Column By Philip Carrizosa - Sometimes justice comes in unexpected ways. Take the case of Delbert Meeks, an AIDS-stricken and ...
LOS ANGELES - Some might think it unusual for an attorney who lives full time and works part time in Orange County to become t...
Focus Column - Regulatory Law - By Robert Loewy - At least partially fulfilling his campaign promise to have California Indian...
Personal Injury & Torts
Schwarzenegger Proposal Guts Deterrent Effect of Punitives
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Forum Column - By Joseph W. Cotchett and Robert Gnaizda - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent punitive damages-public benefit ...
Judges and Judiciary
Santa Clara Judge in Ticket-Fixing Case Retires
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser retired from the bench in a deal announced Thursday to settl...
SAN FRANCISCO - A deputy attorney general is entitled to an extra seven years of back pay because that's how long it took the ...
LOS ANGELES - Metropolitan News-Enterprise publisher Roger M. Grace considers himself the victor even though a state appellate...
LOS ANGELES - A Torrance judge let stand a $1.25 million judgment against Milton Grimes for failing to litigate a wrongful-dea...
SANTA ANA - Legal ethics experts say a bill that would make it illegal for former jurors to work as consultants on retrial is ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris will be honored Saturday at the Urban League's Women of Power Aw...
LOS ANGELES - Shirley Boucher has spent the last week in Department 107 of the criminal courts building, watching Jerrell Patr...
Entertainment & Sports
Jurist Thwarts Bid to Disqualify Pooh-Case Judge
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - An attempt to disqualify the judge who threw out the Winnie the Pooh royalties case has been denied for a second...
LOS ANGELES - Facing an unprecedented level of secrecy in high-profile trials around the country, media are fighting back agai...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that a San Jose teenager whose self-described "dark po...
Judges and Judiciary
O'Connor Advises Judges to Meet Their Lawmakers
By Pamela Mac Lean
MONTEREY - Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor expressed serious concern about deteriorating relations between Congress ...
SAN FRANCISCO - "What you see is what you get," is how Fresno Court Executive Tamara Beard describes Presiding Judge Brad Hill...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that pits freedom of speech against anti-discrimination laws, the California Supreme Court agreed We...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Michael D. Myers - Receiverships are a powerful remedy that should be part of the arsenal of ev...
Judges and Judiciary
Another Far-Right Justice Would Make Court Destructive
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Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - The just-completed Supreme Court term was memorable for a number of decisions concerning cru...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Six Ways to Defuse Moore-Style Techniques Used in Mediation
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Max Factor III - Going to see Michael Moore's controversial documentary "Fa...
International
Hague Court's Ruling on Israeli Wall Could Have Damaged Its Credibility
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Forum Column - By Joseph M. Lipner - The International Court of Justice, in a July 9 opinion, has ruled that Israel's security...
Book Review - "Nothing Is Too Late: The Hunt for a Holocaust Swindler" (Brassey's, 2004) by Mark Kalmansohn - By Mark E. Beck ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A little self-promotion (actually, a lot) and assistance from the family helped make 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
MONTEREY - The nation's largest federal appellate court saw a remarkable spike in immigration appeals in the past two years, a...
LOS ANGELES - Saying mediation in the church sex scandal had "all but broken down," lawyers for hundreds of alleged victims of...
SACRAMENTO - Could a federal judge take over the state's notoriously troubled prison system - and fix it? U.S. District Judge ...
SAN FRANCISCO - An attack launched Wednesday by California and seven other states on global warming employs an ancient legal c...
LOS ANGELES - In a split decision, a state appeals court on Wednesday upheld a class action against pharmaceutical giant Bayer...
WASHINGTON - A coalition of interest groups opposed to some of President Bush's judicial nominees on Wednesday launched a tele...
Services were held July 17 for George Edwin Long, an Inland Valley probate attorney who helped establish the sovereign immunit...