WASHINGTON - The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is asking Congress for emergency funding to pay for additional burde...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three flight attendant rejects will get their day in San Francisco federal court to argue that American Airlin...
SAN FRANCISCO - A repeat offender serving a 26-year prison sentence for lying on a driver's license application will get a cha...
LOS ANGELES - It's not the DNA of the sperm that counts for paternity; it's the method of delivery. A state appellate court in...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a $775,000 jury verdict for defamation against two corpora...
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles has rejected an Eritrean woman's claims that she was held as a domestic slave by a...
INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - International Filing Co. signed a three-year, $1.3 million lease extension for a 70,020-square-foot indu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Days before the first Northern California clergy sex abuse cases go to trial, a judge Thursday ordered parties...
Labor/Employment
In 'ReadyLink,' Panel Reaffirms Vitality of Trade Secrets Exception
By Columnist
Column - Employment Law - By David H. Raizman, partner and Kaye E. Chaffee, associate - California's long-standing public poli...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael Paul Thomas - The purpose of the law of summary judgment is to provide courts with a me...
Law Practice
Be Brave, Break Laws of Language To Make Your Brief a Page-Turner
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Andrew J. Guilford - It was a dark stormy night as attorney Lynn E. Air pounded out her appellate brief. In ...
LOS ANGELES - Fighting to portray his client as a distraught husband, Robert Blake's attorney on Thursday played a 911 call of...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and Mayor James Hahn are expected to announce today that they can fund an additio...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer, following in the footsteps of environmental groups, sued Wednesday to block a c...
SANTA ANA - Attorneys for the man accused of murdering 5-year-old Samantha Runnion have filed a petition with the 4th District...
LOS ANGELES - If you're shopping for a family law attorney in the Antelope Valley, just stop by the courtroom of Superior Cour...
International
Couple Who Fear Daughter's Mutilation Will Get Rehearing
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Thursday that an 11-judge panel will reconsider last August's ...
LOS ANGELES - A 12-year-old boy languished for five months in juvenile hall, thinking his lawyer had forgotten about him, befo...
LOS ANGELES - Broad workers' compensation reforms that made it much harder for employees to win awards for on-the-job injurie...
LOS ANGELES - In three hours of testimony Wednesday, state Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi attempted to explain his long...
Judges and Judiciary
State High Court Takes Case of Rental Car Insurers' Liability
By Hudson Sangree
WEB EXCLUSIVE - SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review whether insurers have a duty to check ou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists frequently sue to increase the flow of water to wildlife. But in a federal court case filed...
Government
Governor Says Tanks a Lot to Those Who Support His Reform Proposals
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - At least he wasn't driving a tank. That was my first thought on seeing pictures of Gov. Arnold Schw...
LOS ANGELES - No one can say that U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles F. Eick isn't a patient and deliberate jurist, not after his w...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers handling Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's bankruptcy are seeking another $1 million in fees and cost...
LOS ANGELES - On Jan. 3, Judge Peter D. Lichtman watched from the sidelines as Judge Owen Lee Kwong announced a record $100 mi...
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James C. Martin and Andrea M. Schoor - California statutory and case law justifiably provide...
Family
Girl's Plight Changes One Lawyer's View of Self, Meaning of Success
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Cynthia Loo - When I got out of law school, I had grandiose ideas about becoming a public defender - represe...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
State Could Fix Its Health Care Crisis, Lead U.S. in Reform
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Of all forms of inequality, that which is present in health care is the most shocking and ...
Forum Column - By Nicole Ozer - Last month, parents and children in the small, rural town of Sutter learned firsthand about th...