Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The movement to secure reparations for African-Americans who are the descendants of slave...
SAN DIEGO - A judge has tentatively dismissed a class action brought by six San Diego teen-agers who alleged that big cigarett...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles lawyer is expected to be arraigned today on an embezzlement charge for allegedly stealing a dying ...
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time a woman has been named to head the Judicial Conference Executive Committee, which helps for...
SAN DIEGO - A judge has rejected convicted murderer David A. Westerfield's motion to bar the death penalty, saying that the st...
Forum Column - By R. William Ide III - In the past year, the American people have been shaken by numerous corporate scandals, ...
Focus Column - By Elizabeth E. Launer - The concept of joint inventorship, where two or more people make a single patentable ...
Judges and Judiciary
Attorney Files Countersuit Against Judge After Divorce
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A family law attorney has sued a San Francisco judge, saying he failed to pay for work on his divorce case. Su...
CARLSBAD - Sonja and Abel Cassel, doing business as What A Girl Wants (a clothing boutique), leased 1,036 square feet of reta...
LOS ANGELES - One of Eric Dubin's biggest trials is being staged far away from any courtroom, and so far the jury is out. Dubi...
Product Liability
Chocolate Lawsuit Is a Sweet Deat for Plaintiff's Attorneys
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey B. Margulies - For the last 15 years, countless consumer products have come within the sights of bou...
Entertainment & Sports
Jury Will Decide Who Had Dominion of Home-Run Ball
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The ball that leapt from Barry Bonds' bat, landed briefly in Alex Popov's glove and emerged from Patrick Hayas...
Litigation
Court Upholds Department's Discretion in Parks Contracts
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Two recent court decisions have upheld the broad discretion of the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Park...
OAKLAND - Three police officers who called themselves the Riders used violence, coercion and trumped-up evidence to terrorize ...
LOS ANGELES - In a highly unusual decision, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday tossed out a $78 million jury fraud ve...
LOS ANGELES - Taking the witness stand in a wheelchair, the 89-year-old mother of an El Monte man shot and killed by police te...
SAN FRANCISCO -For nearly 20 years, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has been attempting to transform its 200-yea...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Tyndall III, a trial lawyer with 30 years' experience in toxic-tort, First Amendment, libel and class act...
WEST COVINA - West Covina probate attorney Wendell Davis, a globetrotting track-and-field fan, has died. Davis died of a strok...
SAN FRANCISCO - Altheimer & Gray, a 360-lawyer business and litigation firm based in Chicago, has opened an office in San ...
Dicta Column - By Ida O. Abbott - Law firms committed to associates' professional development ensure that associates receive w...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - There are bottom-line benefits to developing a diverse legal profession. Given th...
Ditca Column - By Donald E. Griffith - After practicing law for close to 10 years, I decided to switch to a job where I could ...
Forum Column - By Julie Ruiz-Sierra - One of history's little-known ironies is that a Scottish physician by the name of Alexan...
Tax
Donors to Controversial Causes Must Take Care to Avoid Identity Disclosure
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Focus Column - By Louis E. Michelson and Boyd D. Hudson - Nonprofit organizations with controversial causes should learn how t...
Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - Whenever a client favors his or her lawyer or a relative of the lawyer with a gift, i...
Focus Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Just as beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, so harassment may be in the eye of...
SAN DIEGO - A judge presiding over the trial of David A. Westerfield on Wednesday suspended jury deliberations for three more ...
Intellectual Property
'Johnson' Makes Means-Plus-Function Claims for Patents More Attractive
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Focus Column - By David E. Heisey - A recent opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has narrowed patent ...
SAN FRANCISCO - For 17 days last spring, Capt. Jesse Miller commanded 154 American soldiers in one of Bravo Company's toughest...