Action on Bond Cannot Avoid Statute of Limitations on Lien
By Columnist
Focus Column - Construction Law - By Michaelbrent Collings - Service contracts often contain mechanic's liens to ensure that c...
Cleanup Compensation Is Made Harder
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooperating with a government pollution agency doesn't necessarily constitute adequate public notice of a clea...
Transfer of Marital Assets Doesn't Make Them Off-Limits
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Debtors will find it more difficult to hide assets from their creditors by using sham divorces following a decisi...
Fox News Suit Opens Gates for Flood of Linguistic-Trespassing Actions
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - In its widely publicized suit against comedian Al Franken, Fox News Network claims that Franken viola...
Investors' Path to Court Is Cleared a Bit
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles appeals court has created a way for unhappy investors to get around the refusal of the securitie...
Church Pays Jurist's Fees in Discovery Fight
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is paying the fees for a private judge who has issued a secret draft rul...
In the Balance
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Every law student learns that the outcome of constitutional cases concerning individual ...
Pastor Sues TV Station For Airing Nude Photo
By Matthew Heller
INDIO - They were two couples posing for photographs one night in the privacy of a backyard hot tub, the two women choosing to...
Juries Often Correctly Give Police Officers Benefit of the Doubt
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Everett Bobbitt - Although many observers were surprised by the outcome of the Inglewood "police-abuse" case...
Data Is Out There if Attorneys Keep Eyes, Ears Open
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeff Winikow - The amount of information available to legal practitioners is simply stagger...
Defining Force
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Leo James Terrell - As a civil rights attorney and radio journalist, I monitored the case of People v. Mo...
Judges Expand Immunity for Web Providers
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Actress Chase Masterson cannot sue a matchmaking Web site for posting sexually suggestive material along with...
Deductibility of Medical Expenses, Premiums Depends on Entity Type
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Robin C. Gilden and Kalyani R. Chirra - Selecting a business entity requires considering the feder...
Dead Child's Parents Avoid Prison
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Richard and Agnes Wiebe, a Rancho Cucamonga couple charged with murdering their baby daughter by denying he...
Luster's Mother Wants $1 Million Back
By Mark Cromer
LOS ANGELES - Andrew Luster's mother wants her money back. Luster, the convicted serial rapist who is in prison after being ca...
Davis Appoints 5 Judges; 15 Since Recall Qualified
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis, continuing a flurry of judicial appointments since the recall election qualified for the ball...
Officials File Charges Against Photographer
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's office Wednesday filed attempted extortion charges against a photog...
Mom's Meth-Laced Milk Killed Baby, DA Says
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Amy Prien lived in a house that was a "revolving door" for drug dealers and users, and she often slept in such a d...
Fajitagate Lawyers Blast DA
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for three defendants charged with assault in the Fajitagate case said Wednesday they will file malic...
ACLU Says It's Not About Davis, It's About Vote Counts
By Peter Blumberg
Reporter's Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - Three years ago, Gov. Gray Davis was an enemy of racial justice in the eyes of the A...
Matchmaking Web Site Is Immune in False Posting
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Actress Chase Masterson cannot sue a matchmaking Web site for posting sexually suggestive material with her ho...
Jury Hands Alleged Pimp $3 Million Bonus in Credit-Card Sex Dispute
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has ordered a bank and a credit card processing company to pay thro...
Hopefuls Snap Up Election Pros
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - As gubernatorial candidates last week made their final decisions to join the state's recall election circus, the...
Looking for Escape From Catch-22
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The instant that Eagle County District Attorney Mark Hurlbert announced that he woul...
Case Allocates Responsibility Between Court and Arbitrator
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - California law permits the consolidation of separate arb...
Governor Puts Three on Bench
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday appointed one judge to the Riverside Superior Court bench and two judges to the Sa...
ABA Delegates OK Second-Parent Adoption
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - While most of the attention during the American Bar Association's just-concluded convention focused on attorne...
Stay on DeVries' Release Lifted
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge on Tuesday rejected a last-ditch attempt to block the supervised release in Soledad of B...
Higher Court Fees to Bridge Budget Gap Begin
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - New user fees and hikes in existing civil and criminal filing charges take effect this month to help bridge a $9...
Attorney Robert Eshleman, Tinning & DeLap Partner, 87
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired East Bay lawyer Robert Eshleman, whose elegant and concise prose was a hallmark of his firm's appellat...