Healthcare/Hospital Law
Federal Abortion Ban Is a Broad Attack on Women's Health
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Forum Column - By Louise Melling and Lorraine Kenny - On behalf of the National Abortion Federation and several individual phy...
SAN DIEGO - Appellate court justices Tuesday reversed their 2002 ruling and affirmed that employers can be sued under the stat...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked an order that would have sent three-strikes defendant Pamela ...
SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers seemed close to persuading the Assembly Judiciary Committee to vote to ban mandatory arbitration cl...
WASHINGTON - Hearing the case of a black defendant convicted of murder by an all-white jury, the Supreme Court justices indica...
MODESTO - The elected district attorney leading the prosecution of Scott Peterson spent time on the witness stand this month, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Commissioner Loretta M. Norris, known among attorneys for her no-nonsense style d...
SACRAMENTO - Two measures that could dramatically alter the way judges decide the fate of juvenile offenders passed the Senate...
LOS ANGELES - The Glendale motorcycle cop had his lights flashing. That was proved. But the 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled...
LOS ANGELES - Allan J. Favish said he took up the fight to make photographs taken at Vincent Foster's death scene public becau...
Appellate Practice
Attorneys in Microsoft Case Ask for Record $270 Million
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - In seeking a record $270 million Tuesday for prosecuting a giant class action, a team of antitrust lawyers poi...
SACRAMENTO - As a seasoned criminal court jurist with retirement on the horizon, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James ...
ROSEVILLE - Since his appointment to the bench in 1984, Placer County Superior Court Judge James Garbolino has earned a reputa...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday ruled that the district attorney cannot present testimony from a purported eyewit...
WASHINGTON - In a case with potential implications for the United States' war on terrorism, the Supreme Court on Tuesday heard...
WASHINGTON - Ruling Tuesday in a case questioning whether Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. was murdered, the S...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By John D. McConaghy - Nondisclosure agreements are considered the norm in the introduc...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - What's wrong with this picture? A shopping center developer buys a tract of land in San ...
Labor/Employment
Legislation Exempts Some Workplace Probes From Credit Reporting Act Rules
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Forum Column - By Beth K. Whittenbury - In 1999, the Federal Trade Commission wrote an advisory opinion (known as the Vail let...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the Internal Revenue Service can require taxpayers who win...
SANTA ANA - The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused an Orange County man of fraud, claiming that he illegally pocke...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Four Attorneys Vie to Become Bar President
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - Four lawyers from across California are running to become the next State Bar president, including John K. Van de...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Counsel Richard Winnie has recommended that the Board of Supervisors repeal an anti-Wal-Mart or...
SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's nonprofit organizations will no longer be immune from the scrutiny their corporate cousins face -...
Shareholders of a Pasadena technology incubator will have another chance to prove that they have a majority stake in the compa...
LOS ANGELES - The defining moment of prosecutor Summer Hathout's dedication to the cause of Muslim women came when she was pro...
SAN FRANCISCO - Convicted sex offenders who are required to register with police every year are not responsible if they send a...
Environmental
Justices Seem to Doubt Courts Can Halt Off-Road-Vehicle Use
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Monday expressed strong skepticism about whether the federal courts could order the...
WALNUT CREEK - Tough love with straight talk is delivered in Contra Costa County Commissioner Joel Golub's courtroom. As a 17-...
Entertainment & Sports
After 13-Year Donnybrook, Death Comes for Pooh Case
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - A big chapter in Los Angeles legal history may have come to an abrupt end Monday with a judge's blunt...