Forum Column - By Mike Ancheta Nisperos Jr. - The State Bar of California Board of Governors Committee on Regulation, Admissio...
Media
What's That Smell? Rising Levels of Hypocrisy Flood Halls of Justice
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Snow fell on Colorado this week, an early taste of clean, pure winter. But Watson made it clear from ...
SACRAMENTO - Supporters of reforms to the state's unfair competition laws ballyhooed several nonprofit agencies and small busi...
LOS ANGELES - A judge on Wednesday threw out a defamation lawsuit filed by former judge and Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn aga...
LOS ANGELES - A former Brentwood civil attorney pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony charges of embezzling nearly $800,000 f...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge Wednesday approved one of the largest settlements in the history of Proposition 65, in ...
SACRAMENTO - The U.S. Justice Department has awarded California more than $11 million for DNA testing and forensic services t...
Administrative/Regulatory
Proposition 64 Limits Use of Unfair-Competition Statute
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Robert C. Fellmeth - Policing unfair competition, including offenses, ranging from misleading advertising to...
Environmental
'Headwaters' Could Head Off Private Attorney General Suits
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - Litigation - By David M. Rice and Troy M. Yoshino - Pure "private attorney general" claims under the state's Un...
SAN FRANCISCO - What do you get when you mix complex litigation and crafty lawyering with "the fiendishly fine distinctions" ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Officials Tell Hospitals, Foster Care to Team Up
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Citing the death of a four-year-old foster child who needed a new lung, Los Angeles County supervisors have orde...
SAN FRANCISCO - Concluding a troubled military prosecution that lasted more than a year, Airman Ahmad I. Al Halabi pleaded gu...
LOS ANGELES - An Iranian peace activist, who said he was wrongly jailed during the special roundup of Middle Eastern men in th...
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Peter Roan - Conventional wisdom is that binding arbitration is quicker and...
Forum Column - By Michael H. Schill - As I assume the deanship of UCLA School of Law, I am tremendously excited about the pros...
Labor/Employment
Bush Tax Cuts Shift Fiscal Burden Onto Working Middle Class
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Timothy Roscoe Carter - Recent federal tax laws have continued a quarter-century trend of shifting taxes fro...
SAN FRANCISCO - Now that corporate America has embraced open-source software, two Silicon Valley attorneys figure it's time th...
Civil Rights
Occidental College's Censorship of Radio Station Marks Abuse of Power
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Forum Column - By Greg Lukianoff and Will Creeley - Despite the uproar about the Federal Communication Commission's aggressive...
SAN FRANCISCO - The latest victim in the war on terror, it turns out, is the spare tire. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for environmental protesters exhorted jurors to send police a message that it is not OK to hurt demons...
SACRAMENTO - Flush with cash and new members opposed to the Bush administration's anti-terrorism efforts, the American Civil L...
Government
Judiciary Imposes Freeze on 42 Court-Construction Projects
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Facing another year of limited funding from Congress, the U.S. Judicial Conference on Tuesday voted to implement ...
LOS ANGELES -Legal aid lawyers in Los Angeles can collect attorney fees in a landlord-tenant dispute despite receiving federal...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brokerage giant TD Waterhouse has agreed to pay $2 million to settle civil fraud charges for making undisclose...
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court ruling this month awarding custody of a 2-year-old child to his biological father could open th...
SANTA ANA - Trinity Broadcasting Network founder Paul F. Crouch failed Tuesday to get a judge to stop the Los Angeles Times fr...
Judges and Judiciary
Attorneys Predict Stellar Career for Gutsy New Judge
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Growing up in Carson and Compton, the son of an executive recruiter and schoolteacher, Los Angeles Superior Cour...
SAN FRANCISCO - Joann Guldbeck strode to the courtroom podium and smiled broadly at the judge, who smiled back. "It's always g...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - Tax professionals urge taxpayers to start tax planning long in advance of need. For...
Government
Electoral College System Violates Principle of One Person, One Vote
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Forum Column - By Mark E. Kalmansohn - As the presidential election campaign enters full swing, the Electoral College looms as...