Judges and Judiciary
Would-Be Ravisher Gets Cold Feet, Makes Barely a Peep
By Columnist
In Jackson v. Georgia, 91 Ga. 322 (1892), Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley found the following for the court: As defined...
The legitimacy of private arbitration as a means of vindicating statutory rights is far from settled, even after Circuit Ci...
LOS ANGELES - A Miami jury has returned a $2 million verdict against Home Depot and a lighting company for selling a knockoff ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A mistake by prosecutors let death row inmate Larry Roberts and Solano County Superior Court Judge Franklin A....
LOS ANGELES - Longtime Sony Pictures Entertainment executive vice president, general counsel and secretary Ron Jacobi will lea...
Solo and Small Firms
S.J.'s Hopkins Loses Litigators to Coudert Brothers
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Hopkins & Carley, a small San Jose business and litigation firm, announced Wednesday that it had launched ...
SAN BERNARDINO - A judge has denied a Fontana man's bid for a retrial despite the defendant's argument that he can prove a jur...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge Wednesday declared the Los Angeles city attorney's office and the police department in co...
LOS ANGELES - Mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa's victory in Tuesday's primary election signals a change to the political...
LOS ANGELES - As Tuesday night's vote tallies scrolled across video screens at election events across Los Angeles, emotions sw...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling that Houston-based Enron Corp. has potentially caused California schools irreparable harm, a federal ju...
SAN FRANCISCO - After hearing that he confessed three times, a San Francisco jury Wednesday convicted a former Mexican police ...
Litigation
Feds File Bias Lawsuit Against Two Landlords
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the owners of two Riverside apartment complexes, alleging th...
Litigation
Legal Paramedic Award Winners Resuscitate Moribund 'Coppola v. Warner Bros.'
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - This week's Legal Paramedic Award for best mouth-to-mouth on a moribund case goes to movie director Francis Ford...
Independent Hollywood producer Les Haber saw the potential of reality television before the popular show "Survivor" and its ma...
LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles Police Department officers have sued the Los Angeles Times for libel, saying the newspaper impli...
Q: Is mediation underutilized in entertainment litigation? A: Generally, the answer is no. Mediation appears to be accepted ab...
The relationship of insurance-defense counsel, the insureds that they are hired to defend and the insurance companies that pay...
Perhaps the most important consideration in any arbitration is the selection of the arbitrator. The arbitrator determines the ...
Martin Stanley, a sole practitioner in Santa Monica, won $500,000 in a product liability case. Keegan v. Joytech Internatio...
SAN FRANCISCO - Now that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is firmly entrenched in the United States, the San Francisco-based ...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place at 3 p.m. Thursday for Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney John C. Sp...
SAN FRANCISCO - A pair of high-profile patent litigators, Lynn Pasahow and David Hadden, joined Palo Alto's Fenwick & West...
To call John M. Gatti a perfectionist may be an understatement. As an undergraduate majoring in finance at the University of S...
Last fall, the California Supreme Court held that employers could impose a fair and mutual arbitration process on employees as...
Civil Rights
New Law Could Put Americans' Medical Privacy on Critical List
By Columnist
Uncle Sam wants your private medical records, and you have only a few days to stop him. Not only does he want your medical dat...
VENTURA - In a case that tested police-pursuit policies, a bystander seriously injured as officers were chasing a fleeing vehi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marshall B. Grossman, a senior partner and business litigation specialist at Los Angeles' Alschuler Grossman S...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that ensures Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel will eventually appear in civil court to face liabilit...
LOS ANGELES - No matter who wins the mayoral race, Big Money's influence on politics will continue to be a festering issue in ...