Court Respect for Autonomy of Parties Allows ADR to Flourish
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Focus Column Alternative Dispute Resolution By Richard Chernick Just as the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts have ...
Even '800-Pound Gorillas' Deserve Some Basic Civility
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Forum Column By Joel Benoliel The article "Taming the Beast" (Michael M. Berger, Forum, May 2) purported to tell the story of...
Library Visitors Should Study, Not
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Forum Column By Jay Sekulow The U.S. Supreme Court applied sound logic and common sense when it upheld the Children's Interne...
Services For Dick Iglehart
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service for Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Iglehart is scheduled for 4 p.m. today at ...
School Loses Fourth Appeal of $3 Million Verdict
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that could end 14 years of litigation, the Simi Valley Unified School District lost its fourth appe...
Committees OK Reforms Of 17200 Law
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Two state legislative committees approved bills Tuesday that proponents said would tweak California's unfair com...
Alameda Picks Probation Chief
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday for the first time exercised its new power to appoint the ...
Claims Court Nominee Draws Fire
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - A Senate vote is scheduled today on U.S. Court of Federal Claims nominee Victor J. Wolski, who has been strongly...
Judge Tosses Lead Paint Suit
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - In a major victory for the lead paint industry, a Santa Clara County judge Tuesday tossed out a lawsuit filed by B...
Champagne Toast Unlikely At Gathering On Indicators
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - To hear the U.S. government tell it, the Europeans want to take away your trusty green can of Kraft Parmesan ...
Attorney Harry Wartnick
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Harry Wartnick, a pioneer in asbestos litigation, died Monday after a long history of heart problems...
Curbing Poor Driving Habits
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - As the mother of a teenager who soon will drive and with the memory of her own spotty record during her youthful ...
Ashcroft, Mexico AG Announce Drug Charges
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Officials said Tuesday they are seeking lesser charges against alleged high-powered Mexican drug lords in an ef...
Lockyer Renews Attack on 17200 Firms
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Stepping up efforts to curb alleged abuses of California's unfair business practices law, state Attorney General...
Expungements of Past Convictions Mount
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Elaine is a woman with a past. And it almost cost her her job. The child-care worker in San Diego ran afoul of th...
Family Law Judge Keeps His Cool
By Claude Walbert
VISTA - When Steven R. Denton became a Superior Court judge two years ago after decades as a civil litigator, he was assigned ...
Chinese Pair Win Asylum Hearing
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Monday to reconsider political asylum for an unmarried Chinese couple that fle...
Case of Fertility Clinic Mistake Addresses Issues of Parentage
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Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Developments and advances in fertility s...
Equal Opportunity
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Forum Column - By Mary L. Smith - The U.S. Supreme Court just reaffirmed that equal opportunity in higher education remains ce...
Battle for Bonds' Baseball Enters Extra Inning
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - When the judge's gavel fell last December, it resolved the fight over the ball. When the auctioneer's gavel f...
Panel Narrows Suit Against Media
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A doctor who says he lost his medical practice as a result of a television expos can sue the station for secretl...
PG&E Is Granted More Legal Fees
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Expenses and fees for attorneys and consultants in the Pacific Gas & Electric Company topped $100 million ...
Key Vote Looms on Pick for Claims Court
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Senate will vote today on a motion to allow for a final up-or-down vote on a nominee for the U.S. Court of Fe...
OSHA Doesn't Apply at Home
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - In a ruling that prevents some claims by unlicensed contractors injured on the job, the California Supreme Court ...
DCA Rules In Probation Staff Ruckus
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has upheld a $20,000 verdict against Alameda County and controversial former probation...
Delivery Drivers Sue Orange County Register
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - The Orange County Register was slapped with a class action Monday alleging that the newspaper company classifies i...
Jet-Crash Victims' Families Settle for $11.7 Million
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The families of three of the 18 people who died in a 2001 charter jet crash in Aspen agreed Monday to a last-min...
Judge in Pot Case 'Looking for a Hook' to Help Collective
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal judge sympathized with the operators of a Santa Cruz County cooperative seeking an injunction to grow med...
Lawyer's Motion to Withdraw From Pooh Case Is Official Secret
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - It may be a cold, blustery, nasty, very expensive day in Winnie the Pooh Litigation Land before the n...
9th to Rehear Asylum Case Over China's Family Policy
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Monday to reconsider political asylum for an unmarried Chinese couple who fled ...