Legal Structure Still in Question
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The original Black Panther Party For Self-Defense, founded in Oakland in 1966, is long disbanded. The New Blac...
Panther Provenance
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Rivals for the legacy of Black Panthers may be heading toward a courtroom confrontation over whether the memor...
Justices Dissent Bitterly in Border Case
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Six judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals belittled a majority of their colleagues yesterday for refusi...
Experts Mull Best Course for State High Court
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers, judges and criminal justice experts around the state are watching to see whether the California Supreme...
Sole Practitioner Was Active in Community
By Sandra Corrales
AQUA DULCE- Services will take place today for sole practitioner and Los Angeles Superior Court arbitrator William T. Perry. H...
Decision on Damage to Data Isn't Likely to Fly in California
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Catherine L. Rivard - Tech-dependent businesses have awaited court decisions on whether comp...
Ex-Roommate Calls Toxicologist 'Quirky'
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A former university roommate of Gregory T. de Villers testified Thursday that he began to regard Kristin Rossum as...
Office Seeker Pushes Death For Snipers
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The Democratic candidate for Maryland governor, who sought and achieved a moratorium on the death penalty in her ...
Police Arrest Insurance Salesman for 116 Felonies
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
SAN DIEGO - A 51-year-old life insurance salesman was arrested yesterday on 116 felony counts of grand theft and fraud for poc...
Road Payout
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Cathleen S. Chapman - It is not every day that state lawmakers publicly brand initiative proponents "pimps" ...
Defend Employers With Every Tool You've Got
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Holly S. Beckner - Employment attorneys frequently overlook one of the most effec...
Defend Employers With Every Tool You've Got
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Holly S. Beckner - Employment attorneys frequently overlook one of the most effec...
Road Payout
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Forum Column - By Dana Rose - Proposition 51 - the "Safe Roads Measure" - will not raise your taxes. Proposition 51 sets spend...
$290M in Punitives Against Ford Survives Supreme Court
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A $295 million judgment against Ford Motor Company survived the California Supreme Court Wednesday, marking th...
Accusations Accompany 'A Lawyer's Life'
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - One attorney who won't be shelling out $25.95 for Johnnie Cochran's new book, "A Lawyer's Life," is Joe C. Hop...
Window Framer Must Pay Owners $1 Million
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Claiming $8.5 million in water damage, attorneys for 122 Huntington Beach homeowners were disappointed Wednesday w...
Court Examines Meaning of 'Religious Creed' in State Discrimination Statute
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Focus Column - By Robyn Babcock - The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes it an unlawful employment practice for ...
Fresno Attorney Named to Bench
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Latino appellate attorney Rosendo Pena Jr. was named to the Fresno Superior Court Wednesday by Gov. Gray Davis...
Cochran Comes to Compton, Signs His Book, Gives Legal Advice
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Johnnie Cochran can still pack them in in Compton. Hailed as a "hometown hero," O.J. Simpson's lead a...
Bankruptcy Is No Refuge for Rape Defendant
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - John Gordon Jones, the Los Angeles computer executive who beat sexual assault charges in the so-called "limousin...
Juvenile Acquitted in Murder Case
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A juvenile defendant, who was a fugitive when he allegedly killed a San Francisco Housing Authority worker nea...
Sex Slave Case Now in Civil Court
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing 11 victims of an India-to-Berkeley human trafficking ring filed a 24-count civil suit Wed...
Obscure Specialty
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Patent attorney Jerry Voight has spent most of his 37-year legal career practicing in an area so obscure and s...
Vetoing Liberties
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Forum Column - By Francisco Lobaco - As the ink dries on the last of the 264 bills Gov. Gray Davis vetoed in 2002, a review of...
Partner Remained Committed Despite Illness
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Philip L. Siracuse, a litigation partner at Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May in downtown Los Angeles, died Tuesda...
Terror Victims Can't Collect From Bank Owned by Iran
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - For the victims of government-sponsored terrorism, the already tough legal job of collecting damage judgments ...
Boss Testifies He Questioned Stories of Death
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The president of the science supply company where Gregory T. de Villers worked testified Wednesday that he became ...
Who Is Responsible When Teens Drink?
By Matthew Heller
SIMI VALLEY - The night filled with beer and shots of tequila at an Oxnard bar ended in tragedy for two teen-agers. After Patr...
Federal Law Pre-empts Construction-Defect Statute
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Focus Column -By Linda C. Fritz - In Edward D. Basura Jr. v. U.S. Home Corp. , B151131 (Cal.App. May 31, 2002), the int...
Judge Says Order Isn't Needed
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California judge has refused to take further action to enforce two recent orders that environmental...