Suit Claims Noel, Knoller Conspired in Prison Probe
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Local lawyers Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, already in prison for their roles in the notorious dog-mauling...
Teens Who Had Sex With Officer Can Sue
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Two teen-age girls who had sex with a Murrieta police officer while participating in a Police Explorer Program c...
Employing Taft-Hartley Act Ignites Legal Debate
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - President Bush's use of the Taft-Hartley Act to reopen ports in California, Oregon and Washington has renewed de...
Garcetti Captures Beauty of Ironworkers' Lives
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Driven from office two years ago by the voters, former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti could h...
Justices Seem Leery of Tossing Copyright Act
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appears ready to deliver some good news to the Walt Disney Co. and its cherished Mickey Mouse, ...
'Adverse Employment Action' Can Be Difficult to Prove
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - In the former Soviet Union, Siberian vacations generally were not rese...
What Was Pillsbury Thinking, Experts Ask
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Frode Jensen's lawsuit against his former firm, Pillsbury Winthrop, was "completely predictable," according to...
'What Was Mary Cranston Thinking?'
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Frode Jensen's lawsuit against his former firm, Pillsbury Winthrop, was "completely predictable," according to...
Media Probes of Rappers' Murders Have Makings of Cable Channel
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The documentary movie "Biggie and Tupac" probably has a great future on cable TV - on those channels...
Justices Favor Comity in Noncompete Pacts
By Peter Blumberg
FRESNO - State Supreme Court justices frowned Wednesday on a California company's race to the Los Angeles courthouse to help a...
Judge Refuses Bail for Actor Robert Blake
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied Robert Blake his freedom, saying he will consider bail on...
How Low Will Jury Award Go, Experts Wonder
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Legal experts just laugh when asked whether the $28 billion punitive damage award levied last week against Phili...
'Adverse Employment Action' Can Be Difficult to Prove
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - In the former Soviet Union, Siberian vacations generally were not rese...
Defender-Brothers Win Acclaim
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Greg Johnson has come a long way since earning $350 for his racy role as Carl in the early 1980s soft porn flick "...
Ovitz Fired Whistle-Blowing Executive, Suit Says
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - For the second time in less than six months, Michael Ovitz has been hit with a lawsuit, this time from a former ...
$50 Million Settlement In Title Company Suits
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Six major title companies agreed Tuesday to pay about $50 million to settle claims that they charged customers...
Senate Judiciary Approves Three California Nominees
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Two California judicial nominees and one U.S. attorney hopeful won the backing of the Senate Judiciary Committee ...
High Court Sifts Liars' Testimony
By Peter Blumberg
FRESNO - The California Supreme Court did not appear willing Tuesday to spare condemned killer Larry Roberts, despite a judge'...
Justices Hear Wireless Auction Dispute
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission appears to be heading for a resounding defeat in its multibillion-dollar ba...
George Defends Davis on Parole Denials
By Peter Blumberg
FRESNO - With the California Supreme Court apparently divided, Chief Justice Ronald George voiced strong support Tuesday for G...
Is He 'Fear City' Miracle Worker?
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - In 1996, magazines and newspapers were crammed with glowing stories on what they cal...
Testimony In Vietnam Protest Trial
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In harrowing testimony, a Vietnamese woman on trial for attempted arson and terrorism described to a federal j...
Justices Consider Wireless Auction Dispute
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission appears to be heading for a resounding defeat in its multibillion-dollar ba...
Judge Halts Seizure of House Because of $51 Underpayment
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Tuesday granted an order temporarily stopping Washington Mutual Home Loans Inc. from forecl...
Autistic Boy's Family Can Sue, Panel Says
By Joan Osterwalder
LOS ANGELES -The parents of an autistic child can sue the Manhattan Beach Unified School District for failing to implement a s...
No Stranger to Challenges
By Donna Domino
STOCKTON - Listening to San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Terrence R. Van Oss describe how he arm wrestles lawyers to se...
Panel Reprimands Criminal Trial Jurist
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - In an unusual broadside, a state appeals panel has slammed the state's criminal trial judges for not providing t...
Parties Must Shape Arbitration Process in Big, Complex Cases
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - Those who choose arbitration because it is a low-cost an...
Justices Hear Wireless Auction Dispute
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission appears to be heading for a resounding defeat in its multibillion-dollar ba...
Is He 'Fear City' Miracle Worker?
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - In 1996, magazines and newspapers were crammed with glowing stories on what they ca...