'Puck Stops Here' as Court Denies Liability for Injury
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - Court of Appeal decisions subsequent to Knight have been seemingly c...
Harassment Without a Remedy
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Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Rene Mochkatel - The 2nd District Court of Appeal's decision on October 28, 2002, Salaz...
Lien Law Unfairly Transfers Risk to Homeowners
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Forum Column - By James Acret - The unfairness of the California version of the mechanics lien law was brought into sharp focu...
Abortion-Rights Groups Might Lose RICO Fight
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices Wednesday appeared poised to curb the reach of federal racketeering laws and rule that pri...
Real Life -- It Can be Brutal
By Hudson Sangree
WOODLAND - A small farm town in the Central Valley is not the place you typically expect to find a legal clinic run by a pres...
Court Weighs Medical Monitoring
By Peter Blumberg
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court seemed wary Tuesday of approving medical screening for upwards of 50,000 Redlands ...
Wal-Mart Suit Is Frivolous, Says Site That Posts Deals
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The after-Thanksgiving sales may be over, but a price war between a tiny consumer Web site and several nation...
Punitives Apply Only to In-State Conduct
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - A divided federal appeals panel has created what amounts to a new federal limit on punitive damage awards in p...
Justices Wrestle With Issue of Liability in Housing-Bias Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices struggled Tuesday with whether to hold liable the owner of a Southern California real esta...
Internet Copyright-Infringement Trial Begins
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - In opening statements Tuesday in the first criminal trial brought under a 1998 federal law intended to protect inte...
Prosecutors Charge Lawyer in Grand Theft
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena personal injury attorney was arrested Tuesday at his home on suspicion of bilking clients out of clie...
Court Wrestles With Issue of Liability in Housing-Bias Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices struggled Tuesday with whether to hold liable the owner of a Southern California real esta...
Elcomsoft Trial Under Way
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - In opening statements Tuesday in the first criminal trial brought under a 1998 federal law intended to protect int...
Panel Revives Slander Suit Against Pop Singer
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - George Michael will have no "Freedom" from lawsuits, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Tuesday in re...
Sedgwick Hires Lateral Partners
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold has picked a new crop of lateral partners, including two Crosby, Heafey,...
Problem Solving Drives Jurist In Courtroom and on Greens
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Emilie H. Elias has a passion for solving problems - whether in the courtroom o...
Using Bush's Iraq Standards, Pearl Harbor Raid Was Legal
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Forum Column - By Peter J. Hinton - Judging by the Bush administration's present standards on Iraq, Japan's attack on Pearl Ha...
Suit Crops Up in Farmland Fight
By Matthew Heller
ORCUTT - Produce farmer Richard Adam and his family have yet to grow anything on the 286 acres they acquired on the outskirts ...
Employers Should Be Familiar With the Law on Military Leave
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Carolyn R. Young - Every business should be familiar with the laws...
Hobbled Justice
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Forum Column - By Susan B. Jordan - She refers to herself as "The Poster Child for the PATRIOT Act." Veteran New York criminal...
Bill on 'Atkins' Ruling, Spam Ban, Introduced
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A second effort to implement the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on executing the mentally retarded was among the bills...
Prosecutors Recommend Counseling for Ryder
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Noting that Winona Ryder had eight painkillers and tranquilizers with her when she was arrested a year ago, pros...
Hobbled Justice
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Forum Column - By Susan B. Jordan - She refers to herself as "The Poster Child for the PATRIOT Act." Veteran New York criminal...
Pillsbury Staff Asked to Leave
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time this year, San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop has offered voluntary severance packages to...
Jurist Refuses Delay of Avila Case
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Monday denied a defense request to postpone the preliminary hearing for the man accused of...
Court Levels Playing Field In Appeals of Labor Rulings
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A Palo Alto patent attorney won a wage dispute before the California Supreme Court on Monday, but his victory...
O'Melveny Partner Chronicled Firm's History
By Joan Osterwalder
Everett "Bud" Burton Clary, an esteemed partner at O'Melveny & Myers who chronicled the firm's history, has died of prost...
Priests Cannot Block Access to Personnel Files
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Three Catholic priests accused of molesting children can't stop a grand jury from seeing their personnel files, ...
Privacy Bill Redux: SB1 Is Introduced
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Legislation that would make California the nation's leader in protecting personal financial information was intr...
Landmark Precedents Face Review
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court surprised some legal observers Monday by agreeing to review its own landmark rulings on tw...