RIVERSIDE - A Riverside judge Thursday ordered the county's highest-ranking public defender to appear in court next month to e...
Dicta Column - By Steve Cerveris - Mediations often don't come naturally to trial lawyers. In fact, many of the litigation tec...
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - My sister-in-law just received an attractive offer for a job with a new employer. Aft...
Forum Column - By Mark McCaffrey - It's not exactly a runaway train, but bodies may soon be flying, anyway. SB371, the Court I...
LOS ANGELES - Corporate directors have a right to see the company's business records - and to share them with stockholders - u...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether 911 dispatchers can be held liable for neglige...
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal has temporarily halted the trial of a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. and a Visa...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Panel Appointed to Think About Hastings Parking Lot
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law named four members Wednesday to a development panel assigned to rethink a much-cri...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Bar Association of San Francisco joined a chorus of business interests Wednesday in protesting a superviso...
SAN FRANCISCO - A death row inmate convicted of three 1980s murders is now so mentally ill that he's been declared unfit to he...
Government
Armed But Disabled: Family Questions Hesperia Police Shooting
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - On the night of July 2, Ignacio Mendez was suicidal, according to members of the Hesperia man's famil...
SAN BERNARDINO - Robin Woods, a 25-year-old Rialto man whose confession to a 1992 murder threw his case into a legal quandary ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediator Handled Abused Children's Cases
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Dependency court mediator and law professor Elizabeth Marmorston Horowitz died of cancer. She was 72. "She was a...
SACRAMENTO - A woman who was injured in a tae kwon do class cannot sue her instructor for damages under the primary assumption...
Forum Column - By Ruth D. Shapin - Divorce often leaves a former spouse, usually the woman, with a reduced standard of living....
Dicta Column - By Betty Morris - "Communication," as defined by the Encarta Dictionary, is the exchange of information between...
Dicta Column - By The Rodent - A very big part of lawyering is responding to questions to which you don't know the answer. In ...
Forum Coulmn - By Christine Spagnoli - Mold fear is gripping homeowners, spreading as quickly as the toxic spores themselves. ...
Labor/Employment
High Court Creates Bright-Line Rule on Continuing Violations
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Larry A. Walraven - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Morga...
Personal Injury & Torts
Trend Against Liability for Third-Party Attacks Continues
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Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Increasingly over the past decade, lawsuits seeking to hold property owners liable for...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles area tax protest group cannot get its membership lists and other literature returned while it is...
SAN FRANCISCO - A high school student cannot be prosecuted for making a criminal threat simply because he painted a picture of...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's retired judges and their beneficiaries will get their August pension checks after, all despite th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Ferdinand F. Fernandez jealously guards his own privacy, which may explain, in part, why the otherwise c...
LOS ANGELES - Two law enforcement officers swore to a grand jury that they did not see an Inglewood policeman beat a developme...
LOS ANGELES -Felony crimes that also can be charged as misdemeanors, known as "wobblers," are held to a felony's statute of li...
LOS ANGELES -Almost six years have passed since a minivan traveling up the Grapevine slammed into a 29,000-pound steel coil th...
LOS ANGELES - At 82, Judge James E. Satt has a lot of stories to tell, and he tempers them with historical perspective. Satt r...
SAN DIEGO - A forensic entomologist testifying in the kidnapping and murder trial of David A. Westerfield said Tuesday that th...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has sentenced a former personal injury lawyer, who practiced in Los Angeles and San Francisco, t...