Alternative Dispute Resolution
Legislation To Regulate Arbitration Moves Ahead
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Five bills aimed at regulating private arbitration to an extent never before attempted have been approved by a st...
LOS ANGELES -Saying he needed further briefing on the election process, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday delayed r...
Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - "Changing Lanes" is a movie without larger-than-life heroes, sweeping love s...
Focus Column - By Kiran Aftab Seldon - In Bagatti v. Department of Rehabilitation, 2002 WL 485836 (Cal.App. 3d Dist. Ap...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has mounted a concerted campaign to prepare the Amer...
LOS ANGELES - Millions of consumers may have one more weapon to fight unfair practices by credit card companies, following a s...
Forum Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - A legal giant has just passed. At 84, Byron R. White, the 93rd U.S. Supreme Court Justice...
Labor/Employment
New Provision Requires Employer to Make Disclosures to Job Applicants
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Dana Cephas - Employers, do you check a job applicant's references before making a hiring decision? How abou...
LOS ANGELES - Both West Hollywood's swank Skybar and the Whiskey Sky in Chicago and Las Vegas serve drinks to hipsters. But th...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Wall Street Journal calls it a "job-eating blob." The chief justice of the U.S. calls it an "elephantine m...
Litigation
California Courts Generally Will EnforceForum-Selection Clauses
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Robert G. Wilson - In light of the nationalization of commerce, companies have expanded their operations out...
LOS ANGELES - Not long ago, a prosecutor in the Los Angeles district attorney's major crimes unit got an earful from his boss ...
Constitutional Law
Use of Overbreadth in 'Ashcroft' Case Jeopardizes Children's Welfare
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Robert Peters - When a draft of the proposed "virtual" child porn law at issue in Ashcroft v. Free Speech...
SACRAMENTO - A measure that would permit prison officials to use force to obtain DNA samples from inmates cleared its biggest...
BAKERSFIELD - They are two mothers, each with two young sons, whose negligence had similarly tragic results. In one case, Jodi...
RIVERSIDE - A San Diego woman has sued Lake Elsinore crematory owner Michael Francis Brown, contending Brown severed her broth...
Forum Column - By Jay Sekulow - When Congress passed the Child Pornography Prevention Act in 1996, many predicted that the cas...
LOS ANGELES - An immigration judge in Los Angeles has granted asylum to a prominent Vietnamese businessman and his family, the...
LOS ANGELES - Kam Santos admits that he was drunk, psychotic and remembered little about an incident in which, he said, two Lo...
Criminal
Judge's Attorneys Learn Identity Of Tipster in Child-Porn Case
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - For nearly a year, federal prosecutors had been fighting a request from Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronal...
SANTA ANA - When Whittier Law School professor Joanne Stern heard that one of her colleagues had gotten tenure at the Costa Me...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Master Rebuffs Ethics Complaint by Lawyer
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - A discipline complaint against State Bar Executive Director Judy Johnson has been rejected. The complaint, filed...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law board members ducked a litigation threat Tuesday by delaying for 45 days their vot...
Large Firms
Oppenheimer Wolff Loses Two Partners From Its Palo Alto Office
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Minneapolis-based intellectual property firm Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly has lost two more partners in Cali...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist's Compassionate Way Inspires Candor, Criticism
By Erin Carroll
ALHAMBRA - There is the prototypical judge - stern, reserved, even aloof. Then there is Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Canda...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey J. Douglas - The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition , 2002 DJDA...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court on Monday held that the Los Angeles police union should have been allowed to participate...
Judges and Judiciary
Wanderlust Characterizes Judge-of-All-Trades
By Contributing Writer
SACRAMENTO - After a long, peripatetic career encompassing a wide assortment of jobs and international travel, Judge Michael U...
RIVERSIDE - Years of bitter litigation between Riverside County and the private owner of the toll lanes on traffic-choked stat...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that cities and counties can enact strict laws banning the possessio...