Focus Column -Tax Law - By Robert C. Barnes - On Jan. 1, 2003, new legislation will change California's tax withholding scheme...
Personal Injury & Torts
'Puck Stops Here' as Court Denies Liability for Injury
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Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - Court of Appeal decisions subsequent to Knight have been seemingly c...
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Rene Mochkatel - The 2nd District Court of Appeal's decision on October 28, 2002, Salaz...
Forum Column - By James Acret - The unfairness of the California version of the mechanics lien law was brought into sharp focu...
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices Wednesday appeared poised to curb the reach of federal racketeering laws and rule that pri...
WOODLAND - A small farm town in the Central Valley is not the place you typically expect to find a legal clinic run by a pres...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court seemed wary Tuesday of approving medical screening for upwards of 50,000 Redlands ...
Intellectual Property
Wal-Mart Suit Is Frivolous, Says Site That Posts Deals
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The after-Thanksgiving sales may be over, but a price war between a tiny consumer Web site and several nation...
SAN FRANCISCO - A divided federal appeals panel has created what amounts to a new federal limit on punitive damage awards in p...
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
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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 ...