Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - Although firms allow their secretaries and other staff to take lunch breaks, they often ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Attorneys Should Review New State General-Plan Guidelines
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Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - In October, the Governor's Office of Planning and Research promulgated the...
LOS ANGELES - In the midst of trying to settle civil litigation in the church sexual abuse scandal, Bishop of Orange Tod Brown...
SANTA ROSA - Accused batterer Curtis Lubiszewski, a California Highway Patrol officer, is entitled under state law to the retu...
Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - SAN FRANCISCO - In the case of the incredible shrinking punitive damage award, cancer patient P...
LOS ANGELES - Johnny Ray Gasca is set to be the first person in the nation to face federal charges of recording theatrical fil...
Judges and Judiciary
Angler, History Buff Likes To Research Legal Issues
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - A small statue of an African-American Civil War soldier rests atop Judge John T. Doyle's desk in his Los Angeles...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ernest "Bud" Arnold, the last surviving name partner of San Francisco's Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, ...
LOS ANGELES - By striking down part of the 2003 Protect Act, U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian has become the first to plu...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a young lawyer, Paul Slavit had little sympathy for colleagues who rushed into court late, suit disheveled,...
SAN FRANCISCO - An orphan who bonded with his San Francisco foster parents as a toddler in the 1950s and later cared for them ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal court monitor recommended criminal contempt-of-court sanctions Thursday for Edward Alameida, the for...
LOS ANGELES - Loeb & Loeb is acquiring Beverly Hills corporate boutique Richman, Mann, Chizever, Phillips & Duboff. Th...
Notebook - By John Roemer - SAN FRANCISCO - A harsh welcome for would-be refugees by U.S. authorities in asylum cases dims Lad...
LOS ANGELES - Reed Smith Crosby Heafey, noted for its emphasis on life sciences and finance law, will acquire bicoastal advert...
SACRAMENTO - A lawmaker's proposal to reform the grand jury system, drafted in response to a grand jury investigation of the O...
Public Interest
U.S. Attorney's Office Fails to Cure Itself of Persistent Yagmania
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - A move by the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles to disqualify combative maverick federal civil ri...
SAN FRANCISCO - Eight former altar boys from Orange County who claim they were molested in the 1970s and '80s got permission W...
SAN FRANCISCO - A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Wednesday reinstated Playboy Enterprises Inc.'s 4-year-old trademark...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors Wednesday added two counts of murder to the child abuse case against a Lancaster woman whose two you...
Forum Column - By Jeff Kichaven - A consulting group in the State Bar for alternative dispute resolution has undertaken a proj...
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Wesley H. Avery and Steven T. Gubner - The U.S. Supreme Court's amendments to the Federal R...
Litigation
Courts Refuse to Expand Application of SLAPP Law to New Facts in 2003
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Goldowitz - Last year saw a record number of published opinions involving California's ant...
SAN FRANCISCO - An environmental group sued Bay Area air quality regulators Wednesday, saying officials watered down restricti...
Government
Justices Rule U.S. Judges Can Enforce Consent Decrees on States
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In one of the current Supreme Court's rare rejections of a claim of state sovereignty, the justices on Wednesday ...
SAN JOSE - Thomas Spielbauer, the deputy Santa Clara County public defender who was fired for allegedly misleading the court,...
SANTA ANA - As evidenced by the dozens that show up on the ballot each year, initiatives have become vehicles for voters to tr...
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside Superior Court jury has awarded $11.5 million to a pair of physicians who claimed another doctor, thei...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was supposed to be a tour of the Hall of Justice conducted by new District Attorney Kamala Harris for new M...
SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission reversed itself Wednesday and barred candidates from raising unlimi...