Family Sues School Over Embalmed Head
By Eron Yehuda
When cancer victim Osie K. Whitten had his body donated for research at the University of California, Davis, officials at the ...
World's Largest Toy Maker Moving to San Bernardino's Biggest Warehouse
By Laura Coleman
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer The world's largest toy maker, Mattel, will move into San Bernardino's largest warehouse a...
Clients Should Use Their Health Care Coverage First
By Contributing Writer
Column - Trial Strategy - By Laurel Kaufer - Attorneys who try to use their clients' existing health care coverage for the tre...
ACLU Bushwacks President At Annual Bill of Rights Affair
By Tina Spee
That the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California's star-studded Bill of Rights dinner last month turned into a p...
Transit Infrastructure Overload
By Laura Coleman
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer On a typical weekday morning in the Los Angeles Basin, some 35,000 18-wheeler trucks compe...
Neutral Path
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Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Deborah Rothman And Jeff Kichaven - There are many important considerations that ...
SoCal Developer Follows Renter-by-Choice Trend Into Suburbs
By Olivia Loy
By Olivia Loy CREJ Staff Writer A new multifamily project in Natomas shows that the "renter-by-choice" phenomenon continues t...
Edwards Lifesciences Buys Medical Device Company
By Toni Vranjes
Irvine company Edwards Lifesciences Corp. is buying a privately held medical device company in a deal that could lead to more ...
Namedropping
By Amy Spees
Last year, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles received three-to-four complaints per week accusing the nonprofit of shoddy...
Santa Barbara Supervisors Approve County's Largest Residential Project
By Laura Coleman
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer Work could begin this year on the largest residential project in Santa Barbara County hist...
Judge Tosses Suit Over Teaching Islam
By Eron Yehuda
Educating 12-year-old students about Islam by requiring them to recite a line from a Muslim prayer and to play a board game th...
In the Zone
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor The Dominguez Technology Center has just about everything a modern logistics tenant ...
Utah Bar Contracts With Referral Service on Web
By Draeger Martinez
LegalMatch.com, a Web site headquartered in San Francisco, has contracted with the Utah State Bar to replace its lawyer referr...
Bush's Guest Worker Plan Will Create More Problems
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Forum Column - By David Abraham - President George W. Bush's immigration reform proposal, unveiled on Wednesday, is a classic ...
Liberty and Justice for Whom?
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Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The U.S. government must close its unlawful concentration camp at Guantnamo Bay immediately ...
Following New Rule May Help Owner Avoid Cleanup Liability
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Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a new rule establishin...
Court to Decide If Military Can Detain Citizens Incommunicado
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Intensifying its scrutiny of the government's war on terrorism, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whet...
Blake Jury Survey May Be Unsealed
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - The questionnaire used to screen potential jurors in the Robert Blake murder trial may be released as early as t...
Judge Backs Disbarment For Lawyer in Fraud Case
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Walnut Creek sole practitioner Clifford B. Malone Jr. should be disbarred for defrauding a client of more than...
Humanity on the Bench
By Dennis Opatrny
OAKLAND - Three photographs hang in the chambers of Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Krashna. One is of Hall of Fame ...
Court OKs Southlanders' Disneyland Discount
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - Disneyland's decade-old practice of giving Southern California residents a $10 discount is legal, an appellate c...
Discrediting of Bias Surveys Won't Keep Trial in Modesto
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A judge is unlikely to change his mind about moving the Scott Peterson murder trial out of Modesto, some legal e...
Court to Decide If Military Can Detain Citizens Incommunicado
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Intensifying its scrutiny of the government's war on terrorism, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider wheth...
Less Is Less
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Economists tell us that we are in the middle of an economic recovery. But various analy...
When the Recruiter Calls, Aim at the Bull's-Eye
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Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Many lawyers find that it is in their best interest to use a recruiter when explo...
'Romo' Provides Specific Limit On Punitive-Damages Awards
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Focus Column - Litigation - By David T. Biderman and Kyann C. Kalin - The state Court of Appeal's decision in Romo v. Ford , 1...
Nonprofit Sues Over Domains
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The nonprofit Asian Law Alliance has filed suit in a San Jose federal court accusing a local businessman of il...
Hom Brings Both Sides to Bench
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - How did Judge Russell Hom become the first practicing criminal defense attorney to be appointed to the Sacramento...
San Diego Settles Scouts Suit With ACLU, Will Pay $950,000
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The city of San Diego agreed Thursday to pay the American Civil Liberties Union $950,000 to settle part of a lawsu...
Reflection, Research on Appeals Bench Suit Jurist
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - It was a real dog of a case. Dog, that is, as in Rover, Lassie, Spot, Canis familiaris, the domestic fami...