The Esberg court held that excluding a worker over 40 from an educational-assistance program did not constitute age discrimina...
SAN FRANCISCO - Twenty-two years ago an aging Union City steel mill shut its doors, throwing 400 steelworkers off their jobs. ...
The Supreme Court held that the 11th Amendment bars state employees from recovering money damages under Title I of the America...
Remember a long time ago when some people, like the American Bar Association, your law professor or people who write ethical r...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal Environmental Protection Agency moved Wednesday to reject local plans for cleaning up Bay Area smo...
Pity those poor people who are asked to sign prenuptial agreements. They are clearly the downtrodden members of society who ne...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to clarify the retroactivity of the state's 1998 law stripping p...
Better to prepare clients for possible outcomes than to surprise them at the end. ...
SAN JOSE - The Avant criminal trade secrets case, once again, has descended into farce. Nearly four years after the Santa Clar...
Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Wednesday upholding employers' use of mandatory arbitration agreements, California l...
SAN FRANCISCO -Two intellectual property partners, Robert Padway and Marcy Bergman, have left the San Francisco outpost of Por...
LOS ANGELES - Gun dealers in Los Angeles will have to obtain the thumbprint of firearms purchasers under one of a pair of gun-...
LOS ANGELES - An insurance company that initially refused to pay more than $3.5 million to the paralyzed victim of a rollover ...
LOS ANGELES - A union representing Los Angeles Superior Court research attorneys, law clerks and paralegals has rejected a cou...
WASHINGTON - When Saint Clair Adams applied for a sales job at a Circuit City store in Santa Rosa in 1995, he had to sign a jo...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
California Energy Shortage Turns Attorneys into Natural-Gas Experts
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - From the golf course of the Bel Air Country Club to a lawyer's conference room in Houston, a long and winding ro...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Court Restricts Drug-Test Use In Pregnancy
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - State hospitals cannot drug-test pregnant women without consent and give the results to the police, the U.S. Sup...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the first such ruling by a federal circuit, an appeals court held Wednesday that victims of severe domestic...
From a juror's perspective, employment cases are unlike most other civil cases. In other matters, such as intellectual propert...
While the courts continue to define investigative standards, employers are expected to act swiftly to find out the truth and r...
On Dec. 18, 2000, the 3rd Appellate District held that when it comes to the rights of third-parties to enter private property ...
Judges and Judiciary
Southern District Bench Must Add Asian-Pacific Islanders
By Columnist
On Oct. 30, 2000, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California declared a judicial emergency, citing a case...
Peter W. Craigie of Craigie, McCarthy & Clow in San Francisco, won a $5 million jury verdict in a breach of contract suit,...
Organized labor is picking up new recruits from the ranks of student athletes and private-university graduate students. The ne...
John D. O'Connor shied away from a career as a doctor because he thought he'd be bored. So what does he do out of the starting...
This case had everything: internecine rivalry, disparate corporate cultures, lack of communication in a business whose heart i...
In Vacanti v. State Comp. Ins. Fund, 24 Cal.4th 800, 102 Cal.Rptr.2d 562 (2001), the California Supreme Court recently suggest...
In Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychcare Services Inc., 24 Cal.4th 83 (2000), the California Supreme Court held that pre-d...
SAN JOSE - After an extraordinary confrontation in court with a defense attorney, retired California Court of Appeal Justice M...
The decision proceeds by cobbling together various statutes and torturing the meaning of at least one of them to create the de...