Civil Rights
Many Contributors to Desegregation Deserve Recognition for Their Work
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Forum Column - By Paul Von Blum - Today, civil rights advocates, journalists, educators and many others will pause to commemor...
Appellate Practice
Panel in 'Gator' Should Limit Court Control of Web Stores
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Donald Searles - Years after first confronting the nebulous world of Internet jurisdiction, cou...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Separate is not equal. It was 50 years ago today that the U.S. Supreme Court told the nation its...
Immigration
Immigration Releases Cambodian Held Under Protest
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - A "grateful" Cambodian man who had been detained after serving a sentence for car theft has been released from j...
SAN JOSE - A Taiwanese company, ordered to pay more than $116 million for the wrongful death of three children who choked on i...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Judge Thomas V. Nuss will make a public ruling on whether the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese mus...
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei is an avid cyclist and wind surfer, but he insists he's no "wild an...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Manuel Real is well aware that his landmark 1970 decision desegregating Pasadena public scho...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - After too many years of accepting my husband's abuse, I finally stood up to him about three ye...
SAN FRANCISCO - If Michael Newdow could bill himself for all the time he's spent battling his ex-girlfriend over custody of th...
SACRAMENTO - While many trial lawyers were aghast at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal last week to severely limit punitiv...
LOS ANGELES - In a case that is scheduled to go to trial today, the city of West Hollywood is being sued for an accident invol...
LOS ANGELES - This is a tale of two high schools. El Camino Real is an integrated, predominately white, suburban school that r...
Employment Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Employment cases generate their own unique discovery disputes, often involving ...
Banking
What's Yours Is Mine, in Joint Bank Accounts, 'Lee' Decides
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Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Ronald S. Granberg - Al and Bob open a joint-tenancy bank account together: Al deposits $90,...
WASHINGTON - For 10 months of the year, I truly envy the Supreme Court justices for their leisurely schedule. Because they are...
LOS ANGELES - For four years, the ACLU has been trying to persuade a court to order the state to level the educational playing...
LOS ANGELES - In a potentially far-reaching decision, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Thursday that Catholic clergy cannot ...
RIVERSIDE - The operator of a remote, dilapidated farming village in the Riverside County desert has reached a settlement with...
Appellate Practice
Cooley Seeks Reinstatement of Three Convictions in Rampart
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office asked an appellate court Thursday to reinstate the convictions of thr...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Professional Mediators Are a Lawyer's Best Friend
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Jeff Kichaven - The relationship of court systems to the mediation field co...
Government
Smoke Doesn't Necessarily Indicate Fire in L.A. 'Pay to Play' Witch Hunt
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Forum Column - By Steve Meister - The federal and county prosecutors probing allegations of a so-called "pay to play" system i...
Forum Column - By Joe Dunn, Daniel Grunfeld and Mitchell Kamin - Our Constitution guarantees citizens their "day in court," ye...
Forum Column - By Matthew F. Archbold and David D. Deason - The briefs are in, not only from the plaintiff and the defendant b...
LOS ANGELES - James J. Smith explained to a federal judge Wednesday morning why he was pleading guilty. But the former FBI cou...
SANTA ANA - Judges on Wednesday selected new members of Orange County's grand jury, faces that represent the increasingly dive...
WASHINGTON - Behind the Justice Department's decision this week to reopen the 50-year-old murder case of Emmett Till are two N...
A state appeals court Tuesday overturned a Riverside woman's second-degree murder conviction for drowning her newborn son in a...
GARDEN GROVE - Though overwhelmingly popular with the local community, a move by the City Council to discourage visits from Vi...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday threw out a libel claim against a national support group for victims of clergy ...