LOS ANGELES - In a ruling attorneys said could influence the war on terrorism, an appeal court has reversed the Los Angeles ma...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Allows Candidate to Quote From Endorsement
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kevin McKenney on Wednesday overturned a decision by the county's registrar...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether state government must severely restrict its sp...
SAN FRANCISCO - Eyes downcast, the jury filed in with its verdict in a high-visibility federal test of torture victims' abilit...
SAN FRANCISCO - Are judges, accustomed to sitting in judgment of others, loath to admit their own culpability when faced with ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled in favor of an American Indian tribe Wednesday in a Mendocino County land-use ba...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - After a two-month trial, the jury is still deliberating about whether David Westerfield murd...
SAN DIEGO - The jury in the David Westerfield murder trial first focused on the defendant's pornography collection, court file...
Judges and Judiciary
Screenwriter-Jurist Loves Doing Family Law Cases
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - With two CBS television movies under his belt, Gale P. Hickman not only enjoys a thriving career as an Orange Coun...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco prosecutors will charge 17-year-old rape suspect Emmitt Lewis as an adult under Proposition 21, ...
Product Liability
Gun Liability Bill Annulling 'Navegar' Advances in Senate
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A proposal to repeal the special exemption from civil liability enjoyed by gunmakers in California cleared the st...
Dicta Column - By The Rodent - Telephones, cell or otherwise, play an important part in the practice of law. They can also be ...
Dicta Column - By John Kortum - As days go for a lawyer representing garbage companies, the other day was a very good day - bu...
Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - One issue that frequently arises in disputes between insureds and their insurance carriers ...
Litigation
Lerach Minimizes Importance Of Certifications of Financials
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - An hour before chief executives at hundreds of major public companies were due to certify their financial stateme...
Forum Column - By Mark Schlosberg - Dear Attorney General Bill Lockyer, In order to ensure that intelligence-gathering practic...
Labor/Employment
Including an Opt-Out Provision Can Make Arbitration Clause Enforceable
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michele C. Coyle and Margery M. Fernald - Can a California employer successfully avoid litigating the enforc...
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael T. Lempres, a former vice president and general counsel for the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, who also...
PASADENA - Judge Richard Paez, of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has been called a lot of things. But the most surpris...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Liberals Win by Default At Annual ABA Meeting
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - In basketball, this is called a slam-dunk. That's how it felt at the American Bar Association's annual convention...
SANTA ANA - Police have arrested the roommate of Whittier Law School professor Joanne Stern for beating her to death last Marc...
INGLEWOOD - In what some legal experts viewed as a smart tactical move by the defense, the case against two Inglewood police o...
Law Practice
With Fire Wall in Place, Lawyer Needn't Be Tossed, Court Says
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A law firm should not be tossed off a case automatically because it hires a lawyer who once worked for the other...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal prosecutor has been appointed the first Vietnamese-American woman to sit on the Los Angele...
Judges and Judiciary
ABA Urges Swift Appointing of Federal Judges
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association on Tuesday repeated, almost verbatim, proclamations it made in 1990 and 1997 by call...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Judge Temporarily Blocks Hospital Closure
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday temporarily blocked Tenet HealthSystem from shutting down Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital. Saying...
SACRAMENTO - A controversial measure that would permit judges to set aside many paternity judgments based on newly conducted D...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran prosecutor and litigator Teri L. Jackson has become San Francisco's first black female judge following...
SAN DIEGO - The judge presiding over the trial of David Westerfield refused Tuesday to readmit a radio reporter he barred from...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - "Farmers near Mexico City guard their land with machetes in an effort to keep it from be...