LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by four "Avon ladies" who claimed the company shipped th...
Environmental
U.S. Ecology Wants $270 Million From State Over Project That Didn't Happen
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The fight to build a radioactive waste repository in the Mojave Desert long ago faded from the headlines, a re...
Law Practice
Veteran Seen as Favorite for Santa Clara Public Defender Post
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - With interviews scheduled to begin today for the soon-to-be vacant Santa Clara County public defender's position, ...
LOS ANGELES - The defense in Michael Jackson's child molestation case needs to fail. If Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. and his defense...
INDUSTRIAL CITY OF INDUSTRY - Tetra Tech Industries purchased a 44,118-square-foot industrial building at 19481 San Jose Ave. ...
Focus Column - Immigration Law -By Mark Ivener - Most American employers are quite familiar with the first provision of the I...
Labor/Employment
Office Betting: Morale Booster or Legal Landmine for Employers?
By Columnist
Column - Employment - By John E. Lattin IV - Year in and year out, the recently concluded NCAA men's basketball tournament is ...
Technology & Science
Legislatures, Not Courts, Are Best to Solve Stem-Cell Dilemma
By Columnist
Letter to the Editor - Republican leaders in the House reached an agreement that will place embryonic stem cell research on Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and one of its biggest creditors scoffed at Tower Snow Jr.'s clai...
SAN FRANCISCO - It didn't take long for the lawyers suing the makers of a popular anti-depressant over allegedly dangerous sid...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles homeowner is out of luck in trying to collect on his insurance policy for landslide damage cause...
SAN DIEGO - After the last people who lived in Hotel San Diego shuffled away, a corner liquor store that sold many of them hal...
SAN FRANCISCO - The meat industry has launched a preventive legal assault on efforts that could require consumer warnings abo...
LOS ANGELES - They don't take a lot of breaks in Department F at the Pomona South Courthouse. It would be like pulling the pl...
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury on Thursday acquitted two Los Angeles County deputy sheriffs of seven counts of beating and inju...
INDUSTRIAL FULLERTON - Dalton Enterprises purchased a 34,000-square-foot industrial building at 1900 Raymer from Dragon Prope...
Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - The 19th century military theorist Karl von Clausewitz famously commented that war "is...
Media
O' Shakespeare! Something is Rotten in the State Of Journalism
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - All right, I admit to being a hopelessly old-fashioned pedant, but still ... I've been troubled of late...
Letter to the Editor - The article "Justice System Encourages False Claims of Domestic Violence" (April 15 Daily Journal) was ...
SAN BERNARDINO - Sacramento Public Defender Paulino G. Duran has hired former San Bernardino Public Defender John Roth, who re...
SANTA ANA - Alejandro Avila was physically and emotionally abused by an alcoholic father who sexually molested his daughters,...
NAPA - Other judicial officers have risen from blue-collar backgrounds, but Napa County Superior Court Commissioner Michael S...
Criminal
Runaway Bride Cheats Cable News of Nice, Cozy Heterosexual Murder
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - There's a growing national consensus that Jennifer Wilbanks, the runaway bride with the big, big ey...
LOS ANGELES - Gabriela Jaramillo was stunned when LAPD officers raided her Hancock Park medical-marijuana dispensary, called h...
Administrative/Regulatory
Prosecutor Readies Office for Her Retirement
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Paula Kuty, Santa Clara County's chief assistant district attorney and the behind-the-scenes "glue" of the office, ...
INDUSTRIAL CARLSBAD - Carlsbad Distribution LLC, c/o RJ Realty Investors, purchased a 56,348-square-foot industrial building a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Critics of an offshore liquefied natural gas terminal Tuesday sought help from an international trade panel in...
SAN BERNARDINO - Saying they are "declaring war on gangs," the San Bernardino Board of Supervisors approved funds Tuesday to h...
SAN DIEGO - Two San Diego men contesting the failure to count 5,500 ballots cast for write-in candidate Donna Frye in the Nov...
LOS ANGELES - Angela Agrusa, the former coordinator of Baker & Hostetler's California litigation practice, jumped to Los ...