SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge here seemed inclined Wednesday to let a Delaware court preside over a $1 billion merger...
Peter H. Schuck has collected his previously published works on immigration law and policy in this new book, which features s...
It should come as no surprise that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Connor wiped out the corruption convictions of ...
LOS ANGELES - Alan I. Rothenberg, former State Bar president and founder of the nation's first professional soccer league, has...
SAN DIEGO - A $94 million verdict against the city of San Diego left officials reeling this week and sent the land developer-p...
Intellectual Property
Genealogist's Niece Files Copyright Suit
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - The niece of a renowned genealogist is suing Mattel in federal court, alleging that the toy maker's former subsidi...
LOS ANGELES - In what backers say could help avert another Rampart-like police corruption scandal, an initiative on the April ...
NEWPORT BEACH - The man and woman, who separated more than a year ago, sat on opposite sides of the counsel table in Judge Geo...
Technology & Science
Insurer to Pay On Stanford's Y2K 'Sue and Labor' Claim
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - In a rare settlement of such a case, Stanford University has reached a confidential resolution of a lawsuit demandi...
LOS ANGELES - The civil liability for officer lawbreaking related to the Rampart police corruption scandal neared $30 million ...
Judges and Judiciary
Justices Skeptical of Judge's Appeal of His Disqualification
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A trial judge who appealed his own disqualification for bias in a criminal case did not appear Wednesday to ha...
SAN FRANCISCO - Within days of bunking down in the White House for the first time as president, George W. Bush likely will hav...
SACRAMENTO - In the year 2000, more than 1,000 bills passed the California State Legislature and were signed into law by Gov. ...
Litigation
Dueling Federal Lawsuits Ask Who's Screwing Whom in Tinseltown
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - From Iceland to Munich to Hollywood, a pair of dueling lawsuits between two media companies has found intriguing...
On Sept. 30, California Gov. Gray Davis signed AB2222 (the Prudence Kay Poppink Act,) significantly broadening the definitions...
As a college student lacking direction in life, Alan R. Berkowitz turned to his career counselor for inspiration. ...
The consequences of sexual harassment suits are devastating to both sides. An understanding of juror perceptions of claims of ...
For major corporations, employment disputes are routine. And while companies implement programs with the expectation that the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in two years, oil giant Tosco Corp.'s defamation claims against an Oakland environmental g...
SACRAMENTO - The League of California Cities on Tuesday challenged the constitutionality of a new law that extends binding arb...
Experienced appellate advocates know that one must tread lightly around the doctrine of stare decisis. ...
Nobody seemed capable of getting Jason Sparks to shut up while he was on the witness stand. "We're going to try to talk like w...
Frequently, counsel representing claimants in employment arbitration cite Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychcare Services I...
SAN FRANCISCO - In what the attorney filing the action claims is a new wrinkle in the continuing saga of Chuck Quackenbush, a ...
The slogan on Michael Moorhead's letterhead stationery exhorts lawyers and their clients to "participate in the solution - not...
In Eastern Assoc. Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers of Amer., District 17, 2000 WL 1740932 (U.S. Sct. 2000), the U.S. Supreme ...
Nonunionized employees now have the right, upon request, to have a co-worker representative present during disciplinary Weinga...
SAN DIEGO - Charles Ervin couldn't be happier about becoming a Superior Court judge, but he sure does miss the motorcycle he s...
Administrative/Regulatory
O.C.'s DA Worries About Court Merger
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said he is worried that Tuesday's merger of the county's South and...
In last week's issue, Verdicts & Settlements reviewed the major Holocaust-related litigation in the United States, from 19...
