Inspector General's Duties Again at Heart of Controversy
By Lauren Bartlett
The proposed plan to notify Los Angeles police officers about changes in the police inspector general's role reignited a deba...
EToys Not Playing Games With Site Featuring Perverse Images
By Denise Levin
EToys Inc., the popular online toy retailer of cuddly Furbys and Pokemons, has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against...
Time for International Policy on Genocidal Violence
By Columnist
By Stanley Hoffmann In Kosovo, the United States and its allies had to choose between two important norms of international re...
Ex-POWs File Suit Over WWII Slave Labor
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A La Mesa man is among three World War II servicemen who filed suit Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court again...
No Contest
By Columnist
^^Probate Law^^ No Contest Clauses May Be More Trouble Than They Are Worth California's no-contest clause structure is uncerta...
State Bar Associations Can Aid Imperiled Judiciary
By Columnist
By Alfred P. Carlton Jr. As we approach the millennium, our judicial system faces challenges anticipated by America's founder...
Recent Grad Cited for Tax Assistance
By From Staff Reports
Recent Grad Cited For Tax Assistance Stephan C. Boulanger, a recent Southwestern University School of Law graduate, has been ...
Watch Your Steps
By Columnist
By Oren M. Sellstrom There's an old trick called "bait and switch" that's used by shifty used car salesmen. In it, the salesm...
Inc. Blot
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^^Family Law^^ Inc. Blot Business Doesn't Become Community Property Upon Incorporation 'Koester' may be just the most recent ...
As Champion of Democracy, Warren Court Warrants Respect
By Columnist
^^ The Bookshelf^^ As Champion of Democracy, Warren Court Warrants Respect THE WARREN COURT AND THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE By Mor...
Ex-Officer Gets 14 Years for Robbery
By Martin Bergn
Ex-Officer Gets 14 Years for Robbery A federal judge sentenced a former Los Angeles police officer to more than 14 years in p...
Death Not Sought in Road Rage Case
By Michael Harris
Death Not Sought In Road Rage Case The Los Angeles County district attorney's office will not seek the death penalty for a 69...
Judge Approves Settlement to End Litigation Over Prop. 187
By Martin Bergn
A federal judge Monday approved a settlement reached between Gov. Gray Davis and civil rights groups that had sued to block i...
Appellate Apprehension
By Columnist
Appellate Apprehension Even future Court of Appeal justices feel nervous at their first oral argument By Paul Turner When I w...
Judge Declines To Dismiss Pratt's Civil Suit
By Martin Bergn
A federal judge indicated Monday she would not dismiss a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by former Black Panther leader Ge...
Acting Division Chief Named in Santa Monica
By Anne La Jeunesse
Betty J . Haviland, who has spent her entire legal career in the Santa Monica city attorney's office, has been named the acti...
Ventura Courts Prepare to Take to the Road
By Amy Bentley
VENTURA - Last month, more than 2,000 people sought help at the Ventura County court's self-help legal access centers in Vent...
Longtime Legislature Lawyer Retiring
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - With no fanfare, but a $21,000 golden handshake, the Legislature has quietly paved the way for the departure of ...
Trial Set for Sara Jane Olson
By Michael Harris
Barring a plea bargain or dismissal of the case, former Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson is set to go on tr...
Tough Juvenile Crime Bill Passed by Democrats
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - In a last-ditch bid to ante up to a sweeping juvenile justice ballot initiative placed by former Republican Gov....
New York M&A Firm Opens New Outpost in Silicon Valley
By Elizabeth Freudenthal
Davis Polk & Wardwell, the New York-based mergers-and-acquisitions and corporate finance powerhouse, launched its new Sil...
Hell Hath No Fury ...
By Matthew Heller
VENTURA - In a recent listing of Ventura County's top "Movers and Shakers," a local newspaper pictured Hells Angels Chapter P...
UCLA Wins Dismissal of Bias Lawsuit
By Denise Levin
A former intern at UCLA's Department of Family Medicine has failed to produce sufficient evidence that he was booted from the...
Court Opens Door to Use of Pot by Very Ill
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court opened the door Monday to legal distribution of medical marijuana for terminally ill ...
Plaintiffs Reforms: By The Book
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Here are summaries of the key elements of legislative proposals to partly restore the right of third parties to ...
Bars -- Plaintiffs And State -- See Capitol Victories
By Tom Dresslar And Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - The 1999 legislative session saw the plaintiffs' bar get some tort-reform payback, the State Bar get a facelift ...
DA's Office Gets a $260K Grant
By Michael Harris
DA's Office Gets A $260K Grant The state Office of Criminal Justice Planning has awarded the Los Angeles County district atto...
NEW FACULTY AND NEW BUILDING SPARKS CHAPMAN Five new professors have joined the Chapman University law school community. The ...
Runs and Hits But No Errors
By Columnist
By Gerald F. Uelmen Dissent and disagreement rates are both useful tools in analyzing the movement of judges around the fault...
Plaintiff Not Locked Into Set Damages Formula
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^^Construction Law^^ By Bernard S. Kamine Proving damages for breach of a construction contract is often difficult. The theor...