From Staff Reports - Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, as expected, will be the U.S. Supreme Court's new liaison to the 9t...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The Bruce Springsteen song goes "one step up, and two steps back" and so is the case with ...
Focus Column - By Frank J. Coughlin and Leslie Patko - Are demand letters, or even lawsuits, truly privileged? The answer now ...
LOS ANGELES - Patrick Sweeney met resistance when he approached his alma mater, Whittier Law School, about teaching a course ...
LOS ANGELES - Show me the evidence, or show me the money. That's the message attorney Bradley Gage wants to send the city of L...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Alice C. Hill is known for doing the work of 10 people and never losing ...
Banking
12 Years Into Five Life Sentences, Bad-Check Writer Wins Innocence
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - It turns out that a woman sentenced to five life sentences for writing bad checks in Nevada didn't actually co...
WASHINGTON - Questions about the lawfulness of the Bush administration's covert surveillance program are taxing the sharpest o...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge on Wednesday rejected a discrimination lawsuit brought by followers of a Chinese spiritu...
Litigation
Defense Counsel Focus Attention on 'Safe Products' Initiative
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - Tort reformers have set their sights on a ballot initiative that could insulate manufacturers from paying puniti...
Administrative/Regulatory
Wanted: Sanctuary for Signers
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Where West La Cadena Drive meets Interstate 215 in Riverside, the hands are now silent. There, for nearly 50 years...
TIME DOESN'T PAY - A mile may be a long way to walk from your parking space in the company lot, but that doesn't mean your emp...
LOS ANGELES - Two Attorneys Join Bankruptcy Court Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has a...
Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - The term "voir dire" translated from Norman French, means "to speak the truth." See Bo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sex sells. Finally. More than two years after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a domain name ...
Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - In the ceaseless culture wars in the United States that target and cast aspersions on media p...
Letter to the Editor - In "TV Skews Americans' Understanding of Real Justice System" (Jan. 27 Daily Journal), Joshua Marquis m...
Forum Column - By Yolanda Arias - The president and the House of Representatives are trying to strike a blow against foster ch...
Letter to the Editor - The issue of whether to impose a two-year moratorium on California's death penalty so that a California...
SAN FRANCISCO - In what came down to a high-stakes game of Semantic Scramble, San-Jose based Think Outside Inc. scored a signi...
Administrative/Regulatory
City, County Agree to Improve Handicap Access
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County and the Superior Court agreed Tuesday to spend the next 18 months and up to $9 million impro...
LOS ANGELES - The testimony of a 26-year-old man who has accused a former priest of molesting him years ago went from tearful...
LOS ANGELES - Barry Mitidiere figured he had a pretty good construction-defect class action when he found a Las Vegas retireme...
LOS ANGELES - Eliminating the threat of a lawsuit, the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday gave a $50,000, 12-week consulting jo...
SAN FRANCISCO - James G. Butler Jr., a senior trial attorney with San Francisco's Veen Firm, is the new president of the San F...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
9th Circuit Joins Others, Strikes Partial-Birth Act
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Congress' ban on certain late-term abortions is unconstitutional, a unanimous 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appea...
LOS ANGELES - Girls 1, Boys 1. And both sides were happy with the score. Senior U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian approve...
SAN FRANCISCO - On a summer day in 2000, 12-year-old Anthony McCurdy was on his way to a Chicago bowling alley when the front ...
WASHINGTON - Seven months ago, the state Supreme Court pronounced the state's criminal sentencing system constitutionally hea...
SAN JOSE - Privacy advocates are trying a new strategy in their battle to stop the Bush administration's domestic surveillanc...