Construction
Judge Rules Toll-Lane Lawsuit May Proceed
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A lawsuit aimed at giving drivers free access to the state Route 91 express lanes may proceed, a San Bernardi...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a nearly $1.7 million-a-year increase in police-related expen...
LOS ANGELES - With a stroke of a pen, Commerce Secretary Donald Evans deprived Americans of their right to know accurate censu...
Media
Yale Law Professor Reaches Book Moola Heaven With $4 Million Deal
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - California lawyers who write novels are amazed, confounded and perhaps a little envious that a Yale law professo...
SANTA ANA - Employees of the Orange County district attorney's office have relaunched a rogue Web site for themselves, creatin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area associate compensation competition - which erupted into the so-called "salary war" this time last yea...
Judges and Judiciary
Embattled L.A. Jurist's Defense: He's a Pathological Liar
By Staff Writer
PASADENA - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg lied about his background and about receiving a Purple Heart be...
LOS ANGELES - A flooring manufacturer must pay an additional $170,000 in post-judgment interest on a wrongful-death award to ...
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department's in-house office for disciplining its attorneys may not be doing its job thoroughly, seve...
Among actions announced Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2001 by the justices were: ...
The court reaffirmed California's long-standing policy disfavoring covenants not to compete and clarified the state's sale-of-...
In 1953, the Legislature enacted the Ralph M. Brown Open Meetings Act, declaring that local governments must act and deliberat...
Richard W. Page greets the coffee vendor like an old friend, orders his cafe grande cappuccino, then takes a seat at an outdoo...
Take a look at this headline: "Deregulation Ends in Failure." Or this one: "The Perils of Deregulation: Can the Free Market Ke...
After a low-speed collision broke a facial bone at Mason Goodloe's temple under his snazzy bike helmet, causing a devastating ...
Helping people one client at a time works for Bay Area attorneys Michael A. Kelly and Richard H. Schoenberger. While other att...
Motive may be unimportant in civil litigation, but it's everything to jurors. Whether pleading or defending a case, attorneys ...
New federal rules regarding civil procedure recently were adopted, significantly changing the landscape for litigators in fede...
Because of concern about improper access to medical information in electronic form, privacy became the political lightning rod...
LOS ANGELES - Robert E. Lutz II, a Southwestern University School of Law professor, will assume the office of chairman of the ...
PALM SPRINGS - In a 21st century version of passing notes behind the teacher's back, middle-school youngsters by this fall wil...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Los Angeles County Municipal Court Judge Alfonso D. Hermo was publicly censured Tuesday by the state C...
LOS ANGELES - Two of the nearly half-dozen possible candidates to lead the Board of Police Commissioners have emerged as top c...
SAN FRANCISCO - When the state's superior and municipal courts merged into a single trial court, an unexpected problem arose: ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As scientists unravel the human genome and businessmen look for ways to put it on the free market, San Francis...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant win for prison officials, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that guards who mistakenly sh...
SAN DIEGO - The American Bar Association gave a strong endorsement to a proposed international court on war crimes and genocid...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Tuesday gave a less-than-warm welcome to the 16 federal judges who have been battling for 12 ye...
Among actions announced Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2001 by the justices were:
Transactions
Loeb & Loeb: KYOCERA PURCHASES TYCOM, STAYS ON THE CUTTING EDGE
By Staff Writer
San Diego's Kyocera International Inc. has acquired Irvine's Tycom Corp. The value of the cash deal was not disclosed. Kyocera...