SAN JOSE - The trustee for a bankrupt computer equipment leasing company is suing its former accountant, Deloitte & Touche...
SACRAMENTO - A standard jury instruction that requires jurors to report each other's refusal to deliberate or obey the law was...
LOS ANGELES - Child advocates filed a federal civil rights action against Los Angeles County and the state of California Thurs...
Government Contracts
Jurists OK County's Social-Services Contracting
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - San Diego County's practice of paying private contractors to provide two-thirds of its welfare-to-work social se...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court handed proponents of the state's landmark medical marijuana initiative a major vi...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles arbitrator has ordered movie company Village Roadshow Pictures Inc. to pay $30.5 million to two in...
LOS ANGELES - Abilio Tavares Jr., a business and civil litigator who was a member of the intellectual property and entertainme...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco environmental group earlier this month issued a formal apology of sorts to a Washington lawyer...
SAN DIEGO - Confident of his confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Attorney General John Ashcroft has appointed Judge Kevin V. Ryan...
Forum Column - By Tom Clarke - Every company might puff a bit when it comes to describing its products or services. It may eve...
LOS ANGELES - Jurors can be told that a defendant has liability insurance, if the policy is an integral part of the case, a st...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court reversed a murder conviction Thursday, saying San Francisco Superior Court Judge Kevin...
Dicta Column - Court Jester - In Roos v. Loeser, 41 Cal.App. 782 (1919), Judge Frank H. Kerrigan found the following fo...
Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz - Attorneys give considerable attention to accumulating money for retirement. But once attorney...
Labor/Employment
Detailed Process Lets Firms Fulfill Obligation to Workers
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Employment Column - By Mark A. Romeo and Barbara J. Miller - Over the past decade, federal courts have limited severely the sc...
Forum Column - By Edward Tabash - Those of us who do not believe in God are the most unjustly despised minority in the country...
Zoning, Planning and Use
'Tahoe-Sierra' Will Encourage Use of State's Moratorium Law
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Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council Inc....
LOS ANGELES - The dizzying speed with which prosecutors obtained an indictment against two Inglewood police officers accused i...
Criminal
Jurist's Inscrutable Arithmetic to Increase Sentences Doesn't Pass Muster
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - While somewhere there may live an alchemist who can transform 71 grams of meth into 151 grams of meth...
Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien - To paraphrase Art Linkletter, laymen say the darnedest things. In my capacity as the chair of...
LOS ANGELES - Three public pension funds that filed a proposed class action against WorldCom Inc. have little chance of recove...
LOS ANGELES - Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital will remain open for now, despite a court ruling denying a temporary restraining ...
LOS ANGELES-The attorney for a fax company accused of failing to remove business and consumer names from its unsolicited fax l...
SAN FRANCISCO - In Stanislaus County's legal community, newcomer Superior Court Judge Wray Ladine set such a new standard for ...
SANTA ANA - Family law attorney Stephen N. Livingston doesn't want anyone to pay for his services. A few years ago, however, L...
SACRAMENTO - A state appeal court gave no clear sign Wednesday whether it will restore an award of $88.5 million in legal fees...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether class actions are the appropriate vehicle for ...
Forum Column - By James Acret - In preparing bid packages, architects are encouraged by the American Institute of Architects t...
LOS ANGELES - Death row inmate Adam Miranda hopes a recent trial referee's finding that prosecutors failed to disclose evidenc...
LOS ANGELES - Two days before he was arrested by district attorney's investigators on an old misdemeanor warrant, the amateur ...