SACRAMENTO - The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee will convene hearings today aimed at giving the state a bigger role in...
Administrative/Regulatory
State Hopes Enron Deal Spurs New Settlements
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Now that California has wrapped up a $1.52 billion settlement package with Enron over alleged price gouging durin...
Labor/Employment
Panel Underscores Employer's Duty to Shield From Harassment
By Peter Blumberg
A Honduras native who was hounded out of her job as postmaster in a small Oregon town now will get a chance to prove the commu...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Donna Hitchens, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman partner Richard W. Odgers and...
Intellectual property litigation partner Neil Smith has left the San Francisco office of Howard Rice Nemerovsky Canady Falk &a...
INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - Alere Property Group purchased a 121,225-square-foot food distribution facility at 1400 Allec St. from V...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Thomas M. Donnelly and Matthew K. Narensky - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in December in...
Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards - The Committee to Protect Journalists, a watchdog group for global press freedom, monito...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Technicality Aside, Medical Pot Is Now Illegal In California
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Forum Column - By Robert E. Walston - Given the Supreme Court's recent decision in Gonzales v. Raich , 125 S.Ct. 2195 (2005), ...
Labor/Employment
Hazy Medical-Marijuana Laws Challenge Workplace Policymakers
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Employment Column - By Debora A. Buljat and E. Joseph Connaughton - Commonly cited side effects of marijuana are confusion and...
LOS ANGELES - On a Saturday afternoon in March, Kathryn L. Black was taking a break from her bicycle ride. She was resting by...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral's Bag of Tools Includes Humor, Honesty
By Lorelei Laird
ORANGE - When negotiations get tense, David H. Brickner likes to defuse things with a joke. "Frankly, I don't really think th...
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar of California on Thursday elected five attorneys to its Board of Governors, and plans to swear the...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for an Orange County man, held for a year in immigration jail for overstaying his student visa two decad...
Judges and Judiciary
Democrats, Supporters Urge High-Court Nominees to Answer Broad Range of Questions
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - A new front in the Supreme Court nomination skirmishing opened Thursday when Democrats and supporters insisted t...
LOS ANGELES - The romance between screen stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez is yesterday's news. But a man caught up a few ...
LOS ANGELES - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Thursday named five new members, including three lawyers, to the Los Angeles Boar...
SAN FRANCISCO - The former office manager for San Francisco's Pave & Bogaards has been charged with embezzling more than $...
Judges and Judiciary
Referee Treats Kids in Her Dependency Court as Her Own
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - When she was a child, Jacqueline H. Lewis remembers how her mom used to tease her because she would say that sh...
Supreme Court Column - By Brent Kendall - To date, it's the nonevent of the summer. In case you hadn't heard, Chief Justice Wi...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government has pledged a handsome reward for the whistleblower who revealed a massive medical fra...
LOS ANGELES - Though she died five years ago, an Islamic woman's burial continues to provoke controversy about religious freed...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Thursday to reconsider how much suspicion is required to search ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Saddled with a six-figure campaign debt, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris looked south for financ...
Commissioner Doffs Robe After 25 Years LOS ANGELES - Patricia G. Schwartz, a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner, has reti...
SAN FRANCISCO - American companies can no longer avoid U.S. patent laws by shipping master versions of their software to fore...
WASHINGTON - A bill that Republicans say would reduce the strain on federal courts caused by a rising number of habeas corpus...
Labor/Employment
Cases Show 'Sav-On' Curbing Overtime Class Action Grants
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Steven B. Katz - When the California Supreme Court decided Sav-On v. Superior Court , 34 Ca...
Judges and Judiciary
With Recent Supreme Court Rulings, Era of States' Rights Is Over
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Forum Column - By Michael Halley - The Supreme Court's recent decisions in Gonzales v. Raich , 2005 DJDAR 6530, authorizing fe...
LOS ANGELES - Arthur Rieman likes to keep his law firm down to earth. Even its name, the Law Firm for Non-Profits, is simple. ...