Power Couple Faces Arraignment
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - In a reversal of fortune, a former power couple once riding high on a string of successful lawsuits and settlement...
Panel Revives Suit Against Blue Cross
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Wednesday reinstated a class action brought by a Los Angeles woman who claims that Blue Cr...
Woman Sues TV Show for Humiliating Her
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles woman filed suit Thursday against the reality TV program "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment" for allege...
DA Seeks Ruling on Fees for Settlement Funds
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - As attorney Melanie Rae Blum and former attorney Mark Elliot Roseman are brought to trial on charges they siphone...
Judge Kay Rejects Plea For Recusal
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - First District Court of Appeal Justice Laurence D. Kay has rebuffed an unusual recusal request by a Marin Cou...
L.A. Officials Make List Of Top 100 Democrats
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The Democratic Leadership Committee on Thursday named Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and City Counci...
Thelen to Work With U.K. Firm
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Thelen Reid & Priest announced a joint venture Thursday with London-based Masons that will combine the fi...
Judge OKs Evidence Use Despite 'Reckless' Wiretap
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Despite ruling that an FBI agent "recklessly" omitted information when he sought a wiretap authorization, U.S. D...
Lawyers Settle Fee Dispute in Pratt Defense
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Johnnie Cochran and Stuart Hanlon have paid an undisclosed sum to Oakland sole practitioner Robert Bloom to e...
Brobeck's Lawyer Says Victory Would Benefit Legal Industry
By Robin Davidson
LOS ANGELES - Defense counsel for Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison told Malibu jurors Thursday that rejecting Dickson, Carlson ...
Judge Considers Legality of DVD Copying
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO -A federal judge here opened arguments in a key Digital Millennium Copyright Act dispute Thursday by indicating...
Lesbian Couple Seeks Recognition as Family
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Birgit Koebke wanted to play golf at her country club with her domestic partner, Kendall French. So in 1994, Koebk...
Cross Talk
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Few symbols are so vile as the burning cross. Throughout American history, bigots have u...
Courageous Rulings Typify Jurist
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Fifteen years ago, when Superior Court Judge Bob S. Bowers Jr. was still a commissioner in Compton, he called a ...
Bankrupt 'Co-Location' Tenants Challenge Landlords
By Sandra Corrales
Focus Column - Real Property - By Suzanne Badawi - Everyone knows what happened to venture capitalists who jumped on the dot-c...
America's Judiciary Preserves Democracy
Forum Column - By David A. Lash - Mario Cuomo spoke in Los Angeles recently. He said that U.S. foreign policy would be best se...
New Statute Jeopardizes Arbitration Clause in Form Real Estate Contract
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - Recently enacted Code of Civil Procedure Section 1284.3(a)...
County's Foster-Care System Fails 'Crossover Kids'
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Forum Column - By Dara K. Reiner - Few people know what happens to abused and neglected children once they are removed from th...
High Court to Review Punitives
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether to preclude punitive damages in fraud cases t...
Settlement In $34 Million Asbestos Suit
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs whose $33.7 million jury verdict set a record for the largest damages award in a California asbest...
Plaintiff Drops One Tobacco Firm as Defendant
By Gale Holland
LOS ANGELES - The attorney for a 63-year-old lung cancer patient suing cigarette makers for enticing him into a smoking addic...
Judge OKs $400,000 Settlement In Slaying of Danielle van Dam
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge approved a $400,000 settlement Wednesday in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against the ma...
Keep Elephants Together, Suit Says
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles woman Wednesday filed a lawsuit to try to block the Los Angeles Zoo from separating two female ele...
Panel OKs Limits on What Picketers Can Carry
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of a Los Angeles city ban on protesters carrying ...
Public Lawyers Agree to Cut Pay But Secure Promotions
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The city's public lawyers overwhelmingly approved a new contract Wednesday that temporarily cuts their pay by...
Closing Statements Begin For Brobeck
By Robin Davidson
LOS ANGELES -- Closing statements began late Wednesday in the trial pitting Dickson, Carlson & Campillo against former par...
Where to House a Sex Predator?
By Craiq Anderson
Reporter's Notebook - By Craig Anderson - State and local authorities cannot find a home for the first convicted child moleste...
No Magic Potion Will Rejuvenate Grand Jury
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - It is the Gray Wall of Orange County. As judges Wednesday selected the members of the 2003-04 grand jury that will...
The Worst Is Over, Gov. Davis Tells Courts
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - California's judiciary and trial courts should feel some relief after Gov. Gray Davis announced Wednesday he is ...