SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury Thursday ordered national billboard giant Eller Media Co., to pay $9.8 million in damages for f...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Case Against Microsoft Strengthened By S.F. Judge
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - California jurors hearing a massive class action against Microsoft Corp. will be told that the company abused ...
Product Liability
Attorneys Debate Applying Canon Law in Abuse Cases
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - A key factor in priest molestation lawsuits is canon law, a 1,400-year-old body of religious doctrine that defin...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - On Aug. 5, 1997, 12 migrants, including three women and a small child, were attempting ...
Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Halloween is a few weeks away, but at various times throughout the year, it appears ...
LOS ANGELES - Aviation defense attorney and Malibu surfer Miriam Piwoz Goodman has died. Goodman died Sept. 20 at Los Robles R...
SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Keane boarded his plane for Hawaii secure in his job. Golden Gate University Law School had just offered...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two lawyers running to become a judge in San Francisco won't break the bank in their quest, if their most rece...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan charged former San Francisco school district manager Timothy Tronson on Wed...
Labor/Employment
California's New Law, First in Nation, Provides Up to Six Weeks Paid Leave
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Greg Garbacz - Beginning July 1, 2004, California workers will be able to take up to six w...
SAN FRANCISCO - Local lawyers Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, already in prison for their roles in the notorious dog-mauling...
LOS ANGELES - Two teen-age girls who had sex with a Murrieta police officer while participating in a Police Explorer Program c...
LOS ANGELES - President Bush's use of the Taft-Hartley Act to reopen ports in California, Oregon and Washington has renewed de...
LOS ANGELES - Driven from office two years ago by the voters, former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti could h...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appears ready to deliver some good news to the Walt Disney Co. and its cherished Mickey Mouse, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Frode Jensen's lawsuit against his former firm, Pillsbury Winthrop, was "completely predictable," according to...
Criminal
Media Probes of Rappers' Murders Have Makings of Cable Channel
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The documentary movie "Biggie and Tupac" probably has a great future on cable TV - on those channels...
FRESNO - State Supreme Court justices frowned Wednesday on a California company's race to the Los Angeles courthouse to help a...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied Robert Blake his freedom, saying he will consider bail on...
LOS ANGELES - Legal experts just laugh when asked whether the $28 billion punitive damage award levied last week against Phili...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - In the former Soviet Union, Siberian vacations generally were not rese...
RIVERSIDE - Greg Johnson has come a long way since earning $350 for his racy role as Carl in the early 1980s soft porn flick "...
Entertainment & Sports
Ovitz Fired Whistle-Blowing Executive, Suit Says
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - For the second time in less than six months, Michael Ovitz has been hit with a lawsuit, this time from a former ...
Real Estate/Development
$50 Million Settlement In Title Company Suits
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Six major title companies agreed Tuesday to pay about $50 million to settle claims that they charged customers...
WASHINGTON - Two California judicial nominees and one U.S. attorney hopeful won the backing of the Senate Judiciary Committee ...
FRESNO - The California Supreme Court did not appear willing Tuesday to spare condemned killer Larry Roberts, despite a judge'...
FRESNO - With the California Supreme Court apparently divided, Chief Justice Ronald George voiced strong support Tuesday for G...
SAN FRANCISCO - In harrowing testimony, a Vietnamese woman on trial for attempted arson and terrorism described to a federal j...
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission appears to be heading for a resounding defeat in its multibillion-dollar ba...
Litigation
Judge Halts Seizure of House Because of $51 Underpayment
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Tuesday granted an order temporarily stopping Washington Mutual Home Loans Inc. from forecl...