LOS ANGELES - Fighting City Hall is not only hard work but also expensive. Or so one outspoken North Hollywood woman learned W...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kathryn Snapka was the first woman to join the Corpus Christi, Texas, chapter of the American Board of Trial A...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge Wednesday refused to halt the gubernatorial recall, clearing the path for an Oct. 7 ...
STOCKTON - San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge George J. Abdallah can be at his busiest when nothing's going on in his cou...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Insurance carriers must conduct a thorough investigation before they deny a...
Insurance
Excess Insurance Decisions Depend On Facts of Case, Language of Policy
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Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Jordan Stanzler - Policyholders facing asbestos, product-defect and environmental claims usu...
Forum Column By Robin Assaf Wofford and Michael S. Kalt The California Legislature traditionally has attempted to strike a del...
WASHINGTON - Members of the U.S. Sentencing Commission said this week that they would be hard-pressed to meet the deadline imp...
OAKLAND - When it comes to public service, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Gordon Baranco is the go-to guy in these parts....
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Boyd D. Hudson and Robert A. Yahiro - In May, Congress enacted the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reco...
Writing the latest chapter in the struggle to resolve the tension between the statutory right of publicity and the constitutio...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has ruled that 163 older TV writers cannot recover money in an unfair-competition lawsuit th...
SANTA BARBARA - Afraid of being "outed" as a lesbian, Judge Diana R. Hall flew into a violent rage when her live-in girlfriend...
SAN FRANCISCO - A group of Oakland renters organizations is trying to get law and motion Judge James Richman reassigned to a c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Hallerud, a longtime labor and employment lawyer with Thelen Reid & Priest and Pettit & Martin...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith Chirlin narrowly escaped the bombing of the United Nations headquarters ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Voting procedures in Monterey County remained under intense scrutiny Tuesday even as federal officials moved c...
Constitutional Law
Few Dare to Predict Maverick's Ruling on Gubernatorial Recall
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Observers trying to predict U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson's ruling, expected today in the ACLU challenge...
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Russill Hallinan, a criminal defense attorney who switched sides later in his career to become a San F...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Referee Sees Law as Means of Improving Lives
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Juvenile court Referee Steff Padilla says she's fighting to keep the children of Los Angeles alive. "Sometimes w...
SANTA ANA - A federal judge has sentenced an Anaheim Hills man to 18 months in prison for possessing marijuana, while at the s...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles family law attorneys are very disappointed with Judge Ann I. Jones' new criminal-courts assignment. ...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - In re Marriage of Brown/Campos , 108 Cal.App.4th 8...
Forum Column - By Nausheen Hassan - Laws in all 50 states recognize some version of battered women's syndrome, which purports ...
LOS ANGELES - A former real estate attorney already facing federal prison for bankruptcy fraud pleaded guilty Monday to state ...
Government
State Asks Justice Department To Speedily OK Voting Process
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - A request by state officials to the U.S. Department of Justice to "pre-clear" recall election voting procedures i...
LOS ANGELES - Psychiatrists can be sued over the death of a woman murdered by a patient they had released from an involuntary ...
LOS ANGELES - Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw has lured real estate partner Dean Pappas from O'Melveny & Myers. Pappas, who wor...
LOS ANGELES - A statewide Judicial Council study of private-judge referrals, sparked by protests that sitting judges were send...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge has promised to rule by Wednesday on whether California voters can proceed with an O...