Pepperdine Taps VP to be Next President
By Anne La Jeunesse
Pepperdine University professor and administrator Andrew K. Benton will become the seventh president of the university. Benton...
Group Will Petition Court for 'Gay/Straight' Club
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
ORANGE - Attorneys for the high school students whom the Orange Unified School District has denied an on-campus club about sex...
Former Chief Justice Is Mourned
By Columnist
FORUM The passing of Rose Elizabeth Bird leaves a very large hole in the conscience of California, not to mention in the heart...
Mentally Ill Homeless Need Community Services
By Columnist
FORUM Jail is not the appropriate setting for homeless, mentally ill citizens apprehended for minor charges. Page 6. By Diana ...
Dr. Laura's Slander Suit Is SLAPPed
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge Wednesday threw out a lawsuit filed by Dr. Laura Schlessinger against the ow...
Clinton Not Out to Break Gun Firms
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The federal government "is not trying to bankrupt any companies" by intervening in city and county litigation aga...
State AGs Hear Teens' Violent Tales
By Jodi Weisberg
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Crystal, now a high school senior, tells of the day last year when she was beaten bloody while dozens of c...
Court Opens Door to Car Thief Arrests
By David Kravetz
A widely used police tactic to bait thieves into stealing autos appeared Wednesday to have won the California Supreme Court's ...
Unions Not Liable for Boycotts
By Pamela Maclean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling with broad implications for union boycotts by government employees, a federal appeals court ruled ...
Second Candidate Challenges Garcetti for Job
By Michael Harris
Charging there has been "a tremendous loss of confidence" in Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, environmental ...
Fee Agreements Require Special Attention
By Columnist
DICTA Many of the so-called mundane aspects of practice, like fee agreements and other collection issues, are often the ones t...
AG Reno Is Wrong to Keep Evidence From Prisoner
By Columnist
By Anthony Lewis Janet Reno has been an admirably independent attorney general. Where her record is faulty, however, is on civ...
Better Left Unsaid
By Columnist
By Nancy E. Spero On December 10, 11, and 12, the drafters of the Uniform Mediation Act will be convening in Seaside, Calif. i...
Disclaiming an Estate Doesn't Avoid IRS Lien
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that when a delinquent taxpayer who inherits money disclaims any...
Open Day and Night
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - It all started during a routine brainstorming session before a regular monthly dinner meeting of the Consumer Atto...
Information Overload: Current Uniform Act Proposal Would Not Result in Uniformity
By Columnist
By Joel Riff and John Hollingsworth For lawyers who work on deals involving the licensing of computer technologies, any develo...
Information Overload
By Columnist
By Carlyle C. Ring Jr. Information technology accounts for more than one-third of the nation's economic growth and is the most...
Judge Sought Retirement for Depression
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge, attacked in the local news media for being on disability and away from her post for more t...
In Hell's Seven Circles, Lawyers Will Surely Argue Fair Use Of Divine Revelations
By Garry Abrams
At the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena on Monday, lawyers spent one of the last days of the Second Millennium ar...
Farewell to the Chief
By Philip Carrizosa
Rose Bird was the most exasperating person I've ever known. As anyone who ever worked with her can tell you, Bird was a person...
Judge Finds Informant Is 'Unbelievable'
By Pamela Maclean
In a rare nonjury acquittal, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has declared that an informant who was paid $380,000 during a 1...
Monster Nash Turns Into a Children's Court Smash
By Cheryl Romo
As the millennium draws to a close, so does the interesting three-year tenure of a once combative state prosecutor and later i...
Outlying Judge to Hear Murder Case
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A Riverside County Superior Court judge has ordered that a motion to dismiss murder charges against David James Ge...
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Furrow For Hate Crimes
By Anne La Jeunesse
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles Thursday indicted an alleged white supremacist on federal hate crimes stemming from the A...
File Error
By Michael Harris
Seventeen years after he stabbed to death a maid in a Hollywood Hills home, Charles McDowell Jr. has again been condemned to d...
Murphy Extends Disability Leave
By Anne La Jeunesse
Murphy Extends Disability Leave Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, who was expected back to work Thursday after h...
Gang Member Quizzed About LAPD Officials
By Martin Bergn
The reputed gang member who contends the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division corruption scandal involves division...
Suit Against Holdens Dropped
By Lauren Bartlett
Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden and his son, Pasadena City Councilman Chris Holden, announced Thursday that a veteran ...
Court Won't Allow a Detour From Mandatory Arbitration
By David Kravetz
Consumers unhappy with their goods and services may not skirt binding arbitration clauses by invoking the little-used Consumer...
Taking a Fresh Approach
By Anne La Jeunesse
Behind these prison walls echoes the soft cooing of infants, not the harsh clank of cell doors. The giddy laughter of children...