Environmentalists and state officials may proceed to trial with claims that three major supermarket chains have violated Prop...
Owners of the highly stylized French "Sephora" perfume shops have accused Macy's West Inc. of a new variation of "trade dress...
Criminal
Court: No Time Limit to Raise Statute of Limitations Defense
By David Kravetz
SAN FRANCISCO - A criminal defendant does not forfeit the statute of limitations as an affirmative defense if it is not raise...
Now that criminal charges against Buford O. Furrow, accused in the killing of a letter carrier and the wounding of five peopl...
SAN FRANCISCO - A copy of a $10 million settlement check from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. adorns the San Francisco office wall ...
Government Contracts
In Suit, Ex-Official Blows Whistle On Lab Research at UC Irvine
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
IRVINE - The former manager of a University of California, Irvine medical research laboratory has filed a federal False Claim...
As a prisoner of war in Japan for two years, Lester I. Tenney of San Diego claims he was forced to labor for a mining company...
By John F. Denove In the race to deliver yet even more astronomical profits for their shareholders, corporations have shunned...
By Joseph Posner "If at first one doesn't succeed, try, try again" is a maxim that most people learn from their mothers. It's...
By Conrad R. Aragon "Venerable" is an epithet applied to a person accorded respect by reason of age, dignity and character. I...
By Jerome Fishkin We lawyers are always complaining about clients who try to reduce their bills, don't pay on time or don't p...
Judges and Judiciary
Services Are Held for Retired Judge Burton Bach
By Melissa Onstad
Services were held Tuesday for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Burton Bach, who died Saturday. He was 69. Bach had u...
By Anthony J. Oncidi A badly fractured California Supreme Court has upheld an injunction prohibiting the use of "derogatory r...
In a case that the Los Angeles County district attorney's office touted as one of the state's largest workers' compensation f...
Federal and state prosecutors spent Wednesday trying to figure out who should handle the case of Buford O. Furrow, the man al...
Carmel Sella approaches her law career the same way she trains for a marathon. "When you run a marathon what's important is t...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - It was billed as a major corruption case against a trash company and several of its employees who allegedl...
SACRAMENTO - Ronald Branson has picked a lot of fights with judges and lost. Now the vexed Los Angeles County litigant is goi...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Court Reinstates Woman Despite Exam Charade
By Philip Carrizosa
The California Supreme Court reinstated a Los Angeles attorney to the practice of law Wednesday, 10 years after disbarring her...
A foster youth - who reportedly was sexually abused by a state employee at a facility contracting with Los Angeles County - ha...
Property Owner Settles With City The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to spend $525,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a ...
In the wake of reports that more than 15 Los Angeles County children have died since June 1, a growing sense of discontent ha...
SANTA ANA - Witnesses in a hearing Tuesday to determine the viability of charges against a man accused of killing a Garden Gr...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve spending $475,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit fil...
^^ABA Notebook// Don J. DeBenedictis^^ ATLANTA - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno issued a call Tuesday for the creation of s...
Judges and Judiciary
ABA Votes on Pay to Play, Practice Restrictions
By Don De Benedictis
ATLANTA - True to expectations, the policy-making body of the American Bar Association called Tuesday for further study of a ...
Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden plans to be in court again. This time it's because he wants to be. Holden - who is sc...
Discipline
Miller's Behavior: A Technical Violation or Grossly Reckless?
By Martin Bergn
A State Bar prosecutor said Tuesday it "strains credibility" to believe that an experienced litigator like Louis "Skip" Mille...
ATLANTA - The vote Tuesday by the American Bar Association's House of Delegates to defer action on so-called multidisciplinary...
^^Alternative Dispute Resolution^^ Ties That Bind Arbitration Agreements Can Be Enforced Against Some Third Parties A nonsigna...