The Duke of Dissent
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - When Ronald Reagan appointed Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court in 1986, many observers predicted the conservat...
Gay Employee Wins $900K for Discrimination
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - A gay man who claimed he was "mercilessly" harassed by co-workers at a flashlight manufacturing company has won a...
Ruling on Tobacco Suits Said to 'Split the Baby'
By Joanne Debort
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge here has coordinated 12 lawsuits filed against tobacco companies by union pension fund...
In All Things, Rehnquist Court Shows Restraint
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - When the Supreme Court announced June 22 it would not review a case from San Francisco, the denial stood out fro...
Uelmen Will Handle 'Boys Club' Member Retrial
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Over the objections of the San Mateo county counsel, a judge Wednesday appointed prominent criminal defense l...
Making Ends Meet
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
If you're going to jump onto the frontage road alongside I-215 just north of Perris to take a shortcut while traffic on the f...
Juvenile Justice Budget Targets Female Offenders
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - As this year's lawmaking season winds down, the Legislature has once again opted to spend money on prevention pr...
Lawyer Punished For Filing Appeal 'Dead on Arrival'
By Anna Marie Stolley
A disapproving state appeal court has sanctioned a Santa Paula lawyer for refusing to take its hint and filing an appeal the ...
HMOs Ordered To Observe Due Process Rights
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Extending new rights to Medicare patients, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that health maintenance or...
Trial Courts Both Winners and Losers in Adopted State Budget
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Trial courts received a mixed bag - no money for new judges, court-employee salary hikes or high-tech upgrades, ...
Proposal to Expand High Court to 15 Barely Survives
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - The Senate Judiciary Committee decided Tuesday to give further study to the workload of the California Supreme C...
Prosecutor Fights to Save Families From Ordeal
By Tom Orewyler
On the same day Kevin Silvas was sentenced for murdering his estranged wife Carolina, Gov. Pete Wilson signed a bill under wh...
Consumer Advocates Seek Prop. 103 Compliance
By Lauren Blau
A coalition of consumer advocacy groups and elected officials asked Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush Tuesday to enfor...
City Council Approves $215,000 in Police Assault
By Lauren Blau
The Los Angeles City Council approved a $215,000 settlement to resolve a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims she was falsely ...
Courthouse Construction Cut-Off Bill Advances
By Lauren Blau
Los Angeles County would not be able to spend money to build new courthouses until it completes a needs assessment under legi...
Paradise Lost
By Denise Levin
Some of them sighed animatedly; others grumbled and shook their heads. One walked out of the court hearing in disgust, mumbli...
O.C. Lawyers Offer Court-Affiliated Mediation
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - The Court Affiliated Civil Mediation Program was in the planning stages for about two years and finally took off i...
Case Tests Right Of Corporate Counsel to Fees
By Vivien Lou Chen
SAN FRANCISCO - No one disputes the fact that Eric B. Simon was the prevailing attorney in Meyer v. California International ...
Assistant AG Aims To Make Sure That Convicts Stay Put
By Tori Richards
SAN DIEGO - A clerk wheeled two carts into prosecutor Gary W. Schons' office, stacked with a dozen accordion files chronicling...
Trial Attorneys Gird for an Attack On Deep Pockets
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Voter enactment of Proposition 51, the 1986 ballot measure that limited "deep pockets" liability, remains a pain...
The Bar Wants JNE's Angels to Be Anonymous
By Jean Guccione
State Bar leaders have refused to make public the names of law firms and corporations that have contributed as much as $10,00...
Raychem Hit With $64 Million Antitrust Verdict
By Don De Benedictis
A Riverside company won a $64 million verdict Monday in an antitrust suit charging that electronics giant Raychem Corp. of Me...
Copyright of Public-Record Materials Still Controversial
By James Evans
SAN JOSE - Los Angeles lawyer Daniel M. Shapiro thought it would be a simple process to post the county's criminal jury instr...
Judge Broadman Is Censured By California Supreme Court
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court came down hard Monday on Tulare Superior Court Judge Howard R. Broadman, publicl...
Legal Foundation Capitalizes on Promoting Conservative Policy
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Hardly a hot-button policy issue blows through this town that isn't on the agenda of Pacific Legal Foundation. Yo...
DA Points to a 21.5 Percent Increase In Family Support Bureau Collections
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti is praising his family support bureau's collection totals for fiscal year 19...
Nightclub Sued for Turning Away Guide Dog
By Jill Boekenoogen
SANTA BARBARA - Should a blind man with a guide dog have been allowed into a crowded dance club here, even if doing so could ...
A Hyphen Is the Difference in Race for AG
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Ever wonder what campaign lawyers do? Sometimes they fight over punctuation - at least in the hotly contested ra...
Employer Can Be Sued for Secret AIDS, HIV List
By Anna Marie Stolley
A state appeal court has held in an unpublished opinion that a company can be held liable for slander and libel for covertly ...
State Appeal Court Rules Judge's Divorce Records Should Be Open
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has strongly backed a reporter trying to get access to a judge's divorce file, saying th...