Lawyer Praises Judge for Assailing Detainee Policy
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles civil rights lawyer Wednesday praised a federal judge for blasting the U.S. government over its ha...
Judge Brings Humor to Bench
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - On his first week on the job, just out of law school, Santa Clara County prosecutor David H. Ezgar got a big surpri...
Marin Judge Can Run Hot and Cold
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN RAFAEL - Marin County Superior Court Judge John Stephen Graham barely speaks above a whisper in his dimly lit courtroom as...
SARS Raises a Variety of Legal Issues to Challenge Employers
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Scott H. Dunham and Anne E. Garrett - The world is facing an international health crisis be...
'Sanchez-Scott' Decision by Kuhl Proves Her Unfitness
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Forum Column - By Karl Manheim - In the fight over Judge Carolyn Kuhl's nomination to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, o...
Book Cooking
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Forum Column - By Stephen P. Milner - Many investors have a higher expectation of a certified audit than the actual intent and...
Kuhl's Recanting on 'Bob Jones' Irks Critics
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A former colleague of Carolyn Kuhl, the Los Angeles judge nominated for a spot on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Board Taps Prosecutor For Inspector General
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Andr Birotte Jr., a former deputy county public defender who became a federal prosecutor, is the Los Angeles Boa...
Court Delays Hearings on Trevor Group
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A hearing scheduled for today on state Attorney General Bill Lockyer's suit against the Trevor Law Group was abr...
Parties Settle 'Allstate' Fee Fight
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights will receive $175,000 for its work on a class action against All...
Detective Tells of Seedy Underworld
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - When he sat down for a deposition in November, Riverside police Detective Ronald E. Kipp provided a rare look in...
Chinese Slave Laborers Live to See Reckoning Day
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Four elderly Chinese survivors of Japanese slave labor camps arrived in Los Angeles Tuesday for a day of reckoni...
DNA Evidence Takes Spotlight In Trial for DA's Stabbing Death
By Matthew Heller
LOS ANGELES - For prosecutors, the DNA fragments on a bloody knife and a beer bottle are the key physical evidence in their ca...
Judge Rules On Evidence In McPherson Slaying Case
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ruled Tuesday to admit the confession of the man who allegedly killed a state senator's son, but she ...
Kuhl's Comments 'Astonish' Former Colleague
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A former colleague of Carolyn Kuhl, the Los Angeles judge nominated for a spot on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
GOP Bills to Fix 17200 Fail in Committee
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Three bills that proposed moderate reforms to the state's Unfair Competition Law were shot down by the Senate Jud...
Forbidden Fruit of the Vine
By Craiq Anderson
NAPA - In a constitutional battle between adherents of two conservative legal doctrines, Napa Valley wineries are demanding t...
Using Vigilante Tipsters Raises Questions
By Susan Mc Rae
By Susan McRae Nevada Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - One day in 2000, Capt. Kevin Murphy of the Montgomery, Ala., Police ...
Court's Amendments Improve Bankruptcy 'Rules of the Road'
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Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Wesley H. Avery - The Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California has amended i...
National Character
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Forum Column - By John A. Frederick - In her recent article "Nonbelievers Shouldn't Have to Honor a Deity They Do Not Worship"...
$16M Awarded In Candy Death
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury awarded nearly $16.7 million Monday to the family of a 12-year-old girl w...
A Few Words From the Wise
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Between them, David A. Garcia and Ronald E. Quidachay have 15 years of experience as San Francisco's law and ...
County Honors Seven Foster-Care Heroes
By Alice Lee
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's first-ever Foster Care Awareness Week is under way, with the Los Angeles County Board of Su...
Prosecutors Wary of South Bay Jurist
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - On his first week on the job, just out of law school, Santa Clara County prosecutor David Ezgar got a big surprise...
Lawyer Had No Duty to Add Plaintiff, Court Says
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An attorney for a bereaved mother did not have a duty to include the woman's husband as a plaintiff in a wrongfu...
Lawyer Wins Unanimous Decision
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Coronado lawyer Mary Lehman continued her climb in women's professional boxing by extending her record to 5-0 on F...
Immigration Consultants Charged
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Charges were filed Monday against 24 immigration consultants accused of posing as lawyers and promising to obtai...
Fight for Attorney Fees Turns Friends Into Foes
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Harvey Rosenfield, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, is usually on the same side as ...
Public Lives of First Cop and Lawyer Wife Make Dramatic Reading
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Rikki Klieman, Court TV anchor and wife of Los Angeles police Chief William Bratton, has written a co...
Alameda Bar Joins Anti-Scouting Campaign
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Bar Association has come out in favor of changing state judicial ethics rules to prohibit j...