RIVERSIDE - Two years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union won nearly $1 million in attorney fees from San Diego in settlem...
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday raised hopes that Californians will get $1 billion or more in additional refun...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William R. Chidsey's legal career offers a unique glimpse into contemporary Los Angele...
SAN FRANCISCO - The family of a chronic alcoholic who ran over a bicyclist after a lunchtime drinking binge should have known ...
Tom Stark took it hard when his wife fell for another man and moved out of their home in Contra Costa County. He wept often, l...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Amplification Is Good, for Lawyers and Bands
By David Minkown
Letter to the Editor - I am a trial lawyer and frequently hear the idiotic cocktail banter about frivolous lawsuits and ambula...
Criminal
Jury Convicts Four Gang Members for Trying to Drive Blacks From Neighborhood
By David Houstonn
LOS ANGELES - A racially mixed jury convicted four Latino gang members of conspiracy and federal civil-rights charges for thei...
Forum Column - Last week, the Supreme Court of the state of Washington joined its counterpart in New York by upholding its sta...
LOS ANGELES - Against the advice of the city attorney, the Los Angeles City Council is expected move forward on a plan today t...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediating Elder-Abuse Cases Requires Special Sensitivities
By David Minkown
Focus Column - Practitioners of alternative dispute resolution are well aware that each mediation has its own personality. ...
LOS ANGELES - The University of California, Irvine, has renewed its bid for a law school. The request comes five years after t...
Forum Column - In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court held that to exclude anyone from a jury on the basis of race is unconstitutiona...
Immigration
Lebanese-American Lawyer Struggles With Being a 'Citizen of the World'
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - Wafa Hoballah has a typical Lebanese joie de vivre. She greets international clients with a musical 'Bonjour' or...
Judges and Judiciary
Tossing Conviction, Panel Blasts Judge for Inserting Herself in Trial
By Laura Ernden
An Orange County judge scolded six years ago for her unorthodox style in the courtroom returned to the hot seat again this wee...
Product Liability
Lawyer for Merck Questions Amount of Vioxx Plaintiff Took
By David Houstonn
LOS ANGELES - Mounting a fierce attack on the plaintiff in California's first Vioxx trial Tuesday, a Merck & Co. lawyer ac...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Tuesday jailed a freelance videographer for refusing to hand over his videotape of a 2005 anar...
MARTINEZ - Veteran defense attorney and legal analyst Daniel Horowitz took the stand Tuesday as a witness for the prosecution ...
Workers' Comp.
How Has Workers' Compensation Reform Affected the Legal System?
By Annemarie Ruffn
The Daily Journal spent time with four professionals who practice before the Workers Compensation Appeals Board and asked how ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Companies hit with a $175 million punitive-damages verdict in a water pollution lawsuit saw that amount cut Tu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mohamed Aboushaban is truly a man without a country. ...
Judges and Judiciary
California Judges Association Board Unanimously Condemns Mandatory Continuing Education
By David Houstonn
SAN FRANCISCO - The governing board of the California Judges Association voted unanimously to condemn the Judicial Council's p...
LOS ANGELES - Cheniere Energy received $1.5 billion in credit to build a natural gas processing plant in a deal arranged in pa...
Commissioner Craig B. Regan, the short-order cook of the Sacramento County Courthouse, knows all the short cuts to handling up...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawrence B. Low, who helped found the San Francisco outpost of Preston Gates & Ellis, began at Orrick, Har...
An appellate panel on Monday threw out a Honduran immigrant's murder conviction, finding it was based on a confession coerced ...
LOS ANGELES - Interpreters for the Los Angeles County Superior Court say they may strike at any time after a meltdown in labor...
Securities
Number of Securities Class Actions in U.S. Decreases Sharply
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Filings of securities fraud class actions declined sharply in the first half of 2006, hitting the lowest level f...
LOS ANGELES - Gibson Dunn & Crutcher will receive the 2006 Corporate Award for Special Achievement in Adoption on Saturday...
SAN FRANCISCO - The proposed $4.5 billion acquisition of Mercury Interactive Corp. by technology solutions giant Hewlett-Packa...
Constitutional Law
Free-Speech Ruling Makes Little Allowance for the Realities of Life
By David Minkown
Forum Column - Richard Ceballos was, in 2000, a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney whose suit against the district at...