SLAPP Law Applies to Malicious-Prosecution Actions
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Focus Column - Litigation - By James J. Moneer - Enacted in 1992, the anti-SLAPP statute, Code of Civil Procedure Section 425....
Pulling Out
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Forum Column - By Anderson L. Washburn - Reading national press columns and articles mocking California about the recall elect...
Antitrust Defense May Not Apply to Subsidiary That Is Heavily Regulated
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Focus Column - Antitrust Law - By Mark Fogelman - The Copperweld doctrine - a well-established antitrust defense - gene...
Appeals Court Rejects Lawyer's Retrial
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A San Diego attorney cannot be retried for allegedly harassing lawyers who defeated him in court because a feder...
Lawyers' Liability Up to Court
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up an issue vital to the legal community, the California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide wheth...
Settlement May Create More Critical Habitats
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal officials have agreed to settle a lawsuit by undertaking a massive effort to identify areas important ...
Lawyer Was 'Bedrock' of Compton Legal Scene
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Wilmont Argen Odom Jr., the chief deputy city attorney and chief of the litigation staff for the city of Compton...
'Fajita' Case Preliminary Hearing Set
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty San Francisco police officers accused in the Union Street beating case will have a prelimin...
9th Ponders the Legality of Cannabis Seizures
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - When the U.S. Supreme Court rejected medical necessity as a defense to the use of medical marijuana two years ...
9th Circuit's Next Case: Computer Crimes Against Baby Boomers
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Dear 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Hi there! I read with great interest your fabulous decision t...
Council Enacts 'No-Touch' Rule for Strip Clubs
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Faced with an explosion of strip clubs, and militant opposition from neighborhood groups, the Los Angeles City C...
Noted S.F. Trial Lawyer LeRoy Hersh Dies at 83
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - LeRoy Hersh, one of San Francisco's feistiest and most successful plaintiffs attorneys, died Tuesday at his ho...
'Anti-Candidates' Still Surfing
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Environmental lawyer Christopher Sproul is running as a candidate in the Oct. 7 recall election to replace Gov. G...
Landlords Seek to Push Brobeck into Chapter 7
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's former landlords filed a petition Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San...
Billboard With Nearly Nude Torso Provokes
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
COLTON - The billboard for a strip club that overlooks traffic on Interstate 215 in Colton is eye-catching enough, sporting th...
People Power
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Forum Column - By Karl Manheim - We have yet to hear the last word on the state recall election, which is turning out to be th...
When Recall Reaches Justices, It'll Be Only Second Case to Use 'Bush v. Gore'
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - When the hotly contested California recall election battle finally gets to the Supreme Court, it will be only th...
'Harnedy' Opinion Raises Issue Of Jurisdiction of Probate Court
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Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Harnedy v. Whitty, 110 Cal.App.4th 1333 (200...
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By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The order to delay California's recall election appeared to be on a fast track to the U.S. Supreme Court Tues...
Firm Needn't Disprove Water Contamination
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Lockheed Martin Corp., the defendant in an upcoming trial of a lawsuit claiming it contaminated groundwater n...
Court Must Check Child's Special Needs
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles juvenile court cannot send a young woman to California Youth Authority without exploring whether...
Notices Set For Courts' Budgeting
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill Tuesday that requires the Judicial Council to give the public prior notice of pendi...
'Rude' Council Acted Within Rights
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Council members may prefer talking on cell phones or chatting with staffers to listening to the...
Jeans Company, Heller Ehrman Cross-Sue Over Sale to Nautica
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - When the owners of a Los Angeles women's jeans company decided to sell their prosperous business to the trendy c...
Precedent Recognizes Half-Sibling As Parent
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has recognized for the first time that a half-sibling who cares for a child can be leg...
ABA Rates Brown 'Qualified'
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association on Tuesday released a "qualified" rating for California Supreme Court Justice Janice...
Former Air Force Captain Maintains Court Decorum
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN LUIS OBISPO - Judge John A. Trice knew it was time for a career change when, as a prosecutor, he tried a double-murder cas...
Legal Community's Efforts Face Threat From Prop. 54
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Proposition 54, the "Racial Privacy Initiative" being pushed by University of California Regent Ward Connerly, co...
Historic Decision Faces Major Test
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - When the hotly contested California recall election battle finally gets to the Supreme Court, it will be only the...
En Banc Option Holds Recall In Limbo
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The order to delay California's recall election appeared Tuesday to be on a fast track to the U.S. Supreme Cou...