New Bankruptcy Rules Address Privacy, Data Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Wesley H. Avery and Steven T. Gubner - The U.S. Supreme Court's amendments to the Federal R...
Justices Lean Toward Allowing Air-Quality Rules
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court indicated in arguments Wednesday that it will clear the air by allowing Southern Californ...
Court Says Federal Judges Can Enforce Consent Decrees on States
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In one of the current Supreme Court's rare rejections of a claim of state sovereignty, the justices on Wednesday...
Courts Refuse to Expand Application of SLAPP Law to New Facts in 2003
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Goldowitz - Last year saw a record number of published opinions involving California's ant...
Agency Sued for Changing Permit
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - An environmental group sued Bay Area air quality regulators Wednesday, saying officials watered down restricti...
Justices Rule U.S. Judges Can Enforce Consent Decrees on States
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In one of the current Supreme Court's rare rejections of a claim of state sovereignty, the justices on Wednesday ...
Defender Denies Misleading Court
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Thomas Spielbauer, the deputy Santa Clara County public defender who was fired for allegedly misleading the court,...
Court Rejects Initiative Lowering Water Rates in Landers
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - As evidenced by the dozens that show up on the ballot each year, initiatives have become vehicles for voters to tr...
Jury Gives Doctors $11.5 Million
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside Superior Court jury has awarded $11.5 million to a pair of physicians who claimed another doctor, thei...
Tour Fails, But Mayor And DA Get to Chat
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - It was supposed to be a tour of the Hall of Justice conducted by new District Attorney Kamala Harris for new M...
Limits Set on Fund-Raising
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission reversed itself Wednesday and barred candidates from raising unlimi...
Detainee Files Civil Rights Suit Against U.S.
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A Libyan detainee at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, filed a billion-dollar civil rights lawsuit Wednesday against Presiden...
Attorneys Feel Hopeful About Guest Workers
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - While expressing concern that President Bush's proposal to give millions of undocumented workers temporary legal ...
Justices Lean Toward Allowing Air-Quality Rules
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court indicated in arguments Wednesday that it will clear the air by allowing Southern Californi...
Nolan Resigns From Howrey to Lead Skadden Litigators
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Thomas J. Nolan, the veteran trial lawyer and rainmaker who has personified Howrey Simon Arnold & White's Ca...
Fighting Words
One challenge that the United States faces in seeding liberal democracy in Iraq is defining what speech and thought will be fr...
High Court Allows Pursuit of 1994 Northridge Earthquake Claims
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a federal appeals court decision that allows thousands of Southern Califor...
Court Lets U.S. Withhold Names of Detainees
By David Pike
WASHINGTON -In a major victory for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a federal appeals ...
Vets Push for Project 112 Story
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Has the government told the whole story on Project 112? In recent years, the Department of Defense has acknowle...
Courts Make 2003 Interesting Year for Contractual Arbitration
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - This is Part 2 of a review of important arbitration deci...
Court OKs Limited Checkpoints
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Handing police a new crime-fighting weapon, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that motorists' Fourth Amendment righ...
Molestation Bill Moves Ahead
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would extend the statute of limitations for prosecution of child molestation cases at least until the...
Chamber Counsel to Join Firm
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Fred Main, senior vice president and general counsel of the California Chamber of Commerce, has left the business...
Police Arrest Lawyer in Insurance Case
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - An Encino attorney was arrested along with three others Tuesday on charges of taking part in an auto insurance f...
Justices Block Consumers Suing Baby Bells
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that consumers cannot sue regional telephone companies claiming the companie...
Young Litigator Touched Many Lives With Public Interest Dedication, Intellect
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Paul Alan Davis, a budding trial attorney at Los Angeles' Munger Tolles & Olson whom colleagues describe as ...
Jurist Tosses Pickers' Suit Over Tasting Pesticide-Sprayed Fruit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - A Riverside Superior Court judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by grape harvesters who claimed supervisors at one of ...
Bill to Update State's Unfair Competition Law Fails
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Another attempt to reform the state's unfair competition laws failed Tuesday in the Legislature and a consumer gr...
Court Likely Will Shield States From ADA Suits
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court indicated Tuesday that it will not allow a paraplegic who had to crawl up a courthouse staircas...
Stepping Forward
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Jerome Farris dislikes having it pointed out that he was the first black person appointed to the 9th U.S...