Blowing more smoke than Phillip Morris, the FDA finally banned Warner-Lambert's "miracle" drug Rezulin from the market March 2...

There is a forgotten minority that is not afforded basic legal rights. They are not criminals or foreign aliens. In contrast, ...

SANTA ANA - Two former prosecutors will take the bench in Orange County Superior Court following their July 3 appointments by ...

By the narrowest possible margin Friday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to pay its share of a $4.5 million settlement in ...

To bolster the argument that the robotic characters "Bob" and "Hank" are protected by the First Amendment, the brief for Host ...

Under international media scrutiny, U.S. immigration officials appear to be backing down on the immediate deportation of a 3-...

Gov. Gray Davis appointed the first Japanese American woman and a founding member of the Italian American Lawyers Association ...

Six Graham & James associates have followed intellectual property partners Vincent Belusko, David Fehrman and Eric Shih to...

WASHINGTON - After 11 years of appearing on "Cheers," actors George Wendt and John Ratzenberger are certain that everybody kno...

NEW YORK - John McKay has had a rough ride as president of the Legal Services Corp. Year in and year out, some determined memb...

SAN FRANCISCO - A jilted romantic partner can recover damages for unjust enrichment caused by a broken promise of parenthood, ...

Century City's Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey effectively has lost its entertainment litigation group with the defec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Expressing concern about limited due process protections, a federal appellate panel appeared sympathetic Frida...

Evaluating a career move at the senior level involves different considerations from evaluating a move as a junior attorney. ...

According to the May 20 edition of the Economist, the United States now has 300 billionaires, 5 million millionaires and 9 mil...

Although John C. Murphy is happier than some would believe possible in the legal profession and looks back at 20 years of repr...

As a trial judge presiding over civil trials, I have detected a trap for the unwary: the video deposition. ...

Howard S. Fredman, of Los Angeles' Law Offices of Howard S. Fredman, won a defense verdict in United Pacific Insurance Co. v. ...

Centuries of real property law and two decades of Superfund law hadn't settled the issue. ...

Everyone, at least in the legal community, knows the immense value of the writ of habeas corpus. Over the years, countless inj...

A Marin County dairy rancher recently won a $14.6 million verdict against the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District in a conde...

SAN DIEGO - Civil rights groups say that a task force formed in February to review police use of force is too heavily weighted...

It is somewhat unusual for businesses to seek public disclosure of environmental lawsuits filed against them. However, last ye...

A severely brain-injured musician has an opportunity for rehabilitation thanks to a Los Angeles jury's recent $35 million awar...

RIVERSIDE - Jeffrey Prevost, an Upland civil lawyer and former Riverside County prosecutor, has been named a Riverside County ...

Gov. Gray Davis declined to comment Thursday on the state Supreme Court's refusal to consider his challenge to a 2nd District ...

The Los Angeles Police Department officer recently accused of perjury in a whistle-blower case had testified on behalf of two ...

A father's allegations of physical abuse by his own father when he was a child are relevant in determining who can best care f...

Troops, a lot of what you need to know about the Universal Pictures vs. Mike Myers legal fencing over the aborted "Dieter" pro...

The initial prosecutions in the Rampart scandal were thrown into disarray Thursday when a judge denied a prosecution request t...