Intellectual Property
Judge Upholds $220M Award For Litton in Honeywell Fight
By Martin Bergn
U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer upheld most of a jury's $250 million award to Litton Systems Inc. late last week, while ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Courts throughout the nation are only beginning to come to grips with mandatory arbitration: what it really m...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's docket for the 1999-2000 term is short on quantity but long on quality. "I think this will b...
A memorial service will be held today for Steven W. Brown, vice president and insurance counsel for Pacific Life Insurance Co...
Personal Injury & Torts
Family Files Death Suit in Shooting by Inland Sheriff
By Daniel Jennings
SAN BERNARDINO - The family of a man who was shot to death by San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies Aug. 26 has filed a wr...
Memorial services were held Wednesday for Jerry Fine, transactional business attorney and founder of the American Media Counc...
Knock, Knock Self-Created Exigencies Violate the Fourth Amendment By Alex Ricciardulli Assume the police have developed proba...
SAN DIEGO - A veteran stockbroker, whose lifelong love of baseball led him to form a women's baseball league and pay for it w...
Constitutional Law
First Amendment Champion Stanley Fleishman Dies At 79
By Liz Valsamis
Stanley Fleishman, an attorney recognized for his work protecting First Amendment rights and the rights of the physically dis...
Utilizing a law for which there is little precedence, a former Target employee who worked a reduced schedule under the Califo...
Charges that an Encino attorney conspired to cultivate marijuana have been dismissed after he and his wife agreed to testify ...
RIVERSIDE - Gary Windom, a veteran public defender who took charge of the troubled Riverside County office Wednesday, plans t...
Two prominent lawyers from the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles will be leaving their posts to open the Southern Califor...
^^Criminal Law^^ Inspector's Gadgets Courts Respond to the Use of High-Tech Devices Gone are the days when law enforcement wi...
Straight Outta Compton California Court Holds Police Officer Not Disabled Under ADA By Leonid M. Zilberman In one of the firs...
Another Prosecutor Added to SLA Case The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has assigned a second prosecutor to th...
Two Men Accused Of Bilking Elderly A federal grand jury Wednesday charged two Long Beach men with bilking more than a thousan...
^^Employment Law^^ Accommodation Approved Employer's Efforts on Behalf of Disabled Employee Were Sufficient Courts will not p...
^^Alternative Routes^^ The Straight Dope A mediator gives an aggrieved party a lesson in life By Deborah Rothman Sam Jones ha...
The young man who allegedly bragged that he sold LSD to youths who died in a car accident as they drove home from an all-nigh...
By Frank Cerabino When Max Gordon and his bride-to-be, Mollie Levy, got their marriage license in Delray Beach, Fla., last we...
A federal court jury in Los Angeles on Wednesday found that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer infringed on the trademark of a Briti...
Constitutional Law
Cultivation Charge Dismissed After Sheriff Fails to Provide Discovery
By Daniel Jennings
SAN BERNARDINO - A Superior Court judge dismissed a marijuana-growing charge against Apple Valley resident Richard Channing o...
A developer who used workers to remove asbestos and mold and mildew from apartment complexes in Orange County and Washington ...
Criminal
Twists, Turns Continue in S.D. Case Challenging Prosecutors
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - In the latest twist in a case raising charges of misconduct by local prosecutors, bench warrants issued Wednesday...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Adopts Local Sitting To Calm Critics, Says Chief Judge
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has moved to dampen some of the demands to split the circuit by indepen...
Labor/Employment
Mervyn's Loses Attempt to Have Class Decertified
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge decided Wednesday that more than 1,600 low-level managers at Mervyn's depar...
One of the teen-age extras who sued Phoenix Pictures after allegedly being forced to strip bare for a scene in the movie "Apt...
Master wordsmith Bryan A. Garner was teaching his advanced legal writing seminar to about 100 lawyers and judges at a San Fra...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Activist Bar Leader Is Short on Words But Long on Action
By Jeffrey Anderson
When Adrienne Byers takes over as the 25th president of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles tonight, she's not...