Litigation
Judge to the Stars Retires After Serving 16 Years on L.A. Bench
By Jeff Berg
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge-to-the-stars Marilyn L. Hoffman has retired after 16 years on the bench. Hoffma...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Friday reversed a man's arson conviction, saying a Los Angeles Superior Court judge commi...
LOS ANGELES - Deputy District Attorney William W. Hodgman got up Friday morning to gather what was left of his sexual-abuse ca...
OAKLAND - In-house counsel at the University of California believe the university should be exempt from lawsuits that bedevil...
SACRAMENTO - A man convicted twice of murdering a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl must either be tried a third time or rele...
SAN JOSE - After months of futile searching for a landlord willing to rent to a convicted child molester, state authorities a...
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Duyen Nguyen - Getting fired from a job with a law firm has a way of stirring som...
Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could crush the last vestiges of leg...
Intellectual Property
'Winters' and 'Comedy III' Still Leave Courts With Gray Area
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By David Halberstadter - Earlier this month, the state Supreme Court issued its newest deci...
SAN FRANCISCO - Memorial services will be held today in Carlisle, Pa., for Morris L. Myers, a well-known lawyer and labor arbi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco law that helps women and racial minorities win public contracts is not sufficiently supported ...
LOS ANGELES - The Supreme Court's decision Thursday striking down prosecutions of long-ago sexual abuse could spell the end of...
LOS ANGELES - Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore delivered a demand for justice for the count...
WASHINGTON - On a day of high drama at the Supreme Court, the justices ended their 2002-03 term Thursday with a whimper, dismi...
POIPU, Hawaii - It's tough to have sympathy for federal judges seeking a 16.5 percent hike in their $150,000 a year salary dur...
WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist sure knows how to grab an audience by the throat so they'll listen to his ever...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors on Thursday were studying whether to drop charges against dozens of Catholic priests in Southern Cal...
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., vowed Thursday to move quickly on a U.S. Supreme Court nomination if ...
LOS ANGELES - Three administrative Superior Court judges allowed alleged burglars, batterers and carjackers to go free rather ...
LOS ANGELES - After Friday night, attorney Robin Meadow officially will be at the helm of the nation's largest voluntary bar o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Changes in a popular anti-diarrhea medication prompted by a court settlement with the state could present a ri...
WASHINGTON - Handing a stunning 7-2 victory to defendants facing the death penalty, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that defe...
LOS ANGELES - As many as 800 people convicted of child molestation under a California law allowing prosecution of long-ago sex...
LOS ANGELES - In a stunning reversal of one of its own rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down state laws that...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Jessica A. Mayer - If you are like most computer-savvy consumers, th...
Forum Column - By William W. Funderburk Jr. and David Niebauer - In the continuing saga of the state's efforts to allocate fin...
Technology & Science
Companies Using Unsolicited E-Mail Must Be Careful to Avoid Spam Laws
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Focus Column - Business Law - By Frank J. Johnson Jr. - On June 16, Microsoft filed a series of complaints alleging that profe...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County sheriff can challenge newly installed term limits on the sheriff's office as unconstituti...
SAN DIEGO - California appellate justices ruled in 75 cases since 1970 that prosecutorial misconduct prejudiced the defendant,...
LOS ANGELES - Flanked by the family of Kenitha Saafir, attorney Carl Douglas on Wednesday announced a wrongful-death lawsuit ...