to the Editor - I read your April 27 article regarding [Riverside County District Attorney] Rod Pacheco and [Riverside ...
Focus Column - By Mel Levine - If your client becomes the subject of congressional oversight investigations, follow these tips...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The bad behavior by the press over Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin’s never-ending custody ba...
An Iraq War veteran suffering post-traumatic stress disorder will not have to go to prison for possessing two stolen pieces of...
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - The U.S. Supreme Court has reopened the door a crack on the important issue of abortion, r...