Entertainment & Sports
Movie Sweepstakes Promotions Require Careful Legal Planning
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Focus Column - By David Halberstadter and Benjamin R. Mulcahy - As the summer draws to a close, moviegoers have a chance to ca...
Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz - Attorneys about to invest for the first time, and those already investing, are often asked by...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed two measures into law Wednesday that repeal the special immunity from lawsuits granted to ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court administration has begun circulating videotapes to its 5,500 employees aimed at a...
SAN FRANCISCO - You probably wouldn't tell a complete stranger your phone number, age or annual income. But your bank might. T...
LOS ANGELES - The American Bar Association filed a lawsuit Wednesday aimed at stopping the Federal Trade Commission's requirem...
SAN FRANCISCO - A California parole board's failure to show at least some evidence to support rescission of a previously-grant...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the Oakland Raiders said a Los Angeles tax attorney was one of two jurors who committed the miscondu...
Litigation
El Paso Corp. Takes Some Heat for Keeping California in the Cold
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Hold the mammoth jerky! Pass the gas! A federal administrative judge who, I assume, does not live in ...
LOS ANGELES - While U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kathleen P. March will continue in her Los Angeles post until the end of her 14-year...
Forum Column - By Dan Stein - One year after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Gov. Gray Davis must decide w...
Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled en banc that...
LOS ANGELES - A judge cannot increase a defendant's bail just because he or she believes the first judge's bail determination ...
SANTA ANA - Labor representatives have filed suit contesting the constitutionality of Measure V, the voter-approved ballot mea...
Appellate Practice
Test of State Sentencing Law Gets Spotlight, Amicus Briefs
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The two California three-strikes cases that will be argued before the Supreme Court Nov. 5 have attracted a lot o...
Dicta Column - By Linda B. Bulmash - All good negotiators know that to be a winner, you have to be a great persuader. Great pe...
Corporate
Thoughtful and Prompt Response to Allegations of Wrongdoing Is Critical
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Focus Column - By William A. Urquhart - On July 12, President Bush participated in the first meeting of the new inter-agency C...
Forum Column - By Clarissa Martinez de Castro and Cristina Huezo - The driver's license debate is yet another stage on which o...
LOS ANGELES - Inglewood is in the market for a new lawyer, after the old one resigned in the wake of a State Bar Court finding...
LOS ANGELES - She hasn't made it official, but punk-rocker-turned-movie-starlet Courtney Love is working on settling her breac...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges Have Added Power Under New Class-Action Rules
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The federal judiciary's policymaking body Tuesday unanimously approved new class action rules that give judges mo...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has barred the city of South Gate from continuing to finance the city treasurer's defense ag...
SANTA ANA - Over Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer's objections, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to tell the st...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a lawsuit against the Las Vegas casinos where a convicted swi...
LOS ANGELES - A Culver City man who won an $800,000 federal jury verdict last week had accused Culver City police and one of i...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California clapper rail, the least tern and the western snowy plover came away winners in a federal appell...
SAN FRANCISCO - A splintered 11-judge federal appeals panel Tuesday reinstated a sexual harassment suit by an openly gay forme...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a measure Tuesday that allows victims of gender-based violence to sue their attackers for ...
LOS ANGELES - At a time of rampant corporate fraud and popular paperback novels portraying lawyers on the criminal fringe, col...
SAN JOSE - Arguing that it is an ideal test case to challenge federal drug policy, attorneys for the operators of a Santa Cruz...