LOS ANGELES - The attorney for former users of the diabetes medication Rezulin told a Los Angeles Superior Court jury Thursday...
Appellate Practice
Influential Lawyers Write Letter Opposing Splitting of 9th Circuit
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Some of California's most influential Democratic and Republican lawyers wrote to the state's congressional deleg...
MODESTO - Stanislaus County residents who hear the name Whiteside usually equate it first with Carol Whiteside, who worked for...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two-strike convict Ronnie E. Young deserved a year off his sentence because he saved the life of a choking pri...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court, handing a victory to the pharmaceutical industry and the Bush administration, ru...
Environmental
Lawyers for Activists, U.S., Battle Against Sewage Spills
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Kathleen A. Salvaty sometimes rolls down her car window and sniffs the night air as she drives through Los Angeles...
SAN FRANCISCO - Four young men who killed transgender teen Gwen Araujo thought she deserved to die for deceiving them about he...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael M. Pollak - Many plaintiffs' attorneys have trouble pleading causes of action in insura...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk Pasich - It long has been the case that when an insured is sued and the complaint alleg...
Forum Column - By Edmund Cogburn - Is U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's political-power engine finally facing derailment?...
WASHINGTON - After months of debate over the merits of a controversial proposal to allow the citation of so-called "unpublishe...
Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - SAN FRANCISCO - Everyone applauds California inmate Ronnie Young for saving a man's life, but Y...
LOS ANGELES - A 23-year-old man who was arrested with a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit was convicted twice We...
Appellate Practice
Court Reinstates $4.4 Million Verdict in Water-Slide Lawsuit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A state appellate court has reinstated a $4.4 million verdict awarded to a former San Bernardino County water-park...
Appellate Practice
Panel Revives Corruption Case Against Ex-Councilwoman
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - In a major victory for Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, an appellate court Wednesday reinstated a pub...
LOS ANGELES - Theater owners must make seats available not just to wheelchair-bound moviegoers but also to their companions, a...
Judges and Judiciary
Ticket-Fixing Details Come Out During Judge's Trial
By Craiq Anderson
SANTA CLARA - Two of Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser's colleagues took the stand Wednesday, outlining ...
SAN FRANCISCO - When she entered the fold of family lawyers, Rebecca L. Wightman was greeted with a shotgun. Wightman herself ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has yet to name his judicial appointments secretary nearly five months into hi...
Government
The Past Is Never Past, as Any Alleged Terrorist Should Know by Now
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The finger-pointing and hand-wringing over the Sept. 11 attacks appears to be reaching a bone-crackin...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court now wants to know why it should nullify more than 4,000 San Francisco marriage li...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed unanimously Wednesday to review a controversial appeal court ruling that ...
Forum Column - By Emma T. Suarez - In August and September of 2001, the devastating Star Fire swept through the El Dorado and ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arbitrator-Neutrality Rule Reflects Change in Ethics
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - A well-drafted arbitration clause specifies the number o...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer says blame an outmoded 80-year-old legal policy for the state's inability to win ba...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney for UCLA's troubled willed-body program told a court commissioner Tuesday that the school wants to u...
SAN FRANCISCO - Andrew P. Bridges, an eminent trademark and copyright law specialist, has left Palo Alto's Wilson, Sonsini, Go...
LOS ANGELES - Leroy Stanley Walker, a Los Angeles employment attorney who helped secure key legal protections for gays and les...
SAN DIEGO - A memorial service for Alpha L. Montgomery, the second black appointed to a Superior Court judgeship in San Diego ...
SACRAMENTO - The Assembly Judiciary Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would protect hapless litigants whose complaints ma...