Woocher, Gee Recommended for U.S. Judge Posts
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., announced Tuesday that she has recommended Los Angeles attorneys Fredric Woocher a...
Water Meters' Lead Content Spurs Suit
By Denise Levin
An environmental law group has filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against a water meter manufacturer that allegedly sold the Los ...
Man Seeks Class Status for Jail Overdetention
By Lauren Blau
A man who claims he wrongly was kept in jail for more than a week after his bail was posted has filed a lawsuit seeking class...
Clinton Judicial Nominee May Face Tough Battle Over 'Faustian Bargain'
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Another battle may be brewing over a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee, but this potential showdown has ...
Ho Chi Minh Photo At Heart Of Request for Injunction
By Tamara Koehler
WESTMINSTER - In a much-anticipated decision this week, Orange County Superior Court Judge Tam Nomoto Schumann will tentative...
L.A. County Counsel to Explore Theories Against Gun Makers
By Lauren Blau
Receiving strong support from the majority of the Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles County joined other local governments Tue...
S.F. Lawyer Vows to Appeal Rule 11 Sanctions
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Stung by a furious sanctions order from U.S. District Judge Charles A. Legge, plaintiffs' attorney Sandra Rae...
UC Berkeley Sued Over Admissions Policy
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A coalition of minority groups and aspiring college students sued the University of California, Berkeley, Tue...
Lawyer Decries Ruling as 'Open Season' on Offenders
By Matthew Heller
NEWPORT BEACH - Chris Decker can't move back to the Orange County apartment from which he was evicted after police distribute...
Lawyer Who Averted Felony Trial Sues Former Attorney
By Denise Levin
Attorney Steven L. Mazza, fresh from having felony charges dismissed , has sued his former attorney, Martin S. Bakst, for leg...
Pellman Hails Early Case Settlement
By Lauren Blau
In his first effort to bring about an early settlement in a high-profile case, County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman won a recommen...
Justices: Ignorance of Shaken-Baby Syndrome Is Not a Defense Abusing Father Can Claim
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Settling an issue that troubled an appeal court, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a defendant d...
Auditor Notes Improvements in DA's Office
By Michael Harris
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office is implementing the vast majority of 56 recommendations made by a private a...
Matt Fong Returns to Sheppard Mullin
By Pearl Piatt
Matt Fong, former California state treasurer and the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate last fall, has rejoined Los Ang...
Strife in the Strawberry Fields Puts Attorney in the Middle
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - To the United Farm Workers, the violence that erupted in the strawberry fields of Watsonville last summer is the...
Judge Enjoins Microsoft from Filtering Cards
By James Evans
SAN FRANCISCO - In a small defeat for Microsoft, a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ordered the software giant Thursda...
Harvest Time
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - The United Farm Workers union is riding high these days with Gray Davis in the governor's office. The election o...
Schiff Tells Bar To Seek Support Of the Public
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - The future of the State Bar of California currently lies in the hands of two men, and the bar's Board of Gove...
Spousal Support Ended for Failure To Change Jobs
By Anna Marie Stolley
During a 1980 court hearing on spousal support, a trial judge advised Ida Schaffer that to become self-sufficient she might w...
Reno Asks for Budget of $21B For Fiscal 2000
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice is seeking a budget of $21 billion for fiscal year 2000, a $371 million increase over ...
Instruction on Reasonable Doubt Upheld
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected another challenge to California's "reasonable doubt" instr...
Washington State Bar Again Proposes Ban on Lawyer-Client Sex
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - The state Supreme Court has twice rejected a proposed rule to bar attorneys from having sexual relations with their...
Symposium Addresses Issues of Patient Confidentiality
By Patricia Jacobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Easy access to medical records has patients worried that information about their diagnosis and treatment will...
Judge Finds a New Calling: Courthouse Design
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Robert Coyle is the first to admit architecture was never his forte. But now the senior federal judge is conside...
Controversial Judge Discusses Affirmative Action
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Deploring a growing "culture of exclusion and division," U.S. District Judge Thelton E. Henderson spoke out W...
Hard Times Ahead?
By Mary Micheletti
Some East Coast law firms, anticipating an economic downturn in 2000, are already expanding their bankruptcy practice groups....
Monrovia Likely to Retool Kids' Daytime Curfew
By Denise Levin
In response to a judge's ruling that Monrovia's daytime curfew for school-age children contradicts California's truancy law, ...
Molina Seeks Study of Counsel Contracts
By Lauren Blau
A Los Angeles County supervisor wants to rescind the county counsel's authority to approve contracts with outside counsel and...
Reno OKs First Federal Death Penalty Prosecution in San Francisco Since '88
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. attorney's office said it will seek the death penalty against Walter "Pierre" Rausini, who is accuse...
Law School Grad Sues Dad for Nonpayment of Bills
By Anne La Jeunesse
A Southwestern University School of Law graduate has filed suit against her long-lost father, claiming he reneged on his prom...