Housing Project in Barstow Could Attract New Businesses, Stimulate Local Economy
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Sleepy Barstow may soon see its first housing development in more than 13 years and give a ...
Sign of Success
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Befitting its location on the Sunset Strip, Sunset View Plaza, a new mixed-use project i...
State To Take Over Ownership, Management of 451 Courthouses from Counties
By Contributing Writer
BY DONNA DOMINO Special to CREJ Landmark legislation transferring ownership and management of California's 451 courthouses fr...
Ventura DA Leaves Early To Join Weston Benshoof
By Liz Valsamis
Ventura County District Attorney Michael D. Bradbury has elected to leave office two months early and postpone his planned ret...
Insurer's Duty to Accept Reasonable Settlement Often Gets Overlooked
By Columnist
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Gregory King -Policyholders often must battle their insurers for benefits owed to them under...
Southland Judge Gets Central District Nod
By Martin Bergn
WASHINGTON - President Bush has nominated an Orange County Superior Court judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central Di...
Court Allows Man's Lawsuit Against Airline
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge has paved the way for an American of Middle Eastern descent to go forward with his l...
Mixed Verdict for Viet Woman
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Vietnamese-Americans let out cheers and loud applause at the reading of the jury's first "not guilty" verdict ...
After the Fact, Court Thinks Twice About Ex Post Facto
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - School children may not be the only ones who learned a lesson about ex post facto while watching last week's t...
A Foot in Both Camps
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - After four years as California's attorney general and running for reelection in November, Democrat Bill Lockyer h...
Court Denies Elderly Man Right to Sue L.A.
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An elderly man mistaken for a burglary suspect, forced from his car by police at gunpoint, then handcuffed and t...
Circuit Panel Sympathetic To Immunity For States
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for California's prison officials had a panel of federal appeals court judges on her side last we...
Ancient Church Law Remains Relevant
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Roman Catholic canon law may seem archaic, but it continues to color the legal debate swirling around priest mol...
Insurer's Duty to Accept Reasonable Settlement Often Can Be Overlooked
By Columnist
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Gregory King - Policyholders often must battle their insurers for benefits owed to them und...
L.A. Nuisance Abatement Unit Offers New Solutions
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use - By Peter M. Weil and Elizabeth J. Giffin - What do you do when your client calls complaining about a...
Post-Enron Era Affects Lawyers' Advice
By Toni Vranjes
In the era of Enron and WorldCom, Tyco and Global Crossing, companies are making sure they're prepared if securities regulator...
Cutting Off Political Speech
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Sharon J. Arkin - Marivel Rodriguez was only 28 years old and the mother of three children when she suffered...
Statutes of Repose Aren't in Homeowners' Best Interest
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James Acret - On the last day of the session, the Legislature imposed harsh new restrictions on homeowner co...
Church Structure Lies at Heart of Efforts to Assign Blame, Responsibility
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - The legal debate over canon law, depending on the facts of an individual case, often can be the first and last a...
Rampart Law Might Not be Needed in Oakland Riders Case
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Recent legislation expanding the rights of criminal convicts won't immediately benefit those who say they were...
Statutes of Repose Aren't in Homeowners' Best Interest
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James Acret - On the last day of the session, the Legislature imposed harsh new restrictions on homeowner co...
Couple Faces Charges in Charity Scamming
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A wife and her husband, both attorneys and graduates of Boalt Hall, have been charged with swindling the City of...
Daily Journal Mailer Turned His Life Around
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Longtime Daily Journal production mailer Jose Luis Mendoza has died. He was 28. The cause of his death on Tuesda...
Davis Makes 3 Bench Appointments
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A trio of new judges, including a former veteran from the state attorney general's office, was appointed to Ba...
CJA Leader's Priorities Start With Salary Issues
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Finding ways to entice experienced judges to stay on the bench is one of the goals Los Angeles Superior Court ...
Objectors Get Arco Settlement Reversed
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego solo attorney Amy Vandeveld didn't know anything about a 1998 class action alleging that gas pumps a...
Law Aims to Prevent Damage of Vital Lines During Construction
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Bernard S. Kamine - Beneath every modern city is a complex web of water, sewer, storm-drain,...
Panel Leaves Mediation Evidence Vulnerable
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Some evidence produced for a confidential mediation may not always stay confidential, a state appellate court sa...
Death by Policy
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - On Aug. 5, 1997, 12 migrants, including three women and a small child, were attempting ...
Film Benefit for Anti-Gun Group
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Moore, best known as the baseball-hatted everyman searching for General Motors president Roger Smith i...