Forum Column - By Terry Francke - What difference would it make if Californians had a constitutional right of access to meetin...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Health Plans Have No Duty to Pay Physicians Once Risk Is Shifted
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Health Care Law Column - By Clare Richardson and Carrie E. Fogliani - Increasingly, physicians are discovering that the laws g...
NEWPORT BEACH - Although the Commission on Judicial Performance closed the case on Orange County Superior Court Judge Susanne ...
Forum Column - By Matt Cox - Educators, legislators and parents alike are speculating on how the U.S. Supreme Court will rule ...
Constitutional Law
Defendant Escapes Punitive Damages by Not Appearing
By Matthew Heller
SAN BERNARDINO - A deputy public defender found liable for defaming a sex crimes prosecutor failed to show up for a hearing on...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the federal law protecting the privacy of school records does...
LOS ANGELES - Two public-interest law firms Tuesday sued the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service on behalf of low-inco...
Dicta Colum - By The Rodent - Someone once asked me if I believe in reincarnation. My response is that I hope there is no such...
Dicta Column - By Linda D. Kornfeld - A major dilemma that faces trial attorneys with complicated cases involving significant...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury today will hear opening statements in the closely watched trial of husband-and-wife attorneys...
Litigation
Sticky, Slippery Res Judicata Can't Stop Squabbling Over Jeans Empire
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Res judicata. Is it a disease? Or a dessert? That's what I wondered when I first cast wary eyes on
LOS ANGELES - Mad Dog. Bulldog. Energizer Bunny. That is how members of the Los Angeles legal community refer to former prosec...
SAN DIEGO - A former prosecutor who played golf on county time and used office secretaries for personal business has been sent...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - Two weeks ago, Los Angeles Unified School District officials removed 300 English- and Spa...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Strived to Make Courts Friendlier for Gays, Lesbians
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - Judge Jerold A. Krieger, one of the first openly gay judges on the Los Angeles Superior Court and a pioneer for ...
Forum Column - By Glenn Sacks - Ken Johnson, a 10-year veteran of the Seattle Fire Department, wanted to be a father, but with...
Entertainment & Sports
Digital Videorecorders May Not Meet 'Sony' Fair Use Test
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Focus Column - By Alexis Garcia - In the landmark 1984 decision of Sony v. Universal, 464 U.S. 416 (1984), the U.S. Su...
LOS ANGELES - The case had all the makings of a movie plot: missing jewelry, possibly forged appraisals, Iranian royalty and j...
Large Firms
'You've Got Mail' Echoes Across Lawyer Laptops Faster Than a Mouse Click
By Marisa Navarro
LOS ANGELES - As O'Melveny & Myers partner Christopher Murray talks on the phone, there's a faint clicking noise in the ba...
Land Use Practitioner Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - Even though the California courts have carefully guarded the right of...
Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz - Under new federal tax rules, saving for college just got a bit easier and more practical for ...
Forum Column - By Julio O. Edrosolan and Phillip R. Morgan - In January, a representative for Gov. Gray Davis stated that the ...
Court Jesters - In Lee v. Porter , 63 Ga. 345 (1879), Justice Logan E. Bleckley held the following for the court: In th...
Employment Column - By Shelly Ann Panton - In the months following the attacks on the World Trade Center, there was a certain ...
LOS ANGELES - When state Assemblywoman Helen Thomson, D-Davis, was elected in 1996, the Legislature had no plan for mental hea...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Bar Association has rated "Not Qualified" two of 21 candidates competing for Superior Cou...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for former Compton Mayor Eric Perrodin will ask an appeals court to reverse a decision made by a Los Ang...
VENTURA - n October 1999, Senior Deputy District Attorney Ron S. Bamieh and an investigator finally got what law enforcement n...
Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - When we are sworn in as attorneys, we all take an oath to uphold certain duties. All ...
LOS ANGELES - Orange County lawyer William R. Devine has left Pillsbury Winthrop for Manatt Phelps & Phillips, saying the ...