RIVERSIDE - During 20 years in office, District Attorney Grover Trask has taken his share of chances. When a mobile-home fire ...
Labor/Employment
A Pre-Dispute Arbitration Clause Doesn't Limit the Jurisdiction of the EEOC
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its first major practical limit...
LOS ANGELES - Judge C. Robert Simpson believes he has served the public well on the bench during the past 13 years. Why then, ...
Forum Column - By Steve Baughman - Given the frenzied calls to string John Walker Lindh up by his thumbs and the almost comple...
LOS ANGELES - The families of two men who died in the plane crash that also killed singer and actress Aaliyah in the Bahamas l...
LOS ANGELES - A man convicted in a plot to murder federal drug agents deserves a new trial because the judge in the case refus...
LOS ANGELES - An elderly neighbor of a woman mauled to death by dogs told jurors Wednesday that the scene in the hallway of he...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Last year, the California Supreme Court decided that consenting adults could expect to hav...
Government
A Revived Condit Banks on a Wave of Publicity to Carry Him to Victory
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - It's a busy time in Condit Country, that region of the Twilight Zone where California Rep. Gary Cond...
VENTURA - In a case that tested the liability of schools for off-campus injuries to students, an appellate court has upheld an...
Focus Column - By Johnny Darnell Griggs - In its landmark opinion in Circuit City Stores Inc. v. Adams, 532 U.S. 105 (2...
Judges and Judiciary
Democrats Excoriate GOP Nominees for U.S. Bench
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Republicans were dealt setbacks on two fronts involving judicial nominations on Tuesday, as emboldened Democrats ...
LOS ANGELES - Defense lawyer Michael S. Kopple was describing how he once tried to persuade a client with a fistful of prior c...
Forum Column - Editor's Note: Every once in a while one of the Daily Journal's Opinion pieces provokes an especially strong re...
SANTA ANA - The state attorney general's office has declined to file criminal charges against an Orange County deputy district...
Entertainment & Sports
Television Writers' Age-Bias Case Moves to State Court
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - Moving their fight against alleged age discrimination in the entertainment industry to a new venue, 150 televisi...
LOS ANGELES - A San Francisco man testified Tuesday in Los Angeles that he contacted police to relate a frightening encounter ...
Focus Column - By Stephen P. Milner - Last year was not a banner year for the initial public offering market. And, unfortunate...
WASHINGTON - A clear majority of the Supreme Court on Monday indicated they will strike down a city's law that strictly regula...
Government
Panel Stays Judge's Decision to Undo Compton Mayoral Election
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - Eric Perrodin will be mayor of Compton again - at least for now. Less than three weeks after a Superior Court ju...
LOS ANGELES - Paul Bacigalupo had to go to court to keep his ballot designation of "Judge, State Bar" on Tuesday's primary bal...
Dicta Column - By John P. Rutledge - While most lawyers excel at arguing, pontificating and debating, most do not excel at wri...
WASHINGTON - Taking on another arbitration dispute, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether federal courts or a...
Column by Garry Abrams - The barbaric murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan is a ghastly reminder th...
Forum Column - By Dorothy M. Ehrlich - In an announcement that has attracted remarkably little scrutiny or public debate, Atto...
Law Practice
Real Estate Lawyer Offered Free Advice to Those in Need
By Claude Walbert
ORANGE - Services have taken place for Bert J. Cook, who practiced real estate law as a sole practitioner and taught real esta...
LOS ANGELES - To stop the reopening of an abandoned mine in a Santa Clarita neighborhood, its opponents acknowledge, county of...
Labor/Employment
Administrator Fired by DA Wins Victory in Arbitration
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas didn't have "reasonable cause" to fire an office administrator he ...
Criminal
Feds Must Pay Attorney Fees for 'Frivolous' Suit, Panel Says
By Charles Asbhy
DENVER - A San Diego businessman can collect $200,000 in attorney fees from the federal government because the U.S. attorney's...
LOS ANGELES - On March 5, 21 candidates will compete for seven Superior Court seats. Among them are many prosecutors, several ...