Constitutional Law
One Nation: Words 'Under God' in Pledge Are Description, Not Religious Statement
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Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - In the second Newdow v. U.S. Congress , otherwise known as Newdow II , the 9th U.S...
Administrative/Regulatory
Memorial Service Is Set for Prosecutor, 34
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Friday in Palos Verdes Estates for Deputy District Attorney Stephanie R. Wils...
Reporter's Notebook Large Firms By Erik Cummins SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Pooley took his daughter Catherine to the Lincoln Memoria...
COSTA MESA - Angry swap meet vendors are threatening to sue the Orange County Fair Board for commandeering their spaces for a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether a boss who has an affair with an employee and...
SANTA CRUZ - With help from the city and county of Santa Cruz and a big-name law firm, medical marijuana advocates are trying...
SAN FRANCISCO - Next month, San Francisco immigration lawyer Marc Van Der Hout will once again stand before a federal appeals...
EUREKA - U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker will continue to handle the police brutality case brought by antilogging protesters...
LOS ANGELES - Mexican President Vicente Fox and former Illinois Gov. George Ryan were honored Tuesday night in Beverly Hills f...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that state courts are not required to give full weight to the laws ...
WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it likely will protect some types of corporate communications under the ...
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside jury will decide whether the nation's leading recreational vehicle manufacturer is liable for the deat...
Personal Injury & Torts
Parents Can Sue School for Not Preventing Harm
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The owners of a Costa Mesa preschool could be liable for damages for the murders of two children by a man who de...
Government
BUTTS Program Will Reveal Naked Truth, Cut Airport Security Delays
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Fly naked. Work naked. To ensure a more perfect war on terrorism, the federal government must quit ta...
LOS ANGELES - All that is left of the children now are their belongings - hundreds of bags stacked to the ceiling in spots and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Paul Gallegos knew he was taking a political risk by going after Humboldt County timber giant Pacific Lumber ...
Construction
'Fix-It Bill' Mandates New Way Of Handling Construction Cases
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Focus Column - Construction Law - By Robert C. Barnes - SB800, known as the "Fix-It Bill," imposes an ambitious new scheme for...
Forum Column - By Guylyn R. Cummins - The lightning growth of the Internet has created legal issues in cyberspace that potenti...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan confirmed Tuesday that he will not challenge a judge's ruling earlier this...
SAN DIEGO - A federal appellate court Tuesday upheld a $1.15 million wrongful-termination award and reinstated a $1.15 million...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two peace activists and the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the FBI and other government ag...
SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Mittelstaedt, a lead trial counsel for ChevronTexaco, resigned Tuesday from Pillsbury Winthrop after 2...
WASHINGTON - Ruling on a suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Supreme Court Tuesday adopted a definition of "em...
SACRAMENTO - California attorneys may join colleagues in 37 other states who are allowed to disclose a client's plans to kill...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Court Frowns on Claims Ballooning Into Class Arbitration
By David Pike
WASHINGTON -Supreme Court justices were highly skeptical Tuesday of allowing individual claims in arbitration to expand into a...
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas' effort to bring the state's child pornography law covering posses...
SACRAMENTO - Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan said Tuesday that California should temporarily halt executions and appoint a c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi said Tuesday that in recent years police withheld many more potential officer-mis...
Entertainment & Sports
Spider-Man Escapes Web of Secrecy, Thanks to Public-Access Ruling
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Spider-Man, the comic-book character that has spun box-office gold for Hollywood's truly needy, has b...
LOS ANGELES -Three Los Angeles-based law firms have filed a federal class action against San Bernardino County alleging that t...