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Los Angeles attorney John Nyahan of Chadbourne & Parke has been accepted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Law...


PHOENIX - Home is where the heart is. To prove that adage, the legal community in Phoenix is putting its heart and soul, not ...



A Little Life Extinguished

May 4, 1999
By Cheryl Romo

Kameron Justin Demery, 21/2, was a sweet-faced little guy who loved rubber balls and liked to play in the mud. "He was mellow...


Stanley D. Myers was a religious fundamentalist who in 1965 summoned his pastor to bless the new Tallmadge, Ohio, industrial ...



In a surprisingly blunt speech, Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline of San Francisco has sharply criticized the commission tha...


SALES

May 2, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

LOS ANGELES COUNTY ROADSIDE DRIVE, AGOURA HILLS SQ.FT.: 32,000, SHOPPING CENTER PRINCIPALS' BROKER: CHRISTOPHER AND LANE SCHW...



Attorneys for a retired judge and a bailiff Thursday previewed their defense to charges the pair tried to cover up a prisoner...


Lawyers to Offer Free Advice

May 1, 1999
By Pat Alston

In celebration of Law Day, the Barristers of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and other local bar groups will provide f...



Lawsuit Filed Against Rabbi Concludes

May 1, 1999
By Matthew Heller

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County woman has settled her lawsuit against a rabbi whom she accused of luring her into a sexual rel...


SAN FRANCISCO - The EEOC on Thursday brought a rare lawsuit against a branch of state government, accusing the California Env...



Norwalk Court Now Accepts Faxed Documents

May 1, 1999
By Denise Levin

The Norwalk branch of Los Angeles Superior Court is now accepting documents filed via fax, the court has announced. The servi...


Judge: Utility Can't Ignore Initiative

May 1, 1999
By Matthew Heller

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Wading into a battle between a desert water district and its customers, a judge has ruled that officials ca...



Disabled Candidate Sues LAPD

May 1, 1999
By Lauren Blau

A 22-year-old man born without a lower left leg but, who with the use of a prosthesis passed physical requirements to enroll ...


Judicial Council Endorses New Jury Service Law

May 1, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - Over the objections of 11 trial courts, including those of Los Angeles, the state Judicial Council voted Thur...



SAN FRANCISCO - California's failed experiment with MTBE appears unlikely to end with the chemical's gradual elimination from...


A veteran inspector in a highly touted state agency devoted to cracking down on labor abuses in the garment industry was indi...



Movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg has already received two large payments from the Walt Disney Co. as part of the agreement ...


Los Angeles County Bar Association trustees simultaneously gave both grumbling and wholehearted support to pending legislatio...



SAN FRANCISCO - Fighting in Vietnam changed attorney Charles E. Patterson's life for the better, he says, by destroying any i...


WASHINGTON - After several days of vigorous debate, Senate Democrats used parliamentary devices Thursday to block a vote on a...



Appellate Court Limits Reach of Prop. 213

May 1, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

A motorist injured while driving his employer's uninsured vehicle is not barred under a 1996 initiative from recovering for p...


WASHINGTON - Asked to interpret the Americans With Disabilities Act in the employment context, the Supreme Court wrestled thi...



Breast-Feeding Mom Sues Borders Books

Apr. 30, 1999
By Denise Levin

Borders, a nationwide chain of music and book stores, encourages its customers to purchase lattes and cafe au laits from its ...


SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Alberti thought he had the right stuff to be a successful sheriff's deputy - he is athletic, is a train...



The Los Angeles City Council has voted unanimously to settle an officer-involved shooting lawsuit for nearly $3.3 million. Th...


Lawyer Pleads No Contest to Pandering

Apr. 30, 1999
By Michael Harris

One day after he decided to let a judge try him on charges he operated a prostitution ring out of his law office, Tarzana tax...



Three employees of a Southern California testing laboratory were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on environmental ...


Media Witnesses Microsoft Deposition

Apr. 30, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - The deposition setup looked fairly typical Wednesday. Around a long conference table sat lawyers representing as...



Up Close and Personal

Apr. 30, 1999
By Jean Guccione

PALM SPRINGS - The Commission on Judicial Performance has always made state judges feel a little uneasy - and perhaps even mo...


A media request for documents in the trial of movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg's $250 million suit against the Walt Disney ...