Padres Score $11.9 Million Win
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Lloyd's of London will pay the San Diego Padres $11.9 million in settlement of a Superior Court lawsuit over a den...
L.A. Superior Court Asks Jurors To Donate Back Their Jury Fees
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Faced with additional budget cuts in the next fiscal year, the Los Angeles Superior Court is asking jurors to co...
New Policy Eventually May End Some Law Clerks' Jobs
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Law clerks hired by the Los Angeles Superior Court after July 25, 2001, may be out of a job in the coming years ...
Panel Remands Case on Screeners' Citizenship
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court in Los Angeles declined Tuesday to rule on whether lawful noncitizens are eligible to wo...
Doctrine May Provide Avenue To Appeal Interlocutory Orders
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Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Federal civil practitioners are aware of the severe limitations on imme...
Law-Bending for Bush
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Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - We now can put aside President Bush's Pantagruelian antics and his sanctimonious, born-agai...
Assembly Approves Homeowners Bill
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Californians who are members of homeowner associations would have a greater say in how their delegates adopt or ...
Inmate Goes Free As DA Forgoes Trial
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - State prison's revolving door will spin no longer for Glen "Buddy" Nickerson, who after 18 years of confineme...
Two Face Time for Street Racing
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court jury Monday declined Monday to find two street racers guilty of second-degree murder but did con...
Shotgun Nets Felony Charge for Attorney
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - Attorney Hilmer Ula Jarboe Jr. has been charged with three misdemeanors and a felony after his near-fatal shootin...
Towed Cars' Owners Lose Hearing-Delay Fight
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Handing a victory to California municipalities, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that local governments do not hav...
Tribe Can't Use Civil Rights Statute to Assert Immunity
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An Inyo County Native American tribe can't sue under a federal civil rights statute for an alleged violation of...
Double Jeopardy Is Expanded
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court opened the door slightly Monday for criminal defendants to challenge retrials, b...
Circuit Allows Suzuki to Sue Magazine for Bad Review
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - In a blow to free speech protections and consumer interests, a federal appeals court refused Monday to reconside...
Supreme Court Sets Stage for 2003-04 Term
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for the 2003-04 term, in which the court will take on Washington state...
Ripple Effect of Jayson Blair Scandal Soaks West Coast Journalists
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Thursday, the Los Angeles Daily Journal ran three corrections on Page 2 regarding the Washington, D.C...
Judge Cuts Forfeited Bail for Naive Relative
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - An emotional Nabil Issa wiped tears of frustration and relief from his eyes Monday after a federal judge reduce...
'Outsider' Wins Presidency of State Bar Board
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - The distinction between bar junkies and outsiders is a false one, State Bar President James E. Herman likes t...
The Secret's Out
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Winning a trade-secrets case can be cold comfort, as a Cupertino software company found out last month. A Santa Cl...
Panel Must Reconsider Rollover Award, Again
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave Ford Motor Co. another shot at reducing a record $290 million punitive dam...
California Dreaming
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer A new wave of residential developers in downtown San Diego is remaking the skyline in the...
CALENDAR - Northern California
By Jack Briggs
MAY 20-29 SAN FRANCISCO PLANNING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATION The San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association presents f...
Name Partner Leaves Firm He Founded
By Liz Valsamis
Media lawyer Scott Zolke joined Los Angeles' Loeb & Loeb as a partner in the entertainment and media group May 5. Zolke wa...
Learning the 4 D's of Downtown Living
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer If you build it, they will come. And sometimes a little nudge doesn't hurt. As new housi...
Inside the Tribe
By Jeffrey Anderson
Vernell Crittendon lowers his voice to a whisper as he spots two visitors departing through the gates of San Quentin State Pri...
J.L. Hare Outruns the Entitlement Tortoise
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Few things strike dread into the hearts of developers like the bureaucratic red tape that p...
Mail Boxes Etc. Franchises Deliver Lawsuit
By Eron Yehuda
"What Can Brown Do For You?" is a recent ad slogan for United Parcel Service, recognized by its brown-and-gold symbol. "Leave ...
Heart-Device Maker Invests $15 Million
By Toni Vranjes
St. Jude Medical Inc. has invested $15 million in Sunnyvale's Epicor Medical Inc. to acquire a minority stake in the privately...
War Worries Put to Rest
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer U.S. Marines sent from Camp Pendleton helped topple the regime of Saddam Hussein. Unlike...
Netting Clients
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Column - Business Development - By Karen Kaplowitz - The buzz is all about "teamwork" in rainmaking. It's great to see that la...