WASHINGTON - A California development agency suffered a setback Monday in its battle with United Airlines over the carrier's f...
Criminal
High Court Tosses Triple-Murderer's Death Sentence
By Anat Rubin And Itir Yakar
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court overturned the death sentence Monday of a man convicted of a triple murder during a 1990...
LOS ANGELES - Want more noir? Can't get enough of the bleak, sinister side of the city, that urban purgatory where Mary Poppin...
LOS ANGELES - Unhappy people come through Commissioner Ronald J. Slick's arraignment and early disposition court each day, but...
WASHINGTON - There are some things money can't buy. Asbestos litigation reform, apparently, is one of them. Big business has s...
ANAHEIM - Greenlaw Partners and Guggenheim Real Estate purchased a 129,600-square-foot property at 605-611 E. Cerritos from Ha...
SAN FRANCISCO - California Lawyer magazine handed out its 10th annual Attorney of the Year awards Thursday night during a cock...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Phillip R. Maltin - James E. Files claims he shot President Kennedy from the grassy knoll in Dallas. Files, ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Robert D. Richards and Clay Calvert - Underneath the high umbrellas of the garden terrace restaurant at Holl...
LOS ANGELES - Gary S. Raskin saw a need: Although entertainment attorneys provide legal advice, they often fail to mention th...
LOS ANGELES - UC Davis has one of the top agricultural studies programs in the country, situated in the heart of the nation's ...
LOS ANGELES - Davis Wright Tremaine announced the appointment of Mary Haas to partner-in-charge of its Los Angeles office. Haa...
SAN FRANCISCO - The election season in Mendocino County promises to be a long and colorful one, thanks to its ever-provocative...
Judges and Judiciary
Reality-Show Star Knows How to Keep Juries Alert
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The couple's murder trials were seen across the nation on NBC's "Crime and Punishment," a reality spin-off from "L...
SAN FRANCISCO - Asbestos plaintiffs' attorney Steven Kazan is based in Oakland, but when election season rolls around, he writ...
Shulman Hodges & Bastian has named John Mark Jennings a partner in the firm's Foothill Ranch office. His practice focuses ...
CHULA VISTA - Fremont Investment & Loan closed a $51.5 million acquisition and construction loan to an affiliate of Sudber...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Accord Did Not Constitute Surrender of Police Power
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. and Bryan W. Wenter - In a recent case, the 1st District Court of Appeal held that a se...
Labor/Employment
'L'Oreal' Permits Retaliation Claims That Employers Know Nothing About
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler - In the rapidly changing environment of sexual-harassment and discrimination lawsuits,...
Employee Benefits
Changes to Family Leave Act Will Add Hardship to Workers in Tough Times
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Forum Column - By Ruth Silver Taube - The amended California Family Rights Act of 1991 and the federal Family and Medical Leav...
LOS ANGELES - Services for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J. Sandoval will take place Wednesday at Forest Lawn Memori...
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorsed the nomination of Stephen G. Larson to be U.S. District Judge...
LOS ANGELES - It was an impossible case to settle. The two sides in a medical malpractice claim couldn't agree on an amount to...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco building department official will be tried on felony bribery charges for allegedly shak...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Sunday for longtime Los Angeles attorney Marceline A. de la Poterie. De la Poterie, wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney John Laettner to Contra Costa County Superior Cou...
Real Estate/Development
Condo Owners May Benefit From Appeal for Free-Speech Rights
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A groundbreaking New Jersey court decision if affirmed on appeal would give California homeowners a new tool to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - If immigration authorities are going to take an illegal immigrant into custody and question him extensively ab...
SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration authorities are free to tell illegal immigrants facing deportation it is tough luck if they have t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Silicon Valley attorney Richard Allan Horning, who found a niche helping Swedish companies get into t...