Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Lives by Old Lesson: Play the Hand You're Dealt
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Of the 12 boys who spent their teenage years in Bausch Cottage at Hillside Children's Center in Rochester, N.Y.,...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has joined together two lawsuits seeking to give same-sex couples the right to marry. Su...
Personal Injury & Torts
Helicopter-Crash Suit Pits Associate Against Ex-Boss
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - "Mayday!" firefighter Floyd Hiser shouted into the radio of the helicopter he was piloting. "I have a flameout. I'...
You're standing in the Court, all nine Supremes in your face, before you notice your nightgown ...
Employment Column - By Elizabeth Lampert and Diane E. Hamlin - Speaking engagements are an essential component of every succes...
Forum Column - By Wendy J. Murphy - The prosecution of Kobe Bryant had commentators and columnists early on questioning whethe...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David Pettit and Michael Schafler - Ratification of the 14th Amendment was motivated by ...
LOS ANGELES - A technical problem at the 2nd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday resulted in the wrong opinion's being posted ...
SANTA ANA - Ruling the names are too similar, a federal judge enjoined organizers of the "Newport Beach Boat Show" from using ...
SANTA CLARA - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser will take the stand in his own defense when his trial on ...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Thursday ruled that a Santa Barbara doctor did not have to turn over a patient's medical r...
Judges and Judiciary
Civil Litigators Fear Return to Bad Old Days of Long Delays
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - The looming budget cuts for trial courts have given civil ligitators here an acute attack of arachnophobia. They f...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man convicted of having oral sex with a minor shouldn't have to register as a sex offender because people co...
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of William G. Myers III for the 9th U.S. Circu...
Large Firms
Federal Prosecutor Returns to Munger Tolles After Eight Years
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Gregory Weingart will rejoin Munger, Tolles & Olson after serving as chief of the major fraud section at the...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Even Temper Helps Keep Court Under Control
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - When Terry L. Smerling joined the Legal Aid Foundation of Long Beach in 1970 as a recent Columbia Law School gra...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed suit against the U.S. government Thursday, asking a court to r...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers who sued Microsoft under California antitrust laws cribbed heavily from volumes of antitrust litigatio...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Nigerian woman won the right Thursday to renew her asylum claim that she suffers continuing persecution as a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A genetic roll of the dice may give a gambler good eyes, but the government cannot cite that physical attribut...
Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Brian D. Lerner - Since 1996, the list of crimes constituting aggravated felonies has incr...
Focus Column - Law Practice - By Jon Pfeiffer - What is the primary purpose of a motion picture? The answer differs depending ...
Forum Column - By Joseph Love - A few days ago, I learned about a bill recently introduced in Congress. Although several years...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ordered an insurance company to pay pretrial interest on a breach-of-contract jury award, ef...
SAN DIEGO - Saying that no conflict with state law exists, an appellate court has upheld the validity of a San Diego ordinance...
SAN JOSE - Citing a recent 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, a federal judge said Wednesday he would probably revers...
Litigation
Native American Inmate Sues Over Hair Policy
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The American Civil Liberties Union and a Los Angeles law firm filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of a Native Amer...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two dissident California utility regulators, claiming key elements of the blueprint to reorganize bankrupt Pac...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has struck down a lawsuit brought by a Korean-American seeking reparations for slaving in ...
Notebook - By Robert Selna - Lawyers for the Berkeley NAACP and for the parents of several schoolchildren are seeking to inter...