Center Is Liable in Diabetic's Death
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Harbor Regional Center can be held vicariously liable for the death of a developmentally disabled diabetic adul...
Council Considers Mandatory Low-Income Units
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council is considering regulations that would require developers to include low-income uni...
Jameson, 90, Dean of McCutchen
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Owen "Jamie" Jameson, a corporate lawyer at San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen from 1937 u...
DA Sues Over Spending Cap
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has again tried to choke off rival Kamala Harris' campaign spending, this ...
Cooley Launches His Re-Election Campaign
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley kicked off his 2004 re-election campaign Wednesday with a rally at his alma mate...
New Judge Has Innate Knack for Settling Cases
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Whether mediating civil disputes; presiding over a host of misdemeanors, municipal code violations and traffic ...
Chief Justice Sees the New Governor as Receptive
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Chief Justice Ronald George and Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger met for the first time Wednesday, talking for n...
Democrats Grill Brown During Judiciary Hearing
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - State Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown faced hours of tough questioning Wednesday from Senate Democrats...
To Recuse or Not to Recuse?
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Recusal is the buzzword at the U.S. Supreme Court these days. The talk is all about one justice who did, and one...
Foes of 17200 Prep Initiative Limiting Suits
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Tort reformers and businesses announced Wednesday the filing of a proposed ballot initiative to reform the state...
Judge Allows Stylist's Suit to Go Forward
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Legendary hairstylist Vidal Sassoon is sitting pretty this week thanks to a federal judge's ruling allowing his...
Unlikely Role
By Columnist
Forum Column By Karen L. Snell This summer, Attorney General John Ashcroft visited 14 cities in 16 days, a whirlwind tour tha...
Court Has Chance to Address Fundamental Problem in 'Rojas'
By Columnist
Focus Column Alternative Dispute Resolution By Peter J. Marx If confidentiality is fundamental to mediation, why are mediator...
Cunningham Keeps Cases Moving Along
By Karen Coleman
MARTINEZ - When attorneys become unruly in his chambers, Superior Court Judge Douglas Cunningham might pull his engraved name...
House Looks at Plan To Divide 9th Circuit
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The continuing debate over the future of the 9th Circuit had its latest Capitol Hill installment on Tuesday when...
Councilmen Claim FBI Tried to Set Them Up
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Suspecting that a Las Vegas strip-club owner wanted to influence city politicians, the FBI attempted to "manufact...
Davis Puts Adviser on Yolo Bench
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis appointed a longtime friend and one of his top advisers Tuesday to the Yolo County Superior C...
Girls Sue City for Softball Field
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed suit against the city of La Puente Tuesday alle...
Former Investigator Gets $460,000 in Bias Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A jury has awarded a former Riverside County sheriff's investigator $460,000 in a mental disability discriminatio...
Brown's Judiciary Hearing Likely Will Strike Sparks
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - When state Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown appears today before the Senate Judiciary Committee to begi...
Is Muhammad Foolish to Refuse A Lawyer? Some Say Maybe Not
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.-sniper suspect John Muhammad's decision to represent himself inspired numerous references to A...
Incoming Governor to Get an Earful From Justice
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Incoming Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will meet today with Chief Justice Ronald M. George in Sacramento, amid c...
All Booked Up
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Every week, and sometimes every day, sole practitioner Bertram Izant strolls into the Mills Law Library. Robe...
Council Eases 'Fast Track' Rules For Civil Litigation
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Trial lawyers won a significant relaxation of California's stringent "fast track" rules for handling civil li...
Author-Lawyer's Book Reflects Inner Journey
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Scott Turow is no knee-jerk death-penalty abolitionist. Speaking recently at the Los Angeles Public Library, the...
Subcontractor Can Sue General Contractor for Abandonment
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Focus Column - Construction Law - By John P. McGill - In Amelco Electric v. City of Thousand Oaks , 27 Cal.4th 228 (200...
Can Suspects Refuse to Give Their Names?
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Taking on an issue it has failed to decide twice before, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether p...
Sutcliffe Leaves Orrick Legacy
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Eric Sutcliffe, a retired name partner in San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, has died at his ...
Judge Tells Court He Isn't Guilty
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara Superior Court Judge William Danser was back in court Monday, but not on his old bench in Department 42...
Open Hearing in Off-Duty Assault Case
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The public will have full access to a preliminary hearing in the case of the three off-duty San Francisco poli...