No Love for Raves
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Forum Column - By David Kirby - As the summer concert season begins, property owners and partygoers will discover how federal ...
Palestinians Must Offer True Incentives for Peace to Work
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Focus Column - By Carl Pearlston - There is a classic slapstick comedy routine in which two men converge on a doorway and each...
Compromise Offers Raise Issues in Employment Suits
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - From a practical perspective, California's statutory settlement scheme...
Statute May Cover Statements Made Outside the Presence of a Mediator
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - In the fifth significant decision interpreting the state's m...
Boss Pushed Unripe Cases, DA Says
By Gale Holland
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney has charged that his boss pressured him to file cases he believed ...
Web Site Offers Access To Some Court Rulings
By Matthew Heller
LOS ANGELES - Ventura County has joined several other Southern California counties by offering Internet access to tentative r...
Court's ADR Program Turns 25 Years Old
By Pamela A. Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - An alternative dispute resolution program pioneered in San Francisco's federal court turned 25 this month, and...
Justices Accept Retaliation Suit
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide whether a manager may sue her employer b...
Conflicts Panel To Get Its Funding
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Checks will soon be in the mail for lawyers on San Francisco's conflicts panel who represented indigent defen...
Titan Wheel Spins Out on Highway to Legal Hell, Losing $6 Million
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, start your engines. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury this week too...
Court Upholds Tobacco Tax To Help Kids
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has upheld California's Proposition 10, which taxes cigarettes and other tobacco products ...
Tax for Anti-Smoking Ads Challenged in U.S. Court
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A lawyer for tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds contended Wednesday that the state of California is violating the free-...
Bringing Down Leaders Of Church Spurs Lawyer
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - He casts himself as a small-time country boy. Which is only partly true. He avoids center stage. Yet he's the st...
Milberg Weiss Partner Says Split Caused By Differences
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Shareholder class action giant Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach is splitting up and reorganizing arou...
Don't Expect a Circus
By Peter Blumberg
MODESTO - It was one of Modesto's most sensational murders: A young mother's body found buried in a peach orchard, her three-...
'Protector of Children' Puts Youths' Best Interests First
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - After 18 years in dependency court, Commissioner Debra L. Losnick thought she'd seen and heard it all until a fl...
High Court Has Encouraged Rise of Commercial Arbitration
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - The daily coverage of arbitration decisions and the deba...
Unite to Divide?
Forum Column - By Franklin R. Garfield - In "Collaborative Divorce Plan Provides Separation Skills" (Forum, April 14), Ron M. ...
Attorney Faces Five Years for Embezzling
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Former Santa Monica attorney John Patrick Maginnis pleaded no contest Tuesday to embezzling nearly $200,000 from...
Criminal Defense Lawyer Fought for His Clients
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Criminal defense lawyer Morton H. Boren, who used a crabby sense of humor to worm his way into the hearts and mi...
Court Overturns Malpractice Award
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Calling some of the charges against him "silly", an appellate court has overturned a legal malpractice award aga...
Bench Picks Its Leaders In Alameda
By Karen Coleman
ALAMEDA - The Alameda County Superior Court has elected Barbara Miller and Robert Freedman to head court operations and policy...
Legislators Suggest Courts Take Back As They Give
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers struggling to hammer out a budget plan have agreed on a package of new and increased court filing fees...
City, ACLU Settle 'Homeless Sweeps' Dispute
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles has agreed to scale back its Skid Row law enforcement activities and pay $75,000 in dama...
The (Skeptical) Public Eye
By Joel Rosenblatt
PALO ALTO - In some circles, the opinion of a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission carries more weight th...
Anti-Abortion Leaflets Are Kicked Off Campus
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court ruled Tuesday that an anti-abortion group has no right to enter a high school campus to ...
Retrial in Murder Won't be Double Jeopardy, Panel Says
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal on Tuesday reversed a San Francisco judge who had dismissed murder charges a...
'Bellio' Opinion Avoids Issue of Provisions Promoting Divorce
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Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - Does California's public policy allow premarital agree...
School of Thought
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Forum Column - By E. Martin Estrada - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to once again take up the issue of the use of affirmat...
Kuhl's Critics Distort Meaning Of Her 'Sanchez-Scott' Ruling
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Forum Column - By Kristin Linsley Myles - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl is a well-qualified judge who has d...