Resignations and Suspensions
On the Move
Environmental
Attorney Catches a Wave of Aid for Malaria-Hit Countries
By Dennis Pfaffn
San Francisco antitrust lawyer and surfer Paul Riehle visited the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia looking for “the best waves in...
Over the past 23 years, Cynthia Holcomb Hall has left her mark on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — judicially and botan...
LOS ANGELES - Immigration reform may be dead in Congress, but at UCLA School of Law the push to build up a strong immigration ...
Litigation
Lawyer Accuses City Attorney of Bias in Probe of Supervisor's Residency
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for the elected supervisor charged with faking where he lives says the city attorney's office has bun...
Employment Column - By Kirk Pasich - Employers should investigate thoroughly what coverage their insurance policies provide fo...
Verdicts
Settling Suit Over Man's Death, Buena Park Provides Lifetime Support for Daughter, 2
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - A week after she was born, Violeta Lizette Herrera lost her father when he was gunned down by Buena Park police ...
Forum Column - By William F. Sullivan - The highest court in the land's favorable outlook on big business isn't simply a produ...
LOS ANGELES - This is a toy story, but a little less fun than the Disney film. In a verdict in Los Angeles federal court, a ju...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Priests' Privacy Rights Cannot Override Protection of Children
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By John Manly - A recent clergy sexual-abuse case in Santa Barbara illustrates how members of the Roman Catholi...
Litigation
Appeals Panel Tosses Suspension of Police Officer Over Video
By Laura Ernden
Web Exclusive - When San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong discovered that one of her officers made an offensive home video ...
LOS ANGELES - In the 2001 film "Serendipity," the free-spirited Sara, played by Kate Beckinsale, trusts that fate will lead he...
LOS ANGELES - Two days after a jury awarded a black lesbian firefighter $6.2 million in a discrimination case, it issued punit...
A woman whose father was killed in an industrial accident stood to become an instant millionaire after persuading a trial judg...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors hoping to persuade jurors to convict a former CEO of 10 felonies related to stock-options ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Just as San Bernardino County gets ready to welcome a bevy of new superior court judges, a grand jury has call...
Focus Column - By Roland Nikles - A case in the California Supreme Court has created a sea change in the administration of the...
Young attorneys in the Los Angeles office of Arnold & Porter are gaining valuable trial experience through a unique progra...
SACRAMENTO - Scott Thorpe, a 35-year veteran of the California attorney general's office, has been named chief executive offic...
Focus Column - By Bryan W. Wenter - The California Supreme Court recently put the brakes on a case that could have fundamental...
Forum Column - By Glenn C. Smith - The Supreme Court could have avoided the sloppy free-speech jurisprudence of Morse v. Fr...
California can't borrow money to meet its ever-growing obligation to public-employee retirees without first seeking voter appr...
WASHINGTON - The two prosecutors favored to be the new U.S. attorneys in Los Angeles and San Francisco likely will face smooth...
Forty years before William Ayres was accused of molesting boys, the prominent San Mateo County child psychiatrist roiled the ...
LOS ANGELES - A child who suffered severe brain damage and motor impairment as a result of untreated jaundice was awarded $96....
LOS ANGELES - Talk about jumping out of a plane without a parachute. Virgin America company was grounded in late 2006. The fle...
Forum Column - By Paul S. Weiland - The recent ruling in U.S. v. Atlantic Research clarifies the legal obligations of p...
San Mateo County Superior Court Judge H. James Ellis found his way to the bench through the jungles of Vietnam. ...
In a roundtable session, Michael V. Gisser, of Skadden Arps, Stephen D. Blevit, of Sidley Austin, and David M. Hernand, of Lat...