Little League Sued
By Gale Holland
SAN BERNARDINO - Two San Bernardino brothers molested by their Little League Baseball coach when they were teens filed a propo...
Bet Tzedek Ball Raises Money, Consciousness
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - For one night each summer, an organization founded to assist the region's disadvantaged elderly population becom...
Compromise Eases Progress of Elder Abuse Legislation
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, has succeeded in moving along a bill banning secret settlements in e...
Children's Play About Diversity Causes Uproar
By Allison Hawley
LOS ANGELES - Students at elementary schools in the Marin County city of Novato usually spend their school days learning their...
Water District's Suit Against Environmentalists Is Rejected
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Sacramento has tossed out on free speech grounds a lawsuit filed by the nation's largest ir...
Persistent Ex-Parolee Works Way Up Food Chain of Judicial System
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Drake Ward is doing his part to keep the system on its toes. Ward's prolonged, persistent and continu...
PG&E Tells PUC Judge There's No More Talking
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. demanded Wednesday that state utility regulators take an all-or-nothing approac...
Fazio: 'I'm Not a Quitter'
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Defense lawyer Bill Fazio didn't hold back in April as he assessed District Attorney Terence Hallinan's handli...
Court Respect for Autonomy of Parties Allows ADR to Flourish
By Columnist
Focus Column Alternative Dispute Resolution By Richard Chernick Just as the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts have ...
Even '800-Pound Gorillas' Deserve Some Basic Civility
By Columnist
Forum Column By Joel Benoliel The article "Taming the Beast" (Michael M. Berger, Forum, May 2) purported to tell the story of...
Library Visitors Should Study, Not
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Forum Column By Jay Sekulow The U.S. Supreme Court applied sound logic and common sense when it upheld the Children's Interne...
Services For Dick Iglehart
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service for Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Iglehart is scheduled for 4 p.m. today at ...
School Loses Fourth Appeal of $3 Million Verdict
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that could end 14 years of litigation, the Simi Valley Unified School District lost its fourth appe...
Committees OK Reforms Of 17200 Law
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Two state legislative committees approved bills Tuesday that proponents said would tweak California's unfair com...
Alameda Picks Probation Chief
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday for the first time exercised its new power to appoint the ...
Claims Court Nominee Draws Fire
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - A Senate vote is scheduled today on U.S. Court of Federal Claims nominee Victor J. Wolski, who has been strongly...
Judge Tosses Lead Paint Suit
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - In a major victory for the lead paint industry, a Santa Clara County judge Tuesday tossed out a lawsuit filed by B...
Champagne Toast Unlikely At Gathering On Indicators
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - To hear the U.S. government tell it, the Europeans want to take away your trusty green can of Kraft Parmesan ...
Attorney Harry Wartnick
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Harry Wartnick, a pioneer in asbestos litigation, died Monday after a long history of heart problems...
Curbing Poor Driving Habits
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - As the mother of a teenager who soon will drive and with the memory of her own spotty record during her youthful ...
Ashcroft, Mexico AG Announce Drug Charges
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Officials said Tuesday they are seeking lesser charges against alleged high-powered Mexican drug lords in an ef...
Lockyer Renews Attack on 17200 Firms
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Stepping up efforts to curb alleged abuses of California's unfair business practices law, state Attorney General...
Expungements of Past Convictions Mount
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Elaine is a woman with a past. And it almost cost her her job. The child-care worker in San Diego ran afoul of th...
Family Law Judge Keeps His Cool
By Claude Walbert
VISTA - When Steven R. Denton became a Superior Court judge two years ago after decades as a civil litigator, he was assigned ...
Chinese Pair Win Asylum Hearing
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Monday to reconsider political asylum for an unmarried Chinese couple that fle...
Case of Fertility Clinic Mistake Addresses Issues of Parentage
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Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Developments and advances in fertility s...
Equal Opportunity
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Forum Column - By Mary L. Smith - The U.S. Supreme Court just reaffirmed that equal opportunity in higher education remains ce...
Battle for Bonds' Baseball Enters Extra Inning
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - When the judge's gavel fell last December, it resolved the fight over the ball. When the auctioneer's gavel f...
Panel Narrows Suit Against Media
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A doctor who says he lost his medical practice as a result of a television expos can sue the station for secretl...
PG&E Is Granted More Legal Fees
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Expenses and fees for attorneys and consultants in the Pacific Gas & Electric Company topped $100 million ...