Judges and Judiciary
Roberts Hearings Compete With Civilization's Collapse
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Only a few days ago, the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on John G. Roberts Jr.'s nomination ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case closely watched by members of the securities bar, a federal judge has thrown out a Securities and E...
INDUSTRIAL SIMI VALLEY - D&B Simi LLC has sold two buildings at the Tapo Business Park for a total of $4.1 million. 4583 I...
Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards - Come late summer, college and university campuses begin to crackle with excitement over...
Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - In a letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times, which, to the paper's credit, it publis...
Labor/Employment
Circumstantial Evidence Has Key Role in Proving Unlawful Discrimination
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Employment Column - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Elysa Yanowitz, a former regional sales manager for L'Oreal, was placed in the une...
Focus Column - Family Law - Sometimes, one party to marriage feels "misled" by the other party, and sometimes the first party,...
LOS ANGELES - Retired 4th District Court of Appeal Justice Robert Gardner Jr., known for his witty opinions and no-nonsense j...
LOS ANGELES - A recent appellate opinion chips away at the scope of a judge's immunity from civil liability, according to an ...
SAN JOSE - A panel of three retired judges has chosen the Dechert firm and Palo Alto-based partner Chris Scott Graham to inve...
SAN FRANCISCO - A commercial litigator by trade, Stephen Dunham has worked on cases ranging from intellectual property to ant...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Bay Area biotechnology company has won a permanent injunction on top of $36 million in damages against a ma...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral Relies Partly on Formula for Success
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - A widowed elderly father "carrying on with younger women" concerned his children and their spouses, attorney Ren...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Sutter Health Countersues Its Uninsured Patients for Payment
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - Faced with a lawsuit by uninsured patients saying they can't afford their medical bills, a health care provider...
BAKERSFIELD - Commissioner Linda S. Etienne learned early on that getting through the pro per-packed calendar of small-claims ...
Litigation
Jury Awards $27 Million Against San Francisco in Fatal Accident
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury Thursday awarded more than $20 million to the family of a 4-year-old girl who was killed...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. courts have no power to block the extradition to Thailand of an American citizen who faces drug trafficking...
INDUSTRIAL THOUSAND OAKS - Palisades Associates purchased industrial buildings totaling 465,000 square feet at 1445 and 1465 ...
Forum Column - By Olivier Theard - Except for a capital murder trial, no legal process is as fraught with the true, raw emotio...
Law Practice
Katrina Brings Lawyers, Courts -- Justice Itself -- To Their Knees
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Forum Column - Law professor Michelle Ghetti , of Southern University Law Center, in Baton Rouge, La., wrote this dispatch Wed...
Administrative/Regulatory
Academic Senates Have Role In Designing Hiring Policies
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Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson In the recent case of Irvine Valley College Academic Senate v. Boar...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Deaf Woman Sues Hospital for Failure to Provide Translator
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A deaf Los Angeles woman Wednesday sued a local hospital for failing to provide a sign-language translator to h...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors released indictments Tuesday accusing four men of conspiring to attack U.S. military bases a...
LOS ANGELES - If the California law community were a pick-up scene, Russ, August & Kabat would be among the most eligible ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Raul A. Sahagun says he has heard the rumors - rumors that he's a tough senten...
LOS ANGELES - After months of dissatisfaction over a reorganization plan by administrators of The Children's Law Center of Lo...
SAN FRANCISCO - A land trust that benefits native Hawaiians to the exclusion of others is a fair target for a discrimination ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Bill Would Let Kids Testify Via Closed Circuit in Some Cases
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers sent a bill to the governor Wednesday that would let children testify over closed circuit television in...
Column - By Garry Abrams - The war on terrorism would be a lot easier to fight if everybody in this country was naked and illi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A case all about coupons has a winner. In a decision hailed as a victory for smaller companies, a federal jur...