Judge Shuts Down Fraud Claim Against Intuit Over Year 2000
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge has thrown out most of the claims in a class-action lawsuit filed against Intuit Inc. f...
In Like Flynt
By Garry Abrams
The way attorney Alan L. Isaacman sees it, his longtime client Larry Flynt has been one small mistake, one tiny foul-up, one ...
Political Reform Board Lacks Money, Purpose
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - It was the first meeting of a commission created by the Legislature to review California's Political Reform Act ...
Regulation of ADR by Judicial Entity Unlikely
By Tom Orewyler
The sizable number of nonlawyers serving as mediators and arbitrators makes it nearly impossible for a judicial entity to regu...
UCLA Law Student Pleads to Doctoring Grades
By Michael Harris
Granted, competition for entry-level jobs at top law firms is fierce. But by his own admission, UCLA law school student Ramon...
Security, Technology Are Short on Cash Under New Funding System for Inland County Courts
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - It's been more than a year since the passage of the Trial Court Funding Act, or AB233, and judicial officials in ...
O.C. Judge to Hear Arguments on Flag Display
By Tamara Koehler
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Thursday postponed ruling on whether to grant a preliminary injunction against Vietnamese ...
Long-Awaited Avant Trial Set For September
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The much-delayed Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case, which was filed in 1997, is scheduled to go to trial bef...
Producer Sues Singer Dan Fogelberg for Royalties
By Denise Levin
A music producer has sued singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg and his accountants at the now-defunct Coopers & Lybrand, claim...
Bay Areas Jackson Tufts to Close
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Jackson, Tufts, Cole & Black, a 35-year-old Bay Area firm, is closing its doors. "The partners of the fir...
Domestic Violence Bill Targets Gun Possession
By Lauren Blau
A proposed comprehensive bill, written by a Los Angeles prosecutor, would ban anyone under a domestic violence restraining or...
ABA Board Nixes Law Firm Discipline
By Don De Benedictis
Perhaps foreshadowing action Monday by the American Bar Association's policy-setting body, the organization's Board of Govern...
Scientology Victory on Appeal Sends Case Back to Trial Court
By Anna Marie Stolley
In a victory for the Church of Scientology International, a state appeal court Thursday made it harder for a longtime adversa...
Rise of Religious Hospitals Seen As Threat to Reproductive Rights
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - For reproductive health-care advocates, particularly in California, the legal and political environment for abor...
Catholic Hospitals By the Numbers
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - The following quantifies the rising influence of Catholic hospitals and their impact on access to reproductive h...
Devout Hindu Gets Beefy Deal From Taco Bell
By Mathew Heller
VENTURA - After biting into a beef burrito from Taco Bell that he thought was a vegetarian item, Mukesh Rai claimed he would ...
Schism Appears Over Sentencing
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A war of words erupted within the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday, with five dissenting judges acc...
Commissioner Slashed Bail for Accused Dealer
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles County prosecutors Wednesday voiced irritation that a Municipal Court commissioner, acting on a probation departm...
Court Rejects Chance to Review Co-Workers' Liability Regarding Negative Job Evaluations
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Rejecting appeals from both sides, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to decide the extent to ...
Spiderman Dispute a Bit Less Tangled After Ruling
By Garry Abrams
A tangled dispute over the film, television and video rights to the comic book character Spiderman became less twisted Wednes...
Child Abuse Case Will Remain in L.A.
By Cheryl Romo
In a volatile and unprecedented case with more twists and turns than a roller coaster, a Los Angeles Juvenile Court bench off...
Comic Sues Over Appearance in Adult Video
By Anne La Jeunesse
Comedian Craig Shoemaker, Magic Johnson's sidekick on the former basketball great's ill-fated talk show, wants $10 million fr...
Kick Leads to Manslaughter Charge
By B. Scott Bortnick
SANTA MARIA - Sharlene Miller came to Santa Maria's Town Center Mall last December to catch a comedy at the local theater. Sh...
ABA President Leads Debate On Great Issues of the Day
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - A broad grin has worked its way to Philip S. Anderson's face. "This job is a lot more fun than I thought it woul...
Dwindling Ranks Of Muni Judges Spell Extinction
By Jean Guccione
Municipal Court judges are quickly becoming extinct in California - at least as members of the state Judicial Council and Com...
No Funds Are Allocated for New L.A. Court
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Plans for a new federal courthouse in Los Angeles may be in jeopardy, court officials here said Wednesday, becau...
Monkee Wrench Is Thrown Into PBS Lawsuit
By Garry Abrams
A former member of the television rock band the Monkees has been awarded $47 million in a counterclaim action against the Pub...
DARE Sues Magazine for $50M
By Martin Bergn
A national, Culver City-based anti-drug program filed a $50 million libel suit Tuesday against Rolling Stone magazine, chargi...
Lawyer Avoids Arbitration in Sexual Battery Suit
By Denise Levin
A sexual battery lawsuit brought by an associate against a senior partner of the now-defunct Solish, Jordan, Arbiter & Wi...
Board to Review Method of Hiring Outside Counsel
By Lauren Blau
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to review the current process used in the county counsel's office f...