LOS ANGELES - The Diocese of San Diego is petitioning to opt out of a proposed plan to bring up to 1,000 clergy sexual abuse l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Use of a camera and film made outside California to take a sexually explicit photo of a mother and her 10-year...
Employment Column - By Mark A. Romeo - While federal courts continue to narrow the coverage of federal equal-opportunity and w...
Zoning, Planning and Use
'Gardner' Discusses Issues Of Pre-1893 Subdivision Maps
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Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - As the population grows and urban boundaries expand in California, propert...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the first test of the state's new tobacco liability laws, a San Francisco appeal court has affirmed a $26.5...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's professional liability insurance runs out April 15, there's a good chan...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's improper dismissal of a juror in the middle of a criminal trial does not bar the prosecution from re...
SAN FRANCISCO - Dozens of anti-war protesters intermittently blocked entrances to the San Francisco federal building all day T...
LOS ANGELES - A jury Thursday awarded $3.6 million to a Los Angeles police-dog handler who claimed officers and supervisors di...
Environmental
El Paso Tentatively Settles With State, Offers Free Gas
By Joan Osterwalder
LOS ANGELES - El Paso Corp., the nation's biggest natural gas pipeline company, tentatively agreed to a $1.7 billion settlemen...
LOS ANGELES - Philip H. Lam may not be a rocket scientist, but he has designed nuclear power plants. Lam is not only an attorn...
Entertainment & Sports
Polanski Won't Make Appearance, Experts Say
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A quarter-century ago, then-44-year-old Polish film director Roman Polanski fled the United States before he cou...
LOS ANGELES - Litigator Brian Lawler has rejoined the ranks of the U.S. Marine Corps' few and proud. Four months after Lawler ...
LOS ANGELES - Alleged murderers, rapists, child molesters, armed robbers - they've all passed through Los Angeles Superior Cou...
By Jeff Berg Entertainment Editor Today JAZZ - The Jazz Bakery in Culver City presents crooner Freddy Cole at 8 p.m. and 9:30...
Forum Column - By Miranda D. Junowicz - In his article on Berkeley's battle with the Sea Scouts, "The Blessings of Liberty: Ci...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Adam C. Abrahms - The Bureau of Labor Statistics, in "Union Trends...
Corporate
Contract Language Avoiding Liability For Interest May Not Protect Clients
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Focus Column - Business Law - By Michaelbrent Collings - Interest is a big deal. It may not seem like much to someone getting ...
LOS ANGELES - After three decades serving the law department of Unocal Corp., Dennis P.R. Codon has left the El Segundo-based ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Ksenia Tsenin ruled Wednesday in favor of unsealing the vast majority of the grand jury t...
Environmental
Tree Sitting in Humboldt County: One Way to Pass Time Before War
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - From my perspective in downtown Los Angeles - where asphalt, concrete and contentiousness grow in lus...
SACRAMENTO - California prosecutors rejected the notion Wednesday that the state may have innocent inmates on death row and ba...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether it's kidnapping when a badge-toting phony secu...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied charges that he cannot be fair in judging a lawsuit over ...
SAN JOSE - James F. Boccardo, a legendary personal injury lawyer who was one of the first attorneys to win million-dollar jury...
Forum Column - By Mark T. Clark - Many people harbor doubts about the war with Iraq. These people don't fully understand that ...
Forum Column By Stephen Yagman "[M]y secret opinion of this country: its follies, vices, grievous disappointments ... I believ...
Attorneys first setting foot in Judge Robert L. Dondero's courtroom may feel a little intimidated. First, there's his appearan...
RIVERSIDE - Bernard J. Schwartz uses a football analogy to describe the way his experience as one of Riverside Superior Court'...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of McAdams , 104 Cal.App.4th 1221 (20...