LOS ANGELES - New York Life Insurance Co. will pay $20 million to settle a lawsuit filed by descendants of some of the 1.5 mil...
LOS ANGELES - Gerald Rosenberg was no ordinary spectator at NFL Raiders football games during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...
Labor/Employment
Survey Can Help Court Decide Issues of Class 'Commonality'
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Robert W. Crandall and Karyn E. Model - Plaintiffs seeking class certification in wage-and-...
Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - If a medication existed that could safely and significantly improve your memory, would ...
LOS ANGELES - New York-based Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Tuesday announced its 2004 roster of Skadden Fellows. Fi...
SAN FRANCISCO - The domestic partner of a former Foley & Lardner partner can proceed with a lawsuit accusing the firm of d...
SACRAMENTO - Joining the crusade of a man who uses a wheelchair, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed suit against Mi...
SACRAMENTO - A state political watchdog agency said Tuesday it would review its regulations in the wake of two court decisions...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Friday for Los Angeles attorney Marvin Greene, a securities law expert, retir...
Personal Injury & Torts
Plaintiffs' Lawyers Call Church's New Motion 'Delay Technique'
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs' lawyers accused Roman Catholic church officials Tuesday of trying to delay justice for alleged victi...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice Had Famous Wit, Passion for Helping Poor
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Justice Thomas F. Crosby Jr., a longtime 4th District Court of Appeal jurist known for his witty opinions and pass...
Judges and Judiciary
Two Motions Question the Capability of Marin Judge
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - A Marin County judge's apparent mental disability has prompted one lawyer to seek a new trial for a client and...
SAN FRANCISCO - A dying 71-year-old prison inmate, serving a life term for the shotgun slaying of his wife of 41 years, asked ...
SAN JOSE - Less than a week after prosecutors removed a retired judge assigned to the Scott Peterson trial, a retired Alameda ...
LOS ANGELES - In a world in which communication is key, most deaf people simply give up on the court system before they even s...
International
China Offers Benefits to Lure Research Centers to Its Shores
By Columnist
Focus Column - International Law - By Stephen Nelson and Simone Yew - Multinational companies contemplating the outsourcing of...
Forum Column - By Stan Karas - Sometimes an odd twist of judicial reasoning that could have been ignored or revised by other c...
Appellate Practice
Chief Justice Tells Senators To Stay Out of Recusal Fight
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on Monday gave a sharp back of the hand to two Democratic senators who had wri...
SAN DIEGO - To cut costs by improving efficiency, San Diego Superior Court administrators said Monday that they will close two...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Fred J. Martino, a Beverly Hills sole practitioner. Martino died of heart failure ...
SAN DIEGO - Five major publishers have sued a local bookstore owner, alleging that three outlets routinely copied and distribu...
SAN JOSE - Quentin Kopp, the former San Francisco supervisor and state senator who became a San Mateo County Superior Court ju...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that attorneys representing debtors in Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceed...
SACRAMENTO - California officially decided long ago that minors who commit capital murders should not be executed for their cr...
Intellectual Property
Ruling Ends Infringement Liability for Hundreds
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Nevada finally may have freed hundreds of companies from infringement liability by invalida...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled unconstitutional a portion of the USA Patriot Act that bars giving expe...
SANTA ANA - Stepping up his campaign to shelter the courts from fiscal attacks, State Sen. Joseph Dunn said Monday he will hol...
Entertainment & Sports
Flames of 56-Day Deposition From Hell Produce Invoice From Hell
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The deposition from hell is over, but the flames still burn hot, hot, hot. Yes, I finally can report ...
SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials have removed Deputy Attorney General John W. Riches from a class action aimed at improv...
Energy law attorney Leslie Lo Baugh has joined Los Angeles' Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro as p...