U.S. Probe Targets Closing of Alternative Paper New Times
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division has opened an investigation into the deal that led to the closi...
Online Privacy Acts Speak Louder Than Survey Results Do
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Forum Column - By Eric Goldman - In introducing yet another online privacy bill, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) claimed that "p...
A Bouquet for Gennifer Flowers
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A skeptical and sarcastic Judge Alex Kozinski and two colleagues Tuesday revived part of Gennifer Flowers' 199...
DA On Trial Sticks to His Story
By Robert Selna
SAN RAFAEL - A Marin County prosecutor failed Tuesay to derail San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews' self-defense claim that...
Getting to Bottom of Name Conflict
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In a case pitting lingerie maker Victoria's Secret against a Kentucky sex shop called Victor's Little Secret, a s...
Judge Goes From Mental Gymnastics to Metal Work
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - It can be as late as 11 p.m. when Superior Court Judge Sheridan Eckhardt Reed goes down to her basement workshop. ...
Commission Tries to Balance Needs of Power Users, Utilities
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Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David M. Niebauer and William W. Funderburk Jr . - When the government tries to decide h...
Elderly at Risk
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Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Today, nearly 17,000 nursing homes exist in the United States, with a resident populati...
Deputies Arrest Former Attorney
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Former Beverly Hills attorney Angela F. Wallace was arrested Tuesday by Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies and accus...
Expulsion Challenge Could Set Legal Precedent
By Matthew Heller
YUCCA VALLEY - It was a scandal that thrust this small High Desert town into the headlines as six of its high school's finest ...
Low to ReturnTo Mediation
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Harry Low, the retired appellate justice brought in to clean up the state's scandal-plagued insurance departme...
Child Advocates Rip County-Immunity Ruling
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - An attorney for a 10-year-old boy allegedly sexually abused by his foster father filed a petition for review wit...
Prosecutor Faces Trial in Woman's Suit over Coercion
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge Tuesday kept alive a woman's unusual civil lawsuit accusing authorities of keeping her b...
Does Internet Act Violate Library Users' Rights?
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Returning to the issue of pornography on the Internet, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether th...
Getting to Bottom of Name Conflict
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In a case pitting lingerie maker Victoria's Secret against a Kentucky sex shop called Victor's Little Secret, a s...
U.S. Probe Targets Closing of Alternative Paper New Times
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division has opened an investigation into the deal that led to the closi...
Good Ship Brobeck Is Not Going Down, Partner Insists
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Rumors of an impending Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison merger were exaggerated, according to William Sullivan...
Misty, Who Got No Breaks
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Paramedics responding to a 911 call from a rundown apartment on 11th Street East in Palmdale March 7 found a ble...
Did Treachery Play Arresting Role in the Stunning End to SLA Saga?
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - You gotta wonder if confession and prison time will prove to be a kind of two-step shock therapy fo...
Stanford Reverses Offer to Radical Lawyer
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Lynne F. Stewart, the New York radical lawyer, arrived in Palo Alto on Friday expecting to be honored as a men...
Maze of Mental-Health Services Failed Misty, All Agree
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of troubled children, many of them suicidal, are in Los Angeles' County's foster-care system, according...
Move-Away Case Stipulations May Not Be Final Judgments
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Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In Montenegro v. Diaz , 26 Cal.4t...
CalPERS Sues Investment Banks for Sale Of Enron Stock
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - California's public employee pension fund has become the latest plaintiff seeking to hold Wall Street account...
Pleading for Time
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Forum Column - By Lee A. Wood - When did the rights of litigants become less important than courtroom calendars and the court'...
Recent Construction-Defect Law Aids Building Industry
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Forum Column - By James Acret - On the last day of its 2002 session, the Legislature passed SB800 at the urging of a coalition...
Strike Looms At Courts in Santa Clara
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court employees have set a strike date of Monday after their union broke off mediated ...
Hospital Upgrades Condition of Judge
By Gale Holland
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David W. Perkins' condition was upgraded from fair to good Monday, follo...
Energy Firm Settles Price Suits
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - State officials announced an agreement Monday to drop two lawsuits against Williams Energy for alleged price gou...
Move-Away Case Stipulations May Not Be Final Judgments
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Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Rose gives some guidance on what ...
Where Green is Job 1
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BY STEVEN KENDRICK When the Ford Motor Co. announced that it was building a new North American headquarters for its Premier Au...