Employee Benefits
Retirement-Plan Administrators Must Manage 'Blackout Periods' Carefully
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Focus Column - By Kenneth A. Raskin and Richard C. Libert - Most administrators of 401(k) retirement plans probably are well a...
Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - Despite excellent performances from Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, "High Cri...
Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien - "You're our sixth lawyer," he told me. Those words would ordinarily set off alarm bells for a...
WASHINGTON - In June 1999, when Larry Hope got into an altercation with another inmate while on a chain-gang work detail at Al...
Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - One issue that frequently arises in litigation now is whether the insurer or the insured co...
Forum Column - By Kirsten D. Levingston - The public increasingly views the "war on drugs" as an unjust waste of time, money a...
RANCHO MIRAGE - In 1998, Thomas A. Grossman placed a bet that a terminally ill stranger would die within two years. The Rancho...
SANTA ANA - The Irvine law firm that represented O.J. Simpson in his successful child custody battle has sued the former footb...
LOS ANGELES - In a bold gambit to move the decision on his reappointment to a potentially friendlier forum, police Chief Berna...
SACRAMENTO - The Senate Public Safety Committee moved forward Tuesday with a plan to seize many inmate cases from the state pa...
SAN DIEGO - Little more than a month after a jury slapped Ralphs Grocery Co. with a record $30 million judgment in a sexual ha...
SAN FRANCISCO - The success of California's drug courts, which provide treatment instead of jail time to substance abusers, ca...
LOS ANGELES - "Cousin Chuck" from Northwest Arkansas posted the following message on an Internet bulletin board Tuesday, after...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law officials have rejected a petition by off-campus groups to redraw the school's con...
Constitutional Law
Families Have Property Right To the Bodies Of Relatives
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing California's transplant-donor law and common law, a divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that fa...
Column by Garry Abrams - Police Chief Bernard C. Parks' dramatic appearance before the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday was a ...
Focus Column - By Scott J. Ferrell and David R. Sugden - Plaintiff-oriented practitioners with an affinity for class actions a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oil companies may be held legally responsible for failing to warn retailers about the dangers of the chemical ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal gave a thumbs-up Tuesday to on-air trash talk radio, ruling that talk show ho...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for George Manns, an avid traveler whose law career spanned six decades. Manns, who di...
SAN RAFAEL - A San Francisco prosecutor charged in Marin County with assault with a deadly weapon previously confronted a man ...
Forum Column - By Duffy Carolan - In a decision that may seriously hinder investigative journalism in California, the state Su...
SANTA ANA - Motocross promoter Michael Goodwin said more than once that he wanted to kill racing legend Mickey Thompson, accor...
LOS ANGELES - The Fair Political Practices Commission has fined the Los Angeles plaintiffs' firm Girardi & Keese for faili...
LOS ANGELES - In an opinion that would have warmed the plastic heart of Attorney Barbie, a federal appeals court supported san...
SAN FRANCISCO - Four-year-old Raphael P. III is named after a man who isn't his biological father but has cared for him just l...
SAN FRANCISCO - A new trial date was set Monday in the five-year-old fraud litigation between the Oakland Raiders and the gove...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray, who is under investigation by the state Commission on Judicial Perfo...
SAN RAFAEL - A San Francisco prosecutor, charged by Marin County authorities with assault with a deadly weapon, stabbed a man ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury here became the first in the country Monday to declare gasoline containing MTBE a defect...