Employer Is Strictly Liable for Supervisor's Sexual Demands
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Anthony J. Oncidi - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has taken a significant step towa...
Twisted Logic
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Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Among the cases pending at the end of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2002-03 term was one expe...
Law Lets Unions Track Court Budgets
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill Tuesday that would notify the public of planned trial court fund transfers, enablin...
Dondero's Burglar is Convicted
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury saddled a San Francisco man with a second strike Tuesday as it convicted him of first-degree burglary f...
Judge Will Not Void Harassment Verdict
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Tuesday refused to overturn a $3.5 million verdict from a jury that found the...
Lawyers Plead No Contest to Swindle
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles attorneys charged with swindling the City of Hope cancer research and treatment center in Duarte...
Bar Names Delgadillo Attorney of the Year
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The Hispanic National Bar Association named City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo its attorney of the year at the group...
Bar Exam's Conflict With Jewish Holiday Stirs Debate
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A quiet dispute is growing in many states, including California, over a July 2004 Bar Examination date, which fa...
Circuit Grants Leasing Firms Status to File Antitrust Suits
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal appeals court expanded antitrust protections Tuesday to cover a customer who buy...
Blind Justice, Lady Luck
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - At age 18, John Tennison appeared to be doomed to spend the rest of his life in prison. San Francisco prosecut...
Lawyer-Lawmaker Has Tailored His Life Toward AG's Job
By Linda Rapattoni
Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rappattoni - Todd Spitzer strikes some as an ambitious, energetic lawyer and lawmaker with an e...
Latham & Watkins Lures MoFo Finance Leader
By Liz Valsamis
Latham & Watkins has lured to its Los Angeles office one of the leaders of Morrison & Foerster's real estate practice...
High Court Seems Split On McCain-Feingold Act
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - After an historic four-hour argument Monday, the Supreme Court appeared sharply divided on whether the sweeping ...
Law Ending Laches Defense Does Not Apply Retroactively
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Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - One family-law axiom is that, if a perso...
Recall Chaos Is Perverting Democracy
Forum Column - By David A. Lash - In the 2000 presidential election, Vice President Al Gore got half a million more votes than...
U.S. Should Let U.N. Take Over Reconstruction of Iraq
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Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Recent events have made clear that "Operation Iraqi Freedom" has opened a Pandora's box of t...
Jury Awards $52 Million to Three Investors
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Monday ordered a subsidiary of Canadian Investment Bank Corp. to pay $52 million to three inv...
Jurist Makes Hacker Cough Up $146,000
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Los Angeles college student to six months of electronic monitoring and fiv...
Court Limits Discovery in Post-Divorce Actions
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - Spouses do not have an unlimited right to discovery in post-divorce proceedings, an appeals court ruled Friday i...
Web Pirates Escape Prison Over Copyright Violations
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Citing their extraordinary work in warning school kids of the dangers of Internet piracy, a federal judge Monday...
Prosecutors Drop Drug Charges
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Federal prosecutors have dropped charges in a Riverside drug case after a judge ruled that a sheriff's detective v...
Burglary of Judge's House Now With Jury
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The trial of a man charged with burglarizing a San Francisco judge's home drew to a testy close Monday. Prosec...
Delegates Adamantly Oppose So-Called 'Racial Privacy' Initiative
By Don De Benedictis
ANAHEIM - Lawyers meeting during the State Bar annual convention over the weekend came out strongly against the so-called "rac...
Anatomy Lesson Leads Reporter Into Bowels of Prosecutorial Invective
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Michael Latin and Eleanor Hunter, the Los Angeles prosecutors of longtime Symbionese Liberation Army ...
Ex-Cop Fagan Jr. Faces More than Fajitagate in Civil Court
By Tyler Cunningham
Reporter's Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - As the people of California labor toward a criminal trial of Alex Fagan Jr. - the ...
Fake Evidence Causes Panel to Grant New Trial
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - In the latest twist in a long-running Los Angeles murder case, a federal appeals court Monday voted 2-1 to give ...
Mother Guilty
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside Superior Court jury set legal precedent late Monday by finding a Mead Valley woman guilty of second-de...
17200 Reform Bill Moves Toward Final Passage
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly Judiciary Committee approved amendments Monday to a bill revising the state's unfair competiti...
High Court Seems Split On McCain-Feingold Act
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - After an historic four-hour argument Monday, the Supreme Court appeared sharply divided on whether the sweeping M...
Former FedEx Employee Wins Abuse Suit
By Joan Osterwalder
A single mother of five took a night job at Federal Express Corp. to build a career and stability for herself. But Sandra Smit...