Experts May Testify on Harassment Policies and Procedures of Employer
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Amy Oppenheimer - Attorneys bringing and defending workplace-harassment lawsuits should con...
'McGinnis' Holds Benefits and Pitfalls for Employers
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - The state Supreme Court has held that a victim's conduct does not prov...
Memory Melange
I missed the opening of the Los Angeles County Law Library on Dec. 14, 1953. They wouldn't let me out of Le Conte Junior High ...
Five Vie for San Diego Bench Seat
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - One of the San Diego Superior Court's judicial races in the March 2 primary features five candidates, a number tha...
Retiree Still Heeds the Court's Call
By Pamela Mac Lean
CLEAR LAKE - For a year, Superior Court Judge John J. Golden delayed construction of Christo's famed "Running Fence" art proje...
Justices Likely Will Leave Redistricting to Legislatures
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared hesitant to police a closely watched battle over congressional...
Riverside D.A. May Be Grooming Replacement
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Rod Pacheco, a former state Assemblyman who started his career in the Riverside district attorney's office and ret...
Two Groups Hail Campaign Finance Decision
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision preserving soft money restrictions in federal campaigns will lessen the corrupt...
FBI Probes If Sleuth Spied on DAs, Sources Say
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The FBI is investigating allegations that celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano wiretapped prosecutors in a high-pr...
Ex-Executive of Tech Company Lands Acquittal
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury Wednesday acquitted the former chief financial officer of a defunct Southern California computer ...
Boxer Draws on Legal Left Hook in Quest for Heavyweight Crown
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Los Angeles boxer Vitali Klitschko's two-round demolition of Canadian Kirk Johnson Saturday night at ...
Appellate Court Gets Warm and Fuzzy, Wins Award
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - At the appellate court in Riverside, attorneys are warned that a refusal to waive oral arguments in certain ca...
From Out of Nowhere
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Kamala Harris wrested the San Francisco district attorney's office from Terence Hallinan by erasing a huge nam...
Ex-Executive of Tech Company Lauds Acquittal
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury Wednesday acquitted the former chief financial officer of a defunct Southern California computer...
Specialty Film Units, Studios Grapple With Screener Ban
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Even as the Motion Picture Association of America prepares an appeal of the federal court ruling that overturned...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 10
By Angela Gottula
LOS ANGELES COUNTY LONG BEACH - Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels sold its 234-room Holiday Inn, Long Beach Airport, to Hilba Star LP,...
Courts Examined Pre-Emption And Unconscionability in 2003
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - This year has seen significant case law in the area of c...
Royally Flush
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Forum Column - By I. Nelson Rose - The voters want Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to redo every deal that Gray Davis made, includi...
'Ford' Targets Same Issues As Three High-Court Cases
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Wayne Allen Ford's case echoes some of the issues in three cases argued before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday...
Renne Gets Hospital Its Cash Back
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Louise Renne, who won a blockbuster settlement from tobacco companies as San Francisco's city attorney and con...
Supervisor Plans Guilty Plea in Corruption Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A high-profile bribery case against an embattled San Bernardino County supervisor is coming to an end with a ...
Medical Pot Law Questioned
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - At least one Sacramento-based state appellate justice says courts ought to be allowed to order medical marijua...
Mother Sues Church, Cites Daughters' Abuse
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - A mother filed suit Monday claiming she suffered tremendous emotional pain after three of her daughters were all...
Panel Says Juvenile Judge Overreached
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday that a San Mateo County judge went too far when she took it upo...
Ringler, Three Others Join Robins Kaplan
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi has nabbed one-third of the attorneys from Santa Monica's Fogel, Feldman, Os...
Double-Jeopardy Appeal Ends in Guilty Plea
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A meandering legal and procedural odyssey has finally ended for accused murderer Larry Joe McDougal, who plead...
Joe Lynn Appointed to S.F. Ethics Panel
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has appointed Joe Lynn to the city's Ethics Commission a week after Lynn re...
Rogan Ends Short Reign At the U.S. Patent Office
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - James Rogan, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, has announced that he intends to leave his post...
Father's Rights
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A trial court did not take into account recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it granted visitation rights to...
Home Depot Card Holders Face Undisclosed Charges, Suit Says
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - When David Varco was remodeling a house in Arizona in February, he saw an advertisement that was too good to pass ...