Former pro baseball MVP Steve Garvey and other marketers of questionable diet supplements, which among other claims professed ...
Effective Jan. 1, 1992, the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act (Welfare & Institutions Code Section 1560...
Criminal
Initiative Provides Medical, Spiritual Approach to Drugs
By Contributing Writer
The nation's "War on Drugs" has been a monumental failure. Since the Nixon administration successfully implemented a treatment...
Stephen F. Rohde, president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, will speak at an open forum at South...
Edward Y. Kakita hasn't had much time for retirement. On May 8, he celebrated his 60th birthday and retired from the Los Angel...
Patrick Lynch, of O'Melveny & Myers' Los Angeles office, won a $1 million punitive damages award in a case involving unlaw...
Growing up in the midst of the counterculture revolution shaped the world view of Robert S. Arns, who says he became a plainti...
Judges and Judiciary
Women Hope to Recap Leads in South Bay Judicial Races
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - In an election year that has favored female candidates, two men who want to become Santa Clara County judges face u...
In short, retroactive application of 'Cedars-Sinai' means spoliation will now be dealt with as a discovery matter only. ...
Arbitration and mediation activity have helped resolve countless disputes involving construction projects. These same skills c...
The corporate lawyers at MGM were sleeping with the enemy Wednesday in Santa Monica. Entertainment litigator Larry Stein of Al...
In the past, every party in the chain of distribution of an allegedly defective product was jointly and severally liable to th...
Although California's False Claims Act (Gov't. Code Sections 12650 et. seq.) was enacted 13 years ago, there is but one appell...
The initiative process eviscerates representative government. ...
SANTA ANA - A controversial mailer sent out by a candidate for judicial office in Orange County who is a state appellate court...
Criminal
Judge Reverses Conviction of Orange County Official
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - A state appellate court has overturned the conviction of former Orange County Assistant Treasurer Matthew R. Raabe...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs rejected the Los Angeles Police Department officers union's request to stop th...
WASHINGTON - The federal government over the last fiscal year collected $1.5 billion in civil fraud settlements and judgments,...
DENVER - A trend in taking issues directly to the voters through ballot initiatives has grown in the past decade and may well ...
A dental corporation based in El Segundo was not content to just grin and bear it when the badmouthing began on a Yahoo! messa...
A Los Angeles police officer on trial in the Rampart scandal testified Thursday that he never saw a gun in the hand of a gangs...
SEATTLE - A Washington state Supreme Court candidate who 12 years ago referred to Hispanic defendants as "wetbacks" is being a...
Members of Motley Crue are no strangers to legal wrangling. But the heavy metal band's frontman, Vince Neil, doesn't have the ...
SACRAMENTO - Speaking on the courthouse steps here, actor Martin Sheen, who plays the president on a television program, took ...
With a stern lecture on prosecutorial ethics, a federal appeals court overturned a loan-fraud conviction Thursday because the ...
Construction law specialist Bryan C. Jackson has moved across town to the Los Angeles office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble &...
A San Francisco mortgage broker, arrested on the eve of a splashy fundraising dinner she organized for President Clinton in 19...
The recently decided case of Lawler v. Jacobs, 83 Cal.App.4th 723 (2000), affirms that the exception to Code of Civil Procedur...
Silicon Valley business is apparently so ripe for the picking that one of Florida's largest law firms has decided to open a h...
The Daily Journal asks lawyers what they do to celebrate winning a big case. ...