Online Real Estate Service Sues State
By Eron Yehuda
The nation's largest online real estate advertising service is challenging the constitutionality of California regulations tha...
Music Label Loses to Tune of $132 Million
By Joan Osterwalder
A $132 million jury verdict was music to the ears of independent record company TVT Records. TVT won its legal battle against ...
Signs of Recovery in Place for U.S. Construction Industry
By Wire
CHICAGO - Signs of recovery are in place for the construction industry and a full recovery is expected in the non-residential ...
Partners in Crime Fighting
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor With the national terrorism alert level raised to orange, the second-highest level...
In Search of a Better Quality of Life
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Demand for office space in the Santa Clarita Valley continues to rise as tenants look to th...
Court Sides With World Savings in Property Battle
By Stefanie Knapp
World Savings Bank has defeated all claims in a suit brought by a homeowner who purchased one of its properties. Los Angeles S...
Developer Must Pay $14 Million For Biotech Theft
By Eron Yehuda
One of medicine's great challenges is finding new, more efficient ways to deliver drugs into the body. The traditional methods...
Internet Provides Foundation for Practice
By Stefanie Knapp
A Berkeley family lawyer has developed a Web site that allows him to practice law from the Internet. Robert Kroll dreams of di...
Best Buy Customers Allege Internet Scam
By Joan Osterwalder
Buyers of Best Buy products, beware, a lawsuit suggests. A class action filed in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges Microsoft ...
Punitive Damages Argument Requires Care on Both Sides
By Columnist
Column - Trial Strategy - By Kirk A. Pasich - The closing argument in a punitive damages case is an argument unto itself. Beca...
Walk Funds Will Help Public Law Project for AIDS
By Mark Cromer
Among the 10,000 people expected at yesterday's Orange County AIDS Walk at the University of California, Irvine, was Ken Babco...
Lawsuit Targets State's Union Practices
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When it comes to training new construction workers, does California look a little too ha...
Understanding of History of Contract Interpretation Can Benefit Attorneys
By Columnist
Focus Column - Business Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - "A page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v...
Clash of the Titans
By John Ryan
When Marshall Grossman and Larry Stein decided to merge their firms in 1999, the pundits wondered how the two attorneys would ...
High Court's 'Chavez' Ruling Is Much Ado About Nothing
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - Last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision that a person in extremis who is questioned by poli...
Diet-Aid Maker Must Pay $12 Million
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A judge on Friday ordered the manufacturer of a diet aid linked to the death of a baseball player to pay consumer...
Mere Mortals
Like a river, a theme runs through my last several columns. It is the painful but important recognition that judges, like all ...
Shareholders Who Keep Stock Have State Remedy
By Columnist
Focus Column - Securities Law - By Thomas C. Klein - Enron, Global Crossing and many other companies are embroiled in securiti...
Diet-Aid Maker Must Pay $12 Million
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A judge on Friday ordered the manufacturer of a diet aid linked to the death of a baseball player to pay consumers...
Good Sense Characterizes Judge
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Superior Court Judge Dorothy L. Shubin's former colleagues at the U.S. attorney's office used to joke she was so...
Those Who Serve U.S. Should Get Same Lawsuits Protection
By Columnist
Forum Column - By V.M. Raguz - The Bush administration has determined how it will protect U.S. citizens from potential politic...
Ignoring Soaring Costs?
By Columnist
Forum Column - By David D. Caron - Amid discussions about ending the U.N. sanctions on Iraq, there also is talk of forgiving s...
Lawyers Face Civil Liberties Challenge of SARS
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - A deadly disease originates in China, where it is misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Public-...
'Grokster' Court Holds Some File-Sharing Systems Are Legal
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Harrison J. Dossick - The online music industry is undergoing another period of rapid an...
Circuit Weighs Terms Of Bail During Appeal
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel may use the case of two former prison guards convicted of orchestrating inmate ...
Police-Beating Victim Wins Reprieve
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A judge has dismissed misdemeanor criminal charges for the second time against a man beaten into a coma last sum...
Trevor Law Asks U.S. Court to Halt Suspension
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Trevor Law Group attorneys, suspended from practicing law for allegedly misusing the state's unfair-competition ...
Attorney Advised Shakespeare Oxford Society
By Alice Lee
LOS ANGELES - Attorney G. Grant Gifford has died in Los Angeles following an illness. He was 58. Gifford, who died April 27, w...
Lawyer Hails Combining Sex-Abuse Cases
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A judge's order that San Diego and San Bernardino priest sex-abuse lawsuits must be combined with similar mass l...
AG Interviews Fired Rackauckas Staffer
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - The former media relations director for Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas was interviewed for nearly...