Administrative/Regulatory
Academic Senates Have Role In Designing Hiring Policies
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Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson In the recent case of Irvine Valley College Academic Senate v. Boar...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Deaf Woman Sues Hospital for Failure to Provide Translator
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A deaf Los Angeles woman Wednesday sued a local hospital for failing to provide a sign-language translator to h...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors released indictments Tuesday accusing four men of conspiring to attack U.S. military bases a...
LOS ANGELES - If the California law community were a pick-up scene, Russ, August & Kabat would be among the most eligible ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Raul A. Sahagun says he has heard the rumors - rumors that he's a tough senten...
LOS ANGELES - After months of dissatisfaction over a reorganization plan by administrators of The Children's Law Center of Lo...
SAN FRANCISCO - A land trust that benefits native Hawaiians to the exclusion of others is a fair target for a discrimination ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Bill Would Let Kids Testify Via Closed Circuit in Some Cases
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers sent a bill to the governor Wednesday that would let children testify over closed circuit television in...
Column - By Garry Abrams - The war on terrorism would be a lot easier to fight if everybody in this country was naked and illi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A case all about coupons has a winner. In a decision hailed as a victory for smaller companies, a federal jur...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Rancho Mirage Hospital Will Pay $8 Million in Medicare Billing Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO MIRAGE - Eisenhower Medical Center agreed Wednesday to pay the federal government $8 million to settle a 1998 whistle-b...
LOS ANGELES - Six months after he was acquitted of murder, actor Robert Blake returned to court this week, this time to fend o...
LOS ANGELES - Mark D. Sutherland and John R. Farris Jr., two of the state's top traffic-law attorneys, are counting the days t...
OFFICE RIVERSIDE - Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. secured a $5 million financing for the Fairmont Office Plaza, a 38,913...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - As schools open their doors for another academic year, children typically experience ...
Focus Column - Advertising and Media - By Jeffrey S. Galvin - The Car Buyer's Bill of Rights, recently approved by the governo...
Letter to the Editor - I am writing in response to Marc Angelucci's letter to the editor ("Male Victims Rarely Get Attention, ...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Friday in Santa Ana for retired Orange Superior Court judge and JAMS arbitrator Philip...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Tuesday joined with top officials in Oregon and New Mexico to challenge the B...
ORANGE - One would have thought a rock star or Hollywood celebrity was on campus when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scal...
Judges and Judiciary
Portrait of Roberts Slowly Emerges From His Memos
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The emerging picture of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr., as seen through the 50,000 pages of documents...
LOS ANGELES - Producer Saul Zaentz and New Line Cinema, which made the worldwide blockbuster hit "Lord of the Rings" trilogy,...
Litigation
What's in a Name? A Lot, When You're Suing Big Corporations
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - One of California's most prominent trial lawyers could be in trouble with the highest court in the West becaus...
Education
West L.A. Law School Promises To Meet Accreditation Deadline
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - Law and paralegal students at the University of West Los Angeles should be excused for feeling bleak as they sta...
SACRAMENTO - Oh, to be a retired judge in California these days - especially one with good line-drawing skills. Politicians a...
WASHINGTON - The recent release of documents dating to when John G. Roberts Jr. served in the Reagan administration highlights...
LOS ANGELES - Ask most attorneys what Zhongguancun is, and you're likely to receive a blank stare. Ask attorneys who have spe...
Latham & Watkins attorneys based in Orange County guided Harrah's Entertainment Inc. through an agreement with Imperial Pa...
SACRAMENTO - Recalling his experiences on his high-school debate team, Justice Vance Raye of the 3rd District Court of Appeal ...
Labor/Employment
'Cupertino' Makes Enforcing Arbitration Easier for Unions
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Focus Column - Labor - By Bernhard Rohrbacher - The right to have grievances heard by an arbitrator rather than by a court is ...