SANTA ANA - Orange County Judge Ronald Kline, facing allegations that he sexually abused and stalked a teen-age boy, will stan...
LOS ANGELES - A Century City lawyer is fighting to keep the fat legal fee that a German reparations fund paid him for settling...
LOS ANGELES - As the saying goes, money talks - and, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge has ruled, it should be allowed to exe...
LOS ANGELES - An agreement with Exxon Mobil and Chevron Texaco to clean up MTBE contamination in the city of Santa Monica's dr...
Corporate
Differing Cases Fuel Confusion About Franchise Termination for Violation of Law
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Focus Column - By Mitchell S. Shapiro Virtually every well-drafted franchise agreement contains an "obey all laws" clause. A t...
From Staff Reports SAN FRANCISCO - James M. Rogers, a Richmond City Council member who advertises himself as the "People's La...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - News reporters are supposed to provide listeners and readers with facts, leaving opinions...
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Title IX, which forbids sex discrimination in all programs at schools that receive fede...
Focus Column - By Alex Ricciardulli - The police board a bus when passengers are eight hours into a trip away from home. The b...
In few counties would a man complain to the police because someone stole one of his pot plants. Northern California attorney J...
Column by John F. Libby and Jonathan M. Eisenberg - The most potent post-trial motion in federal court is the motion for judgm...
Pacific Grove sole practitioner Stephanie Atigh always had a highly defined sense of right and wrong. About 40 years ago, she ...
Jeffrey S. Rodrigs now feels like such a fool for contacting the Capitola Police Department to report the theft of one of the ...
An elderly woman claimed she hurt herself after tripping over a bench outside a church. But the attorney argued that the alleg...
LOS ANGELES -Memorial services for George Richter, name partner of Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, have be...
SAN DIEGO - Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens on Thursday refused to chastise the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster has settled a patent malpractice suit filed three years ago by a former client. Labora...
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...