Law Schools Fight Military Over Gay Rights
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - The cause at hand is gay rights, not communism. But for Peter Keane, dean of Golden Gate University School of La...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions from Orange County
By Angela Gottula
BREA - Voit Development Co. has sold the 47,356-square-foot 910 Challenger Ave. building in Voit Brea Business Park for $3.8 m...
Bias Blindness
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Forum Column - By Martha Matthews and Courtney Joslin - In California and other states, public-school districts are facing an ...
High Corporate Taxes Cut Into U.S.' Competitiveness
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Forum Column - By Chris Edwards - Recent scandals have given corporate taxes - usually not the hottest topic around - some buz...
Paying Severance Eases Termination Headaches
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Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - With many firms experiencing layoffs due to work shortages, the question of whether to p...
Year in Review: 2003 Yields Some Noteworthy Legislation
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Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and Charles J. Higley - With all of the attention giv...
Mortgage Firm Pays $1 Million To Settle Suit
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - CitiMortgage Inc. has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit the city of Los Angeles filed over several pr...
Bakery, Grocery Must Pay Woman $5 Million
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - Ralphs Grocery and a Los Angeles-area bakery will split a $5 million verdict that a jury awarded an East Los Ang...
Activist Faces Charge For Theft of Identity
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - African-American activist Najee Ali is free on $90,000 bail after being charged with trying to steal the identit...
Women Get $9.7 Million From UC Lab
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The University of California has agreed to pay record damages of nearly $10 million to resolve a class action ...
Much Stiffer Sentence Ordered in Bomb Case
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - A 21-year-old former De Anza College student could face an extra 50 years in prison after a 6th District Court of A...
Reporter's Notebook: State Supreme Court Braces for Church-State Collision
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Thus far, the California Supreme Court has avoided the sensational tug of war in Alabama over placing a giant ...
Growing Up Slowly, Jurist Has Made Room for Fun
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - When William N. Sterling got to New York University School of Law, he thought he had stepped into the story line...
Court Revives Gunmaker Liability Suit
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Buford Furrow's victims in a 1999 Los Angeles-area shooting rampage can sue the gunmakers whose weapons he use...
Intellectual Proprietor
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Like many of his colleagues in copyright law, Stanford Law School professor Paul Goldstein has had to answer, ...
Keeping Himself, His Work Accessible
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, Paul Boland was ensconced in his courtroom at Central Civil in downtown Los Angeles, where he ex...
Tenuous Hold
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Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - On Sept. 19, Gov. Gray Davis signed into law AB205, the "California Domestic Partner Righ...
Ads Criticize Candidate for Opposing Judicial Nominee
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Wasting no time in injecting the issue of judicial nominations into the 2004 presidential race, a conservative gr...
Appeal in Bankruptcy Case Called Deficient
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A San Jose attorney's objection to a $29,000 award granted to his former office manager in a bankruptcy case was so...
Attorney Indicted in Tax Case
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury has indicted San Jose lawyer Owen George Fiore, a State Bar certified tax specialist, for...
Attorney for Pop Star Arranges for Surrender
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Prominent Los Angeles defense attorney Mark Geragos negotiated Wednesday for pop star Michael Jackson's surrende...
Recipients, L.A. Social Services Reach Accord
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - After nearly four years of a legal marathon, non-English speaking welfare recipients are ready to claim victory ...
Investigator For DA Also Works for Gonzalez
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - An investigator for San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan who is on the city payroll has allegedly ...
Continuance Confrontation Runs Close to Deadline
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Yet another strange twist in the case of accused murderer Larry Joe McDougal means that prosecutors may be for...
Sublime Confidence
By Karen Coleman
HAYWARD - In January, Alameda County's judicial team will have a new general manager. Assistant Presiding Judge Barbara Miller...
Bar Panel Berates Regulators
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - A State Bar committee is advising attorneys to resist what the panel considers efforts by federal regulators t...
New Laws Could Help in Prosecuting Pop Star
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A change in California law since Michael Jackson first was accused of child molestation a decade ago could allow...
Customer Complains About Pellicano: Too Expensive, No Broken Legs
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - "It's the dirty little secret of lawyers - private eyes." So said a source this week of the illegal w...
Court: PG&E Can't Evade State Law
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - In a "slam dunk win" for California, a federal appeals court held Wednesday that bankrupt Pacific Gas and Elec...
Jurors Award $33 Million to Hurt Surgeon
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - A jury Wednesday handed a $33 million verdict to a black surgeon who claimed he was roughed up by the Los Angele...