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Little League Sued

Jul. 11, 2003
By Gale Holland

SAN BERNARDINO - Two San Bernardino brothers molested by their Little League Baseball coach when they were teens filed a propo...


LOS ANGELES - For one night each summer, an organization founded to assist the region's disadvantaged elderly population becom...



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

Jul. 11, 2003
By Allison Hawley

LOS ANGELES - Students at elementary schools in the Marin County city of Novato usually spend their school days learning their...



SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Sacramento has tossed out on free speech grounds a lawsuit filed by the nation's largest ir...


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

Jul. 11, 2003
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'

Jul. 11, 2003
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Defense lawyer Bill Fazio didn't hold back in April as he assessed District Attorney Terence Hallinan's handli...



Focus Column Alternative Dispute Resolution By Richard Chernick Just as the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts have ...


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

Jul. 10, 2003
By Columnist

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

Jul. 10, 2003
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

Jul. 10, 2003
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

Jul. 10, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Two state legislative committees approved bills Tuesday that proponents said would tweak California's unfair com...



Alameda Picks Probation Chief

Jul. 10, 2003
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

Jul. 10, 2003
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

Jul. 10, 2003
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...


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

Jul. 10, 2003
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

Jul. 10, 2003
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

Jul. 10, 2003
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

Jul. 10, 2003
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

Jul. 10, 2003
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

Jul. 9, 2003
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

Jul. 9, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Monday to reconsider political asylum for an unmarried Chinese couple that fle...


Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Developments and advances in fertility s...



Equal Opportunity

Jul. 9, 2003
By Columnist

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

Jul. 9, 2003
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

Jul. 9, 2003
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

Jul. 9, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Expenses and fees for attorneys and consultants in the Pacific Gas & Electric Company topped $100 million ...