Calistoga Newspaper Sues Over News Rack Law
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The publisher of Napa County's 138-year-old daily newspaper has challenged the constitutionality of a Calistog...
State Must Cover Cost of Expelling Students
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The state should reimburse the San Diego Unified School District for the cost of expelling students under the re...
Use Every Trick in the Book to Learn About a Firm
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Associates who are ready to change jobs should know that there are a lot of employers...
Defense Expert Questions Source of Pornography
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A computer expert testified Wednesday that someone using the e-mail address of David A. Westerfield's son was on t...
'Hackett' Preserves the Promise of Just Compensation
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Ethan K. Friedman - Code of Civil Procedure Section 1263.120 provides that the date of valuation of property...
Lawyers Face Off in Van Dam Case
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Steven E. Feldman goes nonstop in the courtroom. Fingers dance over a laptop computer. He pours out questions to w...
Models' Anorexia-of-the-Wallet Lawsuit Has Promise
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Everybody knows that fashion models eat less than most of us cholesterol-swilling proletaries. But ...
Drug Policing
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - The Supreme Court ruling giving public-school authorities the green light to conduct ra...
Merger Tightrope
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Blane R. Prescott - As the economy changes pace, more firms than ever are shifting their focus from acquirin...
Worker Is Not Protected by Federal Law Where Job May Injure His Health
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jonathan M. Brenner - The U.S. Supreme Court continued its belt-tightening of the Americans...
Man Injured in Traffic Stop Wins $13.3 Million
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Vista jury has ordered the state to pay $13.3 million to a permanently injured Escondido man, who was a passen...
Firms Get With 'Knowledge Management' Program
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - In moves that portend big changes in the resources that California law firms devote to computer technology, th...
Use Every Trick in the Book to Learn About a Firm
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Associates who are ready to change jobs should know that there are a lot of employers...
Merger Tightrope
By Columnist
Dicta Column - Management Matters - By Blane R. Prescott - As the economy changes pace, more firms than ever are shifting thei...
'Hackett' Preserves the Promise of Just Compensation
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Ethan K. Friedman - Code of Civil Procedure Section 1263.120 provides that the date of valua...
Lawyers Face Off in Van Dam Case
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Deputy District Attorney Jeff B. Dusek has his trial face on as he walks with unhurried efficiency down the corrid...
Drug Policing
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Julie L. Vogt - Contrary to the contentions of critics of the U.S. Supreme Court's student drug-testing deci...
Church May Forbid Woman to Enter
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES -The Church of Christ in Hollywood may not be able to silence a dissenting voice, but it can keep that voice from ...
Blood Drive Will Aid Hurt Officer
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - The law firm of Manning & Marder, Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez will sponsor a blood drive for an off-duty Los Angel...
Ultimate Sanction
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - In Ring v. Arizona , 2002 DJDAR 7047 (U.S. June 24, 2002), the Supreme Court held...
Justices Settle Into Usually Predictable Voting Patterns
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - At the Supreme Court, familiarity breeds repetition. After eight terms together, the current nine justices have ...
Writer of Pledge Decision Isn't Upset by Fuss
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - The person who might be the least worked up over last week's federal court ruling to strike the words "under God...
'Judge's Judge' Rarely Raises Any Eyebrows
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - He's an unassuming "Oregon cowboy" and a retired Army captain from World War II who favors Vanna White and, much...
Ruling Puts Mattel's Lawsuit Back in Business
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A defendant on the losing end of a special motion to strike under California's anti-SLAPP statute is entitled to...
Agency Investigates Charges Against Ex-Jurist
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The state's judicial watchdog agency Tuesday opened a formal inquiry into allegations that a former Los Angeles ...
High Court Reconciles Conflicting Circuit Rulings
By Contributing Writer
Column by Andrew W. Volin - The many different federal statutes affecting employment, and the complex structure of those statu...
Judge Says Kiss With Deputy Was Consensual
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - In a written response Tuesday to accusations by the Commission on Judicial Performance, Judge Arthur Block admitte...
Board Votes to Let Itself Expel Elected Officials
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - The Board of Supervisors gave itself permission in a final vote Tuesday to discipline or oust locally elected...
Thomas' Votes Offer Glimmer Of Hope to Rights Advocates
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Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - One thing was lost in the headline news over the U.S. Supreme Court's two landmark d...
Snooping Around on Capitol Hill
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - In the blame game following the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history, some of those investigated in government...