Personal Injury & Torts
Juries to Decide on Design Immunity Defense, Court Says
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors, not judges, must decide whether Caltrans is immune from lawsuits over allegedly dangerous roadway desi...
LOS ANGELES - Prominent criminal-defense attorney Barry Levin, a decorated Vietnam War hero wounded in action, was buried in t...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge blasted the district attorney's office Thursday for keeping its key witness i...
Appellate Practice
9th Circuit Suffers Fewer Blows in Supreme Court's 2000-2001 Term
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Court of Appeals - a traditional punching bag for the Supreme Court - suffered r...
LOS ANGELES - Barry Levin was the first lawyer I met in the Criminal Courts Building, during a hearing on the Hawkins case, a ...
LOS ANGELES - Barry Levin served most recently in my court as the "point man" in the Rampart trial in which he represented Sgt...
LOS ANGELES - I met Barry in 1990, which was about one year after I had been charged as a criminal defendant in the 39th-and-D...
LOS ANGELES - My friend is dead. For the many of you who knew Barry Levin, the shock of his death leaves an enormous hole wher...
LOS ANGELES - For 20 years, Barry Levin was my weight-lifting partner, friend, colleague and mentor on the important issues of...
In Gilbert v. State of Georgia, 16 S.E. 652 (1892), Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley held the following for the court, i...
LOS ANGELES - John Trapani, an Alhambra lawyer and native Italian known for his readiness to come to the aid of those in need,...
The duty of a lawyer to guard the confidential information of a client is perhaps the duty least understood by lawyers. On bei...
LOS ANGELES - I knew Barry for 30 years, since I was a detective and he was an officer in Newton Division. They called it root...
SANTA ANA - A Laguna Niguel woman acquitted last year of murdering her infant son has filed a federal civil-rights suit agains...
LOS ANGELES - Barry and I first started working together back in 1990 on the Hare Krishna Hit Man case, as it was dubbed by th...
LOS ANGELES - I first met Barry Levin in late 1972 when he was a patrol officer at the Los Angeles Police Department's Newton ...
Employers generally would be permitted to define the limits of the use of their e-mail and voicemail systems - and even to pro...
As a matter of 'fundamental fairness,' confidential but relevant information related to the employee's civil suit may be divul...
LOS ANGELES - Barry Levin was, in many ways, a protector. As a soldier in Vietnam, he defended the freedom of a foreign people...
LOS ANGELES - Zhenfu Ge, 73, is facing deportation because her daughter, who was sponsoring her for a visa to live in the Uni...
LOS ANGELES - Convicted killer Robert Rosenkrantz will remain in prison while a state appellate court reviews a trial judge's ...
LOS ANGELES - On the heels of a $90 million verdict against an insurance company for cheating employees out of premium pay for...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has rejected all requests to reconsider its May ruling that allows insurance comp...
LOS ANGELES - Although the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority has won a major legal round against the Metro Rai...
SAN FRANCISCO - Iota Pi Law Group, best-known as the longtime Palo Alto intellectual property boutique Dehlinger & Associa...
Litigation
Law of Appearances Keeps Lawsuit From Zone of Embarrassment and Ridicule
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - The prospect of going to trial against two disabled people, including a man with no arms and legs, has made the ...
LOS ANGELES - At the same time Congress is preparing to vote on an agreement expanding trade with Vietnam, one of that country...
^^Bankruptcy Law^^ Automatic Update New Inflation Adjustments Affect Consumers and Creditors By Wesley H. Avery Section 104(b...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeals court on Wednesday revived a landowners' lawsuit challenging a city voter-mandated law meant t...
SAN JOSE - Attorneys for Cadence Design Systems pressed their argument Wednesday that Avant Corp. should pay $700 million in c...