Litigation
Businesses Can Use Many Different Tools to Fight Lawsuits by Consumers
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Focus Column - By David R. Sugden - Hundreds of businesses in California are defending lawsuits that they did not (and could n...
SAN FRANCISCO - It wouldn't do either justice justice to call James Marchiano the ghost of Gary Strankman. But it is fair to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has added millions of dollars to a jury's verdict, saying jurors short-changed a snowboarder who was p...
Dicta Column - By Demetrice D. and Benjamin C. On Friday, May 17, 2002, eight minors from Camp David Gonzales went to visit th...
LOS ANGELES - More than 60 mothers openly nursed their babies in the food court of the Santa Monica Place mall yesterday to ed...
LOS ANGELES - A millionaire businessman acquitted by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury last year of raping nine women has file...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nobody would mistake Susan Breall for a benchwarmer. In conversation, she's engaged and animated, leaning forw...
SAN DIEGO - The president of the American Civil Liberties Union predicted Tuesday that there is not a chance of survival for a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fake guns can scare anyone who sees them, including bystanders, a unanimous Sacramento appellate panel conclud...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Addresses Tension Between Rights and Security
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN DIEGO - Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher criticized the Bush administration Tuesday for its failure to release...
SANTA ANA - A San Leandro municipal law firm was selected Tuesday to conduct the delicate task of crafting a response to a gra...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley snubbed the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday, failing to show up to answer que...
SAN FRANCISCO - Do we really want judicial candidates to sling campaign promises like political hucksters? Or do we want voter...
Forum Column - By Mel Opotowsky - It was an open-and-shut case: Someone from the U.S. attorney's office opens an envelope, stu...
WASHINGTON - When the Pledge of Allegiance ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came down last month, some Republic...
Litigation
Trial Judge Slashes Punitives in Harassment Suit Against Ralphs
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for six women who won a record $30 million sexual harassment verdict against Ralphs Grocery Co. only to se...
LOS ANGELES - A vicious, 10-year battle between a former civil rights lawyer and his one-time client finally may be over, now...
Dicta Column - By Daniel Yankelevits - All lawyers seem to want to practice entertainment law. Entertainment lawyers, however,...
LOS ANGELES -A vicious, 10-year battle between a former civil rights lawyer and his one-time client finally may be over, now t...
Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - The California Supreme Court has construed the limits of disqualific...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court Monday threw out the remaining $900,001 from the original $41.8 million jury verdict a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Charles "Ben" Burch, a respected prosecutor with more than 24 years in the U.S. attorney's office, has been na...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marjorie Knoller tried to skirt responsibility for her dangerous dogs by repeatedly committing perjury during ...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Stanley R. Rader, a Jewish lawyer from White Plains, N.Y., who found fame, fortune...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney involved in the massive tobacco litigation for which lawyers were awarded $1.25 billion in fees by a...
SAN DIEGO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opened its three-day judicial conference Monday with a bit of irony. Everyon...
Government
In Land of Apocalypse, Inglewood Police Beating Fits Like Glove
By Martin Bergn
Column by Garry Abrams - Sometimes, the amusement factor of living in the Los Angeles region wears pretty thin - and that old ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Vernon Goodin, former managing partner at the now defunct San Francisco firm of Bronson Bronson & McKinnon...
SACRAMENTO - A government agency faced with a request for public records cannot run to the courts for declaratory relief to av...
SANTA ANA - The Orange County counsel's office is recommending three out-of-county law firms - one in Santa Rosa, one in San D...