Large Punitive Award Won't Automatically Be Reduced
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The decision to let stand a $290 million punitive damages award was...
Court Passes on School Race Ratios
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to help a federal appeals court decide whether a policy that a...
Bring on the Tort Reformers
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Bruce Brusavich tackles his breakfast much the way he confronts a product liability case or legislation: He gets ...
Killer's Attorneys Want Bench Officer Removed
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for a man convicted of murder and facing the death penalty in Imperial County moved Wednesday to disqu...
Brobeck Manager Quashes Merger Rumors
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Rumors of an impending Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison merger were exaggerated, according to William Sullivan,...
Hallucination Merits Lesser Murder Term
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A prison inmate who stabbed his cellmate in both eyes and then strangled him to death has won a reduced senten...
Judge Dismisses Stock Lawsuit
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - In a key victory for the state Judicial Council, a federal judge Tuesday dismissed a suit filed by two stock m...
Let Market Regulate, Not State
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Forum Column - By Eric Goldman - In introducing yet another online privacy bill, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) claimed that "p...
Monster-Movie Guru Wins Appeal
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Monster-movie guru Forrest Ackerman, also known as "Dr. Acula," can keep a $518,000 judgment he won from his for...
Jurist Revives Suit by Clinton's Ex-Lover
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A skeptical and sarcastic Judge Alex Kozinski and two colleagues Tuesday revived part of Gennifer Flowers' 199...
Does Internet Act Violate Library Users' Rights?
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Returning to the issue of pornography on the Internet, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether th...
U.S. Probe Targets Closing of Alternative Paper New Times
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division has opened an investigation into the deal that led to the closi...
Online Privacy Acts Speak Louder Than Survey Results Do
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Forum Column - By Eric Goldman - In introducing yet another online privacy bill, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) claimed that "p...
A Bouquet for Gennifer Flowers
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A skeptical and sarcastic Judge Alex Kozinski and two colleagues Tuesday revived part of Gennifer Flowers' 199...
DA On Trial Sticks to His Story
By Robert Selna
SAN RAFAEL - A Marin County prosecutor failed Tuesay to derail San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews' self-defense claim that...
Getting to Bottom of Name Conflict
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In a case pitting lingerie maker Victoria's Secret against a Kentucky sex shop called Victor's Little Secret, a s...
Judge Goes From Mental Gymnastics to Metal Work
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - It can be as late as 11 p.m. when Superior Court Judge Sheridan Eckhardt Reed goes down to her basement workshop. ...
Commission Tries to Balance Needs of Power Users, Utilities
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Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David M. Niebauer and William W. Funderburk Jr . - When the government tries to decide h...
Elderly at Risk
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Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Today, nearly 17,000 nursing homes exist in the United States, with a resident populati...
Deputies Arrest Former Attorney
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Former Beverly Hills attorney Angela F. Wallace was arrested Tuesday by Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies and accus...
Expulsion Challenge Could Set Legal Precedent
By Matthew Heller
YUCCA VALLEY - It was a scandal that thrust this small High Desert town into the headlines as six of its high school's finest ...
Low to ReturnTo Mediation
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Harry Low, the retired appellate justice brought in to clean up the state's scandal-plagued insurance departme...
Child Advocates Rip County-Immunity Ruling
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - An attorney for a 10-year-old boy allegedly sexually abused by his foster father filed a petition for review wit...
Prosecutor Faces Trial in Woman's Suit over Coercion
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge Tuesday kept alive a woman's unusual civil lawsuit accusing authorities of keeping her b...
Does Internet Act Violate Library Users' Rights?
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Returning to the issue of pornography on the Internet, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether th...
Getting to Bottom of Name Conflict
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In a case pitting lingerie maker Victoria's Secret against a Kentucky sex shop called Victor's Little Secret, a s...
U.S. Probe Targets Closing of Alternative Paper New Times
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division has opened an investigation into the deal that led to the closi...
Good Ship Brobeck Is Not Going Down, Partner Insists
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Rumors of an impending Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison merger were exaggerated, according to William Sullivan...
Misty, Who Got No Breaks
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Paramedics responding to a 911 call from a rundown apartment on 11th Street East in Palmdale March 7 found a ble...
Did Treachery Play Arresting Role in the Stunning End to SLA Saga?
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - You gotta wonder if confession and prison time will prove to be a kind of two-step shock therapy fo...