Judge Rejects Candidate's Injunction Request
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge Friday rejected a preliminary injunction application by judicial candidate G...
Producer Wins $5 Million After Bad Advice
By Joan Osterwalder
Sometimes investment advice doesn't pay off. A federal jury awarded $5 million to a Hollywood film producer and entertainment ...
Panel Says Unsigned Settlement Is Invalid
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit defendant who didn't sign a settlement agreement and didn't send the settlement payments on time canno...
Chief Justice Accepts Award Given for His Reform Efforts
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - California Chief Justice Ronald M. George isn't about to rest on his laurels - not even the prestigious 2002 Will...
Cities Lose Again in Bid To Ban ATM Surcharges
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The San Francisco city attorney's office will challenge last week's federal appeals court's decision to throw out...
Dirty Laundry
By Jenna Bordelon
In the final scramble for votes, several of the judicial candidates in Orange County are dishing the dirt on each other, but c...
Proposition 47 Would Create Classrooms, No New Taxes
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Forum Column - By Robert Hertzberg - As the lead author of Proposition 47, I am proud to see the taxpayer, business and educat...
Criminal Rules Impose Duties on Prosecutor, Defense and Court
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Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - It has finally happened. After several years of work by an advisory comm...
Man Sues Bus Line for Disability, Racial Bias
By Joan Osterwalder
Peter Boules claims he is being discriminated against because he is not your average bus rider. The 24-year-old Egyptian nativ...
Election Snooze
By Leslie Simmons
Next week, voters will decide which of the eight judicial candidates will fill four open seats on Los Angeles County Superior ...
Staying Power
In less than three months, I will be slipping another card into my wallet. The card is thin and barely registers on a postal s...
Ryder Jury Selection Starts Slowly
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Jury selection in the Winona Ryder shoplifting trial got off to a late start yesterday after a lengthy closed-do...
Fallout From 'Atkins' Spreads
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Accused murderer Steven Woodruff will ask a trial judge in Riverside today to allow a separate jury to determine...
Attorney Calls Suit Prejudicial
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer representing Prasad Lakireddy, the one member of the Berkeley family who has pleaded not guilty to hu...
35-Year Court Interpreter Was One of First
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Carlota Montenegro Josefe, a court interpreter for 35 years, has died. Josefe died Oct. 14 at Huntington Memoria...
Teen's Poem About Evil Constituted a Threat
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The handwritten poems passed to students in a San Jose high school may have evoked memories of the Columbine m...
Blistering Dissent in 9th Circuit Alien Smuggling Case
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Six judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals belittled a majority of their colleagues Thursday for refusin...
Justice-Retirement Rumor Mill Grinds on, Fed by Election Fantasies
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Rumors about Supreme Court justices retiring once again are buzzing around my head. What could be causing that ir...
Legal Structure Still in Question
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The original Black Panther Party For Self-Defense, founded in Oakland in 1966, is long disbanded. The New Blac...
Panther Provenance
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Rivals for the legacy of Black Panthers may be heading toward a courtroom confrontation over whether the memor...
Justices Dissent Bitterly in Border Case
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Six judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals belittled a majority of their colleagues yesterday for refusi...
Experts Mull Best Course for State High Court
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers, judges and criminal justice experts around the state are watching to see whether the California Supreme...
Sole Practitioner Was Active in Community
By Sandra Corrales
AQUA DULCE- Services will take place today for sole practitioner and Los Angeles Superior Court arbitrator William T. Perry. H...
Decision on Damage to Data Isn't Likely to Fly in California
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Catherine L. Rivard - Tech-dependent businesses have awaited court decisions on whether comp...
Ex-Roommate Calls Toxicologist 'Quirky'
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A former university roommate of Gregory T. de Villers testified Thursday that he began to regard Kristin Rossum as...
Office Seeker Pushes Death For Snipers
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The Democratic candidate for Maryland governor, who sought and achieved a moratorium on the death penalty in her ...
Police Arrest Insurance Salesman for 116 Felonies
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
SAN DIEGO - A 51-year-old life insurance salesman was arrested yesterday on 116 felony counts of grand theft and fraud for poc...
Road Payout
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Forum Column - By Cathleen S. Chapman - It is not every day that state lawmakers publicly brand initiative proponents "pimps" ...
Defend Employers With Every Tool You've Got
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Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Holly S. Beckner - Employment attorneys frequently overlook one of the most effec...
Defend Employers With Every Tool You've Got
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Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Holly S. Beckner - Employment attorneys frequently overlook one of the most effec...