Same Name, Wrong Man - Police Sued
By Daniel Jennings
HEMET - Police here made a serious mistake when they arrested Robert Morris on a warrant Jan. 21. The Robert Morris they were...
High Court's Living Large With Big Laughs, Bigfoot, Big Mouth
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Guylyn R. Cummins made it to the big dance Oct. 13, but in the end she didn't get to leave her seat. Cummins, a ...
Football Star Goes Off Tackle Against 'Feminist Conspiracy'
By Garry Abrams
Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown would rather go to jail than pick up roadside trash. And, by the way, the woman judge who se...
Football Player Sues for Bad Forward Pass
By Daniel Jennings
MURRIETA - Derek Boult, a first-string offensive tackle for the Murietta Valley High School Nighthawks has filed a novel laws...
L.A. Unification Gets Boost From Expert Analysis
By Denise Levin
Fears that unification of the Los Angeles Superior and Municipal courts would spawn lawsuits for violations of the federal Vo...
Seeing Double
By Columnist
Seeing Double 9th Circuit Upholds Use of Dual Juries in Capital Cases In giving its stamp of approval to the use of dual jurie...
Bar Judge Says Lawyer Broke Rule on Juror
By Martin Bergn
Setting the stage for a disciplinary hearing, a State Bar Court trial judge has issued a ruling of culpability against promin...
Voir Mire
By Columnist
Voir Mire Surviving the jury-picking process requires patience and a good book By Paul O'Brien As any trial lawyer knows, jur...
Costly Breach
By Columnist
Costly Breach Insured Can Recover Costs Incurred in Forcing Additional Insurers to Pay An insured would not have been forced ...
Riverside Judge to Hear S.D. Matter
By Claude Walbert
Riverside Judge to Hear S.D. Matter SAN DIEGO - Riverside Superior Court Judge Ronald R. Heumann will decide if all San Diego...
Legal Aid Offices Benefit From Working Collectively
By Columnist
^^In the Public Interest^^ By Robert Cohen, Neal Dudovitz, Daniel Grunfeld, Bruce Iwasaki and David Lash As leaders of the la...
Drug Court Opens in Pomona Court
By Anne La Jeunesse
Drug Court Opens In Pomona Court Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina Wednesday announced the opening of the Pomona Mu...
From Complaint to Closing, Treatise Covers It All
By Columnist
^^The Bookshelf^^ From Complaint to Closing, Treatise Covers It All. BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LITIGATION IN FEDERAL COURTS Edi...
MWD Workers Get OK to Pursue Case
By Denise Levin
MWD Workers Get OK to Pursue Case It took four rounds of demurrers, but workers suing the Metropolitan Water District and abo...
Coming Up Empty
By Columnist
By Marianne Means Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr finally gave up the ghost this week, acknowledging the obvious - that he'...
Justice Calls on Students To Be Ethical Attorneys
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
ORANGE - While some people think the United States is saturated with too many lawyers, the real problem is that this country ...
Broad Powers Seen in LAPD Inspector
By Lauren Bartlett
The Los Angeles police inspector general has the authority to investigate anything involving the department, subject to an ov...
DA Files Murder Charges in Prank Shooting Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - A Buena Park man accused of shooting and killing a high school student over the theft of a Halloween pumpkin deco...
Loeb & Loeb Expands New-Media Practice Group
By Tamara Scott
LOS ANGELES - Loeb & Loeb has expanded its new-media practice group by nabbing Internet entertainment lawyer Steven J. Pe...
Justice Budget Passes House, Veto Expected
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly approved the final version of a $38 billion appropriatio...
Heller Ehrman Snags Well-Known Trial Attorney for Partner
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Well-known trial lawyer Alexander "Lex" Brainerd has left the Palo Alto office of Los Angeles-based Quinn Ema...
S.F. Campaign Finance Limits Blocked
By John Roemer
Moving at top speed with Election Day nearing, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Wednesday heard oral arguments, then...
Federal Judge Sends Y2K Suits Back to State Court
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a bid by five national retailers facing a Y2K lawsuit to transfer the cas...
Coudert Bros. and Strook Tangle in Fee Fight
By Denise Levin
When a lawyer and two of his former firms are sued, who picks up the tab for the lawyer? Coudert Brothers sued Stroock & ...
Los Angeles-Based Lawyer Picked as ICANN Counsel
By Chris Ford
The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has chosen Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue partner Louis L. Touto...
S.F. Cop's Suit Over Complaint SLAPP'd Down
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - It will cost a police sergeant $52,000 in legal fees for suing San Franciscan Betty Evans, a superior court j...
Law Allowing Police to Sue Is Unconstitutional
By Martin Bergn
A California law allowing police to sue individuals for allegedly lodging false complaints against them has been found uncons...
DA's Office Concedes Some Records of Wiretaps Withheld
By Michael Harris
With Los Angeles County prosecutors conceding they had not complied with one portion of his order regulating their use of wir...
Would a Bailment by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?
By Anna Marie Stolley
To this day, film buffs ponder the significance of "Rosebud" - a simple word with powerful meaning, integral to Orson Welles'...
Damage Control
By Columnist
Damage Control Sue-and-Labor Clauses Will Generally Not Cover Y2K Remediation By Patrick E. Shipstead and Scott G. Johnson Ove...