LOS ANGELES - With attorney Bob Hertzberg's defeat Tuesday in the Los Angeles mayoral race, his many backers in the legal comm...
Labor/Employment
'Lyle' Portends Life Without Freedom, 'Friends,' 'Seinfeld'
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Forum Column - By Greg Lukianoff - Every year when I attend a national conference of administrators for America's colleges and...
Judges and Judiciary
High Court Justices Should Heed: 'Tis Better to Give Than Receive
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Forum Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - A recent newspaper headline caught my attention: "Gifts Accepted by Supreme Court." My fi...
Focus Column - Cyberlaw - By Andrew B. Serwin - California has long been at the forefront of regulating Internet and privacy i...
SAN DIEGO - After weathering 16 years of legal challenges, a historic cross standing on public land atop a hill in La Jolla wi...
SANTA ANA - A jury has awarded a San Clemente business owner $6.2 million in compensatory damages, finding the man's sister an...
SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto will likely within days drop its appeal of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy reorganizatio...
SAN FRANCISCO - The racial and political strife that spilled from the streets into the courts in the 1970s is captured in news...
SAN FRANCISCO - Will Stern, a recognized authority in California's Unfair Competition Law, has joined San Francisco's Morrison...
LOS ANGELES - A malicious prosecution suit rooted in a 1993 Michael Jackson concert can go forward under a ruling Wednesday f...
SAN FRANCISCO - The decades-long battle over oil drilling off the California coast heated up Wednesday, with opponents filing...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dived deep into stormy international political waters churned by violent...
INDUSTRIAL SAN MARCOS - PG Acquisitions LLC purchased an 80,000-square-foot industrial property at 237 Via Vera Cruz from Ami...
RIVERSIDE - In the first trial of its kind in the Inland Empire, a Riverside jury began hearing arguments this week from lawye...
Criminal
Sometimes, Execution Is Best for Worst of Worst, Even Young Killers
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Forum Column - By William J. Becker, Jr. - There were veeks and ptitsas laying on the ground screaming for mercy and I was sme...
Administrative/Regulatory
Listen Up: Quasi-Judicial Hearings Require Attention
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Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - In the landmark administrative law case of Morgan v. United Stat...
Constitutional Law
Theory of Juvenile-Death Case Should Apply to Minors' Sex Crimes
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Forum Column - By Timothy Rote and Claudia Rosenbaum - In deciding that the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punish...
SANTA ANA - Orange County has agreed to pay the father of a 5-year-old murder victim $375,000 to settle a civil lawsuit alleg...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel Tuesday refused to reinstate a lawsuit filed by a former city employee who claimed that ...
LOS ANGELES - The San Diego office of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe scored a hat trick Tuesday with the acquisition of a...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Lets His Decisions, Cooking Simmer to Perfection
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David L. Minning believes that litigation can be a cathartic experience. "Peopl...
Entertainment & Sports
Hollywood Waits for 9th Circuit 'Pitch' Ruling
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Movie moguls these days are nervously awaiting a court ruling that could drastically alter the art of the Hollyw...
Personal Injury & Torts
Tort Reformer Calls Kaiser Pill-Splitting Suit Frivolous
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - One of the state's top tort reformers has accused the head of the state's plaintiffs lawyers group of pursuing a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury has hit a Connecticut chemical company with a $4.3 million asbestos verdict, and jurors m...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lawyers Urge Court to Uphold State Ethics Rules for Arbitrators
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys arguing in favor of California's tough new ethical rules for arbitrators fought an uphill battle Tue...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - The Scripps Research Institute purchased a 118,000-square-foot research-and-development building at 104...
LOS ANGELES - It was instantly clear to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alan S. Rosenfield that someone had slipped, unseen, ...
SACRAMENTO - A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that two Los Angeles sheriff's deputies were not im...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Commercial general liability insurance policies typically provide that an i...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired probate attorney Julius W. Feldman. Feldman, who practiced in Long Beach ...