A father's allegations of physical abuse by his own father when he was a child are relevant in determining who can best care f...
Troops, a lot of what you need to know about the Universal Pictures vs. Mike Myers legal fencing over the aborted "Dieter" pro...
The initial prosecutions in the Rampart scandal were thrown into disarray Thursday when a judge denied a prosecution request t...
Education
Group Threatens Court If Board Doesn't Alter Harassment Rules
By Jill Boekenoogen
Guidelines drafted by the state Department of Education fail to go far enough to prevent sexual harassment at the state's publ...
SAN JOSE - A New York video distributor agreed Wednesday to stop including "R"-rated trailers on videos aimed at children in a...
Suits filed by the recording industry against music-downloading Web sites include the following: ...
Original intent is an unworkable, profoundly anti- democratic theory of constitutional analysis that should be discarded once ...
The movie 'Shaft' is based on the need for an effective judicial system in order to prevent people from taking justice into th...
Criminal
Defendant Can't Cross-Examine Victim's Therapist for Restitution
By Daniel Evans
A criminal defendant does not have the right to cross-examine his victim's therapist at a restitution hearing, the Court of Ap...
Max Grafner Kolliner, retired court arbitrator, died June 27 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89. Kolliner is remembered as ...
A brain-injured ballet dancer, who fought State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. for 10 years for a settlement likely to b...
Constructing its next generation of leadership, Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has tapped litigator Stuart A. Sha...
SANTA ANA - Tenet Healthsystems Desert Inc., a subsidiary of Santa Barbara-based Tenet Healthcare Corp., has filed suit in Ora...
The so-called war on drugs has created a mindset among police officers that spawned much of the misconduct being alleged in th...
Intellectual Property
Recording Industry Forces Napster to Face the Music Over Copyrights Issues
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Word around San Francisco's federal courthouse has it that Judge Marilyn Hall Patel postponed a crucial hearin...
Protest groups gearing up for the Democratic National Convention next month vowed Wednesday to enliven the streets of downtown...
With regard to reassignment, a company must not treat a disabled employee just like any other job applicant. ...
Funds must go into a trust account if any portion may belong to a client. ...
While employment in California is "at will," employers must be careful to avoid implied good-cause contracts.
To most voters, the recent 7-2 U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidating California's blanket primary, California Democratic Pa...
Law Practice
ABA House Defeats Proposal On Multidisciplinary Practices
By Don De Benedictis
NEW YORK - In a resounding vote Tuesday, the American Bar Association's policy-making body refused to permit lawyers to form p...
It's not uncommon to hear clients claim they took a beating in court, but Linda Lee means it literally. In a suit filed in pro...
A large crowd of family, friends and colleagues attended a memorial service on Saturday afternoon for Adeline ("Addie") Mentze...
Services will be held Friday for Lawrence N. Rose, a sole practitioner who specialized in probate law. Rose died July 4. He wa...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Board Dumps White Men, Insiders, Goes for Diversity, 'Paint Jobs'
By Don De Benedictis
NEW YORK - When the American Bar Association's annual meeting drew to a close Tuesday, five senior representatives from Califo...
The ACLU Foundation of Southern California will present one of two Torch of Liberty Awards today to entertainment attorney Don...
No aspect of the arbitration process is more often confused by parties' process choices, and garbled in written agreements to ...
Violent crime rates continue to climb in Los Angeles, with the number of homicides up more than 30 percent in the first half o...
Health Care & Hospital Law
HMO Battles Physician Group in O.C. Court
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - A skirmish in the national battle over health care reform played out in Orange County Superior Court last week, as...
Deciding an incorrect legal standard was used, the Riverside Court of Appeal reversed a San Bernardino County Superior Court j...