Product Liability
Proposed Law Would Seek Safety Standards for Guns
By Lauren Bartlett
Reacting to recent shootings across the country, including the rampage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center, Los Angel...
Public Interest
State Bar Wrongly Used Dues On Ideology, Court Concludes
By Don De Benedictis
Dealing a blow to the State Bar of California on an old and contentious issue, a Sacramento Superior Court judge has ruled th...
SAN FRANCISCO - The subjects of hidden camera exposes cannot sue claiming federal wiretap violations unless they can also sho...
Criminal
O.C. Prosecutors Drop Charges In Slaying Of Police Officer
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - In a rare move, Orange County prosecutors Wednesday dropped the charges against a criminal defendant who sat behi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Graham & James has lost nine litigation attorneys from its Palo Alto office to Oppenheimer Wolff & Do...
SAN DIEGO -- When Ben Shapiro taped together four 81/2-by-11 sheets of paper for his four-word message, he expected no proble...
SAN FRANCISCO - Menlo Park-based Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian is opening a third office, this...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Law Students Get the Mediation Experience
By Martin Kruming
^^San Diego Watch / Martin Kruming^^ For almost two years, students from three San Diego law schools have been teaming up as ...
^^Health Care Law^^ Doctor's Labor Definition of 'Employee' Makes Physician Unionization Difficult A close look at the legal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Boalt Hall, one of the nation's premier law schools, is likely to have an outsider as dean next year, the fir...
With at least two Los Angeles County supervisors calling for the end of gun shows on county property, the Board of Supervisor...
Holding up a newspaper with an article giving detailed allegations from a sealed insurance fraud lawsuit as well as the names...
Criminal
Security Measures Lead to Dogged Avoidance by Some
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - It's 8:30 a.m., and the scene at the Orange County courthouse in Santa Ana is a bit chaotic as jurors scurry for ...
Law Practice
Right to Counsel Extended to Mentally Ill for Release Hearing
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court provided help Tuesday to a mental patient who dangled for eight years in a Missouri f...
SACRAMENTO - As California policy-makers craft a law to let patients seek review by independent experts when health plans den...
SAN FRANCISCO - Richard W. Jennings, emeritus professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, and an internationa...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a boost to organized labor, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that local governments m...
By Ruth Bader Ginsburg I am overjoyed to receive the Thurgood Marshall Award, but I value this occasion most, as I think ever...
Criminal
Judge Rules Police Coerced Witness for Cop-Killing Trial
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge ruled Monday that false statements by a witness in the case of slain Garden...
By Christopher Tayback In a recent trial, I raised several persistent objections to the court's jury-selection procedure. The...
California law enforcement authorities reported 1,750 hate crimes last year, State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Monday....
Technology & Science
Once-Urgent All-Caps Messages Are Now Just Annoyances
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Once-urgent all-capital messages are now just annoyances By George W. Brewster Jr. My paralegal is relatively soft-spoken in ...
Services have been held for long-time Westside attorney Byron Y. Appleton - a fixture at the Santa Monica Municipal Court, wh...
Having struck out both with the district attorney and the Los Angeles County grand jury, attorney Gloria Allred and the siste...
A judge has reversed a jury's $6.6 million verdict in Los Angeles Superior Court earlier this year to a man who contended he ...
SAN DIEGO - The leader of a religious group accused of a string of robberies in San Diego and Riverside counties last year an...
In light of recent shootings including the murder of a postal worker and rampage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center,...
SAN FRANCISCO - It is official Berkeley doctrine for city agencies to shun Salvadoran coffee and to boycott goods from Burma,...
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner H.M. "Trip" Webster III likes to joke that "being on the bench is like being an ombud...
In an abrupt reversal, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge lifted a court order Monday that barred the Daily Journal from publ...