SAN FRANCISCO - Eight former altar boys from Orange County who claim they were molested in the 1970s and '80s got permission W...
SAN FRANCISCO - A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Wednesday reinstated Playboy Enterprises Inc.'s 4-year-old trademark...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors Wednesday added two counts of murder to the child abuse case against a Lancaster woman whose two you...
Forum Column - By Jeff Kichaven - A consulting group in the State Bar for alternative dispute resolution has undertaken a proj...
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Wesley H. Avery and Steven T. Gubner - The U.S. Supreme Court's amendments to the Federal R...
Litigation
Courts Refuse to Expand Application of SLAPP Law to New Facts in 2003
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Goldowitz - Last year saw a record number of published opinions involving California's ant...
SAN FRANCISCO - An environmental group sued Bay Area air quality regulators Wednesday, saying officials watered down restricti...
Government
Justices Rule U.S. Judges Can Enforce Consent Decrees on States
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In one of the current Supreme Court's rare rejections of a claim of state sovereignty, the justices on Wednesday ...
SAN JOSE - Thomas Spielbauer, the deputy Santa Clara County public defender who was fired for allegedly misleading the court,...
SANTA ANA - As evidenced by the dozens that show up on the ballot each year, initiatives have become vehicles for voters to tr...
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside Superior Court jury has awarded $11.5 million to a pair of physicians who claimed another doctor, thei...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was supposed to be a tour of the Hall of Justice conducted by new District Attorney Kamala Harris for new M...
SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission reversed itself Wednesday and barred candidates from raising unlimi...
LOS ANGELES - A Libyan detainee at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, filed a billion-dollar civil rights lawsuit Wednesday against Presiden...
WASHINGTON - While expressing concern that President Bush's proposal to give millions of undocumented workers temporary legal ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court indicated in arguments Wednesday that it will clear the air by allowing Southern Californi...
LOS ANGELES - Thomas J. Nolan, the veteran trial lawyer and rainmaker who has personified Howrey Simon Arnold & White's Ca...
Judges and Judiciary
Courts Make 2003 Interesting Year for Contractual Arbitration
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - This is Part 2 of a review of important arbitration deci...
WASHINGTON - Handing police a new crime-fighting weapon, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that motorists' Fourth Amendment righ...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would extend the statute of limitations for prosecution of child molestation cases at least until the...
SACRAMENTO - Fred Main, senior vice president and general counsel of the California Chamber of Commerce, has left the business...
LOS ANGELES - An Encino attorney was arrested along with three others Tuesday on charges of taking part in an auto insurance f...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that consumers cannot sue regional telephone companies claiming the companie...
Large Firms
Young Litigator Touched Many Lives With Public Interest Dedication, Intellect
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Paul Alan Davis, a budding trial attorney at Los Angeles' Munger Tolles & Olson whom colleagues describe as ...
Agriculture
Jurist Tosses Pickers' Suit Over Tasting Pesticide-Sprayed Fruit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - A Riverside Superior Court judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by grape harvesters who claimed supervisors at one of ...
SACRAMENTO - Another attempt to reform the state's unfair competition laws failed Tuesday in the Legislature and a consumer gr...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court indicated Tuesday that it will not allow a paraplegic who had to crawl up a courthouse staircas...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Jerome Farris dislikes having it pointed out that he was the first black person appointed to the 9th U.S...
SANTA BARBARA - Michael Jackson's scheduled arraignment Friday on child-molestation charges will not be televised, broadcasted...
Forum Column - By Robert F. Turner - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals got it wrong again last month when it held in Gh...