Employment Column - By Martha Fay Africa - As soon as you think you understand the current legal job market, or the state of y...
Entertainment & Sports
A Party Can Sue for a Breach of Agreement to Negotiate Further
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Focus Column - By John M. Genga and Sean A. O'Brien - In a case of first impression, a California Court of Appeal has held tha...
Dicta Column - By Linda B. Bulmash - Persuasion is the art of winning people over to your way of thinking. And you cannot win ...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Thomas C. Hastings, whose relationship with the news media can best be desc...
SAN FRANCISCO - The cruise industry, despite its ships bearing names like "Elation" and "Viking Serenade" that evoke carefree,...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would extend the statute of limitations for a massive class action by Mexican farmworkers claiming ba...
Litigation
Wading Muddy Waters of Rap, Murder, Mayhem and Death Row Records
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Three things are certain about life in Los Angeles: taxes, death and an eternal river of lawsuits rel...
SAN FRANCISCO - Organizers of an annual charity bicycle ride down the California coast mismanaged proceeds and deceived riders...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the United States, concerns that witnesses in criminal cases will be threatened or even killed are common, ...
SAN BERNARDINO - Supervisors this week approved an assistant public defender position for San Bernardino County, five months a...
Appellate Practice
High Court Indicates Support for Waiving 'Brady' Rights in Plea Deals
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - When Angela Ruiz crossed the border from Mexico to California at Tecate in August 1999, agents searched her 1970 ...
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Alfonso D. Hermo has resigned from the State Bar with charges pending a...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Legislation To Regulate Arbitration Moves Ahead
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Five bills aimed at regulating private arbitration to an extent never before attempted have been approved by a st...
LOS ANGELES -Saying he needed further briefing on the election process, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday delayed r...
Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - "Changing Lanes" is a movie without larger-than-life heroes, sweeping love s...
Focus Column - By Kiran Aftab Seldon - In Bagatti v. Department of Rehabilitation, 2002 WL 485836 (Cal.App. 3d Dist. Ap...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has mounted a concerted campaign to prepare the Amer...
LOS ANGELES - Millions of consumers may have one more weapon to fight unfair practices by credit card companies, following a s...
Forum Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - A legal giant has just passed. At 84, Byron R. White, the 93rd U.S. Supreme Court Justice...
Labor/Employment
New Provision Requires Employer to Make Disclosures to Job Applicants
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Focus Column - By Dana Cephas - Employers, do you check a job applicant's references before making a hiring decision? How abou...
LOS ANGELES - Both West Hollywood's swank Skybar and the Whiskey Sky in Chicago and Las Vegas serve drinks to hipsters. But th...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Wall Street Journal calls it a "job-eating blob." The chief justice of the U.S. calls it an "elephantine m...
Litigation
California Courts Generally Will EnforceForum-Selection Clauses
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Focus Column - By Robert G. Wilson - In light of the nationalization of commerce, companies have expanded their operations out...
LOS ANGELES - Not long ago, a prosecutor in the Los Angeles district attorney's major crimes unit got an earful from his boss ...
Constitutional Law
Use of Overbreadth in 'Ashcroft' Case Jeopardizes Children's Welfare
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Forum Column - By Robert Peters - When a draft of the proposed "virtual" child porn law at issue in Ashcroft v. Free Speech...
SACRAMENTO - A measure that would permit prison officials to use force to obtain DNA samples from inmates cleared its biggest...
BAKERSFIELD - They are two mothers, each with two young sons, whose negligence had similarly tragic results. In one case, Jodi...
RIVERSIDE - A San Diego woman has sued Lake Elsinore crematory owner Michael Francis Brown, contending Brown severed her broth...
Forum Column - By Jay Sekulow - When Congress passed the Child Pornography Prevention Act in 1996, many predicted that the cas...
LOS ANGELES - An immigration judge in Los Angeles has granted asylum to a prominent Vietnamese businessman and his family, the...