Corporate
Sony BMG Used Payola to Fend Off Competitors, Lawsuit Says
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles attorneys have filed an antitrust suit against Sony in federal court, accusing the music industr...
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Wednesday ordered a San Diego federal judge for the second time to be careful about...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal law bars an attempt to impose health warnings on canned tuna under California's Proposition 65, an ind...
International
Play About First War-Crimes Tribunal Opens in Costa Mesa
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - As Saddam Hussein's trial got under way Wednesday in Baghdad, a dramatization of the first war-crimes tribunal ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Loves Complex Commercial Business Litigation
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - After grossing more than a billion dollars worldwide, the "Lord of the Rings" films have tallied plenty of treas...
Column - By Garry Abrams - There is a four-letter word that describes U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. N-I-C-E. Every...
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers likely will come under pressure at her confirmation hearing to concede tha...
RETAIL SANTA CLARITA - Shangri-LA, a 53,692-square-foot retail center at 18635 Soledad Canyon Road, sold for $16.5 million. Ch...
Letter to the Editor - Garry Abrams' column, "Scandal Threatens to Tarnish Superlawyer Boies' Luster," (Sept. 27 Daily Journal...
Focus Column - By Janice Brown - As California and its population continue to grow and mature, the building industry has grown...
Letter to the Editor - The Oct. 5 opinion article "One Israeli Court Ruling, One Giant Step Toward Peace" by Jordan Susman off...
LOS ANGELES - Kong Pech and Youeth Linth Ourn didn't hesitate to become the legal guardians of their severely brain-damaged ni...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - The Levine Family Trust purchased the 76,822-square-foot Federal Express Distribution facility at 1650...
Government
Proposition 75: Republican Ploy to Disrupt Unions' Democratic Process
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Next month in California's special election, a pitched battle will be fought in what suppo...
Letter to the Editor - I read with dismay the Daily Journal article written by Linda Rapattoni, "Prop. 77 Actions Raise Eyebro...
Labor/Employment
Officer Who Lies About Grave Matter Forfeits Public's Trust
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Ray Jurado - After a government agency disciplines a public employee, such as a police officer, the employee...
Constitutional Law
Unlike U.S. Constitution, Iraqi Pact Will Divide, Stoke Violence
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Forum Column - By Hatem Mukhlis - The usually bustling streets of this city looked sad and empty on Saturday, other than the o...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he smuggled heroin and methamphetam...
SAN JOSE - The fleeing suspect was shot in the back. The California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement agent who fired the fatal ...
SACRAMENTO - A war-crimes prosecutor with ties to the White House will challenge state Sen. Chuck Poochigian in the Republica...
LOS ANGELES - Acting as a company's legal compass in a post-Enron, Sarbanes-Oxley era, general counsel have seen an increase ...
LOS ANGELES - Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom ranked first in a survey of merger and acquisition transactions for th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Was Lary James Plumlee just another paranoid defendant, worried that his own defense attorney was working aga...
SAN FRANCISCO - The central figure in an international sports doping scandal said after he was sentenced to four months in pri...
Administrative/Regulatory
Prosecutor Will Appeal Assault-Weapons Ruling
By Ryan Oliver
SANTA ANA - Orange County prosecutors plan to appeal the dismissal of one of the state's biggest illegal-gun-possession cases...
Appellate Practice
Advisory Panel Nixes Call to Publish All Appellate Rulings
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - An advisory committee studying California rules for establishing case law precedents has rejected a proposal to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government's plans for managing water flows in the much fought-over Klamath River were found inval...
LOS ANGELES - The Coudert Brothers version of musical chairs continues. The music stopped on Aug. 18 when partners at the 152...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Under Fire Takes Back Application for Appellate Court
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside Superior Court judge who drew fire last week for donating to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ballot init...
LOS ANGELES - Katherine Isaac's day can be measured in inches of paper and cans of diet Coke. The case initiation clerk for t...