SAN FRANCISCO - Had he known it would cause him so much trouble, a Shasta County man might not have gone ballistic about blue ...
LOS ANGELES - Boston-based Mintz Levin has tried for years to put together a West Coast strategy. The firm opened a small Los ...
Smoke 'em if you got 'em. A cigarette importer improperly hid 44 million Marlboros from the tax man in a Southern California d...
SANTA ANA - A San Diego federal jury has awarded Nortel Networks $47.4 million in punitive damages against a smaller competito...
Commissioner John M. Murphy has tried to steer dozens of youthful offenders, including his puppy Shadow, away from destructive...
Commissioner Rocky Lee Crabb knows the value of a hard day's work. While growing up in Riverside, he mowed lawns in his neighb...
Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - On May 15, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its first environmental decision since Chief ...
LOS ANGELES - If both Democratic candidates for state attorney general have their way, voters will be convinced that one of th...
Insurance
Businesses Need to Prepare for Risks From Avian Flu Disaster
By David Minkown
Focus Column - By Amy J. Fink - Dire warnings that outbreaks of an avian influenza infection have the potential to turn into a...
Judges and Judiciary
Fresh Perspective Meets Decades-on-the-Bench in Court Bid
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - Four years after passing the State Bar Exam in 1989, Lynn Diane Olson quit her job as an associate at Christen...
Labor/Employment
Employees Have Remedies Outside Unruh Act in Cases of Employer Violence
By David Minkown
Employment Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The California Unruh Civil Rights Act, embodied in California Civil Code Sectio...
Dear Readers: In anticipation of the primary election Tuesday, the Daily Journal is publishing statements from candidates in...
LOS ANGELES - Donna D. Melby, the Los Angeles-based attorney who last year was the first woman to serve as president of the Am...
LOS ANGELES - A workers' compensation fraud involving the identity theft of some 200 county employees may only be the tip of t...
Judges and Judiciary
Connected Contender Faces 'Vexatious Litigant'
By Savannah Blackwelln
LOS ANGELES - By September, Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Daniel Lowenthal knew he wanted to run for the seat of Los Angele...
Judges and Judiciary
Seven Compete for Vacant Seat on Superior Court Bench
By Erin Park
LOS ANGELES - The field of seven candidates for Los Angeles Superior Court Office No. 144 includes a family attorney who took ...
SANTA ANA - The three candidates in Orange County's only Superior Court race - Office No. 4 - come from very different sides o...
Labor/Employment
Wage-and-Hour Class Issues Can Complicate Arbitration
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - Wage-and-hour claims typically seek - and win - class certification from a judge. But in a recent case involvin...
Judges and Judiciary
Appointment by Governor Confuses Santa Clara Race
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - A funny thing happened to Superior Court Commissioner Shawna M. Schwarz during her campaign for an open judicial se...
Judges and Judiciary
Three Vie to Replace Judge Running for Santa Clara DA
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - The race to succeed Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Dolores A. Carr, who is in the midst of a campaign for ...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real has given class status to a suit by former law students accusing a company of...
Two years after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was ordered to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a state ap...
Blowing the dust off 19th century court opinions and pre-World War I law, a state appeal court appears to have strengthened th...
Corporate
Justices Weigh Whether Georgia Law Violates Californians' Privacy
By Itir Yakarn
A global brokerage firm took pains Thursday to explain why California courts should not worry about the firm's out-of-state re...
LOS ANGELES - In another setback for the recently indicted Milberg, Weiss, Bershad & Schulman, a New York state official s...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief Judge to Set Up Panel for 7-Year-Old Misconduct Case
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - More than three years after a federal judge in Los Angeles was accused of giving special treatment to one of h...
LOS ANGELES - More than a dozen attorneys who made up the criminal defense section of the Cochran Firm have split off to form ...
A man's home is his castle - unless police rush in to make a drunk driving arrest, the California Supreme Court held Thursday....
LOS ANGELES - After nearly a week lugging a 70-pound pack through the wilderness, Sandy Gage was finally ready. It was midnigh...
Believe it or not, selling videos of the infamous Playboy Mansion parties is not a matter of public interest. A state appellat...