State Bar Says Tax Crusader and Gadfly Repeatedly Lied
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A Beverly Hills attorney who has filed a string of taxpayer actions against government agencies is now facing...
Construction Defect?
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Willie Brown had it right. On the day in January 2002 when Dennis Herrera was sworn into office as city...
Speedy Justice Unites Bars Opposed to Hectic Pace
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Trial lawyers, complaining they can't get continuances unless they are "dead or dying," are on the verge of w...
Jurist Juggles Home, Trekking
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers say Jennifer T. Lum is dedicated. The day after delivering closing arguments in a multimillion- dollar b...
Justices Set Date for Hearing in Campaign-Reform Cases
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear four hours of arguments in the battle over the McCain-Fein...
New Delay in Courthouse Funds
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The judiciary's long-running attempt to find funding to repair and replace crumbling, over-crowded courthouses a...
Jury Awards $2.6 Million in Disability Firing
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In an unusually large verdict, a jury has awarded a former employee of the state Department of Corrections ...
Parole Denial Overturned
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ordered a second-degree murder convict freed, saying the governor's decision to deny t...
Don't Weaken the Jury System
By Sandra Corrales
Forum Column - By Bruce M. Brusavich - The Judicial Council blue-ribbon task force on jury system improvement recently passed ...
Cases Address Owner Liability for Accidents, Assaults
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - Three cases dealing with important premises liability issues recently ...
Relief Under 2003 Law Goes Mainly to Individuals and Will Be Temporary
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Focus Column - Tax Law - By Dean Weiner - On May 23, Congress passed the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003...
Forum Column - By David A. Lash and Mitchell A. Kamin - Over the past several years, the Judicial Council of California has se...
Law Firms Pitch in Sweat, Money to Build Home
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Saturday morning, a group of five dozen Los Angeles lawyers, summer associates, law-firm personnel and Habitat f...
Sheriff Backs Cooley's Re-Election Campaign
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, already backed for re-election by the county police chiefs as...
Justices Criticize Judge, Attorney
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has slammed Orange County Judge James M. Brooks and attorney Constance Endelicato over t...
Fired Spokeswoman Says DA Had 'Enemies List'
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - The former media spokeswoman for District Attorney Tony Rackauckas filed a claim against the county and district a...
Dodgers Suitor Sues Defunct Battle Fowler
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Real estate developer Alan I. Casden, who has expressed interest in buying the Los Angeles Dodgers, has filed a ...
Circuit OKs State's Ban Of MTBE
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld California's impending ban on the gasoline additive ...
Deputy PD Charged With Deception
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County public defender and three-time candidate for judge has been charged with a misdemeanor count o...
Federal Report on Terrorism Offers First Clues to Ashcroft's Brain
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Every once in a while, I find myself wrestling with the deep philosophical question, "What's inside U...
U.S. Switches Prosecutors in Spy Case
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - After quarreling with Justice Department officials over what charges to bring, the prosecutor assigned to the ca...
Justices Weigh Allowing Claims Against Sports Coaches
By Peter Blumberg
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court debated Wednesday whether to expand liability for coaches when young athletes are ...
Top Counsel At McKesson Booked for Stock Fraud
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal authorities unsealed stock fraud indictments Wednesday against the former general counsel and the for...
Budget Veto Overturned
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Turning up the heat on the budget fight, Mayor Jim Hahn Wednesday attempted to veto the city's spending plan, bu...
Nuts, Bolts and Fraud
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera believes building contractors have cheated San Francisco taxpayers out of hundred...
Breyer Pulls Off a Surprise in Pot Trial
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - To the whoops of medical marijuana supporters, a federal judge Wednesday ordered just one day in prison with c...
Jurist's Tough-Love Justice Guides Addicts to Sobriety
By Anne La Jeunesse
SANTA MARIA - Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Rogelio R. Flores doesn't spend a lot of time sitting on the bench. It's easi...
Data-Collection Controversy Prompts Privacy Law Review
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Forum Column - By Christopher M. Kelly - Calls for privacy protection in Latin America are getting an unexpected boost from su...
Attorneys Must Keep Informed On Changes to Appellate Rules
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Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James M. Harris and Jill Faulkner McNeal - The appellate rules of the California Rules of Co...
Legal Scholar Will Testify in Favor of Scaling Back Filibusters
By Mark Cromer
LOS ANGELES - As Democratic filibusters continue to logjam President Bush's efforts to appoint conservative jurists to the fe...