Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - In Mackey v. Department of Corrections , 2...
Forum Column - By Harold C. Pachios - Behind the scenes of the military engagement in the Middle East, there is a media war go...
Forum Column - By Shylie Thomas and Daniel D. Droog - On April 1, the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument about the constit...
VENTURA - In a move that further balances a bench long dominated by prosecutors, the Ventura County Superior Court has selecte...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge D. Ronald Hyde should be removed from the bench because of persistent sex...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Wasn't Afraid to Make Tough Calls
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
PASADENA - Services took place Wednesday for Virginia Chernack, a former Los Angeles County juvenile court commissioner who co...
LOS ANGELES -Cigarette-maker R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has failed to overturn a decision that its NASCAR car race advertising ...
Labor/Employment
Developing a Defense Against Wrongful Termination Claims
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Del San Juan - Evidence that an employee committed an uncharged crime or a civil ...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Picks Eight Jurists For Benches Around State
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Four new Central Valley judges, including a public defender and two court commissioners, were appointed to the s...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge hinted Thursday he would allow a police brutality case involving the pepper-spraying of anti-...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Judith Richards Hope started at Harvard Law School in 1961, her property law professor set aside special ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Justice Marcus Kaufman, an irascible intellectual who served on the California Supreme Court during th...
OXNARD - The Ventura County District Attorney's Office on Thursday charged a former priest at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church...
Environmental
Ward Valley Litigation Ends As Judge Cites Lawyer's Role
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANICSCO - A San Diego judge has rejected a claim by the would-be builder of a low-level radioactive waste dump in the Mo...
LOS ANGELES - Public interest law firm Bet Tzedek has named veteran public interest lawyer Mitchell A. Kamin its new executive...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
9th Circuit Weighs Mandatory Arbitration
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - An 11-judge federal appeals panel appeared splintered into three camps Thursday over whether employers can for...
LOS ANGELES -Prominent Beverly Hills criminal defense attorney Gerald V. Scotti fatally shot his longtime paralegal, then turn...
Criminal
Handing Out 'Life Sentences to Recovery,' A San Mateo County Judge Finds Inspiration in Courts That Most Jurists Shun
By Dennis Pfaff
REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo Superior Court Judge Richard Livermore a few months ago found himself in a familiar situation: counse...
LOS ANGELES - The first thing David Sanders did Monday morning was drive over to the Children's Courthouse in Monterey Park to...
Government
Cops and Hugs: Two Too-Close Encounters of the Anti-War Kind
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The war in Iraq is doing strange things to this country. For instance, I didn't get up Wednesday mo...
CHINO - The Wisconsin-based Olson Co. leased a 300,000-square-foot industrial building on Pipeline Avenue at The Majestic Spe...
Entertainment & Sports
'Wolf' Shuts Door on Breach of Fiduciary Duty Contract Claims
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - Wolf has laid to rest a troublesome issue for entertainment companies su...
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Will some soldiers and Marines die in the Persian Gulf so that some gnatcatcher and other ...
Forum Column - By Robert G. Warshaw - I read, with great frustration, Ted Van Dyk's views on why the Space Shuttle Program sho...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Robin W. Wofford and Lois M. Kosch - Employers must be aware of the laws that provide job a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A defense attorney for one of the San Francisco officers charged in the police cover-up case alleges that othe...
Reporter's Notebook - Like a bad dream or a bad debt, the U.S. Congress' bankruptcy reform bill won't go away. Last week the H...
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County public defender's office hopes to pare back the severe cuts proposed to its budget for the c...
Government
Jurist Looks Forward to Working With New Child Welfare Director
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Judge Michael Nash hopes that David Sanders, who arrived this week as the new director of the Department of Chil...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to rule that state sodomy laws violate equal protection when they m...