SAN FRANCISCO - Two Peninsula construction companies used a sham joint venture to circumvent city regulations giving minority-...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner Keeps Cool on Bench
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - Commissioner Ronald G. Lorden doesn't like to embarrass attorneys. To avoid making an out-of-town lawyer look scatterb...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Halts Judge's Sex-Misconduct Hearing
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - The Commission on Judicial Performance called off a hearing in its sexual misconduct case against Riverside County Sup...
OAKLAND - Even though her well-financed opponent bowed out of the race in April, Alameda County Superior Court judicial candid...
LOS ANGELES - Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger's board of directors has elected Rick Cohen to the post of president and ...
Litigation
If Award Is Not Reduced, Philip Morris May File for Bankruptcy
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Howard N. Madris - On Oct. 4, a Los Angeles jury issued a $28 billion punitive damages verdict ...
SAN JOSE - When Eugene Pelka, a veteran manager at Lockheed Martin, stepped to the microphone 21/2 years ago to roast a longti...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted 40 Aryan Brotherhood members and associates on federal racketeering charges, a...
LOS ANGELES - Beverly Hills Sports Council cannot sue Barry Bonds' former agent and his lawyers for malicious prosecution, a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - "I was just trying to maximize the profit for Enron," said Enron's former chief energy trader in Portland, Ore...
Government
City Council Hopeful Can't Use 'Peace Activist' Label on Ballot
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica City Council candidate Jerry Rubin is fasting to protest war on Iraq. Rubin calls peace activism hi...
Forum Column - By Richard Riordan - Los Angeles businesses are resilient. In the past decade, we have worked together to creat...
FULLERTON - When the Aztec Skydivers parachute onto the campus of California State University, Fullerton, next month, they wil...
SAN JOSE - The first criminal trial under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act could be in danger because two key Russian witn...
SAN FRANCISCO - With lawyers and their staffs trading wagers and boasts, scrambling for game tickets and wearing their basebal...
SAN DIEGO - An expert on a powerful opiate found in the body of Kristin M. Rossum's husband said the drug's effect would have ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Timothy Tronson, the former San Francisco school district manager charged in a conspiracy to steal $850,000 in...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento judge has effectively overridden a state agency's determination that a commonly used chemical pos...
LOS ANGELES - Police and California State Bar investigators closed the offices of attorney Hector Garcia after allegations tha...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers opened a trial Thursday in a case they said concerns America, a little boy's dream, an assault and a m...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Howard N. Madris - On Oct. 4, a Los Angeles jury issued a $28 billion punitive damages verdict ...
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services for O'Melveny & Myers corporate attorney John H. Roney were Thursday in Hermosa Beach. Ron...
LOS ANGELES - A freak highway accident in Irvine that left a motorist brain damaged has resulted in a $13 million settlement. ...
Employment Column - By Mark A. Romeo - These are uncertain economic times. No business has been able to escape the pinch of t...
LOS ANGELES - A judge Wednesday dismissed a felony drug charge against actress Winona Ryder, and set Oct. 24 for her to stand ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Drivers under the influence of drugs found friends in high places Wednesday. At the 1st District Court of Appe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General John Ashcroft's war on the attorney-client privilege, asserts radical lawyer Lynne F. Stewart...
Litigation
Jury Burns Counterfeiter of Zig-Zag Cigarette Papers for $2 Million
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - If they wanted to, the French maker and the U.S. distributor of Zig-Zag cigarette papers could roll t...
EL CENTRO - A hearing set to begin this morning in the Imperial County courtroom of Judge James H. Harmon will offer one of th...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to give a black Texas death row inmate another shot at proving that...