Judges and Judiciary
Judge Broadman Is Censured By California Supreme Court
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court came down hard Monday on Tulare Superior Court Judge Howard R. Broadman, publicl...
Public Interest
Legal Foundation Capitalizes on Promoting Conservative Policy
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Hardly a hot-button policy issue blows through this town that isn't on the agenda of Pacific Legal Foundation. Yo...
Family
DA Points to a 21.5 Percent Increase In Family Support Bureau Collections
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti is praising his family support bureau's collection totals for fiscal year 19...
Civil Rights
Nightclub Sued for Turning Away Guide Dog
By Jill Boekenoogen
SANTA BARBARA - Should a blind man with a guide dog have been allowed into a crowded dance club here, even if doing so could ...
Government
A Hyphen Is the Difference in Race for AG
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Ever wonder what campaign lawyers do? Sometimes they fight over punctuation - at least in the hotly contested ra...
Appellate Practice
Employer Can Be Sued for Secret AIDS, HIV List
By Anna Marie Stolley
A state appeal court has held in an unpublished opinion that a company can be held liable for slander and libel for covertly ...
Judges and Judiciary
State Appeal Court Rules Judge's Divorce Records Should Be Open
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has strongly backed a reporter trying to get access to a judge's divorce file, saying th...
Product Liability
California Set to Take Half of Tobacco Spoils
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - Attorneys for the cities, counties and state attorney general, who are plaintiffs in five civil suits against the...
Environmental
Liquid Assets
By Charles Ashby
DENVER - Squabbling over water is a Western tradition. While Easterners laugh at what passes as a river here, only those in t...
Labor/Employment
Judge: Arbitration Clause Stops Watchdog Agency
By Craiq Anderson
SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for employers, a Santa Clara County judge has ruled that a woman who signed a compulsory arbitra...
Criminal
S.F. Prepares for Its First Use of DNA Evidence
By Laura Impellizzeri
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a San Francisco Superior Court judge is hearing evidence on whether to admit genetic info...
Judge Awards Attoneys' Fees for Drained Lake
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A view of the lake, high in the San Bernardino mountains, looks like a postcard - lush greenery frames its s...
Criminal
Hahn Testifies at D'Agostino Hearing
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn testified at a civil service hearing that prosecutor Lea Purwin D'Agostino urged him to ...
Through a Child's Eyes
By Cheryl Romo
As they watched their daughter go off to college four years ago, attorney Les Hardie and his wife, Susan Moan Hardie, a child...
Government
Rogan on Fast Track of Political Leadership
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Things happen fast for Jim Rogan. At age 33, he became a Glendale Municipal Court judge. Four years later, voters...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Sidesteps Move to Oversee Private Judging
By Jean Guccione
Declining to interpret a newly adopted constitutional provision, an advisory committee has proposed that lawmakers be asked t...
Government
Southland Federal Prosecutor Nabbed for S.F. Post
By Pamela Mac Lean
Interim Northern District U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller III said Thursday in Washington he has asked Los Angeles Assistant U.S...
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy Web
By James Evans
As part of an effort by the federal courts to make all dockets and judicial opinions available on the Internet, the Southern D...
Family
V.C. Lawyer Drops Challenge to Family Law Judge
By Amy Bentley
VENTURA - The lawyer who filed a motion to disqualify a Ventura county judge from hearing some 300 cases involving parents ac...
Litigation
Judges Study Unification's Impact on Courts
By Denise Levin
Three separate judicial committees will study and discuss the issues that kept the Los Angeles County judges from giving thum...
Judges and Judiciary
Suspended Judge Ordered Jailed in Ventura County
By Amy Bentley
VENTURA - Suspended Ventura County Superior Court Judge Robert Bradley started serving a six-month jail sentence Thursday aft...
Civil Rights
Motion Seeks Injunction Against 'Stun Belt' Use
By Michael Harris
Attorneys for the three-strikes defendant jolted with a 50,000 volt stun belt for interrupting a judge filed a class action m...
Criminal
Putting on the Dog Comes Naturally to this Prosecutor
By Amy Bentley
VENTURA - Those who say law has gone to the dogs have never met Violet and Edith - the Perry Masons of puppies. Violet and Ed...
Government
Guarded Silence
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - One lesson to come out of the Legislature's hearings recently on explosive allegations of official misconduct, b...
Litigation
Pellman's First Official Act is a New Conflict of Interest Policy
By Lauren Blau
In his first official act, Los Angeles County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman has established a policy for his office regarding actu...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges Struggle with a New, Partisan World
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - When he heard that the San Diego Democratic Committee wanted to endorse him in his re-election bid, Superior Cour...
Real Estate/Development
Cities Win Ruling Allowing Bypass of Voter Approval
By Philip Carizosa
In a major financial boost for California cities, the state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the ability of municipalities to...
Government
Pellman Chosen as Los Angeles County Counsel
By Michael Harris
Lloyd "Bill" Pellman, a 26-year veteran of the Los Angeles county counsel's office, has been appointed by the board of superv...
Labor/Employment
Court: Job Tests Can Discriminate
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - A female employee cannot force her employer to use a promotional test that benefited women but severely damag...
Technology & Science
Protection for Cyberspace IP Wins Approval
By James Evans
SAN JOSE - Legislation to provide increased protection in cyberspace to intellectual property, the Digital Millennium Copyrig...