Focus Column - Regulatory Law - By Robert Loewy - At least partially fulfilling his campaign promise to have California Indian...
Personal Injury & Torts
Schwarzenegger Proposal Guts Deterrent Effect of Punitives
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Forum Column - By Joseph W. Cotchett and Robert Gnaizda - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent punitive damages-public benefit ...
Judges and Judiciary
Santa Clara Judge in Ticket-Fixing Case Retires
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser retired from the bench in a deal announced Thursday to settl...
SAN FRANCISCO - A deputy attorney general is entitled to an extra seven years of back pay because that's how long it took the ...
LOS ANGELES - Metropolitan News-Enterprise publisher Roger M. Grace considers himself the victor even though a state appellate...
LOS ANGELES - A Torrance judge let stand a $1.25 million judgment against Milton Grimes for failing to litigate a wrongful-dea...
SANTA ANA - Legal ethics experts say a bill that would make it illegal for former jurors to work as consultants on retrial is ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris will be honored Saturday at the Urban League's Women of Power Aw...
LOS ANGELES - Shirley Boucher has spent the last week in Department 107 of the criminal courts building, watching Jerrell Patr...
Entertainment & Sports
Jurist Thwarts Bid to Disqualify Pooh-Case Judge
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - An attempt to disqualify the judge who threw out the Winnie the Pooh royalties case has been denied for a second...
LOS ANGELES - Facing an unprecedented level of secrecy in high-profile trials around the country, media are fighting back agai...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that a San Jose teenager whose self-described "dark po...
Judges and Judiciary
O'Connor Advises Judges to Meet Their Lawmakers
By Pamela Mac Lean
MONTEREY - Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor expressed serious concern about deteriorating relations between Congress ...
SAN FRANCISCO - "What you see is what you get," is how Fresno Court Executive Tamara Beard describes Presiding Judge Brad Hill...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that pits freedom of speech against anti-discrimination laws, the California Supreme Court agreed We...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Michael D. Myers - Receiverships are a powerful remedy that should be part of the arsenal of ev...
Judges and Judiciary
Another Far-Right Justice Would Make Court Destructive
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Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - The just-completed Supreme Court term was memorable for a number of decisions concerning cru...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Six Ways to Defuse Moore-Style Techniques Used in Mediation
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Max Factor III - Going to see Michael Moore's controversial documentary "Fa...
International
Hague Court's Ruling on Israeli Wall Could Have Damaged Its Credibility
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Forum Column - By Joseph M. Lipner - The International Court of Justice, in a July 9 opinion, has ruled that Israel's security...
Book Review - "Nothing Is Too Late: The Hunt for a Holocaust Swindler" (Brassey's, 2004) by Mark Kalmansohn - By Mark E. Beck ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A little self-promotion (actually, a lot) and assistance from the family helped make 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
MONTEREY - The nation's largest federal appellate court saw a remarkable spike in immigration appeals in the past two years, a...
LOS ANGELES - Saying mediation in the church sex scandal had "all but broken down," lawyers for hundreds of alleged victims of...
SACRAMENTO - Could a federal judge take over the state's notoriously troubled prison system - and fix it? U.S. District Judge ...
SAN FRANCISCO - An attack launched Wednesday by California and seven other states on global warming employs an ancient legal c...
LOS ANGELES - In a split decision, a state appeals court on Wednesday upheld a class action against pharmaceutical giant Bayer...
WASHINGTON - A coalition of interest groups opposed to some of President Bush's judicial nominees on Wednesday launched a tele...
Services were held July 17 for George Edwin Long, an Inland Valley probate attorney who helped establish the sovereign immunit...
Judges and Judiciary
ABA President Asks Parties Not To Demonize Judges, Attorneys
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - American Bar Association President Dennis Archer has sent a letter to Democratic and Republican leaders asking th...
SAN DIEGO - Charles F. Gerry, who fought 15 years for Alaskan fishermen harmed by the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989, died Jul...