Road Payout
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Forum Column - By Dana Rose - Proposition 51 - the "Safe Roads Measure" - will not raise your taxes. Proposition 51 sets spend...
$290M in Punitives Against Ford Survives Supreme Court
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A $295 million judgment against Ford Motor Company survived the California Supreme Court Wednesday, marking th...
Accusations Accompany 'A Lawyer's Life'
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - One attorney who won't be shelling out $25.95 for Johnnie Cochran's new book, "A Lawyer's Life," is Joe C. Hop...
Window Framer Must Pay Owners $1 Million
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Claiming $8.5 million in water damage, attorneys for 122 Huntington Beach homeowners were disappointed Wednesday w...
Court Examines Meaning of 'Religious Creed' in State Discrimination Statute
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Focus Column - By Robyn Babcock - The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes it an unlawful employment practice for ...
Fresno Attorney Named to Bench
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Latino appellate attorney Rosendo Pena Jr. was named to the Fresno Superior Court Wednesday by Gov. Gray Davis...
Cochran Comes to Compton, Signs His Book, Gives Legal Advice
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Johnnie Cochran can still pack them in in Compton. Hailed as a "hometown hero," O.J. Simpson's lead a...
Bankruptcy Is No Refuge for Rape Defendant
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - John Gordon Jones, the Los Angeles computer executive who beat sexual assault charges in the so-called "limousin...
Juvenile Acquitted in Murder Case
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A juvenile defendant, who was a fugitive when he allegedly killed a San Francisco Housing Authority worker nea...
Sex Slave Case Now in Civil Court
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing 11 victims of an India-to-Berkeley human trafficking ring filed a 24-count civil suit Wed...
Obscure Specialty
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Patent attorney Jerry Voight has spent most of his 37-year legal career practicing in an area so obscure and s...
Vetoing Liberties
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Forum Column - By Francisco Lobaco - As the ink dries on the last of the 264 bills Gov. Gray Davis vetoed in 2002, a review of...
Partner Remained Committed Despite Illness
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Philip L. Siracuse, a litigation partner at Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May in downtown Los Angeles, died Tuesda...
Terror Victims Can't Collect From Bank Owned by Iran
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - For the victims of government-sponsored terrorism, the already tough legal job of collecting damage judgments ...
Boss Testifies He Questioned Stories of Death
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The president of the science supply company where Gregory T. de Villers worked testified Wednesday that he became ...
Who Is Responsible When Teens Drink?
By Matthew Heller
SIMI VALLEY - The night filled with beer and shots of tequila at an Oxnard bar ended in tragedy for two teen-agers. After Patr...
Federal Law Pre-empts Construction-Defect Statute
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Focus Column -By Linda C. Fritz - In Edward D. Basura Jr. v. U.S. Home Corp. , B151131 (Cal.App. May 31, 2002), the int...
Judge Says Order Isn't Needed
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California judge has refused to take further action to enforce two recent orders that environmental...
Divorce Mediators Should Not Interview the Children
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Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The victims of our system of divorce are the children. They are put into situations over w...
Court Examines Meaning of 'Religious Creed' in State Discrimination Statute
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Robyn Babcock - The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes it an unlawful employment practice for ...
Federal Law Pre-empts Construction-Defect Statute
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Linda C. Fritz - In Edward D. Basura Jr. v. U.S. Home Corp., B151131 (Cal.App. May 31, 2002), the int...
Vetoing Liberties
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Francisco Lobaco - As the ink dries on the last of the 264 bills Gov. Gray Davis vetoed in 2002, a review o...
Divorce Mediators Should Not Interview the Children
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The victims of our system of divorce are the children. They are put into situations over w...
Varied Experience Serves Justice
By Katherine Gaidos
SANTA ANA - Appeals court Justice Richard M. Aronson turned on to law when he was 12 after watching the 1959 Otto Preminger cl...
Toyota Seat Belt Blamed for Paralysis
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Five inches made the difference between 36-year-old Jian Zhong Yang walking away from a car accident and being l...
Toxicologist Looked High, Paramedic Testifies
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A paramedic who vainly tried to revive Kristin M. Rossum's husband testified Tuesday that the woman's behavior dur...
Justices Travel Back to the Future
By Joel Rosenblatt
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Two Supreme Court Justices traveled back in time at Stanford University last weekend to redecide a case th...
Back On the Front Line
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - On June 30, 1971 - the day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that newspapers could continue publishing the top ...
Putting Political Reform to the Test
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - In 1999, a political reform group looked around California and saw influence-peddling everywhere - from Irvine, ...
Closing MacLaren Wouldn't Settle Suit, Some Say
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Reports that the problem-plagued MacLaren Children's Center in El Monte may soon close to settle a federal class...