Police Records Ruling
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Police Department and the district attorney must turn over to a civil rights lawyer 10 years of ...
Panel Overturns Ban of Expert Testimony
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A trial court judge was wrong to exclude the testimony of experts in a case in which a pesticide company was bei...
Investigative Data Gets Shield
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court decision will help would-be defendants in environmental cases keep under wraps infor...
Medi-Pot Gains Some Federal-Court Support
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The road to recovery will be a long one for Scott Imler, who next week will undergo surgery to have a cancerous ...
Under Control
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Since January 2001, the U.S. government has held 600 individuals as prisoners at a milit...
'Luce, Forward' Case Is Green Light, But Not a Blank Check
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Until recently, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of App...
Workers' Comp Plan Outlined
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Attorneys who represent workers injured on the job blamed insurers Tuesday for rising workers' compensation premi...
Probation Move Riles Judges
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County bench and its Board of Supervisors are going to war over who should run the probation depart...
Panel Slashes Ford Damages To $24 Million
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel Tuesday ruled excessive a $290 million punitive-damages award for a family that lost thr...
Discovery Ruling Gets High Court's Attention
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to review an appellate ruling that prosecutors say wrongly expande...
Jackson Airplane Videotaping Scandal Hits Litigation Turbulence
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - In Hollywood, you're nobody until somebody bugs you. OK, Michael Jackson was famous before the report...
Gender Fault Lines
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A year ago John Patrick Dwyer spent Thanksgiving Day on the deserted Boalt Hall campus, loading files and pers...
Fazio Endorsement: None of the Above
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Incumbent Terence Hallinan and challenger Kamala Harris lost a chance for a campaign edge in the San Francisco...
Candidates Unfazed by Boalt Turbulence
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The announced candidates for dean of Boalt Hall School of Law appear undaunted by ongoing diversity concerns a...
Striking for Better
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Henry M. Willis and Joseph L. Paller Jr. - Seventy thousand Southern California grocery store workers are ou...
Expansion of European Union Will Create Tax Risks, Rewards
By Columnist
Focus Column - International Law - By Michael S. Lebovitz - On May 1, 2004, 10 countries will join the European Union, bringin...
Lawyers Fight Ruling On Kids, Treatment
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Public-interest lawyers Monday filed 600 pages of exhibits and a dozen declarations to back their claim that the...
'Oddball' Judge Called Genius, Crazy
By Karen Coleman
STOCKTON - It takes patience to try a case in front of Judge Clark Sueyres. The 58-year-old San Joaquin Superior Court jurist ...
Justices Reinstate Book-Cooking Suit
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - An appellate panel on Monday reinstated an investors' lawsuit accusing BDO Seidman, the nation's sixth-largest a...
Injured Foreman Gets $20M
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury handed $18.7 million to a construction foreman and his wife after a fall from the fifth floor of a part...
Half of Test Takers Pass July Bar Exam
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Nearly 50 percent of the law-school grads nervously awaiting the results of their July Bar Examinations learned ...
On Adoption Day, Families Grow
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - The modest two-story house, with a banner stretching above the front door announcing "Strong Child Care Center" ...
Montali Won't Wait for PUC to Vet PG&E Plan
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Backers of a compromise plan to lift Pacific Gas and Electric Co. out of bankruptcy could get an early Christm...
DA Replaces One Prosecutor For Robert Blake Murder Trial
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Three months away from trial, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office has replaced one of the prosecut...
Jones Day To Acquire Lion's Share Of Pennie
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Jones Day, a 2,000-lawyer firm based in Cleveland, confirmed Monday it is in discussions to acquire nearly all...
9th Circuit OK With 'Streamlined' Appeals
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - In a decision that could affect thousands of aliens facing deportation, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ref...
L.A. Lawyers Dine Out on Hollywood Legal Troubles
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The autumn of 2003 likely will go down as a historic season in the annals of Hollywood law. Everywher...
Transforming the Judiciary
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Whatever his shortcomings, legal observers agree, former Gov. Gray Davis' most distinguished and enduring lega...
Justices Can Vote From Afar
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has done away with its longstanding rule prohibiting justices from voting on case...
Sex Harassment Liability Scaled Down
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that victims who fail to report sexual harassment at wor...