Web Exclusive - A state appellate court has struck down a controversial anti-gang civil injunction in West Sacramento, saying ...
Attorney Richard Close is advising many of the growing number of mobile-home park owners who are converting to resident-owned ...
Fresno County Superior Court Judge Debra Jean Kazanjian is known for fervently protecting the children and conservatees who ap...
Government
U.S. High Court Looks Warily at State's Traffic-Stop Ruling
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - In a case testing the Fourth Amendment rights of car passengers, the U.S. Supreme Court seemed highly skeptical M...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former state legislator Jackie Speier, who ran unsuccessfully last year for lieutenant governor, is planning t...
Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - A recent appellate decision sinks the California Coastal Commission’s apparent hope to c...
Judges and Judiciary
Veteran Judge, Known for Relaxed Courtroom, Set to Retire
By Drew Combsn
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jon M. Mayeda will retire next month, bringing to a close more than 25 years on the be...
Two powerful statewide medical associations have joined a class action against Blue Cross of California over the insurer's pol...
Judges and Judiciary
'Twelve Angry Men' Provides Rare Insight Into Jurors' Deliberative Process
By Don Debenedictisn
Forum Column - By Alan H. Friedenthal - A criminal jury that returns its verdict quickly usually renders a guilty verdict. The...
LOS ANGELES - Dickran M. Tevrizian, a federal and state-court judge in Los Angeles for 31 years and a recent front-runner as t...
LOS ANGELES - Charles Drew University has filed suit against the county of Los Angeles for breach of contract for failing to m...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mergers-and-acquisitions lawyers will gather at the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco on Wednesday for the Weste...
Deals Column - By Jason Song - LOS ANGELES - Traditionally, most deal makers would rather face the volatility of the market th...
Focus Column - By Dylan B. Carp - A litigant responding to a petition asking a Supreme Court to review a case might want to pe...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by California prosecutors who were trying to overturn a feder...
LOS ANGELES - A Taiwanese company must pay $17.7 million to a man severely injured in a road accident because the wife of the ...
Lawyers for former Apple Inc. general counsel Nancy Heinen took the offensive Monday, bracing for a civil case from the Securi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Last week, the Bush administration proposed legislation that would give immunity to the phone companies accuse...
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Ellen Carroll continues to apply in court the skills she developed teaching children decades ago. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Justices Will Weigh Suits for Costs of Voluntary Cleanups
By Brent Kendall
Three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court left open the question of whether a party involved in a voluntary cleanup of toxically...
SAN FRANCISCO - In some ways, land use is an odd practice. So opined Timothy A. Tosta on Friday, shortly after Luce, Forward,...
Industry Watch - By Gabe Friedman - LOS ANGLES - After several months of dinners, cross-continental phone conversations and ne...
Forum Column - By Mitchell Keiter - A recent decision wrongly allows a judge to circumvent a jury in criminal cases. ...
The general rule is that California initiatives become effective the day after they are approved by the voters. - True / False...
Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - SAN FRANCISCO - Since January, a month after effectively becoming Thelen Reid Brow...
Industry Watch - By Bobbi Murray - Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the powerhouse foundation dedicated to funding breast cancer r...
A year after winning provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association, the law school at the University of La Verne...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Tenet Probe Spurs Debate on In-House Counsel as 'Gatekeepers’
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - In spring 2001, as executives marked up draft copies of Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s annual report, Christi R. Sulzb...
Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - The best way to determine how good a lawyer is might just be to litigate again...
SAN JOSE - Utah state Sen. Dan Eastman says he has nothing against keyword advertising on search engines. He just wants to be ...