Civil Rights
'Elvig,' 'Werft' Clarify Liability In Ministerial-Exception Cases
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Not all employers are treated equally in cases of workplace miscond...
Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - Tomorrow, the Regulation, Discipline And Admissions Committee of the Board of Governors...
Appellate Practice
Home Buyers Should Not Have to Forgo Rights in Bad Housing Market
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Forum Column - By Terri R. Brown - The 2nd District Court of Appeal's recent holding in Hicks v. Superior Court (Kaufma...
SAN DIEGO - Richard R. Tuite, convicted in May of stabbing death of a 12-year-old Escondido girl, pleaded guilty Wednesday to ...
SACRAMENTO - Bion Gregory, who retired in 2001 as the longest serving legislative counsel in California's history, has died. H...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County has settled one of its long-running contract disputes with prosecutors and deputy public defende...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have secured two more convictions arising from the alleged corporate fraud at...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the first lawsuit of its kind in the United States, Bay Area disability rights attorneys sued Unum Life Ins...
Column By Garry Abrams - The hard-eyed state Board of Prison Terms on Tuesday chopped a year off the sentence of Sara Jane Ols...
Appellate Practice
Justices Differ on Awarding Fees for 'Catalyst Cases'
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court seemed divided Wednesday over how to compensate attorneys who bring public intere...
LOS ANGELES - The nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese on Wednesday lost its two-year battle to prevent discovery of fi...
Appellate Practice
9th Circuit to Reconsider Anti-Terrorism Decision
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A ruling striking down key provisions of a 1996 anti-terrorism law will be reconsidered by an 11-judge panel o...
LOS ANGELES - A city attorney's office is not considered a "law firm" within the meaning of the vicarious disqualification rul...
LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday ordered court Commissioner Donna Groman to drop a ballot claim that she works as a full-time jud...
Appellate Practice
High Court to Weigh Juror's Secrets in Murder Case
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The foreman of the jury that sent Rodney Jesse San Nicolas to death row for a grisly 1990 double murder once h...
SAN FRANCISCO - Inmates in San Francisco's county jails have discovered a scam that tricks criminal defense attorneys into pay...
Personal Injury & Torts
Impact Litigation Lives: It Still Has a Significant, Useful Role to Play
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Forum Column - By Jack Londen - Reflecting on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education raises a question. Ha...
Personal Injury & Torts
'Inconsequential' Accord Prioritizes Facilities, Ignores Issue of Class Size
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Forum Column - By Daniel Moulthrop - If there's a teacher in San Francisco who ought to be pleased about the Williams v. Ca...
Appellate Practice
High Court Should Support Hawaii's Use of Takings Clause
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Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - Accusations that courts are "Lochner-izing" are bandied about so casually these ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Adapt Preliminary Hearing in Arbitration to Help All Parties
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - A recent trend in larger commercial arbitrations is deve...
SAN FRANCISCO - Reed Smith has hired two partners for its San Francisco office, one a former managing partner at Preston, Gate...
SANTA ANA - A lawyer who rose to national prominence suing on behalf of couples who claimed that a fertility clinic sold their...
Civil Rights
Gay Couple in Orange County Sues in Federal Court to Marry
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Shunning a coordinated effort by nonprofits to challenge the state's ban on gay marriage, an Orange County coupl...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - One of the most troubling aspects of California's three-strikes sentencing law is how it is used ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Just one week before the start of trial, Air Force prosecutors have acknowledged that nearly all of the docume...
Optical networking component giant JDS Uniphase Corp. has purchased Advanced Digital Optics Inc., a Westlake Village-based mak...
Intellectual Property
Meade Instruments and Celestron Settle Patent Battle
By Amy Spees
A galactic patent battle between two telescope manufacturers has ended in a settlement. Meade Instruments Corp. and Celestron ...
Patent litigation partner John Giust has jumped from Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich to intellectual property boutique Fish &...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Contact Lens Giants Cooper, Ocular Sciences Merge
By Megan Thorpe
The Cooper Companies Inc. and Ocular Sciences Inc. announced an agreement for Cooper to acquire Ocular Sciences in a stock and...
Law Practice
Bohm Francis Absorbs GBX Law, Establishes Santa Monica Outpost
By Lorelei Laird
The Costa Mesa firm of Bohm, Francis, Kegel & Aguilera expanded into the Los Angeles area with the opening of a new Santa ...