Suit Disputes Recall-Vote Proviso
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - A lawsuit challenging a section of the state Elections Code that requires voters to cast a vote on a recall before...
Prosecutor Struggles to Regain His Footing
By Dennis Opatrny
Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Opatmy - Floyd Andrews returned to the San Francisco Hall of Justice this week. But it wasn't ...
City's Ex-Treasurer Indicted and Missing
By Anne La Jeunesse
SOUTH GATE - Albert T. Robles, the former South Gate city treasurer ousted in a January recall election, has been indicted on ...
Davis Fills Four Seats in San Diego Court
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed corporate attorney Randa M. Trapp to a vacant seat on the San Diego Superior Court, ...
Special Master Rips CDC for Evasive Stance In Rights Case
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The director of California's prison system, Edward Alameida, dropped three inquiries into alleged perjury by P...
Wanted For Murder
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - An accused armed carjacker released from jail after Memorial Day in a dispute between the District Attorney's Of...
1st DCA Sends Huge Attorney Fee Deal Back Down
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Does it really take as many as 67 law firms charging as much as $1,000 an hour to settle class action claims o...
Reflective Glendale Jurist Keeps an Open Mind
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - William D. Stewart believes he has the best job in the world. Since early 2001, the soft-spoken Midwesterner has...
Unregistered Same-Sex Partner May File Wrongful-Death Suit
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Scott Forbes and William Miles III, a West Hollywood same-sex couple, had been living together since 1980, but l...
At an Impasse, Cooley and Orrick Call it Off
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Merger negotiations between Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Cooley Godward have collapsed even as merger...
No Place for Pariahs
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A legal showdown looms today in the case of Brian DeVries, the first child molester to complete the treatment progr...
Judge Finds Life An Adventure
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lauren Weis Birnstein is as enthusiastic talking about her legal career as she ...
Court Examines Boundary Between Expression, Idea
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert P. Andris and Elise R. Vasquez - Copyright law provides a limited form of mon...
Bizarre Silence Has Pervaded Aftermath of Sept. 11 Attacks
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Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - The pages of legal newspapers seem to scrupulously avoid critical analysis about the ...
Front Page Brief Headline
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Six plaintiffs who in 1999 won what was then the largest personal injury award in U.S. history have agreed to s...
Homeland Security Agency Aims to Correct Problems That Plagued INS
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Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Kathrin Mautino - On March 1, the Immigration and Naturalization Service ceased to exist. ...
Insurers Drive Postal Profiling
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Forum Column - By Rocky Delgadillo, Dennis Herrera and John Russo - Consider this: A young, single man living in San Luis Obis...
Chevron Loses Round in ADA Hiring Suit
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Chevron USA Inc. can't use health as an excuse to refuse to hire a job applicant with a liver condition simply...
Thelen Sues 'Does' Who Hacked Its Site
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers broke into Thelen, Reid & Priest's Internet server this summer and caused two of the firm's Web si...
GOP Pushes Nominee Toward Vote
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday sent the circuit court nomination of Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor...
HIV-Positive Cook Wins Harassment Suit
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $2 million to a cook with the California Youth Authority who claimed he was verba...
Overtime Case to Be Reviewed
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court said Wednesday it will decide whether corporate officers can be held personally l...
Public Interest Attorneys Honored for Cases
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Two California trial teams shared the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation's national Trial Lawyer of t...
ACLU Sues Santa Ana to Fight Traffic-Plan Poll
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - The American Civil Liberties Union sued the city Wednesday, alleging that a poll on a proposed traffic plan in ups...
Indictments Shaky, DA Charges Cops With Assault
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan switched tactics Wednesday and dismissed grand jury indictments against thr...
GM Settlement
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Six plaintiffs who in 1999 won what was then the largest personal injury award in U.S. history have agreed to se...
Just Like Old Times: California Teeters on Brink of Multiple Disasters
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Got anarchy? Want chaos? Sometimes, living in California is like being inside a demented milk commerc...
Caring Intensively
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation's 21st Anniversary Gala and awards ceremony this week did doub...
Thorny Recall Theory Fails to Sway Experts
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Election law experts disagreed Wednesday with Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante's surprising contention that the Californi...
Ex-Employee Can Sue Chevron
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Chevron USA Inc. can't cite a generalized concern that a job applicant's liver disease could worsen on the jo...