Forum Column - By Dana Rose - Proposition 51 - the "Safe Roads Measure" - will not raise your taxes. Proposition 51 sets spend...
SAN FRANCISCO - A $295 million judgment against Ford Motor Company survived the California Supreme Court Wednesday, marking th...
SAN FRANCISCO - One attorney who won't be shelling out $25.95 for Johnnie Cochran's new book, "A Lawyer's Life," is Joe C. Hop...
SANTA ANA - Claiming $8.5 million in water damage, attorneys for 122 Huntington Beach homeowners were disappointed Wednesday w...
SAN FRANCISCO - Latino appellate attorney Rosendo Pena Jr. was named to the Fresno Superior Court Wednesday by Gov. Gray Davis...
Law Practice
Cochran Comes to Compton, Signs His Book, Gives Legal Advice
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Johnnie Cochran can still pack them in in Compton. Hailed as a "hometown hero," O.J. Simpson's lead a...
LOS ANGELES - John Gordon Jones, the Los Angeles computer executive who beat sexual assault charges in the so-called "limousin...
SAN FRANCISCO - A juvenile defendant, who was a fugitive when he allegedly killed a San Francisco Housing Authority worker nea...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing 11 victims of an India-to-Berkeley human trafficking ring filed a 24-count civil suit Wed...
SAN FRANCISCO - Patent attorney Jerry Voight has spent most of his 37-year legal career practicing in an area so obscure and s...
LOS ANGELES - Philip L. Siracuse, a litigation partner at Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May in downtown Los Angeles, died Tuesda...
SAN DIEGO - The president of the science supply company where Gregory T. de Villers worked testified Wednesday that he became ...
SIMI VALLEY - The night filled with beer and shots of tequila at an Oxnard bar ended in tragedy for two teen-agers. After Patr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California judge has refused to take further action to enforce two recent orders that environmental...
Labor/Employment
Court Examines Meaning of 'Religious Creed' in State Discrimination Statute
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Robyn Babcock - The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes it an unlawful employment practice for ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Federal Law Pre-empts Construction-Defect Statute
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Linda C. Fritz - In Edward D. Basura Jr. v. U.S. Home Corp., B151131 (Cal.App. May 31, 2002), the int...
Forum Column - By Francisco Lobaco - As the ink dries on the last of the 264 bills Gov. Gray Davis vetoed in 2002, a review o...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The victims of our system of divorce are the children. They are put into situations over w...
SANTA ANA - Appeals court Justice Richard M. Aronson turned on to law when he was 12 after watching the 1959 Otto Preminger cl...
LOS ANGELES - Five inches made the difference between 36-year-old Jian Zhong Yang walking away from a car accident and being l...
SAN DIEGO - A paramedic who vainly tried to revive Kristin M. Rossum's husband testified Tuesday that the woman's behavior dur...
SAN FRANCISCO - On June 30, 1971 - the day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that newspapers could continue publishing the top ...
LOS ANGELES - In 1999, a political reform group looked around California and saw influence-peddling everywhere - from Irvine, ...
LOS ANGELES - Reports that the problem-plagued MacLaren Children's Center in El Monte may soon close to settle a federal class...
COSTA MESA - Memorial services took place Saturday for Seth Cochran Thompson, a lawyer with Orange County's McCormick, Kidman ...
Constitutional Law
Hastings Grad Claims Out of State Tuition Illegal
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Non-California residents who pay extra to attend public colleges and universities here probably shouldn't coun...
Forum Column - By Nausheen Hassan - Gov. Gray Davis cannot usurp the liberty of deserving inmates, especially battered women w...
Forum Column - By Geoffrey L. Garfield - Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world, a glamorous place where American...
Judges and Judiciary
Celebrating Homecoming at the Farm With 'Youngstown'
By Joel Rosenblatt
PALO ALTO - Two Supreme Court justices traveled back in time at Stanford University last weekend to redecide a case that shape...
SANTA ROSA - When retired Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Gayle Guynup decided to become an assigned judge after retirement...