Businesses, Co-Workers Bear Burden of Leave Act
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Forum Column - By David Rodriguez - Gov. Gray Davis signed SB1661 into law Sept. 23. It goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2004, and ...
Service Will Forgo Arbitrations Unless Both Parties Are Willing
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Action Dispute Resolution Services will no longer handle arbitrations mandated by contract cla...
New Leadership in Santa Clara
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The incoming leadership of the Santa Clara County Bar Association plans to keep the organization growing by reachin...
Publisher Owes Damages to Lawyer Ex-Beau
By Joan Osterwalder
LOS ANGELES - Santa Barbara newspaper publisher Wendy McCaw has been ordered to pay $14.8 million in damages, including $100,0...
Don't Become a Legend in Job-Hunting Annals
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Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Halloween is a few weeks away, but at various times throughout the year, it appears ...
Newsrack Bid Unfair, Jury Finds
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury Thursday ordered national billboard giant Eller Media Co., to pay $9.8 million in damages for f...
Case Against Microsoft Strengthened By S.F. Judge
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - California jurors hearing a massive class action against Microsoft Corp. will be told that the company abused ...
Attorneys Debate Applying Canon Law in Abuse Cases
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - A key factor in priest molestation lawsuits is canon law, a 1,400-year-old body of religious doctrine that defin...
Death by Policy
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Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - On Aug. 5, 1997, 12 migrants, including three women and a small child, were attempting ...
Don't Become a Legend in Job-Hunting Annals
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Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Halloween is a few weeks away, but at various times throughout the year, it appears ...
Aviation Attorney Won Surfing Competitions
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Aviation defense attorney and Malibu surfer Miriam Piwoz Goodman has died. Goodman died Sept. 20 at Los Robles R...
Life After Leaving Dean's Post Will Be Busy As Ever
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Keane boarded his plane for Hawaii secure in his job. Golden Gate University Law School had just offered...
Candidates Reveal Who Backs Them
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Two lawyers running to become a judge in San Francisco won't break the bank in their quest, if their most rece...
How Low Will Jury Award Go, Experts Wonder
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Legal experts just laugh when asked whether the $28 billion punitive damage award levied last week against Phili...
Charges Filed in Schools Fraud
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan charged former San Francisco school district manager Timothy Tronson on Wed...
California's New Law, First in Nation, Provides Up to Six Weeks Paid Leave
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Greg Garbacz - Beginning July 1, 2004, California workers will be able to take up to six w...
Judge Refuses Bail for Actor Robert Blake
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied Robert Blake his freedom, saying he will consider bail on...
Suit Claims Noel, Knoller Conspired in Prison Probe
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Local lawyers Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, already in prison for their roles in the notorious dog-mauling...
Teens Who Had Sex With Officer Can Sue
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Two teen-age girls who had sex with a Murrieta police officer while participating in a Police Explorer Program c...
Employing Taft-Hartley Act Ignites Legal Debate
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - President Bush's use of the Taft-Hartley Act to reopen ports in California, Oregon and Washington has renewed de...
Garcetti Captures Beauty of Ironworkers' Lives
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Driven from office two years ago by the voters, former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti could h...
Justices Seem Leery of Tossing Copyright Act
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appears ready to deliver some good news to the Walt Disney Co. and its cherished Mickey Mouse, ...
'Adverse Employment Action' Can Be Difficult to Prove
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - In the former Soviet Union, Siberian vacations generally were not rese...
What Was Pillsbury Thinking, Experts Ask
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Frode Jensen's lawsuit against his former firm, Pillsbury Winthrop, was "completely predictable," according to...
'What Was Mary Cranston Thinking?'
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Frode Jensen's lawsuit against his former firm, Pillsbury Winthrop, was "completely predictable," according to...
Media Probes of Rappers' Murders Have Makings of Cable Channel
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The documentary movie "Biggie and Tupac" probably has a great future on cable TV - on those channels...
Justices Favor Comity in Noncompete Pacts
By Peter Blumberg
FRESNO - State Supreme Court justices frowned Wednesday on a California company's race to the Los Angeles courthouse to help a...
Judge Refuses Bail for Actor Robert Blake
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied Robert Blake his freedom, saying he will consider bail on...
How Low Will Jury Award Go, Experts Wonder
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Legal experts just laugh when asked whether the $28 billion punitive damage award levied last week against Phili...
'Adverse Employment Action' Can Be Difficult to Prove
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - In the former Soviet Union, Siberian vacations generally were not rese...