A 52-year-old man who claims he was hired in February 1997 by accounting-house giant Deloitte & Touche and was the only Af...
Stung by publicity surrounding his role as an arbitrator, retired Supreme Court Justice Armand Arabian on Thursday resigned fr...
Thirty Hollywood families who allegedly endured raw sewage, collapsed ceilings and a lack of running water in their apartments...
A memorial service will take place Saturday for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Arch Rollin Tuthill. The judge died S...
Defense counsel in harassment cases should attack a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress on the basis that t...
The Los Angeles Police Protective League on Thursday called on the district attorney's office to release the names of the thre...
As a Sacramento County prosecutor, Pete Harned had it all - but lost it when he was arrested July 19, 1996, on suspicion of po...
Calling him a "legal bully" and "the quintessential professional litigant," defendants in a real estate disclosure action move...
In a decision sure to escalate the debate over handling of protests at the Democratic National Convention, the Los Angeles Boa...
Family
Court: Deadbeat Dad Can't Use Bankruptcy to Avoid Obligations
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Overturning its own precedent, a federal appellate court ruled Thursday that a deadbeat parent cannot use bank...
Had the left-wing PRD, or Democratic Revolution Party, won, Jose Jacques Medina might have been on his way to Mexico City to c...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Is Proud of His Versatility Judge Prides Himself on Versatility
By Contributing Writer
SAN JOSE - Socrates Peter Manoukian prides himself on being the Santa Clara Superior Court system's utility player, the kind ...
Practitioners and parties know that employment mediations can be challenging on a psychological level. The parties' emotions r...
With more lawyers than ever battling each other for business, just doing a good job is no longer good enough. ...
This case will curtail other design-defect claims premised on the theory that auto manufacturers had a duty to install airbags.
FORUM The announcement of a rough draft of the human genome could be a moment for celebrating our common humanity. ...
^^Real Property^^ Avoid or Insure Risk Management Is Essential for Developers By Jeffrey D. Masters The real estate industry ...
SAN JOSE -Prosecutors in the Avant criminal trade secrets case got a glimmer of hope last week when a 6th District Court of A...
^^Bench Press^^ By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. [mug] Herb Barish, president of Los Angeles County Bar Association's Trial Practice...
By Russ Nichols Ralph Nader, recently nominated as the Green Party's presidential candidate, and Pat Buchanan, who is seeking...
^^Real Property^^ Pipe Dream Corroded Water Pipes Yield Takings Liability The city's defense would have required a fundamenta...
A meeting of a Los Angeles City Council subcommittee handling issues related to the upcoming Democratic National Convention c...
Sacramento law Prof. J. Clark Kelso was named Wednesday as the acting head of the state Insurance Department by departing Com...
Poor Ramon. Someone stole his brand new Pinto - not the kind that eats hay and lives in a barn, but a Ford Pinto. He'd only ha...
Government
Grand Jury Report Comes Out in Peace Grand Jury Report Slams Police Policies
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Nothing is extraordinary about the Santa Clara County civil grand jury's annual report - except that it exists at ...
Government
Saying the case before it opened a Pandora's box of deceit and "bureaucratic disobedience" on the part of the Santa Ana Polic...
In contrast to the Los Angeles Police Department's reputed circle-the-wagons approach to outside scrutiny, Los Angeles County...
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the 1996 robbery conviction of a Los Angeles man Wednesday, ruling a state-level pr...
Los Angeles County on Wednesday not only moved another step closer to expanding the five-member Board of Supervisors to nine m...
From the Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A judge who helped write Arkansas' ethics laws stepped aside from hearing Presi...