WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices struggled Tuesday with whether to hold liable the owner of a Southern California real esta...
SAN JOSE - In opening statements Tuesday in the first criminal trial brought under a 1998 federal law intended to protect inte...
LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena personal injury attorney was arrested Tuesday at his home on suspicion of bilking clients out of clie...
SAN JOSE - In opening statements Tuesday in the first criminal trial brought under a 1998 federal law intended to protect int...
Appellate Practice
Panel Revives Slander Suit Against Pop Singer
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - George Michael will have no "Freedom" from lawsuits, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Tuesday in re...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold has picked a new crop of lateral partners, including two Crosby, Heafey,...
Judges and Judiciary
Problem Solving Drives Jurist In Courtroom and on Greens
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Emilie H. Elias has a passion for solving problems - whether in the courtroom o...
Forum Column - By Peter J. Hinton - Judging by the Bush administration's present standards on Iraq, Japan's attack on Pearl Ha...
ORCUTT - Produce farmer Richard Adam and his family have yet to grow anything on the 286 acres they acquired on the outskirts ...
Labor/Employment
Employers Should Be Familiar With the Law on Military Leave
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Carolyn R. Young - Every business should be familiar with the laws...
SACRAMENTO - A second effort to implement the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on executing the mentally retarded was among the bills...
LOS ANGELES - Noting that Winona Ryder had eight painkillers and tranquilizers with her when she was arrested a year ago, pros...
Forum Column - By Susan B. Jordan - She refers to herself as "The Poster Child for the PATRIOT Act." Veteran New York criminal...
SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time this year, San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop has offered voluntary severance packages to...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Monday denied a defense request to postpone the preliminary hearing for the man accused of...
Labor/Employment
Court Levels Playing Field In Appeals of Labor Rulings
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A Palo Alto patent attorney won a wage dispute before the California Supreme Court on Monday, but his victory...
Everett "Bud" Burton Clary, an esteemed partner at O'Melveny & Myers who chronicled the firm's history, has died of prost...
LOS ANGELES - Three Catholic priests accused of molesting children can't stop a grand jury from seeing their personnel files, ...
SACRAMENTO - Legislation that would make California the nation's leader in protecting personal financial information was intr...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Minor Transgressions Can End in Foreclosure
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Homeowner associations have few means of enforcing their covenants and restrictions. They can pursue their delin...
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Proposition 227, the voter-passed initiative to ban bilingual education in California, has ...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael J. Kump - The controversial new amendments to California's summary judgment statute wil...
LANCASTER - The approach of winter comes with barely a notice in most parts of Southern California. In high-desert communities...
SAN FRANCISCO - Utilities won some protection from Unfair Competition Law claims Monday when a state appellate court threw ou...
SACRAMENTO - One in four Californians now lives under the jurisdiction of a homeowners association, and as these housing deve...
LOS ANGELES - The two founders of what is now known as Tenet Healthcare Corp. are taking the nation's second-largest hospital ...
SAN FRANCISCO - California officials must be given a voice in whether the life of offshore oil drilling leases will be extend...
Communications
Libel Case Shows Reporters Should Trust No One, Especially Each Other
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - A tabloid-reporter-turned-law-student has filed a libel suit against another journalist...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court surprised some legal observers Monday by agreeing to review its own landmark rulings on tw...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday agreed to consider whether a 1994 California law giving childhood victims of sexual abus...