Developing a Defense Against Wrongful Termination Claims
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Del San Juan - Evidence that an employee committed an uncharged crime or a civil ...
Davis Picks Eight Jurists For Benches Around State
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Four new Central Valley judges, including a public defender and two court commissioners, were appointed to the s...
Motions Fail To Stop Pepper-Spray Litigation
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge hinted Thursday he would allow a police brutality case involving the pepper-spraying of anti-...
Pioneering Woman Lawyer Recalls Harvard
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - When Judith Richards Hope started at Harvard Law School in 1961, her property law professor set aside special ...
Marcus Kaufman, Former State Justice
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Justice Marcus Kaufman, an irascible intellectual who served on the California Supreme Court during th...
Molestation Charges
By Jeffrey Anderson
OXNARD - The Ventura County District Attorney's Office on Thursday charged a former priest at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church...
Ward Valley Litigation Ends As Judge Cites Lawyer's Role
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANICSCO - A San Diego judge has rejected a claim by the would-be builder of a low-level radioactive waste dump in the Mo...
Bet Tzedek Taps Veteran Public Interest Lawyer
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Public interest law firm Bet Tzedek has named veteran public interest lawyer Mitchell A. Kamin its new executive...
9th Circuit Weighs Mandatory Arbitration
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - An 11-judge federal appeals panel appeared splintered into three camps Thursday over whether employers can for...
Two Men Die In Shooting at Legal Offices
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES -Prominent Beverly Hills criminal defense attorney Gerald V. Scotti fatally shot his longtime paralegal, then turn...
Handing Out 'Life Sentences to Recovery,' A San Mateo County Judge Finds Inspiration in Courts That Most Jurists Shun
By Dennis Pfaff
REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo Superior Court Judge Richard Livermore a few months ago found himself in a familiar situation: counse...
Director of DCFS Vows To Turn Agency Around
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - The first thing David Sanders did Monday morning was drive over to the Children's Courthouse in Monterey Park to...
Cops and Hugs: Two Too-Close Encounters of the Anti-War Kind
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The war in Iraq is doing strange things to this country. For instance, I didn't get up Wednesday mo...
DAILY DEALS -- San Bernardino County
By Jack Briggs
CHINO - The Wisconsin-based Olson Co. leased a 300,000-square-foot industrial building on Pipeline Avenue at The Majestic Spe...
'Wolf' Shuts Door on Breach of Fiduciary Duty Contract Claims
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - Wolf has laid to rest a troublesome issue for entertainment companies su...
Perilous Environmental Extremes
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Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Will some soldiers and Marines die in the Persian Gulf so that some gnatcatcher and other ...
Shuttle Program Provides Hope, Learning, Inspiration
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Forum Column - By Robert G. Warshaw - I read, with great frustration, Ted Van Dyk's views on why the Space Shuttle Program sho...
Law Provides Job and Benefit Protection to Reservists
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Robin W. Wofford and Lois M. Kosch - Employers must be aware of the laws that provide job a...
Indictment Blamed on Conspiracy By Officers
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A defense attorney for one of the San Francisco officers charged in the police cover-up case alleges that othe...
Odd Allies to Reunite Over Bankruptcy Bill
By John Roemer
Reporter's Notebook - Like a bad dream or a bad debt, the U.S. Congress' bankruptcy reform bill won't go away. Last week the H...
Santa Clara PD Tries to Fend Off Layoffs
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County public defender's office hopes to pare back the severe cuts proposed to its budget for the c...
Jurist Looks Forward to Working With New Child Welfare Director
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Judge Michael Nash hopes that David Sanders, who arrived this week as the new director of the Department of Chil...
Court Leans Toward Sodomy-Law Ban
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to rule that state sodomy laws violate equal protection when they m...
Lawyers Ready for SEC Rule
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Securities and Exchange Commission rules that take effect Friday subject public companies to a previously unhe...
Davis Appoints Four Judges in Three Counties
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Gov. Gray Davis appointed four Southern California judges Wednesday, including Costa Mesa Mayor Karen L. Robinson,...
Scouts' Stance on Gays Returns to Court Docket
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to decide whether cities are free to deny taxpayer subsidies to g...
Attorney Plans 'Jewel' Claims In Litigation With Brobeck
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Dickson, Carlson & Campillo's lawyer has upped the ante in his fight with the former Brobeck, Phleger &...
DA Investigates Deputy Police Chief
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A civil claim over allegations dating back 25 years has sparked a criminal investigation that threatens to destr...
Perceived Inequality
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan is facing criticism over staff shuffling that some say has reduced the number of wome...