Product Liability
Lawyer for Merck Questions Amount of Vioxx Plaintiff Took
By David Houstonn
LOS ANGELES - Mounting a fierce attack on the plaintiff in California's first Vioxx trial Tuesday, a Merck & Co. lawyer ac...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Tuesday jailed a freelance videographer for refusing to hand over his videotape of a 2005 anar...
MARTINEZ - Veteran defense attorney and legal analyst Daniel Horowitz took the stand Tuesday as a witness for the prosecution ...
Workers' Comp.
How Has Workers' Compensation Reform Affected the Legal System?
By Annemarie Ruffn
The Daily Journal spent time with four professionals who practice before the Workers Compensation Appeals Board and asked how ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Companies hit with a $175 million punitive-damages verdict in a water pollution lawsuit saw that amount cut Tu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mohamed Aboushaban is truly a man without a country. ...
Judges and Judiciary
California Judges Association Board Unanimously Condemns Mandatory Continuing Education
By David Houstonn
SAN FRANCISCO - The governing board of the California Judges Association voted unanimously to condemn the Judicial Council's p...
LOS ANGELES - Cheniere Energy received $1.5 billion in credit to build a natural gas processing plant in a deal arranged in pa...
Commissioner Craig B. Regan, the short-order cook of the Sacramento County Courthouse, knows all the short cuts to handling up...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawrence B. Low, who helped found the San Francisco outpost of Preston Gates & Ellis, began at Orrick, Har...
An appellate panel on Monday threw out a Honduran immigrant's murder conviction, finding it was based on a confession coerced ...
LOS ANGELES - Interpreters for the Los Angeles County Superior Court say they may strike at any time after a meltdown in labor...
Securities
Number of Securities Class Actions in U.S. Decreases Sharply
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Filings of securities fraud class actions declined sharply in the first half of 2006, hitting the lowest level f...
LOS ANGELES - Gibson Dunn & Crutcher will receive the 2006 Corporate Award for Special Achievement in Adoption on Saturday...
SAN FRANCISCO - The proposed $4.5 billion acquisition of Mercury Interactive Corp. by technology solutions giant Hewlett-Packa...
Constitutional Law
Free-Speech Ruling Makes Little Allowance for the Realities of Life
By David Minkown
Forum Column - Richard Ceballos was, in 2000, a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney whose suit against the district at...
Native Americans
Crosses Don't Belong, Because All Americans Aren't Christian
By David Minkown
Letters to the Editor - The letter "ACLU Undermines Many Treasured American Values" (Daily Journal, July 20) purports to offer...
Discipline
Don't Expect Withdrawing Plaintiffs to Pick Up Attorney Fees, Court Says
By Itir Yakarn
If someone files a lawsuit just to intimidate you and quickly withdraws it, don't count on getting your attorney fees paid. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Blasts Juvenile Judge for Refusing to Recuse Herself
By John Roemer
As a juvenile court judge in San Joaquin County, Barbara A. Kronlund is used to issuing orders. ...
Focus Column - Enforcing one's patent in litigation can be a costly endeavor. ...
Labor/Employment
Lawyer, Rolodex Return to Litigation, at McGuire Woods
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - McGuire Woods bolstered its labor and employment practice with the addition of partner Matthew C. Kane and his a...
LOS ANGELES - When Mustafa Aziz applied to become a U.S. citizen, he didn't have to endure long lines or clear security checkp...
Corporate
California Firm Is First in U.S. With IPO on London Exchange
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - A California pharmaceutical firm is the first U.S. corporation to go public with a listing on the London Stock...
Judges and Judiciary
If Court Splits, State's 9th Circuit Judges Will Still Face Heavy Load
By Hurley
WASHINGTON - In the debate over splitting the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has emerged ...
SANTA ANA - Former Congressman James E. Rogan, who helped lead Republican efforts to impeach President Clinton, was named Mond...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Josh M. Fredricks works to preserve the old-time values of his father's days as a law...
Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Leslie G. Landau brings her preference for the question-and-answer style of the appel...
Deals - GI Partners announced July 24 that it has completed the final closing of GI Partners Fund II at $1.45 billion.
SAN FRANCISCO - After spending seven years in-house at two high-tech startups and one of the world's leading ice cream manufac...
LOS ANGELES - Fundraising dinners follow the same pattern: small talk, bland food and long speeches and then a line for the va...