Health Care & Hospital Law
Riverside Hospital Will Pay $50,000 In Severance Deal
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - The mother of a man whose penis was bitten off when he was attacked by another patient in an intensive care ward ...
Judges and Judiciary
The Task: Building a Legal System From Tangled Past
By Jean Guccione
William E. Davis, who once led the state Administrative Office of the Courts, is taking his expertise to Palestine, where he ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court declined Wednesday to weigh in on the state's first employment case arising from...
Civil Rights
City Council Pays $150,000 in Legal Fees in Girls Softball Suit
By Lauren Bartlett
Giving girls greater access to athletic fields, the Los Angeles City Council has approved a lawsuit settlement that gives a s...
A landlord who wrongly tried to evict and then sued tenants who paid lower rents under a federally subsidized program must pa...
SACRAMENTO - With its unique ability to identify suspects from microscopic clues, DNA technology is allowing law enforcement ...
SAN DIEGO - Charles Lynch strongly believed that law students best learn through practice in actual cases, so after he became...
Services have been held for Robert E. Maloney, who served as in-house counsel for Farmers Insurance Group for 35 years. Malon...
SAN DIEGO - D. Kent Pedersen, who as court administrator watched zealously over Municipal Court employees and judges for 18 y...
The San Diego chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association has been selected as ACCA's small chapter of the year, an...
REDWOOD CITY -- An attorney representing the former owners of a Burlingame Honda dealership accused the Japanese auto giant M...
Appellate Practice
SLA Judge Blasted for Actions In Railroad Case Conference
By Pamela Mac Lean
A former Los Angeles federal judge slated to preside over the trial of a one-time reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier ...
Government
Stoic Chief Parks Told That Police IG Authority Is Broad
By Lauren Bartlett
With Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn at his side, a top attorney in Hahn's office told Police Chief Bernard Parks Tue...
Technology & Science
Is DNA the Key To Unlock Cells Of the Innocent?
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Two death row inmates convicted in brutal multiple murders in the 1980s insist they can prove their innocence th...
^^The Rodent^^ Lawyer Rsums Product of Creative Legal Writing Back in the good old days, that is, before you and I went to la...
Personal Injury & Torts
Government Gun Suits Are a Twisted Use of Tort Law
By Columnist
By Gary Kleck If Eliot Spitzer, New York state's attorney general, has his way, more of the nation's gun manufacturers will f...
By Rudolph R. Loncke Seldom does a trial judge have reason to criticize, in writing, the opinion of an appellate court justic...
Party to Benefit Diversion Program The Long Beach Bar Foundation will host a Halloween party Thursday to benefit SHORTSTOP, a...
Judges Association Elects New Officers Judge Francis A. Gately of the Rio Hondo Municipal Court in El Monte has been elected ...
^^Tales & Trials^^ Character Development Demonstrations of personality traits are more persuasive than mere descriptions ...
Report Clarifies Investigator's Role The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office has issued a report clarifying a previous written...
Challenging Customs Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Two Import-Export Cases By Su Kohn Ross The 1999 U.S. Supreme Court sess...
Tort trends were the focus of the annual convention of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, which attracted 1,5...
SAN DIEGO - The mother of a former professional football player who died after he was shot 13 times by San Diego police offic...
Appellate Practice
9th Circuit Votes To Rehear Case Of Border Stops
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up the issue of what role ethnicity may play in legitimate Border Patrol traffic stops, a federal appe...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a rare antitrust challenge to the merger of two East Bay hospitals, State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on...
Memorial services will be held today for civil trial attorney William R. Jackson of Collins, Collins, Muir & Traver, who ...
Five young men with slicked-back hair and edgy smiles appeared before the San Fernando Valley Juvenile Court Thursday. This w...
Memorial services will be held Wednesday for retired U.S. bankruptcy Judge John E. Bergener, who served in the Central Distri...
Constitutional Law
Judge Finds Ban On Unsolicited Flyers, Papers Unconstitutional
By Lauren Bartlett
A federal judge has granted a permanent injunction barring the city of Pasadena from enforcing an ordinance restricting door-...